New Delhi, British rock band Coldplay on Sunday added a third show to the Mumbai leg of its “Music of the Spheres World Tour 2025” citing “unprecedented demand”, hours after fans expressed disappointment over long virtual queues on online ticketing platform BookMyShow.
Tickets for the new show, scheduled to take place on January 21 at DY Patil Sports Stadium in Mumbai, will be available on BookMyShow from 2pm onwards.
“Due to overwhelming demand, a third Mumbai date has been added on January 21, 2025 at DY Patil Stadium. Ticket sales start today at 2pm IST,” Coldplay said in an Instagram post along with a booking link.
According to reports, the BookMyShow website and app servers crashed on Sunday when tickets went up for sale for the British band’s concerts next year.
Soon, the hashtags ‘Coldplay’, ‘BookMyShow’ and ‘Crashed’ started trending on X.
Coldplay has already announced two shows at the DY Patil Sports Stadium on January 18 and 19, 2025.
Many fans shared screenshots of their computer screens and smartphones showing the app receiving a lot of traffic.
According to BookMyShow, tickets for the two shows scheduled to be held at Mumbai’s DY Patil Sports Stadium on January 18 and 19, 2025 were to go on sale at 12 noon. Many said that tickets were not available for booking even after 12.15 pm.
The ticket prices are as follows From Rs 2,500 ₹ 12,500, with According to the platform’s website, the charge for the lounge area is Rs 35000.
The servers were restored in less than an hour and BookMyShow posted a message that all accounts booking tickets were experiencing “heavy traffic”, with the waitlist reaching 842,745.
A message on the platform read, “Due to heavy traffic the queue is moving slower than expected. Thank you for your patience!”
Some helpful fans suggested others wait for the page to refresh.
“If you’re in the queue for Coldplay tickets and it’s going slow, refresh your page. It’s about to go faster #coldplay #bookmyshow,” said one X user.
Another claimed that other platforms were selling Coldplay tickets at higher prices.
“Dear @coldplay, fans in India are struggling to get tickets on @Bookmyshow_live which has a waiting list of over 300k but platforms like Viagogo are selling them at inflated prices. #coldplayindia #BookMyShow,” said a user.
Another wrote, “Indians cringe whenever they try to book tickets for Coldplay or any other major event on BookMyShow! Crashes again! #BookMyShow #Coldplay.”
“BookMyShow server looks like this: Sir I don’t do anything! #BookMyShow #ColdPlay,” a user joked on X.
This concert in Mumbai will be Coldplay’s first visit to India in eight years.
The Grammy-winning band previously performed in Mumbai as part of the Global Citizen Festival in 2016.
The “Music of the Spheres World Tour 2025” will kick off at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia on October 30 and conclude with a show at Wembley Stadium in London, UK on August 31, 2025.
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