Coldplay Live performance India: Tickets for Grammy-winning pop band Coldplay’s Mumbai live performance bought out inside minutes after changing into obtainable on the ticketing platform BookMyShow. To accommodate passionate followers who missed out on tickets for the preliminary reveals on January 18 and 19, 2025, the band scheduled a further live performance on January 21. Nonetheless, tickets for the additional date have been additionally rapidly snapped up.
Because the followers struggled for tickets, it was claimed on social media that the tickets have been being bought in black for a lot larger quantities than the unique ticket worth. The considerations appear to have reached former Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav who termed the event as regarding.
“The frenzy throughout the nation relating to advance bookings for internationally famend musical live shows is regarding. Tickets promoting out inside minutes of bookings opening, adopted by stories of those tickets being resold on the black marketplace for costs twenty to fifty instances larger, reaching into the thousands and thousands, poses a problem for each the federal government and administrative our bodies. Is there no governing authority within the nation to forestall such unlawful gross sales and fraudulent ticket scams?” requested Yadav.
अंतरराष्ट्रीय ख्याति के म्यूज़िकल कॉन्सर्ट की एडवांस बुकिंग को लेकर देश भर में जो आपाधापी मची है, वो चिंतनीय है। बुकिंग खुलते ही कुछ समय में ही सारी टिकटों का बुक हो जाना और फिर उन टिकटों का बीसों-पचासों गुना दाम पर लाखों में, ब्लैक में बेचे जाने की ख़बर का फैलना शासन-प्रशासन के…
— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) September 23, 2024
He additionally stated that artists also needs to obtain truthful compensation. “It’s true that artists ought to obtain truthful compensation for his or her expertise, however in such conditions, it is the middlemen who revenue, depriving each the artists of their rightful earnings and the federal government of its due taxes. The reality is, that leisure ought to be accessible to everybody. If artwork turns into confined throughout the buying energy of solely a choose few, it reduces itself to mere enterprise,” stated the Samajwadi Celebration chief.
Akhilesh Yadav additional stated, “It is not at all times the rich who’re true connoisseurs of artwork or those that can genuinely admire it. In such circumstances, artists neither obtain true respect nor the popularity their artwork deserves. The human and social facet of artwork is that it ought to be accessible to all.”