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“BTS BANG BANG CON The Live” Earned 25 Billion Won for 90 Minutes
(PRESSREELS) The group BTS has attracted more than 756,600 fans worldwide through online live performances.
BTS to Hold Online Concert ‘BANG BANG CON The Live’ on the 14th
Up to 756,600 concurrent users
The average ticket price is estimated at more than 25 billion won in revenue.
(PRESSREELS) The group BTS has attracted more than 756,600 fans worldwide through online live performances.
BTS (RM, Jin, SUGA, J-Hope, Jimin, V, Jungkook) held an online live concert “BANG BANG CON The Live” (hereinafter referred to as “BANG BANG CON The Live”) from 6 p.m. on the 14th.
Ticket prices for “BANG BANG CON The Live,” which was a paid performance, were set at 29,000 won for members and 39,000 won for non-members. For members, the average price of offline concert tickets is about a quarter of 120,000 won. If the average number of viewers is 756,600, which is estimated to have earned at least 25 billion won in ticket revenue.
The concept of “BANG BANG CON The Live” was to invite fans to BTS‘ room. The stage design consisted of a total of five rooms and two stages, and the hall was even arranged to feel like entering a real room, giving a friendly and free-spirited feeling throughout the performance.
BTS moved from room to room, including ‘Dope’, ‘Boyz with Fun’, ‘I Like It’, ‘Just One Day’, ‘Jamais Vu’, ‘Respect’, ‘Friend’, ‘Black Swan’, ‘Boy With Luv’, ‘Go Go with Luv’, ‘Anpanman’ and so on. This is more lively with six multi-view screens.
“BANG BANG CON The Live” was conducted in collaboration with KISWE Mobile, an American live streaming solution company that recently signed a business agreement with Big Hit.
Big Hit and KISWE Mobile have established a multi-view streaming system so that fans can enjoy the performance in real time by selecting the screens they want to see among the six different multi-view screens that are played at the same time, not the set screens.
BTS prepared special gifts for fans who have been waiting for the concert for a long time. The members released their fourth full-length pre-released song “Black Swan” and “Boy With Luv,” which were reborn with new performances, saying, “We prepared it as a preview of the tour performance.”
In particular, ARMY is newly configured ‘at the time for the little things’ for the concert night colors change to work with choreographer frosting on the stage it adds up to be using the umbrella ledI made. Although the space is far away, it drew attention as a production to express that it is connected to fans through ARMYbam.
Wrapping up “BANG BANG CON The Live,” BTS sent a message of thanks and support to Army around the world. J-Hope said, “I hope that our love for the stage will be conveyed as much as we prepared hard for it. I’m happy to be on stage and sweating,” he said. Jimin said, “We’re trying to grow up among ourselves and we’re getting over it even when you’re not around. “I hope you can find the times that will make you happier at this time and overcome them well, and meet them with a smile.
SUGA said, “Thank you for watching our performances and appearances from all over the world. “Let’s meet again,” he said. “I hope we can perform soon. I want to see the ARMY with my eyes. Jungkook said, “You gave us a lot of love from all over the world, so we did our best on stage, and I hope this stage will be another start for us.” Jin and RM each said, “We were so happy together, and if we had a chance, we would definitely go see you,” and “Spring Day of BTS and ARMY will definitely come back.”
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AMAZER – BLACKPINK COVER DANCE CHALLENGE FINISHED. 81 COUNTRIES PARTICIPATED!
Corporate event between global K-POP cover dance application ‘Amazer’ and artist ‘BLACKPINK’ has successfully finished.
Corporate event between global K-POP cover dance application ‘Amazer’ and artist ‘BLACKPINK’ has successfully finished.
This challenge, which took place with the release of BLACKPINK’s second single “Ice Cream,” is a collaboration between ‘BLACKPINK’ and ‘Amazer’ followed after the release of first single “How You Like That.”
As 7,816 contents were uploaded by 1,972 users from 36 countries around the world, the total number of users participating in the two BLACKPINK Challenge events held in ‘Amazer’ reached about 3,000 users, 81 countries.
BLACKPINK’s first album, which will be released on October 2, will also have a challenge targeting worldwide cover dancers in ‘Amazer’, and as this is BLACKPINK’s first full-length album since debut, lots of participation are expected.
