How Global Citizen Is Making Superstar Music Live-Streams a Daily ‘Home’ Phenomenon

variety.com:

If you’re a big music fan, there’s a good chance you’ve seen more live music in the last week or two than you have in months.

That’s if we put “live” in quotes, anyhow, and allow it to apply to the sudden phenomenon of pop-up web concerts that have replaced the local venue experience in the brief time since every stadium, theater and club in the country got shut down due to the pandemic.

While hundreds of artists have independently taken to their own social media accounts to connect with fans with acoustic performances, the vast majority of live-streams from big-name artists since March 16 have fallen under a single banner — that of the Global Citizen organization’s “Together at Home” program.