Anger from Coldplay fans over ticket sales for planned concerts in India

Sold in a few minutes and immediately resold for thousands of euros. The sale of tickets for Coldplay concerts planned in India has sparked outrage among fans of the British pop rock group. For their three concerts planned in Mumbai in 2025, the approximately 180,000 available seats were sold out in just a handful of minutes.

According to the BBC story, the price of tickets put on sale last Sunday varied between 2,500 and 12,000 rupees (or approximately between 25 and 130 euros). But almost a week later, some places are being sold at a high price: up to 900,000 rupees, around 9,600 euros. Enough to make Coldplay admirers boil with rage.

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Cascading breakdowns during sales

And in the crosshairs of fans: the official concert ticketing platform BookMyShow (BMS). The latter was castigated for its multiple outages while more than 10 million Internet users tried to get their precious pass to attend one of the highly anticipated concerts in India.

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Worse still, some fans claimed that the sales were rigged – some people allegedly bypassed virtual queues using automation tools to buy tickets in bulk with the aim of reselling them on the dedicated sites, according to their statements.

Same fiasco for the return of Oasis

Overwhelmed by several Coldplay admirers, BMS denied having associated with ticket reseller sites to raise prices and called on Internet users to be vigilant. In essence: places resold “on unauthorized sites” could be fake, assures BMS.

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This controversy comes only a month after the fiasco of the sale of tickets for Oasis’ return tour, scheduled for the United Kingdom in 2025. Faced with crazy prices, ticket resellers were similarly singled out. , and forced to review their prices. The affair even sparked a reaction from the Minister of Culture across the Channel.