Japan Dome Tour X

The Japan Dome Tour “X” was the fifth concert tour in Japan and eighth overall by South Korean boy band Big Bang. The tour began on November 15, 2014 in Nagoya, and concluded on January 18, 2015 in Osaka. The tour made BigBang the first foreign artist to hold five dome arena concerts for two consecutive years.^[4] They gathered more than one million Japanese fans in 2014.^[1]

Japan Dome Tour “X”

Tour by Big Bang
Location	Japan
Start date	November 15, 2014 (2014-11-15)
End date	January 18, 2015 (2015-01-18)
Legs	1
No. of shows	15^[1]
Box office	US$70.39 million($90.59 million in 2023 dollars)^[2]^[3]
Big Bang concert chronology
Japan Dome Tour (2013–14) Japan Dome Tour “X” (2014–15) Made World Tour (2015–16)

Development

A total of about 3 billion Japanese Yen (~25.5 million USD) was used to produce the stages. Well known production staff also joined the tour, such as Jamie King, the tour director who previously worked with Michael Jackson, Madonna and Britney Spears. Roy Bennett was in control of the stage lighting, while Veneno took charge of the tour videos. The tour utilized a 30-meter center stage, as well as six 50-meter protruding stages, spreading out from the center stage to the audience like the spokes of a wheel. A large number of stage lighting and equipment was imported from countries outside Japan. High-tech equipment, including the LED screens, were set up on the protruding stages, while the multi-cellular speakers ‘MLA,’ presented high quality concerts for the audience.^[5][6]

Set list

This set list is from BIGBANG Japan Dome Tour 2014～2015 [X] (DVD/Blu-ray) - Deluxe Edition.^[7]

1. "Fantastic Baby"
2. "Tonight"
3. "Stupid Liar"
4. "Blue"
5. "Haru Haru"
6. "Gara Gara Go!"
7. "Top of the World" + "Number 1"
8. "Knock Out" (GD&TOP)
9. "High High" (GD&TOP)
10. "Bad Boy"
11. "Tell Me Goodbye"
12. "Cafe"
13. "Lies"
14. "Love Song"
15. "Good Boy" (GDxTAEYANG)
16. "Hands Up"
17. "Feeling"
18. "My Heaven"
19. "Let Me Hear Your Voice"

Encore

1. "Last Farewell"
2. Seungri DJ Time:
   1. "Strong Baby" (Seungri)
   2. "Doom Dada" (T.O.P)
   3. "Ringa Linga" (Taeyang)
   4. "Crooked" (G-Dragon)
   5. "Look at me, Gwisun" (Daesung)
3. "Fantastic Baby"

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, venue, and tickets sold

Date	City	Country	Venue	Special guests	Attendance
November 15, 2014	Nagoya	Japan	Nagoya Dome	iKon^[8]	741,000^[1]^[9]
November 16, 2014
November 20, 2014	Osaka		Kyocera Dome
November 21, 2014
November 22, 2014
November 23, 2014
December 6, 2014	Fukuoka		Fukuoka Dome
December 7, 2014
December 20, 2014	Sapporo		Sapporo Dome
December 25, 2014	Tokyo		Tokyo Dome
December 26, 2014
December 27, 2014
January 16, 2015	Osaka		Kyocera Dome
January 17, 2015
January 18, 2015

Personnel

Main Tour organizer: Avex Group, YG Entertainment Executive producers – Yang Hyun-suk (YG Entertainment), Max Matsuura (Avex Group) General producers – Katsumi Kuroiwa (Avex Group) Tour producer - Veneno Tour director – Jamie King Stylist – Yuni Choi, Kyung Mi Kim, Sharon Park Hair – Tae Kyun Kim, Sang Hee Baek, So Yeon Lee Make-up – Yun Kyoung Kim, Mi Sug Shin, Jun Hee Lee Lighting director – Roy Bennett

Band BigBang (G-Dragon, T.O.P, Taeyang, Daesung, Seungri) – Lead vocals Gil Smith II (Music Director/Keyboard 1) Omar Dominick Jr. (AMD/Bass) Dante Jackson (Keyboard 2) Justin Lyons (Guitar) Bennie Rodgers II (Drums/Percussions) Adrian "AP" Porter (Pro Tools Programmer)

Dancers

• HI-TECH (Heeyun Kim, Jung Heon Park, Young Sang Lee Sung Min Cho, Han Sol Lee, Byoung Gon Jung, Woo Ryun Jung, Young Deuk Kwon, Young Don Kwon)
• CRAZY (Jung Hee Kim, Ah Yeon Won, Eun Young Park, Min Jung Kim, Hee Yun Kim, Sae Bom Choi, Jung In Bae, Hye Jin Choi, Hyo Jung Bae, Ji Won Lee, Jae Hee Ryu, Ji Young Yoo)

References

1. Lee Jin-ho (November 7, 2014). "Big Bang Revealed as Korean Artist that Attracted Most Concert Spectators in Japan in 2014". Yahoo! Lifestyle Singapore. Yahoo!. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
2. 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
3. khnews (November 11, 2014). "Big Bang draws most Japanese concertgoers in K-pop". Koreaherald. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
4. "Korean group Big Bang finish 5-dome tour, drawing 740,000 fans". Japan Today. January 20, 2015. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
5. Hong Jung Won (January 19, 2015). . Mwave. Archived from the original on September 27, 2015. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
6. "BIGBANG、74万人動員ドームツアー終演＆今年アルバムでカムバック約束". Natalie.mu. November 15, 2014. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
7. VIC (March 25, 2015). "Japan : BIGBANG Japan Dome Tour 2014～2015 [X] (DVD/Blu-ray) - Deluxe Edition". YG Entertainment. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
8. "iKON to open Big Bang's Japan concert tour". The Korea Herald. September 25, 2014. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
9. hJung, Yeawon (January 19, 2014). "Big Bang Wraps Up Japan 5-Dome Tour After Gathering Over 741,000 Fans". Visit Korea. Korea Tourism Organization. Retrieved March 23, 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

• Official website