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Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau’s online concert on Douyin sets record 350 million viewers on a wave of Canto-pop nostalgia
- Andy Lau’s latest event on short video platform Douyin drew a larger audience than his concert last year, which had more than 100 million viewers
- Douyin’s series of concerts this summer marked its increased effort to attract more users on the mainland against rivals WeChat and Kuaishou
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Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau Tak-wah’s latest online concert on ByteDance-owned short video service Douyin has set a record 350 million viewers, as it swept the platform’s mainland Chinese users on a wave of Canto-pop nostalgia.
The two-hour concert was live-streamed on Saturday evening by Douyin, the Chinese sister app of TikTok, initially attracting about 100 million viewers within a half-hour and then quickly drawing hundreds of millions more before it concluded.
“I can’t see you face to face today, but I can still feel your love,” Lau, who will turn 61 on September 27, told his online audience. Lau, part of the “Four Heavenly Kings” of Canto-pop, is also one of Hong Kong’s most distinguished film actors, with starring roles in such classics as Running Out of Time in 1999 and 2002’s Infernal Affairs.
“I hope everyone has more than 10,000 years of love. I love you all,” Lau said before performing the popular song Ai Ni Yi Wan Nian, which translates to “Love You for 10,000 Years” in English.
Lau’s latest online concert, where he also performed hit Mando-pop songs Ice Rain and It’s Not a Crime For a Man to Cry, surpassed his previous Douyin record of more than 100 million viewers who saw his online concert in July 2021, when he celebrated 40 years in show business.
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