It’s 2020 and virtual concerts are now a thing! Many artists, who have had to reschedule or cancel their world tours amid the COVID-19 pandemic, are staying in touch with their fans via putting up shows, virtually. Global superstars BTS have been doing the same but the difference is – their scale is magnum opus! When BTS had to postpone their Map Of The Soul stadium world tour earlier this year, the septet began prepping for their next album, ‘BE (Deluxe Edition)’. Amid this quarantine period, they hosted their first virtual concert BANG BANG CON – The Live that was viewed by 756,600 fans across 107 regions and set a new Guinness World Record for ‘most viewers for a music concert live stream.’
BTS’ virtual concert MAP OF THE SOUL ON:E kicked off on Saturday, October 10 (3:30 pm IST). The live streaming began one hour ahead of the scheduled performances that showed their Tiny Tan and Samsung campaigns, and music videos ‘No More Dream’, ‘N.O’, ‘Run’, ‘DNA’, ‘Idol’, ‘Boy With Luv’ ft. Halsey and ‘ON’.
The event begin with BTS’ s performance of ON, with recrating a few moments from the MV via animation.
The next was the fiery performance bringing out the Intro: Persona with Namjoon, and then Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook joined RM taking the fans back into time with Boy With Luv.
Suga and Jimin took the stage for an Interlude: Shadow and Black Swan performance!
It wasn’t a concert, it was an EXPERIENCE. Known to give memorable performances, BTS did not come to play! 23 songs and almost 3 and a half hours worth of high production performances that left everyone speechless.
When it came to a close, BTS reflected on how these past few months had been very difficult considering they had to make changes in their world tour. When it comes to album making and tour preparations, everything is done so way in advance so it was understandable why they felt so low. But, BTS was grateful that they got this opportunity to showcase what went into the making of the Map Of The Soul tour and what they could have shown it to the ARMYs in person! Their ending statements were emotional but gave a sense of hope to the fans around the world to power through in these trying times.
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