BRISBANE, Australia — Ed Sheeran’s present stadium tour of Australia is now a record-setter, smashing the attendance mark on the iconic Melbourne Cricket Floor.
The English singer and songwriter enters the historical past books by promoting greater than 107,000 tickets for his live performance Friday evening (March 3) on the MCG, in response to Frontier Touring, which is producing the home leg of his + – = ÷ x Tour.
There’s an opportunity he can break it once more. Sheeran will even play the 170-year-old venue on Thursday evening, for which he has bought greater than 100,000 tickets with a last batch now up on the market.
“Ed loves to interrupt a file and he’s smashed this one,” feedback Matt Gudinski, CEO of Mushroom Group, father or mother of Frontier Touring. “It’s phenomenal that greater than 200,000 folks will see this superb present at our iconic MCG. Melbourne is ready for 2 extremely particular nights with one of many biggest performers ever.”
The MCG is hallowed turf, a multi-purpose area that has hosted numerous sporting matches and live shows because it was constructed on its present website in 1853.
The G, because it’s affectionately recognized right here, hosted the opening and shutting ceremonies for the 1956 Olympic Video games, it’s the religious house of AFL, a Take a look at cricket floor, and its offered live shows by the largest names in music, from David Bowie to U2, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, the Rolling Stones, Madonna and plenty of others.
Sheeran and Gudinski celebrated the achievement with a toast to the corporate’s founder, the late Michael Gudinski, father of Matt Gudinski. The pair flanked the everlasting statue of MG exterior of Melbourne’s Rod Laver Enviornment, and shared a bottle of Penfolds.
“Toasting a 707 to the large man forward of enjoying the largest ticketed reveals ever in Australian historical past this weekend,” writes Sheeran on his social channels.
“We miss you, you lastly received me enjoying MCG within the spherical.”
When Sheeran completes his two-night stand on the MCG, his + – = ÷ x Tour of Australia and New Zealand strikes on to Adelaide Oval (March 7) and climaxes March 12 at Perth’s Optus Stadium, the ultimate in a 12-date trans-Tasman trek.
Historical past is commonly made when Sheeran and Frontier Touring staff up.
When Sheeran final toured Australia with Frontier Touring, in 2018, greater than 1 million tickets have been bought, a feat that sunk Dire Straits’ file for a single trek (950,000) that had stood for greater than 30 years. Sheeran’s Divide tour that yr additionally set a brand new file of 18 stadium dates throughout Australia and New Zealand, beating AC/DC’s outdated mark (14).
