SINGAPORE, Nov 21 — Fans hoping to snag a ticket to Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dreams Tour in Singapore in the third and final batch of ticket sales got their hopes dashed when tickets were snapped up within less than two hours of going on sale at 10am today.
This follows two pre-sales offered to Citibank cardholders and Live Nation Lushington’s mailing list subscribers, in which tickets were also sold out within an hour.
In response to media queries, organiser Live Nation Lushington said just over 40,000 tickets in total have been sold for the April 1 gig at National Stadium.
It added that it is hoping to ascertain in approximately the next 48 hours “if any additional inventory can be added to either the pitch standing or seated areas” once it has cleared the final production sight lines.
“The staging and sound delay towers had some adjustments in the past few days, and hopefully this will allow a small release of additional tickets. If this is confirmed, we will announce the additional release of tickets via our official website, Facebook page, Sports Hub ticketing site, as well as through media outlets,” it said. “We will continue to explore all avenues to try and maximise the capacity at the stadium.”
Coldplay, an award-winning British rock band formed in 1996 led by Chris Martin, was last in Singapore in 2009 and had played at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Its concert next year is expected to be its biggest one here.
Live Nation Lushington pointed out that the two presales and today’s public sale saw a “never-before-seen response”.
“The Sports Hub Tix hotline and website had close to 20,000 unique users trying to dial in or access the ticketing site, as well as hundreds of walk-in patrons who had queued, some overnight, at the Indoor Stadium main Box Office and SingPost outlets,” it said.
“Within 10 minutes of the public sale, all ticket inventory had either been snapped up or held in the online shopping carts while the customers completed their payment transactions. This have left the thousands in the queue system awaiting any release of any incomplete purchases. To clarify, the ticketing system did not crash, but simply could not open up inventory to those waiting in the queue system as the tickets were either being transacted or held pending payment clearance,” it added.
The concert’s huge popularity has led to some tickets being resold online at sky-high prices. Live Nation Lushington said on its Facebook page that it will “continue to curtail the secondary tickets being sold at inflated prices”, adding that it has since voided a number of tickets found on the resale market.
“We would like to urge all fans to refrain from purchasing tickets through unauthorised resellers as these may have already been voided and holders will be denied access to venue.” — TODAY
