The Chainsmokers will be the first musical act to play at the edge of space when they are propelled into space in 2024.
The journey is being organized in collaboration with the space tourism business World View, and the two will travel in a pressurized capsule capable of accommodating eight people, which will be connected to a stratospheric balloon 32 kilometers above the Earth.
World View will film the journey and distribute it to people all over the world, including the performance inside the capsule. The trip itself is projected to last six to twelve hours.
Drew Taggart and Alex Pall stated in a statement, discussing their long-held desire to travel to space.
World View CEO Ryan Hartman thinks The Chainsmokers’ space concert, which will be one of the company’s debut flights, would encourage other musicians to do the same. “do something different than they would have otherwise done.”
“Star Trek” star William Shatner and broadcast journalist Michael Strahan have been to space on Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight business. Bezos and fellow entrepreneur Richard Branson both flew in.
The Chainsmokers are best known for their collaborations with other artists on hit songs such as “Closer,” “Roses,” “Don’t Let Me Down,” “All We Know,” “Something Just Like This,” and “# Selfie.”
This May, they launched their fourth album, “So Far So Good,” which includes the hits “High,” “iPad,” and “I Love U.”