Coldplay to hold second concert in Singapore due to red-hot demand
It is the news that Coldplay fans who couldn’t get hold of tickets for the UK band’s sold-out concert in Singapore next year have been yearning for – Chris Martin and co will stage a second concert here on 31 March 2017.
In addition, concert promoter Live Nation Lushington said 2,200 extra CAT 5 (Standing Pen A) and 1,000 CAT 6 (Standing Pen B) tickets will be sold for Coldplay’s first concert on 1 April 2017.
Tickets for both concert days will go on sale on 25 Nov (Friday) at 10am (Singapore time). There will also be a limit of four tickets across all categories per transaction, the organiser said.
They can be purchased via sportshubtix.sg, from the hotline at +65 3158 7888, and at the Sports Hub Tix Box Office at Kallang Wave Mall and all SingPost outlets.
The concert is part of the band’s “A Head Full of Dreams” tour, which also happens to be their first appearance in Singapore in eight years.
While the National Stadium can hold up to 55,000 people, the maximum number of attendees at a concert held at the venue is around 50,000, due mainly to stage set-up.
The demand to catch Coldplay’s performance has led to a rush for allocated and public sale concert tickets, priced from $78 to $298. In the latest batch, up to 14,000 public sale tickets were sold out in less than 90 minutes on Monday, prompting Live Nation Lushington to call it a “never-before-seen response”.
Resellers have been offering tickets on e-commerce sites like Carousell at inflated prices, with some going for more than $1,000.
Live Nation Lushington warned Coldplay fans on Monday not to buy tickets from resellers.
“We will also continue to curtail the secondary tickets being sold at inflated prices. We have since voided a number of tickets found on the resale market as this contravenes our terms and conditions of sale.
“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.”
