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Old 19th December 2008, 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by SolarAngel View Post
Don't take this the wrong way but asians (especially japanese) are very welcoming of western acts. They are willing to pay much more to see these artistes live than the westerners themselves are so it's very profitable for western artistes to perform in countries like japan. Britney's appearance will garner a few million for her i'm sure.

It gets overboard sometimes, like Celine Dion's manager wouldn't let her perform here because our ticketing agency refused to let them charge $1000 a ticket.
Yep, couldn't have said it better myself. That's why we also saw almost a third of the VMAJ awards being won by western artists. At the same time, we do not see any Japanese artists attending VMA let alone win a single award. That's just the way it is. The story about Celine is just ridiculous.