Sydney`s Acer Arena has made the Top 10 best venues list in the world for the third year in a row.
Acer Arena is considered in the same group as New York’s iconic Madison Square Garden, Los Angeles’ The Staples Center and London’s O2 Arena.In 2008, Acer Arena hosted more than 80 events including Stevie Wonder, Kylie Minogue, Andrea Bocelli, Bon Jovi and Billy Joel.
“Despite many reports of a worldwide recession, 2009 has started extremely strongly with Top Gear Live this coming weekend exceeding all sales expectations (ten shows), as are shows like Coldplay (four shows in March) followed in the same month by Kings of Leon and The Who then Pussycat Dolls (two shows in May), Crusty Demons (June) WWE Live (July) and Andre Rieu (two shows in October),” General Manager David Humphreys said in a statement.
“Acknowledgement in two internationally respected industry magazines is the icing on the cake and a great reward for the team that made these events happen.
“We have been Australia’s leading indoor concert arena for a number of years and look forward to maintaining the same high standards and quality events in 2009.”
Rankings were calculated by Pollstar.
