Mammoth year for the O2 arena as visitor numbers soar 12% with a record 2.6m ticket sales

The O2 is celebrating a record-breaking year with visitor numbers rising 12 per cent.

The entertainment, leisure and shopping venue, which is best known for its music arena, welcomed more than 10m visitors through its doors in what it described as ‘a mammoth 2024’.

The arena clocked up a record 2.6m ticket sales for events including the Brit Awards, where Dua Lipa and Kylie Minogue were among the performers.

Other headline attractions included Liam Gallagher celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Oasis album Definitely Maybe as well as concerts by Take That and The Killers.

The O2 has also become a popular shopping destination, with sales up 10 per cent last year. 

It hailed ‘standout’ trading over Black Friday week when sales were 16 per cent higher than a year earlier. 

The O2’s entertainment district saw sales rise 3 per cent with Chopstix and Slim Chickens joining the likes of All Bar One, Five Guys, Pizza Express, Gaucho and Gordon Ramsay Street Burger.

The venue also saw leisure spending rise 8 per cent as it benefited from the arrival of gaming experience Activate.

Janine Constantin-Russell, managing director of entertainment, shopping and leisure at The O2, said: ‘We have consistently demonstrated just what a success story The O2 is.’

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