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British rock band Coldplay is coming to India in January 2025 for the ‘Music of the Spheres’ world tour. The booking window for the show opened on Sunday, however, due to the Coldplay craze in India and the rush to book tickets, the Book My Show app crashed. Many users complained about the problems in ticket booking on social media. Seeing the craze of concerts in India, the Coldplay band has now announced to perform in India for 3 days instead of 2 days.
Coldplay band’s concert is going to be held on 19-20 January 2025 at D.Y. Patil Stadium in Mumbai. Booking for the show started on Book My Show app at 12 noon on Sunday. There was such a rush to book tickets that the Book My Show site crashed. When the site opened again after some time, the user traffic was still close to 10 lakh. In such a situation, to prevent the app from crashing, the Book My Show app announced that users will be able to book tickets through the line system, but a user will be able to book a maximum of 4 tickets at a time, whereas earlier this limit was 8 tickets.
Coldplay announces performance on third day
After seeing such craze of fans in India, the band Coldplay announced on Sunday that they will perform for 3 days instead of 2 in India. The dates for this were 19-20 and 21 January. The new dates have been announced from the official Instagram account of Coldplay. It is written in the post, the third show of Mumbai has been added. New dates have been added in view of the unprecedented demand.
After the announcement of the concert on 21 January 2025, the ticket window of the show opened on Book My Show at 2 pm on Sunday. For this, users had to select the ‘Book Now’ option at 1:30 pm, after which they were added to the waiting room. When the ticket window went live at 2 pm, users were given bookings according to the waiting list. At this time there was a traffic of 14 lakh users on the app. Due to the rush for tickets, many fans could not book tickets for the show, for which many memes are being circulated on social media.
Book My Show warns to avoid scams
Amidst the demand for the show, ticket booking was made available on many fake sites. As soon as this information was received, fans were warned through the official social media account of Book My Show.
Let us tell you that the Coldplay band is returning to India after 9 years. The last time this band performed in India was in the Golden Citizen Festival held in Mumbai in 2016. 80 thousand fans were a part of this show, including many Bollywood celebs.
Photo taken during a Coldplate performance in 2016.
During the world tour in 2025, Coldplay will perform at Mumbai’s D.Y. Patil Stadium. The ticket price was between 25 thousand and 35 thousand rupees. Coldplay’s songs Hymn for the Weekend, Yellow, Fix You are very popular in India. The band started in London in 1997. Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman, Will Champion and Phil Harvey are the members of this band. Coldplay has won the Grammy Award 7 times in 39 nominations.
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