Superclub is a term often used to refer to a nightclub owned and managed by a dance music record label. Following on from Factory Records ownership of The Hacienda, superclubs became increasingly popular in the early to mid 1990s, and examples include Gatecrasher, Godskitchen, Mansion, Crobar, Paradise Garage and The End.

More recently, the term has also been used to describe large, multistory, high-capacity high-profile nightclubs. The first superclub Pacha in Ibiza which opened in 1973, still the most famous of all superclubs to this very day with other branches in London and New York City. Annabel's in London was also one of the earlier superclubs which has now closed and also Studio 54 in New York City which was also one of the first superclubs is also closed. In recent times there has been a string of new more upbeat House orientated superclubs opening such as Crobar which opened in 1980 and also the Ministry Of Sound in London opened in 1991. In The US Crobar has clubs in the following cities (Chicago and NYC). Other high profile US Superclubs include Vision (Chicago), Sound-Bar (Chicago), Mezzanine (San Francisco), Avalon/ Avaland (Boston/ Los Angeles), Balance (Los Angeles), KING KING (Los Angeles), 1015 (San Francisco), Cielo (NYC) and Centrofly (NYC). UK Superclubs include The Syndicate (Blackpool), Fabric (London), Turnmills (London) the Arc (Brighton), The Zap (Brighton), Gin Rummy (Brighton) and The Egg (London). The Ministry Of Sound has their main club in London, with international clubs in Ayia Napa and as far a field as Sydney Australia, with a new Miami club opening in May 2007.

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