PORT Elizabeth has hosted several successful concerts, but also many failed ones.

Some international concerts which drew big crowds in Nelson Mandela Bay were:

Eddy Grant

Celine Dion

Belinda Carlisle

Earth Wind and Fire

Smokie

Simply Red

Bryan Adams

Live

Counting Crows

Whigfield

Bananarama/Marcos Hernandez/Shayne Ward/ Patrizio/Buanne/Will Young

Michael W Smith

Ronan Keating

Chris de Burgh

Phixx

Westlife

BeBe and CeCe Winans

Successful concerts by bands originally from South Africa but now based overseas include:

Seether, Tree 63 and Just Jinjer.

Flopped concerts include:

Westlife and Michael Bolton. This show was well attended, but the concert flopped due to rain and then technical problems.

The Tal Bachman and Busta Rhymes concerts were total flops with hardly any crowds.

Dana Winner. The show was cancelled because organisers had not booked the venue. She did come back to play at a later date.