Coldplay fans who didn't secure tickets yesterday for the Cardiff shows as part of the Music of Spheres World Tour 2023 can still be in with a chance of getting some, for a price.
Official re-sale sites have a number of tickets available for the Cardiff shows next year but some will cost fans £300 upwards. It comes after the ticket launch for Coldplay's UK shows next year went on sale yesterday morning, (August 25) which caused a shopping frenzy online.
More than 312,000 people queued virtually to get tickets on Ticketmaster for the original Cardiff date alone, on June 6, 2023. Because of demand for both the Cardiff date and the Manchester dates the band were forced to add another show at the Principality Stadium on June 7, followed by two more nights in Manchester's Etihad Stadium on June 3 and 4, 2023.
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Coldplay, consisting of frontman Chris Martin along with guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, drummer Will Champion and creative director Phil Harvey, will now play a total of six nights in the UK as part of the major world tour next year. They will visit Manchester first on May 31, June 1, 3 and 4, 203 at the Etihad Stadium, and then they will play at Cardiff's Principality Stadium on June 6 and 7, 2023.
The tickets went very quickly yesterday via Ticketmaster, See Tickets and The Ticket Factory, as many fans queued for hours to get the chance to see their favourite band, known for hits such as 'Yellow' 'Fix Your' and a 'Sky Full of Stars.'
However, official re-sale sites have a number of tickets leftover today for the Cardiff shows and Manchester dates but they will cost fans. Ticketmaster's resale platform is already listing some seats for more than £500 each, meaning some people are making an astonishing £400 profit per ticket. Ticketmaster, SeeTickets and Ticket Factory all have official pre-sale platforms.
Despite the overpriced resale tickets listed, Ticketmaster's website still claims that its fan-to-fan marketplace only allows fans to sell original tickets 'at the price they paid or less', but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Seated tickets for Coldplay's show on June 7, 2023 are being re-sold by fans for between £311.52 to £485.11 each, and they're not premium or VIP. Yesterday as we blogged the demand for tickets the original going rate for seats like this was around £148.50, for level two front row. Prices for normal seats at 10am started from £27.50.
Ticketmaster have also released more tickets today (not on resale) which start at an inflated £300 each and is claimed to be 'based on demand', despite hundreds of not being able to get hold of tickets yesterday even after queuing for three to four hours.
Resale tickets are also listed for the Saturday night show (June 3) at £225.34 each for general standing. A resale ticket can be identified by the purple 'shuffle' icon, fans with a Ticketmaster account can log on and put original tickets up for sale, if tickets listed don't sell then you are still valid to use them as your own on the night.
The majority of the time it's a useful platform for the public to get their money back if they can no longer make the event, but it seems many people bought tickets for Coldplay yesterday with the intention of making extra money.
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