ASIA TOUR 2008 Asian dates confirmed!
 

A source now states the dates and locations of the ASIA TOUR 2008 ~10th Anniversary~ overseas stops!

Source

This is one long tour.. @_@

It's only a matter of time before her official site announces it now. [though, I don't think it'll need a thread of its own since there seems to be a bunch of Asian tour date threads.. D:~]

Also, the article states that the tour's production costs were upwards of 2.5 billion yen, or 23.1 million USD.

I'm surprised to see so few dates with last years success, just one extra Taiwan and the same in China. And the Chinese dates are a month apart? It seems long, but it's only 4 concerts..

Yeah this tour is going on very late. It doesn't leave much time to do a CDL concert does it? O_O

Well, they're far apart for a good reason, I imagine..

Most likely to allow enough time to transport the stage materials and set them up. :\


CDLs are usually planned mid-November.

Basically, she's worked from CDL07-08 directly to AT08 up until the end of June, then doing a-nation '08, then resuming her AT08 schedule to finally work on CDL08-09. @_@

Dang, I guess we'll see a DVD release of the tour next year then. >=\

Well they're managing to bring it from Shanghai to Taipei in under 2 weeks.

My hunch is that they might start editing the June 29th show, and kind of ignore the Asian stops for the DVD..

I think Namie Amuro did this with her PLAY TOUR and it worked out a lot better than the AT07 fiasco.

lol, I guessed the Taiwan date. @_@

The tour production cost makes me :thud
Anyways, its a "YAY!" for that Ayu will come in Hong Kong again!!! XD

hoahhhhhhhhhh..two dates for Taipei stop??
wahhh so lucky Taiwanese fans gotta see Ayu for twice..wahhhhh!!!
thanks for the info :)

There are huge gaps between those dates. I'm thinking new single for sure.

We're probably going to get a new single at the end of AT08's Japan leg.

The large gaps inbetween the tours tend to be for Ayu to rest [as well as to transport the stage from place to place..]~

thanks for the news

no singapore :weep i was weeping again now... but maybe i'll go to china/taiwan this year end so maybe i'll be there? hhohohoho what a dream...

I'm sure she's gonna release something during the overseas concerts to promote and stuff. I'm glad there's 2 taipei concerts...HK should have 2 as well.

HK probably can't have two because the Asia-World Expo Arena is pretty big.. 13,500 seats.. probably the biggest venue of the Asian dates..

Ayumi!!!! I really hope you make new songs during your tour :(.

then she won't really have enough time for new album in December? wow
I think this time she must've planned something different for Overseas fans, and those lucky fans will get to listen her new singles, imagine: summer/fall/winter singles, anything that ayu'll release this year ^^. 2 ates in Taiwan means many more Taiwan artist will go and see this spectacular show coz it's ayu's anniversary tour ^^ I hope the DVD isn't coming next December'09 LOL That'll be sucks. I think this DVD will only Include Japan stops, then maybe the Overseas shows will be bundled together in CDL08-09 DVD early next year, maybe???...I dunno...confusing...coz Kylie Minogue one it before, SHOWGIRL an SHOWGIRL Homecoming, so I supposed ayu'll change something in the tracklist or anything else this time round ^^

nice... though, I still can't make it to any dates still v-v~...it's such a pitty TwT~~~

23.1 Million is for the whole tour right o_o, not just the Asia stops? The Hong Kong date is so late T_T, if it was earlier I could make it T_T, I hope we can get releases though.

Generally, tour costs cover the entire tour.

23.1 million for Asia only would be absurd. :|

So she has 4 overseas concerts?

:faint

Why am i living in Australia? :mini!

Oh thx for posting!

That means no rest for Ayu tough. >.< Wellwell.

@KuroixShiroi_Namida
You still have not so far to go. Why not take a vaccation and go see her in HK or something? ^^

yup I guess ....

same question...

why wouldnt i live in taiwan or HK :weep

it's kinda expected that Singapore is not one of her tour stops

-celebrates-

Good, I'm saving money for the HK stop now...

FINALLY!!! i already booked my shanghai ticket, two weeks ago...hopefully i can get it...
wish me luck guys!!!

I_you_me - your set is gorgeus!!! i love it so much...

ooo 4 dates this time!
1 more than last year!
So the tour ends on 2nd November XD.
I wonder how will she be able to record a new album on that time unless if she will record most of the tracks this summer.

god...1 show in hk and TWO shows in taipei? that's unfair!

...aahhh...so not close...1 extra show but not in Indonesia/Malaysia/Singapore...

Thx for the info..!

