Coldplay fans despair as tickets listed on resale sites for £4,000 just minutes into sale

Coldplay fans have fumed after seeing tickets for the band's hotly anticipated tour listed on secondary ticketing sites for thousands of pounds this morning.

Tickets went on general sale at 9am on Friday for the band's eagerly anticipated UK shows for 2025 at Hull's Craven Park and London's Wembley Stadium. The Music of the Spheres World Tour is scheduled to end in the UK on August 31, at Wembley Stadium in London.

Minutes after the sale went live at 9am, fans on X, formerly known as Twitter, took to the social media platform to share their anger at tickets appearing on resale sites such as Viagogo at much higher prices, despite many fans still being stuck in the queue.

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Some, sharing images of seats ranging from £350 up to £4,400 in some cases called it a 'scam' and said it wasn't 'fair' on real fans. One wrote: "I'm disgusted at the process, when true fans don't get tickets because they have all been snapped up by companies that are extorting."

Another commenting on the ticket-buying process added: ""Gig ticket in the UK is f*****. @Ticketmaster issuing message 2 mins before general sale to say it's already sold out.

"@Those lucky enough to get tickets put them on @viagogo to profit."

Other fans checked Viagogo to see what tickets were selling for the platform and wrote: "How can a @coldplay ticket at Craven park be purchased for £55 and then be on Viagogo for £304?? How it that fair."

A fourth, echoing the frustration wrote: "Sat in the queue for Coldplay tickets… 92k people in front of me, yet there are tickets already for sale on Stubhub and Viagogo for £300+."

To give a scale of the popularity of the shows, a fan who was thousands back in the queue told the Manchester Evening News: "So I’m 65264 in the queue but Viagogo have bought all them seats within 45mins so how the hell are people meant to get lower priced tickets off ticket master. More needs to be done about this."

Some fans directed their anger at the band, with one writing: "Surely Coldplay should be at the forefront of clamping down on this..." The tweet was accompanied by a screenshot of tickets prices ranging from £482 to £815.

Commenting on the Coldplay pre-sale and general sale experience, a spokesperson for Viagogo said: “As the world’s leading ticket marketplace we anticipate large numbers of tickets listed on our platform for resale. Sellers may set high values when demand is at its highest, but that means those tickets have not sold and prices can change and tend to reduce over time, so we recommend fans wait for demand to settle and see if a listing meets their budget. Wildly inflated ticket listing prices are not likely to sell at any point.

"Our number one priority here is to provide a safe option for fans to get tickets. We exist to get fans into once in a lifetime live events - like Coldplay. To back that up we provide a guarantee that ensures fans receive their tickets in time for the event and in the rare instance of an issue, replacement tickets or their money back.”

Earlier this morning, fans were also venting their frustration at ticket site Ticketmaster after struggling to join the huge queues for online sales of the Hull and London dates. Many complained they were being asked to "authenticate accounts" but not getting codes through to do so, while others received error messages asking them to "check their internet connection".

Score of fans reported seeing error messages on the Ticketmaster App saying: "Something went wrong. Check your internet connection and try again later".

Many more vented their anger at Ticketmaster that they were told they needed to authenticate their account with a code - that wasn't then immediately appearing in their email inboxes. It meant many missed out on the chance to join the queue.

Claire Bryant wrote on X: "Not again Ticketmaster, tried to log in for 8:30 only to be met with “change your password first” then “authenticate your account” and now I’m still waiting for a code that hasn’t come through and therefore I can’t join the waiting room!"

And, just two minutes after the general sale started, fans were then stunned to see a message on Ticketmaster saying that "There is extremely limited availability across all ticket options for this date. Ticketmaster have been approached for comment.