10.5% growth from 2017 revenue, with most attendance centered on

The Pia Sōken live entertainment research company revealed on September 12 that revenue from anime-related live music concerts and voice actor events from January to December 2018 grew to an estimated 20 billion yen (about US$185 million), a 10.5% growth from 2017's total revenue of 18.1 billion yen (about US$168 million).

The total number of events also grew from 1,684 in 2017 to 1,784 in 2018, with 2.65 million tickets sold in 2018 (a 6.4% increase from 2017).



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Most live music event attendance centered on the Love Live! and THE [email protected] idol anime franchises. The annual Animelo Summer Live, which brings together many anime music artists, had 81,000 attendees in 2018, and King Records ' King Super Live event at the Tokyo Dome had 37,000 attendees.

Anime-related live events made up about 5% of the overall Japanese live music event market, which brought in 387.5 billion yen (about US$3.59 billion) in 2018.