I'm guessing a single in July and she'll work on her album during august and the time between hongkong and shanghai.

are they using same stage with asia tour 2007?
i thought one performance would be held with her bday

[Official] ayumi hamasaki ASIA TOUR 2008 ～10th Anniversary～ Overseas Locations
 

「ayumi hamasaki ASIA TOUR 2008 ～10th Anniversary～」香港、上海、台北公演決定！

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/1589/at08qb6.jpg

Source: http://www.avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/schedule/

Seeing how high-budget the stage is this year, I'm sure they need more time to prep moving and setting it up for each overseas location

GREAT!!!!
It finally official!

omg its confirmed !!! I wish I can go to HK one

it's really official now

i'm sad there isn't more

ARGH...haiz...disappointed...tickets are gonna be sold in hours

I was expecting more dates. =/
Anyway, I hope she puts on an awesome show in these dates as well!

omg! haha this tour is sooo long! o_O thanks for the info~

only 4 dates? I thought there would be more

anyway what a long tour (O_O) ! it started in what, March? and it will end in November!

haha i find it funny that almost everyone is super and extremely excited about when the official dates of the asian stops will be released. and when it's really released, everybody is like "oh... ok"

ayu have like around 3 weeks in between each stop. i wonder if she will sorta forget some dance steps or what :P

According to the website on the first post, this is what it says,

^i think its the same theme like what she use in her japan tour...
her concert stage for this year show is more extravagant than last year tour...and so many property on this year tour...i think that's why she spend 3 weeks between each stops

yeah.. it's more or less gonna be the exact same show. Since ayu already insisted on the consistency of the concerts in both japan and asian stops last year, i guess she will do it so this year..

It all fits. ayu is back for a-nation so chances of new setlist is relative low.
the time period in between each asian stop is quite big. which means the ship gonna take some time to be set up..

of cos.. this is jus my speculation... not necessarily true.

D: no singapore, argggggg
but i'm getting my ex girlfren whom every year going back to japan to visit her god grandma and also for vacation to help me get ayu stuffs :D wuhahahahha

Though it's only 2 weeks between the Shangai and Taipei stops, so it can be done in less time.

Thanks for sharing the details! Can't wait for these...

Does avex make any profit with a high production cost like that or are they kinda spending some of their "savings" on Ayumi since she's... well, Hamasaki Ayumi?

lol I just saw this on her official site.

She's really gonna be busy this year. She's gonna take a small break before rehearsing for a-nation, then she'll be doing a-nation, then three weeks later, she'll be starting the Asia leg of her tour. =O

Can't wait to hear more about the tour~! =D

I'm pretty sure that they do. However, I think it's mostly tour goods that they make money from.. that and the sponsors [Panasonic and etc] help pay some of the costs.

Multiplying the price of the tickets [7800 yen] and the amount of fans that will watch [260,000] gives us around 2,028,000,000, two billion twenty-eight million.

And then you add the goods that people probably purchase [a shirt, random object, ayupan, and a fan, which is around 5700 yen] times the amount of people.. comes out to be: 1,462,000,000, one billion, four hundred sixty-two million.

2,020,000,000 + 1,462,000,000 = 3,482,000,000 yen = 32.5 million USD

Of course, you have to take into account that people will pay different prices for tickets and that people will buy TONS more or TONS less tour goods. I think that they tend to make quite a bit more.. I mean, that's how they can keep doing all of these tours. It seems as though the tour costs are always pretty high for Ayu's shows. Probably because they know that Ayu can bring in enough money so that they don't perform at a loss.

I think because Ayumi's biggest profits nowadays are from her tours Avex does sponsor.

And like Truehappiness's calculation, they pretty much get the money back.

Yea D: I was really hoping we Singaporeans would be able to catch her 10th Anniversary concert at least. :(

well, i think you're so lucky if you lived in japan and you can go for watching her LIVE everytime you want

siighhh.. thanks for all calculation..
hmm 260.000 fans willw atch? o.O is it the biggest tour ever held for ayu??

^not really, i think her 2002 tour, is the biggest show... arena tour + stadium tour + open air concert...

Wow, November?! She's always so busy!

Her 2002 tours were somewhat separate from each other, while this year it seems as though everything's really really close to one another.. @_@

[CDL -> AT -> a-nation -> AT -> CDL]

10x for the info

Related article :
http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2008...t_15866182.htm

woow. 230.000 audience is included overseas audience or only japanese audience?

well apparently Asia World Expo will sit 9385 people~
roughly 25%-30% of the concert hall is taken up by the stage~~
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/9...469f256he6.jpg
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/2...f6e79f9qb4.jpg

^ this isnt the stage at asia tour 2007 HK,right?

last year was hk coliseum wasn't it? and thanks for the date xD

last yr was at HK coliseum so there wasnt any extended stage.. but this year at Asia World Expo, there will be.

Here are some pics of the arenas..

from that pic looks shanghai grand stage is so small compare with other two venues
but the fact is it has the same capacity like the other two, weird huh?

yah, shanghai grand stage looks smaller than 2 stages in TAipei and HK

are you sure?
Shanghai grand stage has the same capacity as the other two venues?
really?
because that Asia World Expo looks promising..
looks just like Japan Arena!! wowww!!
and Taipei Arena is big too!

Wow according to that pic Shanghai looks soooo small.

Thanks, guys, for that. I totally forgot about the cash that tour goods bring in. x_x

asia world expo capacity - 12.500 seats
taipei arena capacity - 13.500 seats
shanghai grand stage - 10.000 seats

i think its pretty close range...

is official news d:
http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/schedule/

Seriously!? I thought that the World expo has way more sit places XDDD
lol though the difference between that and Taipei's just 1000.

Those are a lot though!! Awesome.

Thank you!

hello! Now the date for taiwan is confirmed Yippppeah! Wondering how to book taiwan's???? Because I m based in Spore, so wondering if I can go through some agent or so? dont want to miss out this year!

The dates are so far apart probably because she has other things planned in between. Recording? Meetings and stuff for CDL08-09?! Who knows~~

sankyuu for the news :D