Kylie Minogue is the newest musician – and the primary feminine performer – to hitch the distinguished ’21 Membership’ at London’s O2 Area.
As per Rolling Stone Australia, the consideration is bestowed upon performers who’ve carried out 21 or extra sold-out exhibits on the English venue. For Minogue, the admission to the membership follows on from her 4 current performances on the venue as a part of her world Pressure Tour – bringing her ultimate tally to 24.
The membership was first launched in 2007 to mark Prince‘s record-breaking run of 21 sold-out exhibits on the venue, and since then solely seven different performers have been inducted, together with Michael Bublé, Take That, One Route, Drake, Younger Voices, Micky Flanagan and Michael McIntyre.
Michael Jackson‘s 50-date This Is It residency would have seen him change into the second artist inducted into the membership, although these exhibits had been cancelled following his untimely loss of life in June 2009.
Minogue first carried out on the venue in July 2008, simply over a yr on from its preliminary opening, and can obtain a bespoke “key to the venue” as a part of her induction.
“The ‘O2 21 Membership.’ London …. you understand how a lot I really like you already however THISSSS was particular,” Minogue wrote of the consideration on social media. “To be the primary feminine headliner to make the membership and be a part of PRINCE!!! Wowwwwwww. THANK YOU.”
“It’s an enormous achievement to hitch the unique 21 Membership at The O2, and we couldn’t be happier that Kylie is the primary feminine to take action,” added Emma Bownes, Senior Vice President of Venue Programming at AEG Europe.
“She is a phenomenon, a real music icon, and we’re past grateful she’s introduced so lots of her unbelievable excursions right here. We hope there are a lot extra to return.”
Minogue’s spectacular feat follows on from one other legacy-related milestone in February, the place she was honored with a star on the Melbourne Park sporting complicated in her hometown of Melbourne, Australia.
Coinciding with the third of three consecutive performances on the metropolis’s 14,820-capacity Rod Laver Area, it additionally coincided with Minogue’s first efficiency on the venue again in Feb. 1990 when it was then often called the Nationwide Tennis Centre.
Since her debut at Rod Laver Area 35 years in the past, Minogue has gone on to play 30 exhibits at Melbourne Park, amassing gross sales of greater than 350,000 tickets within the course of. Her three current dates introduced that whole to 33 performances with a further 36,000 ticket gross sales, making her some of the profitable artists to ever carry out on the Melbourne vacation spot.
Minogue’s Pressure tour continues all through Europe throughout June and July, earlier than wrapping in South America the next month.
