Two day livestream airs June 13-14
BTS is celebrating its eighth anniversary with BTS 2021 Muster Sowoozoo, a two day livestreaming event on June 13th and 14th. Details are scarce, but the the second date, dubbed “World Tour Version,” will contain some of their foreign language songs. Ticketing will be announced at a later date.
The group’s latest livestream event and fanmeet, BTS Livestreaming ‘Bang Bang Con 21’, was held in April containing several live concerts. Their first livestream, Bang Bang Con, was one of the first forced by the pandemic last April, and racked up 50.59 million views in a span of 24 hours and 2.24 million concurrent viewers.
The news comes a day after BTS premiered the new single “Butter,” and swept all four Billboard Music Awards categories they were nominated, including Top Group/Duo, Top Song Sales Artist, Top Selling Song for “Dynamite,” and the fan voted Top Social Artist for the fifth year.
“Butter” was released last week and is already smashing records. The track recorded 20.9 million global streams on the first day, the largest single day streaming total in Spotify’s history. The music video also broke their own record and set a new all time 24 hour record of 108.2 million views. It also marks the biggest music video Premiere on YouTube, racking up 3.9 million peak concurrents.
BTS has recently been nominated for Best International Group at The BRIT Awards 2021, making them the first Korean act to be nominated at the award show. They’ve also earned three nominations for the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards to be aired live on May 27th on iHeartMedia stations nationwide.
The group has released CONNECT BTS, E-BOOK and CONNECT, BTS FONT that celebrate the first anniversary of the closure of the CONNECT, BTS, an art exhibit that connected 22 contemporary artists across five contents. Both are available free online through April 30th with a limited amount of physical copies to be printed and distributed to galleries, artists, and curators who participated in the project.
Last month, the boy band and Helinox launched the limited edition BTS X Helinox outdoor collection featuring Helinox Chair One, Cot One Convertible, Table One Hard Top, Sacoche, Gymsack, and Hello My Name Is patch.
BTS, an acronym of Bangtan Sonyeondan or “Beyond the Scene,” is a South Korean boyband that has been capturing the hearts of millions of fans globally since their debut in June 2013. The members of BTS are RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook. Gaining recognition for their authentic and self-produced music, top-notch performances, and the way they interact with their fans, the band has established themselves as global superstars breaking countless world records. While imparting a positive influence through activities such as the Love Myself campaign and the UN ‘Speak Yourself’ speech, BTS has mobilized millions of fans across the world (named ARMY), topped prominent music charts, performed multiple sold out stadium shows across the world and has been named Time’s Entertainer of the Year in 2020. The GRAMMY-nominated band has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards like the Billboard Music Awards, American Music Awards and MTV Video Music Awards.
