Seventeen to headline Lollapalooza Berlin in September as sole K-pop act

Boy band Seventeen will headline the upcoming Lollapalooza Berlin in September, joining main acts including Sam Smith, The Chainsmokers and Burna Boy.

Boy band Seventeen will be one of the headliners at the eight edition of Lollapalooza Berlin. [LOLLAPALOOZA BERLIN]

Boy band Seventeen will headline the upcoming Lollapalooza Berlin in September, joining main acts including Sam Smith, The Chainsmokers and Burna Boy.

The two-day Lollapalooza Berlin music festival will be held on September 7 and 8 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. The final lineup for the festival was announced Thursday.

Lineup for the eighth edition of Lollapalooza Berlin [LOLLAPALOOZA BERLIN]

The band members are the only K-pop artists invited to perform at the festival, the band's agency Pledis Entertainment said in a press release Thursday.

Seventeen will soon start its encore concert tour “Seventeen Tour ‘Follow’ Again,” an extension of the band’s recent world tour “Follow,” which ended on Jan. 21.

The tour will begin at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium on March 30 and 31. The following concerts will take place in Japan at the Yanmar Stadium Nagai in Osaka on May 18 and 19, then at the Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on May 25 and 26.

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BY KIM JU-YEON [kim.juyeon2@joongang.co.kr]