Coldplay adds another show, tickets sold out within hours

British band Coldplay have added a sixth show to the Singapore stop of its Music Of The Spheres world tour on Jan 31, announced promoters Live Nation on Facebook.

This comes after the promoters added an unprecedented fifth show on Monday, following the sale of more than 200,000 tickets for the band’s original four shows – on Jan 23, 24, 26, and 27 at the National Stadium – during pre-sales that same day.

Tickets for all six nights are sold out.

Fans lined up at SingPost outlets islandwide yesterday to queue for tickets to Coldplay’s concert tickets after pre-sales on Monday sold out within five hours, with more than a million virtual queue numbers issued.

Many fans also faced technical issues, such as blank ticketing screens and getting kicked out of the queue.

At Ghim Moh’s SingPost outlet, people were queueing from 3am, two of which were husband and wife Balasupramaniam and Sharlot Lizardo.

Sharlot said she wanted to score tickets for her parents and siblings, all big fans of Coldplay.

Balasupramaniam, 48, added: “They’re one of the bands we must watch, so we can tick that off our bucket list.”

The couple managed to obtain 12 category 1 tickets, each priced at S$298 (RM1,027), for a total of more than S$3,500 (RM12,067).

Those in line at some SingPost outlets received forms to fill out their details, how many tickets they would be purchasing and to rank their preferred categories.

Coldplay’s six-show run in Singapore for their Music Of The Spheres World Tour puts the Republic on par with countries such as England (six shows) and Mexico (seven shows). Argentina and Brazil had 10 and 11 shows.

Organisers said that Coldplay are the first act to play six nights at Singapore’s National Stadium. — The Straits Times/ANN