#BTS UNPLUGGED MTV FULL#
#BTS UNPLUGGED MTV SERIES#

Significantly, the placement of the songs in the set does not follow that of the album. In March 2021, a year after the world went into lockdown, the mass vaccination programme provided a possible way back to some sort of normality (or a new normal) and a way out of the terrible uncertainty of life under lockdown. In November 2020 when BE was released, there did not seem to be a clear way out of the pandemic and indeed the album was composed during the worst of the crisis and at a time when there did not seem to be a possible solution. This though, is more than a performance of hits and B-sides, it is an act of storytelling with a narrative arc and thematic flow, dealing with daily life under the pandemic, diverging in significant ways from the original source, BE. BTS’s Unplugged performance features acoustic versions of four songs from BE and a cover of Coldplay’s Fix You. It is somewhat ironic – given that MOT7 was overlooked for the Grammys, with BTS garnering a sole nomination for Dynamite as Best Duo or Group Performance – that MTV Unplugged famously premiered acoustic sets from artists who would subsequently go on to win Grammy awards: Eric Clapton’s 1992 Unplugged garnering a grand total of 8 Grammys and Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged In New York winning the Best Alternative Musical Performance in 1995. It is not surprising therefore that BTS were crowned the IFPI Global Recording Artist of 2020. The single Dynamite, shining with its funk and soul, shimmied in at #10 on IFPI Global Singles Chart. Their Japanese album Map of the Soul: The Journey was placed #8 on the Sales Chart, making BTS not only the first Asian (and first Korean) artist to top these charts but also the only artist with three entries on the top ten.

#BTS UNPLUGGED MTV FULL#

Having released their 4 th studio full album Map of the Soul: 7 in February 2020, the group followed this up with the more personal introspective BE in November: both albums appeared on the IFPI end of the year album charts with MOT7 topping both IFPI Global Album Sales Chart and IFPI Global Album All Formats Chart. Despite the pandemic, BTS had a record breaking 2020 which has continued in 2021.

#BTS UNPLUGGED MTV SERIES#

In 2020, as a direct result of the pandemic, MTV launched Unplugged at Home livestream series.īTS is the first South Korean group to appear on MTV Unplugged ( Monsta X participated in the Unplugged at Home series of acoustic mini concerts in 2020). The show was then revived in 2010 with the first episode featuring Adam Lambert (who the previous year had been the runner-up on American Idol). Between 20, Unplugged was less regular, and mainly confined to one-off specials. The original series ran from 1989 to 1999. In 1992, Mariah Carey’s cover of the Jackson Five’s I’ll Be There released soon after her set went to number one on the Billboard 100, adding the cover as a staple to an Unplugged set. performances, Unplugged featured iconic sets by some of the most famous musicians of the time including Aerosmith, Elton John, Annie Lennox, George Michael, Nirvana and Oasis, appealing across a wide demographic.

With acoustic sets and stripped back, pared down. MTV Unplugged is a flagship MTV programme which was launched on 26 th November 1989 with performances by Elliot Easton (The Cars), Syd Straw and Squeeze.

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