NIKKEI ENTERTAINMENT , a Japanese magazine released last Nov. 7 a list of the top 50 Artists with a multitude of Audience for their concert 2014. Ranked as the 2nd place on their list is Big Bang with around 927,000 audience.
This number of audience was at Big Bang‘s six dome tour BIG BANG JAPAN DOME TOUR last 2013-2014; their 14 live performances last Feb 4 as well as their upcoming five dome tour “Big Bang Japan Dome Tour 2014-2015 X summed up for 29 concerts. Watch out for their upcoming and a great concert once again.
On its first place was given to a popular Japanese group EXILE , who reached 1.05 million audience with a total of 31 concerts. The 3rd p;ace goes to ARASHI with 894,ooo audience.
For KPOP artists, TVXQ, was placed at second rank with at least 700,000 fans followed by EXO GIRLS GENERATION and SHINEE.
Representative from YG ENTERTAINMENT commented that This is proof that Big Bang has great interest among the artists in Japan and have great, competitive ticket power and status.” They continued, “Among those who have done solo activities in Japan, Big Bang member Daesung had a total of 169,000 audience members for 15 concerts during his solo arena tour this year; [if you include that number] Big Bang has gathered 1,096,000 audience members.”
If Daesung’s solo concerts in Japan which in totality are 15 concerts be added to the total gross , it would amount to 110 billion won (US$ 101million USD).
This coming Nov. 15, Big Bang will be having their five dome tour in Nagoya, Japan. They will be having a series of concerts, 15 concerts in 5 different cities and are expecting to be a jam packed audience of around 741,000.