Beyoncé ticket rush begins as pre-sale opens for UK tour
Fans of Beyoncé have begun the rush to get tickets for the artist’s first solo tour in seven years.
Several people have begun to purchase tickets despite reported problems with the app and website of people who bought from O2 at 10:00 GMT.
Also, those who were able to buy tickets reported a price range of £56-£199 with VIP “on stage” seats at a wallet-busting £1,950 to £2,390.
Those who want to get tickets for the pop superstar’s five UK stadium shows in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Sunderland, and London will have to wait for the general sale on Tuesday.
When are the concerts?
First, the UK concerts are part of a 43-date world tour in support of her Grammy-nominated Renaissance album.
The shows will kick off in Sweden on 10 May, before landing at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium a week later.
Beyoncé will then visit Edinburgh’s Murrayfield on 20 May, Sunderland’s Stadium of Light on 23 May, and London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 29 and 30 May.
What are the costs of the Tickets?
Beyoncé has set the standard ticket prices at roughly the same level as her last stadium tour, with her husband Jay-Z in 2018, when entry started at £51.
However, the VIP packages, some of which included guaranteed front-row seats, are more than four times that tour’s top price of £475.
Many fans on social media ridiculed the cost, reminding Beyoncé that she advised people to “quit their jobs” on her recent single, Break My Soul.
Billboard magazine predicted the five-month tour could earn the star up to $275m (£223m).
When did Beyoncé last hold a live concert?
Beyoncé’s last outing as a solo artist was 2016’s Formation tour, which saw the star perform in front of a 60ft LED cube called the “monolith”.
She then staged a joint tour with Jay-Z, in which the couple re-enacted their estrangement and reconciliation every night, in a two-and-a-half-hour musical melodrama.
Also, the star performed her first headlining concert in four years at the opening of a luxury hotel in Dubai, last week but did not play any of her new material.
She was reportedly paid $24m (£19.4m) for the one-off show but faced criticism for performing in a country where homosexuality and gender reassignment are outlawed.
Critics said that contradicted the message of her latest album, which explicitly celebrates black and queer dance culture
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