Arashi to hold a large-scale online live concert at the New National Stadium on the day of debut?
Johnny's paid online concert makes 10 billion yen worth of money!? Is a secret plan of Arashi to move “Beyond BTS”?
Above all, it is said that an unprecedented super big project is progressing around Arashi.
The paid online concert "Johnny's World Happy LIVE with YOU" distributed by all the groups of Johnny's office reached the final day on the 21st, and the 6-day schedule was a great success.
"Every day, the viewing rights for concerts were 2,500 yen for members of Johnny's Family Club and 3000 yen for the general public, but on June 16th when Arashi and King & Prince appeared, It seems that more than 1 million fans were watching. On this day alone, the simple calculation indicates that the sales were over 2.5 billion yen (23 million USD).
On the final day, KinKiKids and the young group SixTONES and Snowman who are currently in the spotlight also appeared. It seems that group appeared every day and made a total of nearly 10 billion yen (93 million USD)
Since the distribution and management of the video is done by a Johnny's subsidiary, it is mostly in the pocket of Johnny's office except for overhead expenses.” (Personal broadcaster)
Most of the profits will be donated this time, but Johnny's office feels a certain "feel" to the online concert.
"Until today, Johnny's has prioritized the media exposure of television and magazines, and the internet has been secondary. However, last year Arashi opened the official YouTube channel and the music has been unsubscribed, so the flow has changed. Seeing the huge number of fans and sales that gathered at this online concert, it seems that they decided to shift to a more full-scale Internet.'' (same)
In particular, regarding to Arashi that will be suspended throughout the year, It is said that an unprecedented super big project is underway.
"In Arashi, many concerts and events that were planned for Last Year have been into blank because of the new coronavirus. Considering the social situation, it will be difficult to hold a large-scale concert this year”.
Therefore, it seems that talks are going on to hold a non-audience concert on November 3rd, the day of Arashi's debut by pay online distribution.
The first candidate for the venue is the newly created New National Stadium in Yoyogi, Tokyo. This kind of large-scale online concert is unprecedented in Japan and will be a big topic.” (Music person officiel)
Arashi's last online concert is unprecedented not only in scale but also in the number of people involved.
"The number of Arashi fan club members is not officially announced, but it is estimated to reach 3 million. Based on this number, Arashi's last online concert aims to mobilize 5 million people.
BTS a popular Korean group, has an online concert held on June 14 and has the highest number of simultaneous viewers. They hit a record of 756,600 viewers. But Arashi will exceed this.
If they realized, Arashi can heald an online concert that connects 5 million people at the same time. Is that technically possible? Some gossips said “Johnny's office is currently conducting various experiments including server management." (Weekly journalist)
"Arashinomics"
In addition, the amount of rough profits of Arashi is not limited to this. They plan to sell several kinds of limited time goods.
"Sales of concert goods are a big source of income that supports the earnings of Johnny's office, so at Arashi's online concert, we plan to partner with Rakuten and Yahoo! to sell several kinds of limited-time goods, too.
If you include online viewing tickets and sales of various goods, you will earn about 20 billion yen (186 million USD) on the debut day of Arashi alone. This is a big project to save the Japanese economy that has suffered a great deal of damage from Corona, and even the business community has come to expect it." (Weekly magazine reporter)
“They become an economic effect can call it "Arashinomics". There is great expectation for, but also worried about Arashi members who will be abused online until the very end”. (Weekly magazine reporter)
*CyzoWoman, 2020/06/22
Author Note:
“Arashinomics” or Aranomics aludes to the political term “Abenomics” about the economic policies of Shinzo Abe prime minister of Japan. In the sense that Arashi future incomes would create a big economic hit.
Just Awesome! Please J! just say Yes! *By A~san