19December 2020
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With tours cancelled and albums delayed, COVID-19 spent 2020 decimating the music industry. K-pop was no exception, hitting its smaller and/or newer groups hard. But for those more established, there were two advantages: tech-savvy labels, and audiences fully accustomed to consuming content from a distance. So as western artists set up home studios and turned on their IG Live, some of K-pop’s biggest acts like BTS and SuperM were putting on live digital concerts complete with multi-view camera options and full staging.