Resale tickets at over ₹3.36 lakh for 1 seat are surfacing for the much anticipated India leg of the hugely popular band Coldplay’s the ‘Music Of The Spheres’ World Tour 2025. With social media abuzz on the huge mark-up prices for the tickets post sale on bookmyshow, Chetan Bhagat and BharatPe Co-founder have also joined this hot debate. Read on to know all that there is to know.
Tickets set to go on sale on Sunday, September, 22, on BookMyShow, were priced at Rs 2,500, Rs 3,000, Rs 3,500, Rs 4,000, Rs 4,500, Rs 9000, Rs 9500 and Rs 12,500.
According to bookmyshow, over 13 million fans attempted to secure tickets and cued up in virtual lines hours before the bookings were supposed to open.
While ticket bookings were expected to begin at noon, chaos ensued when ticketing portal Bookmyshow crashed, seemingly unable to take the lakhs of people logging in to make the purchase.
When the ticketing began a few minutes later and people got into the virtual queue, they found themselves waitlisted in lakhs.
Due to the unprecedented demand, a third Mumbai show was added shortly thereafter but the prices have continued to soar.
Platforms such as Viagogo have since listed tickets at 10 to 20 times the original prices; standing tickets initially priced at ₹6,450 were being resold for ₹50,000 and above.
Another seller advertised two Level 2 tickets for the Saturday show (sold on Bookmyshow for ₹12,500) for a whopping ₹3,36,620 each.
One Viagogo user was also spotted selling Level 1 tickets for ₹1,056,320 each — a 234x hike on its original price of ₹4500.
Lounge tickets for the third Coldplay show on January 21 (initially for ₹35,000) were listed with prices ranging up to ₹10 lakh each.
Many others took to social media platforms to sell ‘extra’ tickets that they had purchased and make a quick buck.
In no time, social media was abuzz with the pricing of the tickets in resale and
soon, former BharatPe co-founder Ashneer Grover and author Chetan Bhagat joined the debate on paying a hefty amount to get tickets.
In an X post, Bhagat criticised the fan frenzy “On one hand we get figures of Indian salary percentiles and on the other there’s near mania for concert tickets. Who’s paying so much and buying all these tickets? What percentage of your monthly salary are people spending on these tickets? Some YOLO logic here? What?” he wrote.
Reacting to the post, Grover said there’s “a lot of disparity on either end,” of the spectrum. “It’s a large country – and lot is disparity on either end – why is filling of 80k stadium surprising anyone ? 800k students go overseas every year – spending $50K on an average. Also now that most people who can afford have phones – things will fill up instantly as well,”
