[ad_1] British artist Harry Styles has topped sales tallies for the first time for his touring efforts, with $138.6m (£110m/€128m) made and 1.2 million tickets sold. Styles has beaten fellow British artist Sir Elton John to the number one sport on Billboard’s Top Tours chart. In 2021, he placed third in the abridged year-end ranking, …
Kings Theatre switches to ATG Tickets
[ad_1] Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre has switched up its ticketing partner in favour of ATG Tickets, moving away from Ticketmaster. Tickets will now be sold via ATG Tickets and are available for purchase through the theatre’s box office and website. However, if patrons have bought tickets for an event at Kings through Ticketmaster, these tickets will …
Ed Sheeran breaks Australian concert record
[ad_1] Ed Sheeran has broken an Australian concert record, with more than 107,000 tickets sold for his Friday show at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). The MCG concert is being produced by Frontier Touring and is part of the English singer’s ‘The Mathematics Tour’. Sheeran is also set to play the MCG on Thursday and …
Sky Stadium and Ticketek celebrate Ed Sheeran success
[ad_1] Sky Stadium (pictured), a multi-purpose sport and entertainment venue in Wellington, is celebrating hosting its biggest ever crowd for a live performance, with last week’s Ed Sheeran concert also becoming the first stadium event in New Zealand to be ticketed 100% in-app. In-app ticketing meant that attendees could rely on a fully digital, app-based …
Accor Stadium to welcome 400,000 people
[ad_1] Sydney’s Accor Stadium has predicted that 400,000 people will attend its upcoming major headline events. More than 180,000 people are expected to attend two Ed Sheeran concerts on February 24 and 25 alone. Early February also saw the stadium hold two concerts from band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with support from rapper Post Malone. …
Ed Sheeran’s record Wellington crowd
[ad_1] Ed Sheeran’s Sky Stadium concert in Wellington, New Zealand could have hosted a record-breaking crowd of 48,000. The total would beat an Eminem concert in March 2019, which welcomed 46,474 fans. Thursday’s concert was sold out and organisers said roughly 16,200 of the ticket holders were from outside of the Wellington region. Sky Stadium …
Sir Elton John’s farewell tour could break all-time touring record
[ad_1] Sir Elton John could set an all-time touring record with his ‘Farewell Yellow Brick Road’ tour. The lengthy tour first began more than four years ago – though a global pandemic got in the way – and is on track to beat Ed Sheeran’s ‘Divide’ tour, which currently holds the all-time record. According to Pollstar, box-office …
Wembley Stadium welcomes over 2.6 million in 2022
[ad_1] Wembley Stadium welcomed more than 2.6 million people in 2022, in what was a record-breaking year for the venue. The London stadium hosted 35 events over the last year, including major football finals, heavyweight boxing bouts, a National Football League (NFL) game and sold-out concerts. Some of the record-breaking crowds include the 94,000-strong attendance …
A Q&A with SECUTIX CEO Frédéric Longatte
[ad_1] We spoke to SECUTIX chief executive Frédéric Longatte, on the successes of this year and looking forward to what’s in store for the ticketing technology provider in 2023. TheTicketingBusiness: In 2022, SECUTIX’s mobile ticketing technology was used for a number of high-profile events, including the UEFA Women’s European Championships, Wimbledon and concerts from artist Ed Sheeran …
Ticket touts ordered to repay over £6m or face extra prison time
[ad_1] Two ticket touts that resold tickets for concerts from artists such as Ed Sheeran (pictured) have been ordered to repay over £6m ($7.4/€7m), or face extra time in prison. Peter Hunter and David Smith, who traded as Ticket Wiz and BZZ, were convicted in February 2020 after being found guilty of fraudulent trading in …