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Ticket of the Year 2018 – Winner Announced

The results are in! See who you voted as the hot shows of 2018 and who you are most looking forward to seeing in 2019.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote for your best live event in this year’s Ticket of the Year.  Your votes have all been counted and Electric Picnic has come in as your number one live event for 2018.

Taylor Swifts stadium gigs at Croke Park came in second place

Ed Sheeran featured twice in the top 10 with his gigs at Phoenix Park and Pairc Ui Chaoimh coming in 3rd and 5th of your most enjoyable events of 2018.

You also loved Longitude 2018 which came in in 4th place

The Rolling Stones at Croke Park, U2 at 3Arena, Bruno Mars at Marlay Park, Arctic Monkeys at 3Arena and All Together Now made up the remaining top 10 favourite live events of 2018.

Your most anticipated live event for 2019?  It is music sensation P!NK who visits RDS Arena with her Beautiful Trauma World Tour on 18 June next year and she says she cannot wait to play Dublin!

“What an honor from my beautiful Irish fans! A HUGE thank you to everyone that voted for the Beautiful Trauma tour as the Ticketmaster Most Anticipated Event for 2019. I can’t wait to get to Dublin and party with all of you!”


Following P!NK in the event you would most like to see play during 2019 were Bon Jovi, Fleetwood Mac, Westlife, Electric Picnic, Post Malone, Coldplay, BTS, George Ezra and Picture This.

Ticket of the Year took place across Ticketmaster worldwide and the top 3 events with most votes for Ticket of the Year 2018 internationally were:

BTS – Accorhotels Arena

Ed Sheeran – Johan Cruijff Arena

Pinkpop – Megaland

Thank you all for your Ticketmaster Ireland votes and congratulations to Denise K. who was the winner of our €250 Ticketmaster Gift Card prize draw.