[SunshineSlayer]

^ But the problem is, that people deciding to just go to one date on her tour instead of multiple dates is something that you could say was a factor in every single one of her tours prior to this, yet the resale market didn't look anything like it does now. Nor do other artists, judging from the ticket website, have this problem right now. Sorry to bring up Namie again, but she is playing Yoyogi 5 times in a row (and has already played it close to 10 times before on this tour) yet she has a total of only 37 tickets for resale. Couldn't the more likely reason simply be that not enough people in Japan like Next Level enough to justify going to a "Next Level" tour? That's what I think the most likely reason is, even more than just a general gradual decrease in popularity. (because this is not a gradual increase in resale tickets, this is an explosion.)

I agree, though that the economy can effect whether people go to more than one show or not though. It's just other artists currently on arena tours don't seem to be having that issue - so either people don't care about the economy and are still going to multiple shows or Ayu had by far the biggest concert audience made up of multiple attendees.