Top 50 Most-Attended Concert Acts in Japan - Nana at #39

[Sai]

This is pretty cool, especially as there's a dearth of soloists (and especially female soloists) on the list! By those parameters, Nana would be even higher

Every year popular magazine Nikkei Entertainment releases a series of Power Rankings which arrange musical artists and other celebrities according to varying different criteria such as familiarity or interest. Keeping with tradition, the magazine’s December issue contains its yearly survey on concert attendance in Japan, ranking acts based on the overall amount of people whom attended their performances over the course of the past year.

The 2015 ranking was topped by long-running pop/rock band Mr.Children, whose “REFLECTION” Arena Tour and “Mikan” Stadium Tour brought in a combined 1,119,000 concertgoers (according to overall venue capacity) over the course of 36 different dates. Second and third place went to popular idol group Arashi (1,035,000 attendees from 21 dates) and dance/vocal unit Sandaime J Soul Brothers (1,002,000 attendees from 21 dates) respectively.

Read on below for a look at the year’s complete Concert Mobilization ranking, which includes the Top 50 acts as ranked by their concert attendance during 2015.

-’Nikkei Entertainment’ Concert Mobilization Power Ranking 2015-

Mr.Children – 1,119,000 attendees – 36 concerts
Arashi – 1,035,000 attendees – 21 concerts
Sandaime J Soul Brothers – 1,002,000 attendees – 21 concerts
EXILE – 988,000 attendees – 20 concerts
Kanjani8 – 923,000 attendees – 38 concerts
Tohoshinki – 786,000 attendees – 16 concerts
Kis-My-Ft2 – 730,000 attendees – 22 concerts
BIGBANG – 708,000 attendees – 14 concerts
Southern All Stars – 643,000 attendees – 23 concerts
B’z – 626,000 attendees – 41 concerts
2PM – 455,000 attendees – 30 concerts
EXO – 445,000 attendees – 13 Concerts
DREAMS COME TRUE – 432,000 attendees – 9 concerts
Yuzu – 426,000 attendees – 31 concerts
Amuro Namie – 425,000 attendees – 34 concerts
Kobukuro – 374,000 attendees – 24 concerts
Fukuyama Masaharu – 370,000 attendees – 18 concerts
Hamasaki Ayumi – 358,000 attendees – 43 concerts
UVERworld – 344,000 attendees – 51 concerts
Ketsumeishi – 337,000 attendees – 28 concerts
Momoiro Clover Z – 322,000 attendees – 30 concerts
Nogizaka46 – 316,000 attendees – 41 concerts
Ikimonogakari – 311,000 attendees – 26 concerts
Hey! Say! JUMP – 309,000 attendees – 22 concerts
ONE OK ROCK – 308,000 attendees – 24 concerts
SUPER JUNIOR – 288,000 attendees – 21 concerts
NEWS – 281,000 attendees – 16 concerts
Johnny’s WEST – 273,000 attendees – 23 concerts
AAA – 270,000 attendees – 21 concerts
One Direction – 258,000 attendees – 6 concerts
GLAY – 256,000 attendees – 23 concerts
Koda Kumi – 244,000 attendees – 16 concerts
Golden Bomber – 241,000 attendees – 29 concerts
Paul McCartney – 234,000 attendees – 5 concerts
AKB48 – 234,000 attendees – 271 concerts
Nishino Kana – 223,000 attendees – 18 concerts
Acid Black Cherry – 223,000 attendees – 38 concerts
KinKi Kids – 220,000 attendees – 4 concerts
Mizuki Nana – 217,000 attendees – 16 concerts
Shonan no Kaze – 207,000 attendees – 37 concerts
HKT48 – 202,000 attendees – 314 concerts
V6 – 202,000 attendees – 15 concerts
SKE48 – 200,000 attendees – 263 concerts
Hikawa Kiyoshi – 199,000 attendees – 104 concerts
Sexy Zone – 195,000 attendees – 13 concerts
NMB48 – 186,000 attendees – 198 concerts
CNBLUE – 181,000 attendees – 18 concerts
THE ALFEE – 178,000 attendees – 54 concerts
Domoto Koichi – 176,000 attendees – 12 concerts
YUKI – 171,000 attendees – 39 concerts

(Source: aramajapan.com/news/music/nikkei-unveils-their-concert-mobilization-power-ranking-for-2015/51892/#more-51892)

[hot0rikun967]

Wow. I figured AKBandfriends would be much higher on that list. That said, look at everyone above Nana. Those acts are absolute forces, many of which have been around for years and years at the top. To me, that means that Nana is doing extremely, extremely well if the only acts beating her are the ones who have been beating everyone for years. To be less than 20,000 less than AKBetc., too. It's really, really impressive, especially for someone in her genre. I think we can firmly say she's a contender nowadays. That's really cool

[Sai]

This made me really proud of Nana, and also gives me some peace of mind regarding her career, even with declining sales. Being able to tour so successfully is a very, very encouraging sign. I know one day Nana might not have the elaborate shows and venues she has now, but it seems to take much much longer for an artist's touring appeal to wear off compared to their physical sales.

[amelala]

ma....they will stop if people stop going to concert, that will be the most despair moment for a grp or artist
but another is when health atk or make company fire that artist (like scandals), those things we cant control is the artist's life

then also is really cant mix concert sales and product sales, some people dont buy the products because they either

1. saving money
2. not worth it
3. only wan to see that artist ^^;;;
4. not a fan
(theres call book which show how to do the lightstick call or they can just do the monkey see and monkey do lol)

then another thing is....i do follow tweets that go concert, that most of them manage to go all the lives XAX....
anyway Nana already said at LIVE ADVENTURE
20 years...30 years.....200 times...300 times.....aim for 777 times!!
(this part got some abit laughter due to 7 she said NanaHyaku.NanaJuu.Nana-Kai mezashite XD)
and she said 永遠に歌い続けたいと思 います！！ (i think i want to continue to sing forever!!!!!)

[butthead2k3]

Nov 11, 2015 1:07:26 GMT -4 hot0rikun967 said:

Wow. I figured AKBandfriends would be much higher on that list. That said, look at everyone above Nana. Those acts are absolute forces, many of which have been around for years and years at the top. To me, that means that Nana is doing extremely, extremely well if the only acts beating her are the ones who have been beating everyone for years. To be less than 20,000 less than AKBetc., too. It's really, really impressive, especially for someone in her genre. I think we can firmly say she's a contender nowadays. That's really cool

You gotta look at the amount of concerts they held as well to get to that number. She only did one tour which has quite a lot of venues that are not really that big i trust. So, that number is quite healthy i trust.

The acts that truly stomped even the chart toppers ain't even a Japanese one with only 5 to 6 shows to amass that amount of audiences.