‘Amazer’ is a global K-POP representative app based on 1.2 million global users in 175 countries, where people can upload and share their cover dance, cover song videos with other users, promote K-POP to the world by collaborating with various artists and expanding new play culture in the current Untact-era.
NEW K.ID, the No.1 TV channel for all K-Pop entertainment and source (https://cutt.ly/NEWKID), announced its weekly chart for the 4th week of September.
[Weekly Idol]
TREASURE is on a mission. After BLACKPINK reclaimed their throne in NEW K.ID’s Weekly Idol Ranking last week, TREASURE rose to the top of this week’s chart once again. Considering that TREASURE only officially made their debut last month, it is remarkable to see them go toe to toe with BLACKPINK so fast. YG fans will undoubtedly be happy as YG artists have won the last 11 NEW K.ID’s Weekly Idol Rankings. TREASURE’s new song, ‘I LOVE YOU’ is also attracting a lot of attention worldwide as it topped LINE MUSIC’s Top 100 Chart, which is the biggest music platform in Japan. They also surpassed 200,000 in the album sales just in pre-order, having the best performance among all the newly debuted K-Pop idols this year. Furthermore, the ‘I LOVE YOU’ Music Video brought more than 10 million views on YouTube within 72 hours of its release. TREASURE’s members commented that they do not wish to dwell on the numbers but would rather like to repay the fans with great music.
[Weekly Hot News]
Followed by TREASURE, BLACKPINK, SECRET NUMBER, DKB, STRAY KIDS, SF9, AKMU, RED VELVET, SEVENTEEN, and TXT got into this week’s Idol Ranking. Coming in at the second place, BLACKPINK is releasing their first official studio album, ‘THE ALBUM,’ on October 2nd. YG Entertainment has been teasing the highly anticipated album with members’ unique and individual pictures. The album will be released at 12 AM EST or 1 PM KST. ‘THE ALBUM’ already surpassed 800,000 sales in pre-order and is projected to shatter the records as the most sold K-Pop female artists’ album in the history. With the pre-released singles such as ‘How You Like That’ and ‘Ice Cream’ having tremendous successes, fans are excited to see how ‘THE ALBUM’ will shake up the industry.
Ranked at #5, Stray Kids has been selected as the fastest-rising K-Pop artist in the world according to the joint data analytics done by Twitter and Space Oddity. With this year’s K-Pop Analysis and #KpopTwitter 2020 World Map, Twitter showcased various infographics from the ‘most mentioned K-Pop artist by market’ to ‘Top 10 most mentioned K-Pop songs in the world’. Stray Kids was the only artist debuted in 2018 to break into ‘Top 10 fastest-rising K-Pop artists in the world’. Stray Kids also was placed 10th on ‘Top 10 most mentioned K-Pop artists in the world’, buttressing their status as a rising global artist. Stray Kids’ new album ‘Life’ exceeded 230,000 in sales and topped the album chart in 23 different countries, breaking their previous records.
At the 6th place is SF9 who is planning a new project called ‘FANTASY RACE’ in a celebration of their 4th debut anniversary. It has already been 4 years since SF9 made its debut with a single album, ‘Feeling Sensation,’ in 2016, and gained immense popularity throughout their career. FNC Entertainment announced that fans could expect in a total of 4 different race courses as they can experience a variety of content, including a unique album, ‘SF9 Corp 2’, VLIVE, and an offline pop-up store. SF9 is also performing an online late-night concert, NOOB CON-SF9, on October 10th via VLIVE.
Ranked at #10, TXT is making a comeback on October 26th with refreshed and never seen looks. Big Hit Entertainment released album motion graphics through its official platform, Weverse. This third mini-album will capture TXT’s small stories as they transition from the ‘The Dream Chapter’ series into a new installation. TXT’s ‘minisode1: Blue Hour’ will showcase a changed TXT like fans have never seen before with a new concept. Meanwhile, TXT was also nominated in Radio Disney’s Song of the Summer as the only Korean artist alongside global artists like Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Sia, and Dua Lipa.
NEW K.ID, the only TV channel that allows viewers to enjoy K-POP Idol-related content programming 24/7 and exclusive episodes curated from 10K+ videos, is available at CH 511 for free on LG Smart TVs and XUMO apps on all Internet-connected devices.
