SYDNEY, Australia — Qudos Bank Arena shifted its 15 millionth ticket, a major milestone that was notched up at last weekend’s Linkin Park concert.
For those keeping track, the result was a relief. Linkin Park canceled a concert last week in Adelaide due to illness in the band. By the time the Sydney leg rolled around, the nu-metal band had a clean bill of health, and had the honors for cracking the milestone.
Sydney engineering student Jared Garwood, 20, held the golden ticket.
Qudos Bank Arena is owned by TEG and operated by Legends Global, and, with a 22,000 capacity, it’s the country’s biggest arena.
The venue officially opened in November 1999 with a special performance by Luciano Pavarotti, and went on to host basketball, gymnastics and trampolining competition at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
Music highlights over the years have included P!nk’s Beautiful Trauma World Tour, which sold 147,970 tickets sold across nine shows; Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft Tour, which established a new single-event attendance record of 21,001 guests, besting the previous mark set by Justin Timberlake’s FutureSex/LoveShow Tour; RÜFÜS DU SOL’s 48,865 tickets sold across three shows last November, setting a new benchmark for an electronic music act at the venue; and TWICE’s 29,572 tickets sold over two shows for their This Is For World Tour, a new high mark for a K-pop artist at the arena.
Originally built as the Sydney SuperDome, the venue hosts 120 events in a typical year. Up to 1,000 people work on each event.
“The arena has played host to so many of Sydney’s most memorable entertainment moments over the past 27 years and now regularly ranks in the top 10 in ticket sales for large indoor arenas anywhere in the world,” comments Legends Global chairman & CEO Harvey Lister.
Sydney became a one arena town when, in early 2016, the Sydney Entertainment Centre was demolished to make way for the Darling Square residential development.
