{"id":6649,"date":"2020-04-24T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2529546"},"modified":"2020-04-24T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T10:46:00","slug":"more-than-12-million-people-attended-travis-scotts-fortnite-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/24\/more-than-12-million-people-attended-travis-scotts-fortnite-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 12 million people attended Travis Scott\u2019s Fortnite concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/V-chwviJE5Zw3lF6U5zPcNebzaA=\/150x0:1770x1080\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66700213\/2.0.jpg\" width=\"569\" height=\"379\" data-pre-sourced=\"yes\" data-sourced=\"yes\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/V-chwviJE5Zw3lF6U5zPcNebzaA=\/150x0:1770x1080\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66700213\/2.0.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/V-chwviJE5Zw3lF6U5zPcNebzaA=\/150x0:1770x1080\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66700213\/2.0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Travis Scott&rsquo;s first virtual performance&nbsp;wasn&rsquo;t just spectacular&nbsp;&mdash; it also broke a record. This evening developer&nbsp;Epic Games revealed&nbsp;that the concert, which took place inside of&nbsp;<em>Fortnite<\/em>, saw 12.3 million concurrent players participate. The developer says this is &ldquo;an all-time record&rdquo; for the battle royale game. The previous record holder was&nbsp;last year&rsquo;s Marshmello concert, which topped 10.7 million virtual attendees.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div data-anthem-component=\"readmore\" data-anthem-component-data=\"{&quot;stories&quot;:[{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Travis Scott&rsquo;s first Fortnite concert was surreal and spectacular&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/23\/21233637\/travis-scott-fortnite-concert-astronomical-live-report&quot;}]}\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>While that&rsquo;s a big number, many more people saw the concert outside of the game as well, thanks to streamers broadcasting it on platforms like Twitch and YouTube. And the total viewership will only grow over the coming days. For those who missed tonight&rsquo;s show, there&rsquo;s good news, as Scott&rsquo;s performance is a mini world tour of sorts, with a handful of dates through the rest of the week. Check&nbsp;our how-to guide&nbsp;to find out how and when to catch the later performances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/23\/21233946\/travis-scott-fortnite-concert-astronomical-record-breaking-player-count\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/23\/21233946\/travis-scott-fortnite-concert-astronomical-record-breaking-player-count<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/> Andrew Webster<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/artificial-intelligence-newswire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Artificial Intelligence Newswire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p> Andrew Webster<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Scott&rsquo;s first virtual performance&nbsp;wasn&rsquo;t just spectacular&nbsp;&mdash; it also broke a record. This evening developer&nbsp;Epic Games revealed&nbsp;that the concert, which took place inside of&nbsp;Fortnite, saw 12.3 million concurrent players participate. The developer says this is &ldquo;an all-time record&rdquo; for the battle royale game. The previous record holder was&nbsp;last year&rsquo;s Marshmello concert, which topped 10.7 million &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/04\/24\/more-than-12-million-people-attended-travis-scotts-fortnite-concert-2\/\">Continue reading <span>More than 12 million people attended Travis Scott&rsquo;s Fortnite concert<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/24\/more-than-12-million-people-attended-travis-scotts-fortnite-concert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-newswire","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>More than 12 million people attended Travis Scott\u2019s Fortnite concert - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/24\/more-than-12-million-people-attended-travis-scotts-fortnite-concert\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More than 12 million people attended Travis Scott\u2019s Fortnite concert - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Travis Scott&rsquo;s first virtual performance&nbsp;wasn&rsquo;t just spectacular&nbsp;&mdash; it also broke a record. 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