Nikkei's Concert Mobilization Power Ranking for 2015

[pimenta]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

^ I think that's what I said xD

I just think it's silly that they wouldn't just get the actual data for tickets sold. It's literally the same thing as if Oricon ranked singles only based on how many cd's were sent out to stores vs actual sales of the cd's.

While the numbers might be relatively similar, it's not exact. So for a country that likes to rank things so much, I just think it's weird haha.

Though I do remember that (miss)understood was considered a million selling album despite only selling 800,000+ so in some instances I guess they do base it on shipments vs sales.


Anyway it's good to see she's still able to be in this list, and to be so high up if you ignore the groups haha.

Oh, sorry, I didn't get what you meant before haha

Yes, RIAJ certifications consider copies shipped, not copies sold, so many albums/singles end up getting certificates even if they didn't really sell that many copies.

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

Interesting info! An average of 8,324 attendees per show. For larger venues like yoyogi, I guess that is a lot of empty seats, but eh, she still ranked nicely on the list!

[kotora]

I laughed badly for this

AKB48 – 234,000 attendees – 271 concerts. Need to have 271 for 234,000 people. Bitch please. Ayu and Namie can have less than 50 concerts for that number of people.

[Bigtop]

Yeah, I don't know why AKB48 (along with SKE48, NMB48 and HKT48) count its 'daily' (almost) stage performances as such concerts in this list...

[pimenta]

Originally Posted by Pieces_of_SEVEN

Interesting info! An average of 8,324 attendees per show. For larger venues like yoyogi, I guess that is a lot of empty seats, but eh, she still ranked nicely on the list!

The list doesn't consider empty seats. This average is because of the TA Tour, which is in small venues, it lowers the average.

Originally Posted by kotora

I laughed badly for this

AKB48 – 234,000 attendees – 271 concerts. Need to have 271 for 234,000 people. Bitch please. Ayu and Namie can have less than 50 concerts for that number of people.

Honestly... I don't like AKB48 either, but this comparison was unnecessary. What's the point of comparing artists who do arena tours with AKB48's small theater daily concerts? It's two entirely different situations.

[JinHamasaki]

I have never seen this before. Do we have historical charts say from 2001?

[oaristos]

^ I'd like to see the charts for previous years too.

[~angel*ayumi~]

I remember seeing this before, but don´t ask me what year it was xD

[rikku1994]

I think it's kinda cool that Nana Mizuki is on the list tho?

[AyUmIXx]

wow awesome..ayu in japan is still relevant! i'm so glad!

and surprised to see AKB48 (n the rest of the 48 groups) doing not that high on the ranking, coz it seems to me they are super popular in japan.

[SunshineSlayer]

What I take from this list: The real #1 is Arashi, B'z popularity is more down than expected, and while Ayu is still in the top 20, it took an awful lot of concert dates to get there. And probably the most impressive ranking is this: KinKi Kids – 220,000 attendees – 4 concerts

Originally Posted by Pieces_of_SEVEN

Interesting info! An average of 8,324 attendees per show. For larger venues like yoyogi, I guess that is a lot of empty seats, but eh, she still ranked nicely on the list!

Yoyogi is actually not very big. It just looks bigger on dvd. I believe its max is somewhere between 9-10k.

[YukiUsagi]

AT 2015 had 175000 attendees. CDL ~ 36000 attendees.

So, TA tour 147000???

[AyuGAME]

I think TA tour is not included yet in this data...The tour is not ended yet...

[YukiUsagi]

Originally Posted by AyuGAME

I think TA tour is not included yet in this data...The tour is not ended yet...

TA tour is included. AT 22 concerts, TA 19 concerts, CDL 2~3 concerts = 43 concerts.

[pimenta]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

What I take from this list: The real #1 is Arashi, B'z popularity is more down than expected, and while Ayu is still in the top 20, it took an awful lot of concert dates to get there. And probably the most impressive ranking is this: KinKi Kids – 220,000 attendees – 4 concerts

I don't think this list would be a good way to judge popularity, because it's very relative to the venues' capacity in which the artist chooses to perform... For example, Kinki kids' 4 concerts were in domes, which makes the numbers nearly the same as Acid Black Chery, for example, who had 38 hall concerts, but personally I find it just as impressive to be able to have very long tours with many dates and have a lot of people interested in going for every one of those dates...
Of course, being able to do a big dome tour, like ARASHI, Sandaime J Soul Brothers or EXILE does show some huge popularity... but just analyzing number of concerts and attendants doesn't work as well for all cases imo.

Originally Posted by AyuGAME

I think TA tour is not included yet in this data...The tour is not ended yet...

Many artists in the list still had on-going tours when the list came out. This is counting all scheduled concerts until the end of the year, whether they already happened or not.