concert sales

[jasjasss]

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

just checked the saitama website: http://www.saitama-arena.co.jp/e/ (under facility info)
i guess it depends if she used the 'stadium' part of saitama or the 'main arena' part of saitama. it's either ~30k or 16k. but i think considering how all her other concerts are around btwn 10-20k (ie: osaka, yoyogi, nagoya, fukuoka, hiroshima etc.) maybe she did the same for saitama

i think in saitama she uses the 37.000 one

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

just checked the saitama website: http://www.saitama-arena.co.jp/e/ (under facility info)
i guess it depends if she used the 'stadium' part of saitama or the 'main arena' part of saitama. it's either ~30k or 16k. but i think considering how all her other concerts are around btwn 10-20k (ie: osaka, yoyogi, nagoya, fukuoka, hiroshima etc.) maybe she did the same for saitama

I think it means that it can go anywhere between 16k and 30k - not just one or the other. It was not the 37k one but it was more than 16k. And Saitama is bigger than all of those arenas you mentioned. I remember her saying specifically on stage that there were 17,000 people there on the second night of the concert and that it was her record for largest audience at an arena tour.

[marty518]

Ayu definitely sells out wherever she goes! My friend tried to get tickets, but there's a lottery system and our number never came up before the tickets sold out for the Yoyogi shows in Tokyo.

The tickets are like 7800yen a piece which is really cheap looking at concert tickets in America! That's like $70. It's weird though because all the tickets are the same price in the arena! There's no different price levels for good or bad seats.
Madonna charges $350 face value for her best seats, and I think Ayu has the same sort of status in Japan, so she could really make a lot more money! It's nice that she doesn't gouge people with high prices, though

[Qt Mashi]

Originally Posted by marty518

It's weird though because all the tickets are the same price in the arena! There's no different price levels for good or bad seats.

i think that is really unfair, i'd hate to get a seat all the way at the back while the people who paid the same price as me is all the way in front oh but unless it's first in first served?

[perfectdeath]

i heard on that english documentary on ayu that her concerts sell out in 15 minutes of the tickets being put up. that was in 2001 at least

Originally Posted by marty518

The tickets are like 7800yen a piece which is really cheap looking at concert tickets in America! That's like $70.

Whoa! 7 800 yen is US$68.60, which is AU$90.47. Compared to Madonna, that IS cheap!

[immel]

I have heard somewhere it was the 17'000 one, but I do not remember the source. This thread makes me unsure. I was also 99% sure of that the Yoyogi arenas performances only held around 7000 people, I'm unsure of that now, too. It certainly did not look as too much people when I was there, at Yoyogi. It was very much room between the seats and seating blocks in the arena, a total waste of space, but that's just how it is.

The concerts all sell out immediately when AVEX release them, but you can still see a few empty seats in the arena. Most of them are caused by the ticket re-sellers who buy lots of tickets, everyone who want to go to an Ayu concert does not know about those re-sellers or can find their way to them, so they don't get all the tickets sold, not the worst seats.

[AyuGAME]

yeah her show was so great
her performance was one of the best among all artist in the world