Concert is a musical performance given in public, typically by several performers or of several separate composition. Concert becomes a tool of artists, especially musician and or singer, to exist themselves. They can use it to entertain people, to have fun with their and to serve many people who had already support and adore them. Musician or singer can be categorized as a successful artist when they can sell many alum copies and held their own concert. That is why concert became an important part of musician or artist career.
In Indonesia, concert is a common thing because there were many Indonesian musician and singer that often already held concert. But time by time, Indonesian people felt a little bit boring with the local artist. International music has come in Indonesia since long time ago. With the following globalization era, Indonesian people had a chance to be closer with international music. For example, they can easily listening and purchasing the albums, watching the music video and etc. This condition makes the international musician and or singer see there was a chance to come and greet the fans in Indonesia by holding concert.
For example, in 2000, Westlife held a successfully concert in Indonesia. On May 15th, they had "East Meets Weslife" tour concert in Jakarta and the number of the spectators reached more than 15.000. It was so totally amazing. The next success was followed by the Taiwanese boy band, F4. In January 10-11th 2003, they held a concert in Jakarta. There was no trusted data about the viewers (more than 5000 thousands) but the others facts about the concert was so unbelievable. The budget of the concert was more than IDR 20 billion. It was a very huge amount at that time.
On the last 10 years, concert has become hegemony. It is not only becoming a lifestyle today but also a way to show a social class. Many international artists had already done many concerts in Indonesia such as Avril Lavigne, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Linkin Park, Pitbull, Maroon 5 and many more. There were also many successful music events that invited more than two of international artists (in every single event) such as Java Rockingland, Djakarta Warehouse Project (DWP), Java Jazz and many more. These facts shown that concert in Indonesia have brought many advantages to the artists, spectators and promoters. Imagine how much many that had been invested and got from those concerts.
The crazy facts about concert happened in the last 3 years. There were two Korean boy bands, Big Bang and Super Junior, which added one more day of their concert in Indonesia. The adding of the show has announced only few moments after the ticket sales were opened. The promoters added one more day because the tickets were sold out and of course they want to get more and more profit. The other fantastic thing was about Taylor Swift's concert in Jakarta next June. The 1000 pre-sale tickets were sold out in less than 4 minutes. On the next day, the other 90 percent tickets were also sold in less than 30 minutes. It was faster than a Formula One car.
Many people came to a concert with different purposes. They came because they love the artists, they want to be refreshing and entertained, and some of them want to show off. The ticket prices of every single concert are not cheap. The prices were IDR 500.000 to 6.000.000. Many people believe that only high class people who came to a concert. But it is not totally true. The real fans of the artists will do anything to get much money in order to buy the concert's ticket (if the fans are from intermediate or low class). In the promoters' side, they do not care from where do the fans or spectators come from. They just want to hold a successful concert and earn much much money.
From this phenomena, concert has a different "meaning" now. It is not a pure art nowadays. Many hidden things appeared behind concert. The main thing is about bussines. Concert is a really good way to earn money (by the promoters). By having a deal with many artists, promoters can paralyzed people to give their money easily to them. This condition may be only exist temporary but there is no guarantee how does it will end. Maybe just time or new coming era that would change the meaning of concert again.
