Beyonce’s cool €1m a night boosts coffers at 3Arena

Pop megastar Beyonce generated a cool €1m a night in box office receipts during her four-gig stint at the 3Arena in Dublin last year.

New figures released by music industry trade journal Pollstar show that Beyonce’s four concerts in March last year made €4m.

The runaway success of the Beyonce gigs was a major triumph for her Irish promoters, Aiken Promotions, whose 2014 was soured by the Garth Brooks Croke Park debacle.

According to Pollstar, 470,875 music fans flocked to the 14,500-capacity 3Arena —formerly the O2 Dublin — in 2014, generating $34m(€29m) in box office receipts.

The 470,875 is more than 200,000 down on the 673,577 fans that attended the 3Arena in 2013.

However, the 2014 figures do not include a number of shows, including Elton John, Peter Gabriel, and Madness in December.

The 2014 Pollstar figures ranked the 3Arena 24th in the top 200 arena venues worldwide — this compares to the 3Arena being ranked ninth best attended arena in 2013.

The 470,875 music fans that attended the 3Arena in 2014 compares to the 346,073 that attended the Odyssey Arena in Belfast

The O2 in London was the best attended arena in the world last year, with 1.818m patrons.

Madison Square Garden in New York ranked fourth with 793,295 fans attending.

The Pollstar figures show that the average percentage attendance at each gig at the Live Nation-owned Dublin venue was 85%.