Recently, Daolang announced his "comeback". He announced through his personal social platform that he would hold an online concert on the evening of August 30. There is also news that this year, Daolang will also hold concert tours in many places across the country.
Daolang's "comeback"
will hold tour concerts in many places
It is understood that "Daolang's "Where Folk Songs Ring" Tour Concert" has been approved or licensed in Chengdu and Guangzhou.
The Sichuan Provincial Online Mass Work Platform shows that on August 16, the Chengdu Jinniu District Internet Administration Office stated in response to netizen inquiries that after verification, the Jinniu District Government Service Management and Administrative Approval Bureau received and approved "Daolang" Folk Song Rings. "A Place" Tour Concert—Chengdu Station" application. The declared performance venue for the Chengdu stop of this tour concert is the Chengdu Phoenix Mountain Sports Park Comprehensive Gymnasium, and the declared performance dates are from 19:00 to 22:00 on September 21st and 22nd.
Source: Sichuan Provincial Online Mass Work Platform "Ask the Government of Sichuan"
The commercial performance approval decision published by the Guangzhou Huangpu District Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau shows that the name of the licensed performance is "Daolang's "Where Folk Songs Ring" Tour Concert - "Guangzhou Station", the performance date is October 5th to 6th this year, the performance venue is Guangzhou International Sports Performing Arts Center, and there are 2 performances.
Source: Guangzhou Huangpu District Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau website
On December 6 last year, Daolang released a video on the short video platform stating that it would temporarily suspend updates, which could be as short as one year and as long as two or three years. Because he still has three album plans, which requires a lot of time to do field work, accumulate and think. Regarding the concert, he said that from 2013 to 2023, he had never authorized any unit or individual to prepare or produce his concert. As for whether there are plans for 2024, it will also depend on his work schedule for subsequent albums.
Regarding the news of Daolang's "comeback", many netizens said: "The wait is finally over."
Concert and music festival box office continues to grow
Since the beginning of the year, many well-known singers including JJ Lin, Eason Chan, Jolin Tsai, Jacky Cheung, etc. have embarked on tours across the country. According to data monitoring and survey calculations from the ticketing information collection platform of the China Performance Industry Association, in the first half of 2024, there were 251,700 commercial performances (excluding performances in entertainment venues) nationwide, a year-on-year increase of 30.19%; box office revenue was 19.016 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.24% , the number of viewers was 79.1013 million, a year-on-year increase of 27.10%.
In the first half of the year, the large-scale performance market continued to rise. Box office revenue from concerts and music festivals increased by 134.73% year-on-year; the number of spectators increased by 63.35% year-on-year. Among them, large-scale concerts with more than 5,000 people contributed the highest to market growth.
Large-scale concerts are performed mainly in first- and second-tier cities, and many large-scale concerts held by many singers have been sold out immediately. At the same time, the booming concert market in 2023 has pushed performance organizations to expand the scale of performances this year, and some singers have switched to holding concerts in venues that can accommodate larger audiences this year.
(Shangguan News)
