The O2

The O2, the world’s number one entertainment destination, has been named the top arena in the world at the Billboard Awards. The awards honour the music industry’s top artists, professionals and venues based on the Billboard Boxscores chart.

This is the first time The O2 has won this award in its history, taking the accolade from Madison Square Garden which has won for the past five years.

The award follows a great month for the London venue with it being crowned the world’s most popular arena just a fortnight ago by Pollstar which showed The O2 had sold nearly 1,600,000 tickets so far this year.

David Campbell, Chief Executive and President of AEG Europe, said on receiving the award:

“Thank you to the entire AEG family for helping create the world’s most popular music venue in London. The O2 has generated more than 2,500 jobs in London and this award is for those people. We are a bit biased but we think The O2 is a very special place, and we particularly want to thank the 600 artists who have played since we opened just over two years ago; the promoters, agents, managers and the industry. In otherwise difficult times it’s great that music, and particularly live music, can make a positive difference to so many people.

Finally, although 2009 will be another world record breaking year at The O2 I would like to dedicate this award to ‘This Is It’ and the many people who would have made the King of Pop’s show the best live show ever... God bless you Michael.”

The rest of 2009 at The O2 is packed with some of the very best sport, music and entertainment from the Barclays World Tour Finals later this month, to Beyonce, to Muse, to Pink, to Miley Cyrus, to Depeche Mode to a very special one off show by Paul McCartney.

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