By RANDY LEWIS
Beyonce drew 458,000 viewers with the Sunday livestream of her set from Coachella. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
More than 41 million people logged in to YouTube to watch performances from the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival during opening weekend, making it the most-viewed live music festival ever streamed, according to the video streaming service.
That’s up 75% over the viewership from last year’s event.
Additionally, 458,000 viewed BeyoncĂ©’s headlining set online Sunday evening, the highest audience yet for a Coachella performance stream, YouTube said in a statement Tuesday.
By comparison, an estimated 1.9 billion viewers in 150 countries tuned in to live TV on July 13, 1985, to watch many of pop music’s biggest names perform for the Live Aid benefit concerts held in London and Philadelphia. It was one of the largest global telecasts ever.
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