Initial Glastonbury 2025 Tickets Exhausted in Half an Hour

Organisers have confirmed that the initial batch of tickets for Glastonbury Festival 2025 was completely sold out within 30 minutes. Attendees encountered a revised booking system when sales for coach travel packages commenced at 18:00 GMT on Thursday. Instead of repeatedly refreshing a waiting page once tickets became available, prospective buyers were “randomly assigned a place in a queue.” The official festival’s X account posted an announcement at 18:32 confirming the sell-out of tickets, a detail also noted on its website. Subsequently, See Tickets stated in an X post that “confirmation emails are going out now to everyone who got @Glastonbury coach tickets this evening.” Standard tickets are scheduled to go on sale on Sunday at 09:00. This development follows by one week the announcement by the globally renowned festival regarding alterations to its ticket booking procedure for fans. The modification was implemented after scrutiny was directed towards several problems in online ticket sales, such as dynamic pricing and the resale of tickets by touts. This issue gained prominence in the news following the release of Oasis tickets in September, which led the government and the UK’s competition watchdog to commit to investigating the practice of prices escalating with demand. To deter touting, prospective Glastonbury attendees are required to register beforehand to purchase tickets for the event, scheduled to occur at Worthy Farm in Somerset from June 25 to 29. The cost for Glastonbury 2025 tickets is £373.50, in addition to a £5 booking fee, representing an increase of £18.40 compared to the 2024 price of £355 plus a £5 booking fee. In the previous year, coach tickets were depleted within 25 minutes, and all standard tickets were acquired within one hour. Emily Eavis, the festival organiser, has previously indicated that 2026 will be a fallow year for Glastonbury, intended for the land’s recuperation, though she is already engaging with artists regarding headlining performances in 2025. The 2024 festival marked the inaugural occasion that the event presented two female headliners on the Pyramid Stage: Dua Lipa on Friday and SZA on Sunday. On Saturday, Coldplay achieved a historic milestone by becoming the first act to headline the festival on five separate occasions. For updates, follow BBC Somerset on Facebook and X. Story ideas can be submitted via email or WhatsApp at 0800 313 4630. Copyright 2024 BBC. All rights reserved. The BBC bears no responsibility for the material found on external websites. Information regarding our policy on external linking is available.