{"id":944923,"date":"2026-05-08T00:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944923\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:35:15","slug":"billie-eilish-taylor-swift-and-bts-lead-concert-film-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944923\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and BTS lead concert film revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">K-Pop megastars BTS grabbed headlines when their huge hometown comeback show pulled in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy513rvg91ro\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about 18.4m global viewers<\/a> on Netflix, according to the streamer&#8217;s own figures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group&#8217;s also been selling &#8220;livestream tickets&#8221; for other stops on its world tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prices for its Japanese dates start at about $47 (\u00a335) for a single show and rise to $114 (\u00a384) for a two-day multi-screen pass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eilish fan Haze isn&#8217;t sold on the idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If Billie charged for a livestream to watch her show, I wouldn&#8217;t pay for it. I wouldn&#8217;t,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I love her, but no. I&#8217;d feel exploited. Like, you only see me as money and not a fan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But other fans are more receptive to the idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martha Greenhough, who has been a BTS fan for about 10 years, was one of about 750,000 people who paid to watch the group&#8217;s Covid-19 lockdown era concert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2020\/7\/k-pop-sensations-bts-set-concert-live-stream-record-with-bang-bang-con-the-live-624548\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bang Bang Con: The Live, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old from London says it was &#8220;such a fun and uplifting&#8221; moment during a bleak time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She opted to watch the comeback show livestream in a cinema, where she experienced a &#8220;really fun&#8221; concert-like atmosphere with other fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, she&#8217;d be &#8220;less inclined&#8221; to pay to watch one from her bedroom, she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But she does feel the concert films do a &#8220;really good job at humanising&#8221; the seven members, as well as showcasing the &#8220;massive productions&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"K-Pop megastars BTS grabbed headlines when their huge hometown comeback show pulled in about 18.4m global viewers on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-944923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116536156401349037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}