KISS – Virtual “Hologram” Concerts to Change the Course of Rock N Roll Music Forever!

Looks Like Hologram Concerts Are Here to Stay — ABBA Voyage Revenue Hit $137 Million in 2023, Earnings Report Reveals

KISS co-leader Gene Simmons went on the record to say “Rock is dead.” It looks like from a physical standpoint; the Demon is not telling a lie. In fact, the massive financial numbers for virtual concerts events are the main reason these “fake virtual” musical events are going to become the norm. Eighties glam metal nostalgia act MÖTLEY CRÜE has already hinted they will begin using concert avatars too… after being exposed for using AI to generate their new studio music.

During the encore of the final KISS show on 12/2/2023 at New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden, bandmates Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer left the stage to reveal digital avatars of themselves.

Aniara Limited, the UK-based company behind London’s ABBA Voyage, just recently filed its complete 2023 financials.

Now, however, we know the precise details of these commercial results. As laid out in Aniara’s full-year report, ABBA Voyage’s 2023 performances numbered 374 and attracted 1,097,597 attendees for an occupancy rate of 97.8%.

Adjacent to those figures, Aniara’s total revenue hit $137.58 million (£103.67 million) in 2023, with profit coming in at $10.68 million (£8.06 million), according to the document.

KISS will use the same company Aniara Limited to produce their avatar concerts coming in 2027.

The band’s co-leader Paul Stanley is also keeping mum on a premiere date for the first official KISS avatars show. When asked about reports that claim the show will debut in Las Vegas in 2027, Stanley says: “What I can tell you is that the technology that’s being used, which is a furthering of the technology used on the ABBA show, has to be installed and basically a building has to be built around it.”

“So this isn’t something where you’re in Kansas City today, and tomorrow you fly with your projector to do it. It demands an arena, so to speak that’s really solely used for a show like this.”

During the band’s farewell performance last December, they unveiled a “new era” of KISS as a virtual band. “[It was] an early version of what is to come and is still being worked on,” Stanley tells Billboard about the live reveal. “It bears little resemblance to what was there. What we were showing was just the inception of the idea that we can continue on outside of flesh and blood.”