{"id":572110,"date":"2026-05-08T01:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572110\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:26:09","slug":"billie-eilish-taylor-swift-and-bts-lead-concert-film-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572110\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and BTS lead concert film revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

K-Pop megastars BTS grabbed headlines when their huge hometown comeback show pulled in about 18.4m global viewers<\/a> on Netflix, according to the streamer’s own figures. <\/p>\n

The group’s also been selling “livestream tickets” for other stops on its world tour.<\/p>\n

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

Eilish fan Haze isn’t sold on the idea.<\/p>\n

“If Billie charged for a livestream to watch her show, I wouldn’t pay for it. I wouldn’t,” she says.<\/p>\n

“I love her, but no. I’d feel exploited. Like, you only see me as money and not a fan.”<\/p>\n

But other fans are more receptive to the idea.<\/p>\n

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’s Covid-19 lockdown era concert Bang Bang Con: The Live, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old from London says it was “such a fun and uplifting” moment during a bleak time.<\/p>\n

She opted to watch the comeback show livestream in a cinema, where she experienced a “really fun” concert-like atmosphere with other fans.<\/p>\n

However, she’d be “less inclined” to pay to watch one from her bedroom, she says.<\/p>\n

But she does feel the concert films do a “really good job at humanising” the seven members, as well as showcasing the “massive productions”. <\/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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-572110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}