The "financial tsunami" did not seem to affect the enthusiasm of Guangzhou’s neighbors for the carnival at the end of the year. In the next month, the concerts in Guangzhou gathered, and the tickets were sold more and more expensive, and even a rare thousand yuan ticket appeared. The reporter received news from various performers yesterday that whether it was the king Guo Fucheng or the "niche" soda green, the tickets were selling crazy, and there was even a hot scene that the tickets were not officially sold out and had been booked out.
Guo Fucheng
The box office on the first day exceeded one million
On January 3, 2009, Guo Fucheng will bring his Asia-renowned "Dancing Forest True Concert" and the Guinness World Record 450-degree giant rotating stage to the Tianhe Stadium in Guangzhou. This is also his return to perform in Yangcheng after a seven-year absence from the Guangzhou stage. As soon as the news broke, fans who like him were excited. The organizers were originally scheduled to officially issue tickets yesterday, but due to the large number of fans booking tickets in advance, some price tickets are actually "unavailable".
According to the organizers’ statistics, within 24 hours of the "Dancing Forest True Story Concert" going on sale, ticket sales have exceeded one million.
The organizers introduced that in order to give back to Guangzhou fans and coincide with the two major festivals of Christmas and New Year, they have specially prepared a limited edition New Year’s card for Guo Fucheng. All fans who purchase tickets at Guo Fucheng’s designated ticket outlets in Guangzhou will receive a free exquisite card as a New Year’s gift from Guo Fucheng to Guangzhou fans.
The organizers also revealed that the concert also specially planned to build an extension platform dozens of meters long on the stage, which will be the first time the extension platform will be used in a concert in Guangzhou. At that time, Guo Fucheng will stand on the extension platform to get up close and personal with fans, and will also deliver mysterious gifts to the audience on the spot.
Soda Green
Tickets are selling out fast
If Guo Fucheng’s ticket sales are particularly good because he has a strong mass base in Guangzhou, it is quite surprising that the rather "niche" soda green tickets can also be sold out.
Soda Green, which has always been known as a "niche" band, started singing at the Taipei Arena at the end of last year, and held solo and commercial performances in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Chengdu and other places within a year, so that fans in each place can truly feel the charm of Soda Green’s live music interpretation, and at the same time, it has also won commercial success.
This Christmas Eve, Soda Green will hold its last solo concert of 2008 in Guangzhou, with the theme of "Soda Green Sings with You on Christmas Eve". Although there was no much hype, the tickets sold out quickly after being issued. At the strong request of many fans, the organizers temporarily decided to adjust the performance venue, replacing the Zhongshan Memorial Hall, which was originally scheduled to accommodate 3,000 spectators, with the Guangzhou Stadium, which can accommodate 8,000 spectators. However, even if it is changed to the stadium, the low-priced tickets have been sold out.
In addition, in order to give back the fans’ support for Soda Green, the performers have reserved a small number of free tickets, and specially planned the Soda Green "Sing with me on Christmas" ticket-grabbing activity on December 24. Once launched, it attracted millions of fans to leave messages online to grab tickets, and the popularity was bursting. This is another successful case of Chen Qizhen expanding the scale of her performance due to the hot box office after her solo performance in Beijing not long ago. In this year’s performance market, the explosive power of so-called independent and niche singers such as Cai Jianya, Chen Qizhen, and Zhang Zhenyue, who will be singing in Beijing, has also impressed everyone with nearly 10% of the box office sales.
Soda Green has been out for three years and has released 4 albums and 5 EPs, which are deeply loved and sought after. In the first large-scale ticketed concert held at Taipei Arena in November last year, Qingfeng sang more than 40 songs in a row, returned 8 times, and performed for 5 hours. Soda Green expressed the hope that this Guangzhou concert can continue the performance myth of Taipei Arena and bring more unparalleled musical experience to the live audience.
At the same time, Cai Yilin, Luo Zhixiang, and Zhou Huajian, who will be singing in Guangzhou at the end of the year, are also enthusiastically sought after, and the box office good news has come again and again. Everyone is like a competition to see who will run to the "limit" first. Reporter He Yajia
Editor in charge: Sun Jie