Blackpink: The Show - Tickets, times and everything else you need to know

It looks set to be one of the biggest live-streamed concerts yet
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Jochan Embley29 January 2021

Long gone are the early-pandemic days of musicians playing songs in front of an iPhone in their bedrooms — live-streamed gigs now are a very different beast.

This weekend, we’re gearing up for one of the biggest digital shows yet. It’ll feature Blackpink — the K-Pop titans who, back in the pre-Covid world of 2019, played their first ever gig in London to a sold-out crowd at Wembley Arena.

The four-piece are pretty huge online, too, with 56.5m YouTube subscribers and counting. Only Justin Bieber has more.

With the typically huge production values that have become a trademark of the K-Pop megastars, and their military-grade levels of on-stage choreography, this upcoming stream looks like it could be something special.

When is Blackpink: The Show, and how can I watch it?

The event is skewed more towards Korean and American times, which means if you want to see the original broadcast, it’s going to be an early start on Sunday morning — the show begins at 5am sharp on Sunday morning (January 31).

But if you don’t fancy that, there will be another chance to see it. Fans wanting to get involved will have to become “members” of Blackpink’s official YouTube channel, with prices starting at £25.98. This gives access to the initial stream of the show, as well as a re-broadcasted version in the near future (exact timings are yet to be revealed). For that price, fans will also have access to members-only content for two months — again, details are still yet to be finalised on what exactly that will entail.

What can we expect from the performance itself?

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K-Pop events of this nature are quite often shrouded in some secrecy, but there are a few things we can count on. For one, the showmanship will be at the highest level — Blackpink are renowned for their on-stage skill as all-singing, all-dancing performers.

We also know that there will be “multiple large-scale sets and special stages”, the likes of which wouldn’t have been possible to emulate during a world tour. And they certainly haven’t rushed things — the show has been in the works since around April last year.

In terms of the actual music, the setlist is expected to be around 15 to 20 songs long, with the group performing every single track off their debut full-length, The Album, which dropped back in October, meaning a number of songs will be sung live for the first time ever. Band member Rosé is also in line to premiere some of her solo material.

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