Top P-pop group SB19 has intensified its campaign to fully sell out tickets to the added second night of its epic “Simula at Wakas concert on 1 June. The twin-night’s concert is the kick off for their third world tour.
The all-male group seems to be worried that their second night at the 55,000-seater Philippine Arena won’t be as full as the first night (31 May), which sold out within seven hour of online ticket-selling.
Ticket selling for the second night started on 16 April. On the first days of May, the quintet started announcing on wacky reels in their social media account that tickets for the second night are still available.
As of Tuesday morning, 6 May, Live Nation ticket website, still sells tickets for the 1 June staging.
We also discovered that even some of their fans, known as A’TIN, post on Facebook and on other social media, appeals for their fellow fans to help sell out in full the concert’s second night.
That their first night is already fully sold out is already a huge achievement for SB19. It makes them only the second solo Pinoy Pop group to book the Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan and fully sell out the tickets. Rental for the humongous venue for a single night (or day) is reportedly a whopping one million pesos.
The first P-pop band to hold a fully sold out 55,000 seats is BINI, the all-female group managed by ABS-CBN. The “Bini-Verse World Tour” was held on 15 February this year, just a few months after a three-night concert at the Araneta Coliseum in November. Their Philippine Arena concert was just for one night.
Since its construction in 2014 by the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) religious sect, the Philippine Arena is mostly rented out by bookers of foreign acts in the country, such as the Cold Play concert for two nights last year. The venue, reported to be the biggest covered coliseum in the world, is legally owned by New Era University, also a property of INC.
Online reports say that singer Imelda Papin once booked Philippine Arena for a solo concert with list of top-rate Pinoy pop idols but the concert’s ticket sales were not revealed.
The old Eat Bulaga TV show produced by the company known popularly as TAPE, owned by the Jalosjos family of Zamboanga, booked the Philippine Arena on 24 October 2015 as the site of the first-ever on-camera meeting of the loveteam known then as AlDub Nation: GMA7 actor Alden Richards and a massively followed Maine Mendoza as a mash comic dubber of the most popular romantic scenes in the movies. Their long-running segment was known as Kalyeserye and the Philippine Arena live telecast reportedly sold all 55,000 seats, thus earning a gross reported to have reached P14 million.
The sweet boys of SB19 — Pablo, Stell, Ken, Justin, and Josh — aren’t proclaiming it, but they seem to be obsessed with breaking the revenue grossed by Eat Bulaga in 2015 and by Bini on 15 February.
Doesn’t SB19 deserve to be a historic record-breaker at least among P-pop groups?
Since it’s only 7 of May as you read this, it is still very possible that the added 1 June show will be fully sold. If it does SB19 will be the first Pinoy pop solo act to have fully sold-out shows two nights in a row.