Watch BTS’ Jin carry out ‘The Astronaut’ with Coldplay in Argentina

BTS‘ Jin has delivered the dwell debut of his just-released solo single ‘The Astronaut’, performing it alongside Coldplay at their live performance in Buenos Aires, Argentina tonight (October 28).

Final week, Huge Hit Music printed an announcement on the Okay-pop boyband’s Weverse page to announce Jin’s look at Coldplay’s Argentinan ‘Music Of The Spheres’ tour cease.

Held on the Estadio River Plate stadium in Buenos Aires – simply hours after ‘The Astronaut’ was formally launched – the present was broadcast dwell to over 3,500 cinemas throughout greater than 75 nations and areas. It’s been touted as the primary live performance in Latin America to be streamed dwell in cinemas all over the world.

‘The Astronaut’ appeared 22 songs into Coldplay’s set, following an look from H.E.R. on the observe ‘Let Someone Go’ (which has been considerably of a staple throughout Coldplay’s present tour). Just a few songs earlier than it, the band carried out ‘My Universe’, a collab with BTS that arrived final September.

In a speech shared earlier than Jin took to the stage, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin stated: “Just a few years in the past, I felt like we needed to play a sure type of music on a regular basis, we needed to match right into a field – and I felt that means about my life additionally. And I met some good folks and skim some good books and met some nice lecturers, and so they appeared to be pleased. And the factor that made them pleased was not having concern of what you don’t know and other people you don’t perceive but – you simply ask.

“And a technique that basically blessed my life – and our life as a band – is that about two years in the past, somebody prompt to us that we must always work with a Korean boy band. [I was] filled with judgement, which is commonly my first response, as a result of I’m human. However after some time I used to be like, ‘Why do I really feel scared about this simply because they’re completely different?’ And so we went down this highway and we did a music collectively referred to as ‘My Universe’. And it’s turned out to be one of the enjoyable and fulfilling relationships that now we have as a band, and it’s taught us a lot about… Simply embrace the opposite, reasonably than be frightened of it.

“And so, about six months in the past, one among their members referred to as me up and he stated, ‘I've to go away the band in December [to join] the military in Korea as a result of that’s the foundations there. And he stated, ‘I would like a music that claims goodbye to everyone for a short time, and tells them that I really like them… And so I stated, ‘Okay, we’ll do a music collectively.’ And as a substitute of being concerned about it, I really feel so enthusiastic about it, so grateful for this relationship that now we have with BTS. After which this music arrived, and I used to be like, ‘That is one among our greatest songs – let’s give it to this gentleman.'”

Footage from the official broadcast is but to floor, nevertheless pictures from the group have poured out in realtime – take a look at some beneath:

Jin singing The Astronaut on the Coldplay live performance in Buenos Aires. pic.twitter.com/kdQoUdDepF

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JIN’s dwell debut of #TheAstronaut carried out alongside Coldplay. pic.twitter.com/BK43hmY0H2

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‘The Astronaut’, as introduced final Thursday (October 20), was co-written by Jin and Coldplay. It marks the second time the BTS have collaborated with the band, following ‘My Universe’ final yr. In a lyric booklet included with bodily editions of ‘The Astronaut’, Kygo and Max Martin have been additionally credited as co-producers.

In a four-star overview of ‘The Astronaut’, NME’s Rhian Daly wrote: “Though this launch represents the beginning of a brand new chapter for the singer’s solo work, it does really feel extra distinctively like a Coldplay music than it essentially does a Jin music. Although Jin stands other than BTS right here, his particular person inventive identification nonetheless isn’t given a lot room to manifest. That stated, he has loads of years forward of him to outline that for himself. Within the meantime, we are able to savour ‘The Astronaut’, a starry-eyed gem that sparkles with love.”

In the meantime, Jin introduced his plans to launch solo materials at BTS’ Current ‘But To Come’ live performance in Busan earlier this month.

Additionally, as quickly as he wraps up promotional actions for ‘The Astronaut’, Jin is predicted to be the primary BTS member to enlist for necessary army service. The group’s label Huge Hit Music have additionally stated the boyband have plans to reconvene after their army service round 2025.