Calvin Harris will probably be taking part in his first ever digital live performance, which will probably be streamed on TikTok LIVE.
The present will happen on subsequent Friday (January 13) at 8pm GMT, and will probably be broadcast on Harris’ official TikTok account and in Europe and Asia on PICO.
Per a press launch, the gig will function Harris performing as a digital avatar and “will take followers on a musical journey by means of Calvin’s digital universe, that includes audio reactive visuals in a nature impressed luminous world”.
“I’m so excited to kick off such an modern music collection with Wave, PICO and TikTok and may’t look forward to followers to expertise my first ever digital live performance,” Harris mentioned.
“It’s an honour to host Calvin Harris’ first ever digital live performance, which is able to push the boundaries of what’s potential for artists going LIVE on TikTok and PICO,” mentioned Paul Hourican, International Head of Music Operations at TikTok.
“Calvin is a globally acclaimed DJ and performer, accountable for a number of the greatest digital hits and headlining huge worldwide festivals. We’ve liked working with Calvin, Mark and the entire group in addition to Wave and PICO to create this expertise, which goes to be a particular second for the worldwide TikTok group.”
Watch Harris’s avatar reveal under:
Digital music is among the hottest genres on TikTok, with the hashtag #ElectronicMusic amassing over 3.6billion views. Harris’s music has soundtracked a number of developments on the platform – his Funk Wav remix of SZA‘s 2017 observe ‘The Weekend’ has over 5.5million creations, whereas ‘Feels’, his 2017 collaboration with Pharrell, Katy Perry and Massive Sean, has 1.8million.
In the meantime, ‘Keep With Me’ impressed a dance development that noticed creators exhibit their favorite competition outfits, reveal what outfits make them really feel most assured, and bond with their dad and mom and infants by means of the facility of dance.
Harris not too long ago shut down rumours that he produced an album for Rita Ora which by no means noticed the sunshine of day. He clarified that they did work on ‘one unreleased music’ collectively, however it was by no means launched as a result of ‘it isn’t good’.
