Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena Has Sold Its 15th Millionth Ticket

SYDNEY, Australia — Qudos Bank Arena shifted its 15 millionth ticket, a major milestone that was notched up at last weekend’s Linkin Park concert. 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...