KAT-TUN concerts may qualify for Guinness

[Tokyograph News]

On Friday, popular boy band KAT-TUN completed their record-setting run of eight consecutive days of concerts at the Tokyo Dome. With a full house of about 55,000 fans at each show, a total of roughly 440,000 people attended the concerts.

Last year, KAT-TUN performed four consecutive days at the Dome. At the time, it tied for the record with British rocker Sting, who also did a four-day stretch there in 1988. However, KAT-TUN's recent concerts have now doubled that record.

Their management agency, Johnny's Jimusho, is hoping to have this achievement officially recognized as a Guinness World Record under "most consecutive concerts at a venue with a capacity of 50,000." It appears that someone affiliated with Guinness happened to be at the Tokyo Dome, so the agency has requested verification of the record.

With the success of these concerts, KAT-TUN has scheduled many more to extend their tour. They had originally planned for these 8 shows to be followed by 3 at Osaka Dome on May 29-31 and 2 more at Tokyo Dome on June 14-15. They have now added 17 more shows in 6 other cities, starting in July.

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wow! i hope it'll indeed be recognized..omedetou to the group for a successful con..

[KRAN]

WOah that was unexpected they kinda are folowing Kinki Kids but then in theire concert tour...

what they did is a great things to do..
I'ts such an amazing concert..
I've just read the report everywhere..
they're saikou~
and after those tiring concert, they have to prepare the summer concert..
hope those boys keep they stamina... just stays health..

Unsold tickets was sold at 2000yen per seat and there were a lot of tickets to be sold on the days itself. That's way too cheap for a Johnny's concert but even the curious won't mind forking a mere 2000yen for Kattun. The concert itself was fun though. They put in a lot of special effects and stunts. Kitagawa sure don't mind spending money on them.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Unsold tickets was sold at 2000yen per seat and there were a lot of tickets to be sold on the days itself. That's way too cheap for a Johnny's concert but even the curious won't mind forking a mere 2000yen for Kattun. The concert itself was fun though. They put in a lot of special effects and stunts. Kitagawa sure don't mind spending money on them.

that's not necessarily true though...the actual tickets were MUCH more expensive than that! those 2000yen tickets were very likely just re-sales...some fans were re-selling pre-purchased tickets at low prices. But the actual new tickets were MUCH more expensive!

dang! that's a lot of people sweating in one place. =P Congrats to them. I wouldn't mind watching them perform live, they pretty good entertainers.

[Ina]

All the tickets were sold for 6,500 yen per seat by the Johnny's fanclub and the originally planned 7 concerts were all more than sold out. That's why they added 6 more dates (three in Tokyo and three in Osaka).

It's true though that the re-sale prices for some tickets were as low as 2,000 yen, but that was only true for the 3rd floor tickets. 1st floor and arena tickets were much more expensive. Double and three times more that the original price.

Too many people bought too many tickets and wanted to sell the bad seats, that's why the prices for these were low. I personally don't mind that the scalpers didn't make a profit like they normally do.

good for them ..!
hope they will be in Guinness ..!!

[KRAN]

uhm guys your getting a bit off topic about the ticket sales.