Stray Kids are pulling back the curtain on new music, teasing fresh tracks from their upcoming mini album THIS and THAT and giving fans early hints at how this next era will sound. The project arrives after their pre-release single RUN IT exploded on global charts.
With a quirky coffee cup tracklist teaser, surreal trailers, and short audio previews already online, the group has finally shown how the eight songs on THIS and THAT fit together. The big question now is which side of Stray Kids we will hear most: the stadium shouters, the emotional storytellers, or both.
New mini album details and release timing
THIS and THAT, often referred to as Stray Kids new seventh mini album in Korean press, drops on August 7 at 1 p.m. KST, which is midnight ET and 9 p.m. PT on August 6. It is their first album of 2026 and the follow up to the 2025 mixtape Do It.
RUN IT arrived on June 24 as the pre-release single and opens the album. Produced with in-house unit 3RACHA, coverage has described it as an anthemic, rally style track, and JYP Entertainment reports that it topped iTunes songs charts in 43 regions, including the United States, and hit number one on YouTube global trending.
The stakes for THIS and THAT are high. In 2025, Stray Kids became the first act to debut eight consecutive albums at number one on the Billboard 200, and this era is tied to their Stray Kids World Tour Run It, five opening shows at KSPO Dome in Seoul, a Governors Ball slot in New York, the new STRAYCITY festival in Latin America, and Rock in Rio in Brazil.
Full THIS and THAT tracklist and first sound clues
The official Stray Kids THIS and THAT tracklist was revealed on July 10 KST through a teaser image that lays paper coffee cups across the floor, each one printed with a song title and backed by a neat chart of credits underneath. The mini album contains eight tracks, with This and That confirmed as the title song.
- RUN IT
- This and That (title track)
- After You
- FARMING
- I Do
- Way Out
- Back Then (Korean title “그날,” also written as “That Day”)
- This and That (Festival Version)
For anyone searching the Stray Kids THIS and THAT tracklist, streaming prerelease pages on platforms like Spotify already host 30 second snippets of each song. Those previews hint at a mix of hard hitting tracks in the vein of RUN IT and This and That, alongside more reflective moments suggested by titles such as After You, I Do, and Back Then, plus a supercharged festival version built for massive stages.
Trailers, concept and what comes next for STAYs
The main THIS and THAT trailer, released July 8, plays like a surreal short film. An unidentified person receives an LP from Seungmin, steps into a mysterious truck, then is pulled into a world where every barista, chef, photographer, auctioneer, dancer, and bakery worker looks like a different member and only says “this” or “that,” a twisted echo of their slogan “Stray Kids Everywhere All Around The World.”
An earlier pre-teaser titled TEST, styled after Yoo Byung jae YouTube series I Hate Scary Things, had the group exploring an abandoned house through a shaky camcorder view before the same truck appears, setting a low key horror tone for the comeback.
JYP has already trailed an album preview and LP version, and the official schedule lists more concept photos and a music video teaser ahead of the August 7 drop. With the Stray Kids World Tour Run It starting at KSPO Dome and major festival dates booked, fans in the United States and across Latin America can expect tracks like FARMING or Back Then to hit live stages soon after the mini album lands.