Badstreet Boys Release a Cover of Okean Elzy's ‘911’ for the Atlas Festival Fundraiser

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The performers joined the fundraiser for the country's largest music festival.

The charity music collective Badstreet Boys, together with Okean Elzy frontman Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, released a remix of the song '911' to promote the Atlas Festival fundraiser and the Come Back Alive Foundation's campaign to defend the sky from enemy drones.

"The video's description describes the release as combining two powerful forces, Badstreet Boys and Okean Elzy, with the remake of the legendary song '911' sounding like a distress code — an unexpected feature that became the voice of Fundraiser No. 13 from Atlas Festival and the Come Back Alive Foundation's campaign to defend the sky", reads the video's description.

BMW Ukraine also joined the fundraiser, providing a new 3 Series BMW from its dealership as a prize giveaway for anyone who donates 200 hryvnias or more.

Organizers have described Fundraiser No. 13 as more than just fundraising — a large-scale communications campaign bringing together the cultural industry, media, the public, and business around a shared goal: raising 100 million hryvnias for drones for Ukraine's Armed Forces and for protecting civilians, noted the organizers in a press release.

Over its existence, the band Badstreet Boys has raised more than 25 million hryvnias for Ukraine's defense forces. Earlier this year, they organized the song-and-donation contest 'Nashebachennia,' raising around five million.

About Atlas Festival 2025

Atlas Festival is Ukraine's largest music event, held since 2015. The 2024 festival, the first held since the start of the full-scale invasion, raised around $2 million for drones and robotic systems for the defense forces, drawing about 64,000 visitors — despite having to postpone its dates due to mass missile strikes.

This year's 'Atlas' falls on the festival's 10th anniversary and will take place at Blockbuster Mall, July 18-20. The venue was chosen for the shopping center's underground shelter, which can hold around 30,000 people.

Atlas Festival 2025 headliners will include Boombox, Okean Elzy, Zhadan i Sobaky, and others.