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= Beach, Please! Festival =

Beach, Please! is the biggest urban music festival in Romania and in Southeast Europe. Held annually in Costinești, i t's line-up mainly consists of hip-hop, rap and trap artists.

== History == The first edition of the festival took place in 2022, at the initiative of Andrei Șelaru and Lucian Ștefan (Global Records), featuring locally famous artists and having an attendance of 30.000 people.

In 2023, the festival officially went international, with performances from Central Cee, 6ix9ine, NLE Choppa and Dababy and selling more than 80.000 tickets, almost three times as more as the previous year.

The third occurrence of the festival made it boom, costing around than 8 million dollars and offering the most generous line-up yet, with more than 200 artists performing including Travis Scott, Yeat, Wiz Khalifa, Trippie Redd, Gucci Mane, Lil Tjay, Anitta and many others.

The organizers expect a total of 200.000 people to show up at the third edition of the festival, taking place between the 7th and 13th of July 2024.

"If we were to collect the number of listeners, from one of the most famous music streaming platforms, of all the artists we brought to BEACH, PLEASE! 2024 we will reach 288 million monthly listeners, and as an insight, their fees this year reach four million euros, out of the eight invested." - Andrei Șelaru, co-founder of the festival