Seventeen: The K-pop band making Glastonbury history

They're the biggest-selling act in the world, and they're about to play the Pyramid Stage.

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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.

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