After inking a strategic partnership final summer time, Roblox and Sony Music have introduced that 24kGoldn (RECORDS / Columbia) would be the newest artist to carry out a digital live performance on the Roblox platform.
The artist’s immersive El Dorado Live performance Expertise is ready to happen on Roblox, on Friday (March 25) at 4:00 PM PDT.
In line with Roblox, 24kGoldn will ship his first public efficiency of his new single, In My Head, plus Temper and different hits from his album El Dorado.
In July 6 2020, when Roblox and Sony Music introduced their strategic partnership, the businesses stated that they might work collectively to develop “revolutionary music experiences for the Roblox group”.
These alternatives, in accordance with the businesses, will “supply a variety of latest industrial alternatives for Sony Music artists to succeed in new audiences and generate new income streams round digital leisure”.
The settlement builds on an present relationship between the 2 corporations that features earlier collaborations equivalent to Lil Nas X’s hit digital efficiency on Roblox in November 2020 and extra lately the Zara Larsson Launch Social gathering on Roblox in Could 2021.
Over 36 million folks watched Lil Nas X carry out the first-ever reside digital live performance on Roblox, which included the debut of his tune, Vacation.
So known as pre-concert ‘quests’ that embrace 24kGoldn-related themed challenges have been out there from Monday (March 21).
The pre-concert experiences have already seen over 1.6 million visits.
Followers can entry these quests by way of portals to in style Roblox experiences the place they’ll accumulate badges redeemable for prizes within the 24kGoldn El Dorado Live performance Expertise and purchase 24kGoldn’s distinctive ‘verch’ (digital merch) gadgets.
Roblox says that two extra portals will open every day and followers who accumulate all badges and attend the Live performance Expertise will get to unlock a particular limited-edition emote after the premiere efficiency.
The 24kGoldn El Dorado Live performance Expertise was created in collaboration with Gamefam, an expert gaming writer.
The expertise opens in the present day with so-called pre-concert quests going down in video games equivalent to Final Driving, Twilight Daycare, All Star Tower Protection, Construct to Survive, Robeats, Army Tycoon, Automobile Dealership Tycoon, Construct a Boat to Survive and Tower of Distress.
Roblox attracted 49.4 million each day energetic customers as of November 2021, up 35% year-on-year.
“I grew up on Roblox and have been a giant fan my complete life.”
24kGoldn
“I grew up on Roblox and have been a giant fan my complete life,” stated 24kGoldn.
“It’s been superb to be part of the total expertise to make this digital live performance come to life.
“From arising with the storyline and remodeling my hometown to designing verch, I wished to provide my followers a one- of-a-kind expertise.”
“Roblox is altering the sport for artists.”
Jon Vlassopulos, Roblox
Jon Vlassopulos, Vice President, International Head of Music, Roblox, stated: “It was so thrilling to see how passionate Golden was to increase his inventive imaginative and prescient to Roblox the place he additionally grew up enjoying.
“Roblox is altering the sport for artists, liberating them to precise themselves in a means they’ll’t do on another platform and permitting them to attach with tens of millions of followers who would by no means have the ability to get to see them play in the actual world!”
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