Only four Kanye West fans got Covid vaccine at Donda listening event

Fans of Kanye West who attended the recent listening event for his forthcoming album Donda were offered the chance to get a Covid vaccine.

While 40,000 tickets were sold for the occasion at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Atlanta, George, only four people took up the offer.

According to Billboard, fans were invited to get a jab before the start of the event, which has become the most watched livestream in Apple Music’s history.

It is not the first large music event to also double as a vaccination drive. Garth Brooks’ concert at Kansas’s Arrowhead Stadium offered upgraded seats to any of the 70,000 concertgoers who also got jabbed.

The report also says around 5.4m people watched West’s listening party in total. That number is up on the 3.3m people who tuned in to watch the rapper’s first listening event on 22 July, which also broke the existing livestream record.

While the album was reportedly scheduled to be released on the day of the second listening event, it has yet to materialise.

West also livestreamed footage of himself from his makeshift living quarters in the stadium before the event.

Fans watched him exercise, display different outfits and also seemingly record vocals from his bed.

There is no new official release date for Donda but Apple Music lists it as 13 August.