By Hasan Beyaz
ATEEZ are set to headline BST Hyde Park on Sunday 28 June, making their debut on one of the UK's most iconic outdoor stages.
The announcement positions the eight-member group – HONGJOONG, SEONGHWA, YUNHO, YEOSANG, SAN, MINGI, WOOYOUNG and JONGHO – as the festival's sole K-pop booking for 2026, joining a headline lineup that includes Garth Brooks, Maroon 5, Mumford & Sons, Duran Duran, Pitbull, and Lewis Capaldi.
The booking is a significant marker of how quickly ATEEZ's profile in the UK has escalated.
Just last year, the group played three England arena shows on their 'TOWARDS THE LIGHT: WILL TO POWER' tour – two nights at London venues followed by Manchester's AO Arena. BST Hyde Park represents a different scale of visibility entirely: a mainstream outdoor festival with a capacity of 65,000, where the audience extends well beyond dedicated fans.
The trajectory has a recent precedent. Stray Kids headlined the same stage in July 2024 as the first male K-pop act to do so, then returned to the UK in summer 2025 to headline Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. ATEEZ now follows a broadly similar path, and with the Hyde Park show confirmed as a UK exclusive for 2026, the question of what comes next – and how large the venues get – is already being asked.
BST Hyde Park has become a consistent stage for K-pop's crossover into mainstream Western festival culture. BLACKPINK made UK festival history there in 2023 as the first K-pop act to headline a major UK festival. Stray Kids followed in 2024. ATEEZ's confirmation continues that lineage, and given the group's recent UK chart achievements – they became the first South Korean act to land three different releases in the Top 10 of the Official Albums Chart within a single calendar year, all in 2024 – the demand is there to justify it.
Their most recent release, 'GOLDEN HOUR : Part.4', arrived in early 2026 and pushed further chart placings both in Korea and internationally. It extends a run of form that includes six consecutive Billboard 200 Top 3 placements and eight albums in the chart's Top 10 overall.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday 29 May via bst-hydepark.com. An American Express presale opens at 10am on Monday 18 May, with an artist presale following at 10am on Wednesday 20 May.