“…The mathematical model has been applied to the motion picture business in the Japanese market, and the calculations have been compared to the reported revenue and observed number of blog posts for each film. Furthermore, in several recent papers, it has been shown that the theory is not only applicable to the box office, but also to other social entertainment, such as local events [35], animated dramas on TV [36], the "general election" of the Japanese girl-group, AKB48 [37], online music [38], plays [39], music concerts [40,41], Japanese stage actors [42], Kabuki players of the nineteenth century [43], and TV drama [44]. In these works, an extended mathematical theory of the hit phenomena was used to apply the model to general entertainment in society.…”