Okay-Pop star J-Hope to make music historical past at Chicago's Lollapalooza competition

J-Hope, 28, who made his debut as a member of BTS in 2013 and launched his first solo mixtape 5 years later, is slated to shut the four-day Lollapalooza competition with a main-stage efficiency on July 31, in accordance with Dwell Nation Leisure.

Dwell Nation additionally introduced that the five-member South Korean boy band Tomorrow X Collectively, also referred to as TXT, are billed to carry out at Lollapalooza on July 30, marking their US competition debut.

Welcoming each acts to the "Lollapalooza household," competition founder Perry Farrell stated in an announcement: "Their international viewers converse totally different languages however possess an intense ardour for his or her music. ... These are the superstars of the worldwide phenomenon of Okay-Pop."

J-Hope, a rapper, songwriter and dancer, was the third member to hitch BTS, also referred to as the Bangtan Boys, as a trainee of the septet, after RM and Suga.

His 2018 debut solo mixtape, "Hope World," peaked at No. 38 on the Billboard 200, making him the highest-ranking solo Korean artist on the US album chart on the time, in accordance with Wikipedia.

Nonetheless, his solo following pales compared to the blockbuster international success of BTS, the best-selling act in South Korean historical past, with over 30 million albums bought, and one of many few teams because the Beatles within the Nineteen Sixties to have charted 4 US No. 1 albums in below two years.

Lollapalooza, which started as a touring present in 1991, has since made Chicago's Grant Park its annual venue and ranks as one of many main occasions on the US competition circuit.