Coldplay is having a concert in Singapore in January 2024, and let’s just say that despite its cold name, its tickets are selling like hot cakes, and people are fuming over a virtual queue that has allegedly hit over a million people.
If this happened in 1995 in the offline world, it means one out of five people in Singapore is forming a queue that occupies the whole of Pan-Island Expressway (I think?).
Or maybe not.
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Here’s what happened.
Coldplay’s Singapore Concert Tickets Hit Over 1 Million Virtual Queue Numbers
Lest you’re not aware, it was announced last week that Coldplay is adding Singapore to its list of cities for their Music Of The Spheres World Tour.
Back in May 2023, when Coldplay announced the cities for their Asia and Australia dates, Singapore wasn’t part of the tour.
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So you can guess how excited people in Singapore were when Live Nation Singapore suddenly bought ad spaces in various places in Singapore, teasing Coldplay’s arrival in 2024.
On 12 June 2023, they finally revealed that they were coming to Singapore for four nights.
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Presales of the tickets would start from 19 June 2023, 2pm, until 11:59pm—which is today.
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In total, there are about 200,000 tickets on sale, and just like any online tickets being sold via Ticketmaster, there will be a virtual queue, and “everyone who was in the holding area will be randomly assigned a queue number.”
And guess what?
Reports stated that the queue number is now in seven-digit: at over one million.
However, it’s also mentioned that the queue numbers are random: a person on Tiktok also revealed that her friend has a longer queue number even though the friend had started queuing earlier.
There were also allegations that due to the high traffic, some people were “kicked out” of the queue after refreshing, as the page they were on had frozen.
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The last I checked at about 4pm,. I was faced with a “403 Error” instead.
I guess I know why people prefer to queue up physically.
Now, are there really so many Coldplay fans?
Maybe not, because a check on Carousell shows that resellers have surfaced as fast as aunties rushing for seats in the train, with people selling almost three times the prices they paid for.
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That’s a cold play, indeed.
In any case, don’t try to buy from those resellers: Live Nation Singapore has just warned that by “purchasing tickets through these non-authorized points of sale, buyers take on the risk that the validity of the tickets cannot be guaranteed, with no refunds possible.”
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