‘Bang Bang Con’ becomes world’s biggest paid online concert

A CONCERT streamed by K-pop giant BTS on Sunday became the world’s biggest paid online music event in terms of number of viewers, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.

The band’s management company Big Hit Entertainment announced that “Bang Bang Con: The Live,” which was streamed over around 100 minutes remotely from a studio in Seoul on Sunday, drew some 756,000 viewers from across the world.

Fans from 107 countries or regions, including South Korea, United States, China, Britain and Japan, logged in to view the online event, the company added.

Big Hit said that the size of

Sunday’s online crowd roughly amounted to the combined audience of 15 stadium concerts.

“Despite the difficulties the concert industry is going through due to Covid-19, BTS is being evaluated as opening new possibilities through its online concert,” Big Hit said as quoted in the report.

The concept of “Bang Bang Con” revolved around “rooms,” with “bang” being the Korean word for “room.”

Throughout the show, the stage production changed constantly, presenting five types of scenes, or rooms, so as to suit the themes of the songs the band performed.

The set list consisted of 12 songs, performed on various intricately produced stages, with the show seamlessly woven together through intermissiontype talk segments throughout.

Having teamed up with US streaming service startup Kiswe Mobile, “Bang Bang Con” allowed viewers to watch the entirety of the show through six different camera angles.