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LIVE: Strong start for O2 in 09.
THE O2 IS ON COURSE to smash more records after starting 2009 as the busiest live music venue on the planet.
Figures collated by live publication Pollstar reveal that AEG's flagship venue at the former Millennium Dome sold more than 500,000 tickets for shows staged at the arena during the first three months of 2009.
Remarkably, those figures mean that The O2 accounted for nearly 10% of all the tickets sold in the top 50 arenas around the world during the first quarter.
"We had a stellar first quarter in 2008, not least because of the Spice Girl shows we hosted, so to do even better in 2009 is very encouraging," says AEG Europe president and CEO David Campbell.
Campbell points out that Pollstar's numbers only collate music events, meaning that the London venue's actual ...
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