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Thursday 14 May 2020

Mariah Carey to headline set on new livestream app

Just as the music livestreaming space has quickly grown saturated with competition as stay-at-home restrictions have kept concertgoers homebound, new livestreamer BeApp, launching on Thursday, is bringing a star-studded set of performances to the app.

Among the many high-profile acts slated to perform through the two-month series, EDM DJ Kaskade will start the sessions with a set live from the Grand Canyon Thursday at 9 p.m. EST. Diplo will perform at the same time Friday and DJ Khaled and friends will perform Saturday at 7 p.m. EST. All the shows, performed through Coca Cola's Coke Studio Sessions, will be free. In the spirit of a genuinely live show - save for a rerun for global markets - performances won't be accessible past the live event.

Khaled will be performing over the course of 11 episodes throughout the series with various special guests. Past this weekend's slate of shows, Mariah Carey, Katy Perry and Steve Aoki are confirmed to play, and BeApp will also air a re-creation of Lin Manuel Miranda's Hamilton complete with new COVID-19-inspired compositions penned by Miranda. BeApp says it will be announcing other high profile acts set to perform as well.

BeApp is the latest to enter an increasingly dense livestreaming space. It's been in development since just before the ongoing pandemic hit the U.S., and founders Ray Smith and Ross Mason say the app's release was accelerated because of the clear need and opportunity brought on from social distancing orders. Smith started a separate venture called Be At TV in 2008 to stream live events like concerts and festivals. Mason says BeApp was focused on bringing global access for listeners in areas where artists don't often perform, but now that concerts at large have stopped, the need has expanded greatly.

(Rolling Stone)



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