Tickets for Glastonbury Festival 2025 have sold out in 35 minutes after going on sale on Sunday.
The general sale launched at 9am a week after the world-famous festival announced it had changed the way fans would join its booking process.
A statement read at 9.35am: “Tickets for Glastonbury 2025 have now Sold Out. Thanks to everyone who bought one and sorry to those who missed out, on a morning when demand was much higher than supply.
“There will be a resale of any cancelled or returned tickets in spring 2025.”
Tickets for Glastonbury 2025 have now Sold Out. Thanks to everyone who bought one and sorry to those who missed out, on a morning when demand was much higher than supply.
— Glastonbury Festival (@glastonbury) November 17, 2024
There will be a resale of any cancelled or returned tickets in spring 2025.
Glastonbury customers had to register in advance to buy tickets for the event, which will take place at Worthy Farm in Somerset from June 25 to 29 next year.
Fans were assigned to a queue to access the booking system - rather than being held at a landing page until being ushered through to the ticket page.
The change came after a spotlight was shone on various issues within online ticket selling including the use of dynamic pricing and tickets being resold by touts. The subject made headlines after the release of Oasis tickets in September prompted the Government and the UK’s competition watchdog to pledge they would look at the use of prices surging in line with demand.
While thousands were able to get in, many were left fuming at the new system and being ticketless.
Like if this is all you saw this morning #Glastonbury #soldout pic.twitter.com/k7bThLEKu6
— John (@MathJ3X) November 17, 2024
“This new system utterly sucks,” wrote one.
“I never got passed 2 bars despite being on since 8am!” wrote another.
Adam added: “Bring back the old way - at least we felt like we had some control!”
A more balanced view came from ‘Clarkey’ who added: “Didn’t get tickets but the new system was a massive improvement on the last one. Much fairer.”
The line-up for 2025 has not been confirmed, although Sam Fender, Olivia Rodrigo and Madonna are in the frame to headline.
One of the lucky ones was Sam who tweeted: “We’re going back to the farm next year, words can’t explain how much this festival now means to me. Let the second pilgrimage commence in 2025.”
Others were at least able to see the funny side, with Specsavers comparing the bar loading screen to an eye test.
The worst eye test in the world just dropped... #Glastonbury pic.twitter.com/NFO3mnOroZ
— Specsavers (@Specsavers) November 17, 2024
Glasto tickets sold out #Glastonbury pic.twitter.com/0dNRM9vPX6
— Thomas Jubb (@TomJubb1867) November 17, 2024
Tickets for Glastonbury 2025 cost £373.50 plus a £5 booking fee, which is a £18.50 rise from the 2024 price of £355 plus a £5 booking fee.
The first group of tickets for this year’s festival - coach tickets - went on sale at 6pm on Thursday and sold out in 30 minutes, organisers said.
Last year, coach tickets sold out within 25 minutes while standard tickets were all bought within an hour of going on sale.
Glastonbury tickets are notoriously difficult to secure. In 2019, 2.5 million people registered for tickets, while only 143,000 were made available. Last year, tickets sold out in under an hour.
Festival organiser Emily Eavis has previously said 2026 will be a fallow year for Glastonbury, to allow the land to rest and recover, but she is already in talks with acts to headline in 2025.
The 2024 festival was the first year the event has featured two female headliners on the Pyramid Stage, Dua Lipa on Friday and SZA on Sunday.
On the Saturday, Coldplay made history as the first act to headline the festival five times.
