It may be hard to believe, but for some time now Iran's music has also been playing to Turkey's benefit. The story is not complicated: it is enough to calculate the financial turnover of Iranians attending concerts by Iranian singers held in Turkey.
A review of ticketing systems and the capacity of Iranian singers' concerts in Turkey in Shahrivar (August–September) 1403 (2024/25) shows that these concerts had at least 50,000 attendees. Ticket prices for Iranian singers' concerts in Turkey range from a minimum of 128 dollars to a maximum of 1,208 dollars. Now, even if we take the average ticket price of these concerts as a minimum of 300 dollars, ticket-sale revenue from Iranian singers' concerts in Turkey is 15 million dollars.
On the other hand, if we multiply the price of a Turkey tour (40 million tomans) by the number of concert attendees (50 thousand people), it becomes clear that Iranians spent 2 thousand billion tomans just in Shahrivar 1403 (2024/25) on going to concerts in Turkey.
This is while these figures have often been calculated as minimums and without taking into account travelers' other ancillary costs, and Turkey also provides little service to the audiences and organizers of Iranian singers' concerts.
More interesting still is that a comparison of Iran's cinema box office in 1402 (2023/24) with Turkey's revenue from hosting Iranian singers' concerts indicates that the concerts' financial turnover was 2.5 times Iran's cinema box office.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian