Double-digit growth for BST Hyde Park 2016

325,000 ticketholders and close to 400,000 people in total attended AEG UK's flagship festival at the "best outdoor venue in the world"

Stevie Wonder performs double album Songs in the Key of Life at BST 2016 © AEG

AEG Live is celebrating its most successful British Summer Time to date, with over 385,000 people attending its flagship Hyde Park event from 1 to 10 July.

Colin Chapple, AEG Live Europe’s chief operating officer, tells IQ British Summer Time (BST) 2016 experienced “double-digit growth” compared to the 2015 festival, “across both the shows and the mid-week programme”.

In addition to much-publicised headline shows on two consecutive weekends by Massive Attack (Friday 1 July), Florence + the Machine and Kendrick Lamar (2 July), Carole…

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