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The biggest act on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage this year isn’t Coldplay or Dua Lipa. In fact, you might not even have heard of them.

The act in question is Seventeen – a K-pop boyband that boasts a whopping 13 members, and which sold more than 10 million albums last year.

The only act to sell more? Taylor Swift.

But despite K-pop’s global success, the UK has remained frosty towards the genre. Bands like BTS, Blackpink, Aespa and Stray Kids have all broken through, but UK radio has often been reluctant to play their songs unless they’re sung in English – as with BTS’s mega-smashes Dynamite and Butter.

Collaborations with Western artists tend to help, too, with Coldplay, Lady Gaga, Halsey, Raye and Selena Gomez all giving K-pop bands a chart boost.

Seventeen don’t do collaborations. Unlike most Korean pop acts, they also write and produce their own material. Now, they’re making history as the first K-pop act on Glastonbury’s main stage.

You can catch their history making performance over on the Pyramid Stage now, or by pressing the watch live button at the top of this page.