{"id":1425,"date":"2012-02-27T21:04:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T21:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/27\/live-nation-continues-expansion-in-asia-through-creation-of-joint-venture-with-leading-japanese-promoter-creativeman\/"},"modified":"2012-02-27T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T21:04:06","slug":"live-nation-continues-expansion-in-asia-through-creation-of-joint-venture-with-leading-japanese-promoter-creativeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/02\/27\/live-nation-continues-expansion-in-asia-through-creation-of-joint-venture-with-leading-japanese-promoter-creativeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Nation Continues Expansion In Asia Through Creation Of Joint Venture With Leading Japanese Promoter Creativeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.tgdaily.com\/sites\/default\/files\/stock\/live_nation-logo.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"156\" height=\"156\" \/><br \/>Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. and Creativeman  Productions in Tokyo, Japan announced the formation of Live Nation  Japan, a joint venture between the two companies.  <!--more-->  <br \/> &#8220;We are very pleased to announce Live Nation&#8217;s entry into Japan and to  have such a credible partner as Creativeman, which has a long and proven  track record of promoting major artists as well as developing highly  successful festivals&#8221; stated Michael Rapino, President and Chief  Executive Officer of Live Nation Entertainment. &#8220;Expanding our presence  in Asia reflects our commitment to growing our business internationally  in a region that is becoming increasingly important for touring  artists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We are very excited to be a part of Live Nation Japan and for  Creativeman this is an important milestone that opens up many exciting  opportunities to leverage our capabilities&#8221; says Naoki Shimizu, CEO  Creativeman. &#8220;Creativeman and Live Nation Japan will together be able to  bring more concerts to Japan, develop existing and new festivals and  also leverage Live Nation&#8217;s vast experience of promoting some of the  best tours globally. This will lead to very exciting times ahead for all  Japanese music fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Creativeman is the leading promoter of international artists in Japan,  the 2nd largest live music market in the world, presenting 290 concerts  in 2011 for both international and Japanese artists. They are also the  producers of the iconic Summer Sonic festival, which reached an all time  high in 2011, its 12th year, with an attendance of 200,000 in Tokyo and  Osaka.<\/p>\n<p> Live Nation Japan, which will be based in Tokyo and led by Frank  Takeshita of Creativeman, will promote both international and Japanese  artists. The company will be the promoter for all Live Nation tours  coming through Japan and work with Creativeman to develop and expand the  highly successful Summer Sonic, Springroove, Punkspring and Loud Park  Festivals. The launch of Live Nation Japan means that Live Nation is now  present in six markets across Asia Pacific, including the four largest  markets in the region: China, Japan, Australia and South Korea. As well  as promoting international and Japanese artists, Live Nation Japan also  expects to promote artists from other parts of the region, in particular  K-pop which is extremely popular across Japan.<\/p>\n<p> The first concert for Live Nation Japan will be Lady Gaga&#8217;s Born This Way Ball on 10 May in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Source: www.livenation.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. and Creativeman Productions in Tokyo, Japan announced the formation of Live&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}