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Mercedes-Benz Arena Honored
The Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai was named China’s Most Dynamic Large Scale Performance Venue of 2013 at the 2014 Dao Strategy Performing Arts Industry Summit earlier this month.
The Dao Strategy Research Center is the only Chinese research institute dedicated to the performing arts industry and is the sole owner of a comprehensive database of domestic performance.
The center’s Industry Summit is in its fourth year. By applying objective , the
Rankings were decided based on the total number of performances hosted during the 2013 calendar year and total attendance, as well as weighted rankings for various factors.
The Center’s figures show that the Shanghai concert market has grown on an annual basis in terms of box office revenues, audience size, and performance numbers to the extent that it now outperforms Beijing to become China’s largest concert market.
In 2013, the arena hosted 148 performances in front of an aggregate audience of 641,000. A good portion of these events involved foreign artists, including The Rolling Stones, Metallica, Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars and, most recently,
Artists from North America and Europe accounted for 19 percent of all concert box office revenues in China, or about $65 million, a 10 percent increase from 2012.