Coldplay - Dublin 2024 - Update Post 1 on Toutless

Same with Taylor Swift or Rugby World Cup tickets

Can you even resell tickets for Coldplay yet? Are all tickets not digital and controlled by Ticketmaster?

I can't access my Electric Picnic tickets yet and I bought them on 10/09/2022.

We got tickets for Budapest on 19 June yesterday. 3 tickets for €248. Accommodation for 3 nights in central Budapest, with breakfast and 7km from Puskas Stadium for €309. My friend got 2 Dublin tickets for €500. There is still availability in Budapest on 18 June in Section D. Go to Funcode.hu which appears to be the main official ticket outlet in Hungary. Funnily enough the accessible one is the one not using Ticketmaster.

Are the dates confirmed for electric picnic 2024 or just speculation? Seems like they’d lose a lot of attendees if they had it same weekend as Coldplay.

Won’t be confirmed till after this years one. It has never been the weekend of the 6-8th so them moving it to that it will be unusual.

they are probably confident that EP is guaranteed sell out that enough who aren’t going to Coldplay

I’m not looking to start an argument or troll or anything like that, but I am surprised by Coldplay’s popularity and ability to sell out 4 nights in Croker instantly.

Are they really that big, it has it been the victim (or success if you look at it that way) of fomo taking over people?

For the record I’ve seen them twice and really have no issues with them, I’m just surprised they are this popular.

Yes and no. They are that big, they're one of the biggest bands in the world and irrespective of their more recent offerings which have received tepid responses, they have a huge built-in fanbase stretching back over 20 years.

But a lot of people will travel from abroad to see them play here so the argument that not that many people in Ireland like them that much to fill Croke Park four times over is not telling the full story.

There are definitely a contingent of 'day-tripper fans' going to it (using the term 'FOMO' to describe attendees is completely unhelpful as there are big or casual Coldplay fans that would have a 'fear of missing out' versus your day-tripper 'Hi Instagram, I'm at a gig' so they shouldn't be lumped together - and in any event a casual Coldplay fan who likes a bunch of their songs wanting to go to their gig is hardly FOMO in the derogatory sense which FOMO implies). I don't think its nearly as many as some others have inferred over the past few weeks though. The tickets are so expensive and you had to sign-up to Coldplay's mailing list in advance to even get into the sale so realistically, anyone who woke up from last Monday onwards suddenly wanting to go the gig really had no chance of tickets.

Are they really that big though?

If you have a look through the 'Most Streamed Artists on Spotify' they were once in the top 5 back in 2014 and have never been in the top 5 since.

They don't even make the top 10 in the other stats.

There are bands on that list that are far more listened to in general who haven't had nearly the same level of competition to get tickets.

I do agree with you that there's a huge interest in seeing them, but this level of fever to get tickets akin to Beatlemania has to be something beyond their usual fanbase size.

Thanks for your reply. And yes you’re correct in saying that I shouldn’t have put the more casual fans in with the crowd who are going for the purpose of social media selfies etc., i didn’t mean to offend any true fans!

that’s the crux of my question. I can’t help but feel that the surge for tickets was the result of some great marketing.

I got good tickets today on ticketmaster, paid a big price for 2 tickets but delighted with the seats so come show time I know I'll be delighted I paid the extra but anyone looking for tickets keep checking, there's tickets still out there and are randomly appearing.

August next year there'll be loads of tickets going for this. Just like there was for Garth Brooks, you couldn't give tickets away in the 2 weeks before the gigs.

It's dumb people being sucked into the hype. If you go on spotify and look at most streamed artists for Ireland Coldplay are nowhere. Probably because they've been rubbish for a decade.

U2 are not in the top 50 streamed artist list, they'd easily fill Croke Park a few times over if they announced a few gigs. Garth Brooks isn't on Spotify, he sold it out 5 times. Bad Bunny is the third most streamed artist and he'd probably struggle to fill the 3Arena here (despite his immense talent I should add).

You can't draw any conclusions from Spotify streams.

Of course there'll be some tickets available next year, some people won't be able to go by the time the gig rocks around, happens for every gig, so there will be some floating about.

Just checked around half 3 and premium tickets appeared and the other half was desperate to go so just took them cause they were such good seats.

I agree it's all hype and there will be loads of tickets the closer the show gets but sometimes when tickets are dangled in front of you and the clock is counting down before they release the tickets all sensible reasoning leaves you. Seen coldplay a few times now and the whole show is a spectical.