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Old 5th May 2009, 03:59 AM
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Originally Posted by ayumisrael View Post
After the tour when a magazine or some sort of reporter thing (I don't remember where we get it from) that write about the tour and give the attendance number give the round number to the amount of people who went to see the tour? Or they write the overall number of the venues sits (even if they weren't filled)?

(for example like AT 08 had 250,000 attendancies and such).
I would guess that they would only count the number of tickets sold for the tour, not number of people actually in the seats. I don't think they would be able to factor in the resale market accurately. Also, I'm sure many of the resale tickets are re-selling (mainly because the price is going so low) - its just an oddity that so many tickets are showing up there in the first place. So, even though we know that a relatively large chunk of people decided not to use their tickets, it might still get reported as 250,000+ anyways, because technically the tickets did sell in the first place. I wonder, if in addition to all the factors already mentioned for this, if the Angel's Song incident at PCDL might also play somewhat of a factor. Although its becoming more widely used, lip synching is still a bigger no-no in Japan than in most countries.

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Originally Posted by waterballoon View Post
I initially thought she would never lip-sync in this segment cos there's AUDIENCE. I mean AUDIENCE is like sort-of the song that I think would be kind of unforgivable if she lip-synced... ah whatever, my weird thoughts.
The Japanese report said this about Audience: "this song was sung - it felt like she was out of breath and unlike the previous song (energize), you could hear her breathing."

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