New York, NY (Top40 Charts) TEG DAINTY announces Bruno Mars, the unstoppable global hit machine, will open the brand-new Allianz Stadium, Sydney with 2 massive shows in October this year. The shows will be Friday 14 & Saturday 15 October. A Telstra Plus pre-sale commences at 1pm Monday 8 August to 1pm Wednesday 10 August. Visit here for further details. General public tickets go on sale from 1pm
Thursday 11 August. Head to here for all ticketing information.
Bruno Mars said "Australia! LET'S DANCE!"
PAUL DAINTY AM, President and CEO of TEG DAINTY, said, "It's incredibly exciting to welcome audiences back to Allianz Stadium in the heart of Sydney and who better to lead the opening celebrations than the legendary, record-breaking artist Bruno Mars, these opening shows will go down in history as not to be missed!"
Fourteen-time GRAMMY Award winner and thirty-time GRAMMY Award nominee
Bruno Mars is a celebrated singer, songwriter, producer, and musician who has sold over 200 million singles worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time.
Recently Mars accepted Album Of The Year on behalf of the duo An Evening with
Silk Sonic during the 2022 BET Awards. Previously sweeping the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards, the super duo took home four awards including Record Of The Year "
Leave The Door Open", Song Of The Year "
Leave The Door Open", Best R&B Performance "
Leave The Door Open", and Best R&B Song "
Leave The Door Open".
This comes after "
Leave The Door Open" becomes Bruno's 17th song to reach Multi-Platinum status. Mars' 64th Annual GRAMMY win for Record of the Year, makes him only the second artist in Grammy history to win the category three times, following
Simon and Garfunkel.
Bruno's critically acclaimed "
Leave The Door Open" climbed its' way from No. 3 to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it his eighth No. 1. He became one of the 18 artists in Hot 100 history to ever do so. 24K Magic marked his highest first week sales debut, remaining in the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 for an impressive 44 consecutive weeks.
The lead hit single "
24K Magic" is certified four times Platinum by the RIAA and the follow-up smash, "
That's What I Like" is certified Diamond. Bruno recently broke the record for most Diamond certified songs in RIAA history with five Diamond certifications. .
"
That's What I Like" also climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking Mars' seventh Hot 100 chart-topper and his first No. 1 on the Hot R&B Songs chart, where it remained at the top-spot for 19 consecutive weeks. His smash collab with Cardi B, "Finesse," skyrocketed to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The track surged up the chart from its #35 debut and followed Michael Jackson's "Black or White" as the second #35 to #3 jump in the Hot 100's history. The remix also marked Mars' fifteenth Hot 100 top 10 and fourteenth Hot 100 top 5.
Additionally, Mars became the first male and third act overall to have at least three top 5 Hot 100 hits from each of his first three albums, following only
Mariah Carey and Beyoncé. Bruno is also the first artist to have two songs spend 24 or more weeks in the Hot 100's Top 5 "
That's What I Like" and "Uptown Funk".
Honorably, Mars is one of the few artists to have written and produced all of his No. 1 hits and has had a No. 1 song on the Hot 100 from each of his first three studio albums. Mars traveled the globe from 2017-2018 on a massive 24K Magic World Tour, which sold more than 1 million tickets in a single day. In 2015, Bruno dominated music charts with the hit single "Uptown Funk," which took home three GRAMMY Awards, including Record of the Year.
In Australia, Mars has raked up multi-platinum sales with all of his single and album releases which include the albums Doo-Wops and Hooligans 6 x Platinum, Unorthodox Jukebox 4 x Platinum and 24K Magic 2 x Platinum. His single releases in Australia combined have notched up an incredible 56 x Platinum sales. Bruno boasts 773 million streams in Australia and has completed 3 sold out tours.
Bruno Mars Live and Exclusive in Sydney at Allianz Stadium is proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW.
