Sands Bethlehem Event Center 2014 Ticket Sales in Top 10 Worldwide

The Sands Bethlehem Event Center’s 2014 ticket sales were enough to land it as the sixth-busiest similarly sized venue in the world, its owners said.

The Event Center sold about 200,000 tickets to public events in 2014, according to The Morning Call. The rankings, from industry publication Pollstar, measure ticket sales for entertainment events from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 of the calendar year.

Some of the Event Center’s sold-out concerts from 2014 were the Killers, which sold out in 90 minutes, Guns N’ Roses, Dierks Bentley and Crosby, and Stills and Nash, The Morning Call said. A number of other shows fell slightly short of selling out, as well.

The Sands Bethlehem Event Center’s 200,000 tickets sold in 2014 were only topped by five venues worldwide, including the Boston’s House of Blues, with 314,392 tickets sold; the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., with 284,309; New York’s Terminal 5, with 266,159; Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, Belgium, with 229,134; and First Avenue in Minneapolis, with 215,706, The Morning Call reported.

Event Center co-owner Jeff Trainer said the venue’s location between New York and Philadelphia helps attract performances and consumers.

Other area venues fared well in 2014, as well, including Sellersville Theater 1894, becoming the 76th busiest club-sized venue in the world, and Musikfest’s main Steel Stage finished 2014 as the No. 78 busiest amphitheater-sized venue in the world, the newspaper said.

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