They rank based on total attendees, number of concerts/lives has nothing to do with it
This list is for 2014, I think it's concerts between mid 2013 to mid 2014. Nikkei also released the same ranking last year.
[img] This list is from Nikkei Entertainment Magazine. It's pretty straight forward from left to right, group name, total attendees in 10,000,...
From this article, it said last week Momoclo's 2 days Kokuritsu concerts gathered 110,000 + 40,000 from movie theater live viewing (and they'll...
^ Here's a good article if you curious about that, quite old, but still relevant http://patrickmacias.blogs.com/er/2011/ ... ver-z.html
If the topic is about sales only, I think no group can threaten akb in term of sales. none of the close competition like momoclo or perfume have...
Then I think most of international peoples in this fandom don't have a firm grasp on what's popular right now, but you may all continue.
^ You only measure popularity with sales, you probably believe that AKB is more popular than Arashi? lol
From Seventeen magazine [img] Which idol group do you like? http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/mudainodqnment-nizistar/imgs/9/7/97f25687-s.jpg
^ Mixer problem? so why don't they sing live on unit songs. And you're obviously underestimating japanese idol groups, there are a lot of groups...
They're not even popular in Jakarta.
^ This is the one I can find, Momoclo's momo x-mas 2012 full concert Day 1 http://video.fc2.com/en/content/2013062061cbbtJp/...
Other groups have 5 members only, so when they have a 3 hours concert, it really means they sing and dance for 3 hours, not taking turns like the...
You're implying that other artists/groups edited their voices except AKB. Which is not nice.
If you think that's stupid, I'll definitely change the site name and let see ..
