Barclays Center releases December 2023 event calendar: 16 ticketed events (twice the 2022 count), including three Madonna concerts. A New Year's Eve show is back.

The Barclays Center yesterday released its December 2023 calendar of events: 16 ticketed events including five Brooklyn Nets games, one college basketball tournament (the NABC Brooklyn Showcase, with four games in one day), one college game with a local host (LIU), one wrestling event, and eight concerts.

The latter include three Madonna concerts, two from Travis Scott, and a New Year's Konpa Kingdom show.

That's a significant improvement over December 2022, which had only eight ticketed events, including one concert. Should that be attributed to the switch from SeatGeek to Tickemaster? A declining honeymood period for the UBS Arena in Nassau County?

Note: they don't sell the upper bowl for the college basketball games.

December 2022, and before

The December 2022 calendar included six Brooklyn Nets games, one basketball tournament (the Basketball Hall of Fame Invitational, with four games), and one concert.

(There were also two unspecified private events, on Dec. 6 and Dec. 14, each lasting a full business day.)

Notably, there was no New Year's Eve show. In 2019 and 2021 the arena featured The Strokes in a December 31 New Year's Eve show, while the arena was dark in 2020 because of the pandemic.

At Barclays, there were 12 events in December 2021: eight Brooklyn Nets games, two concerts, one college basketball event (four games in a day), and one comedy show. 

Before the pandemic, there were 19 announced events in December 2019, with more concerts and college basketball, and fewer Nets games.