Coldplay India Tour 2025: BookMyShow crashes, faces backlash as fans stuck in long waiting list.

Coldplay India Tour 2025: Fans Frustrated as BookMyShow Struggles with Overwhelming Demand

Written by: Supriya Kadu

Edited by: Omkar Devadkar

Last Updated: September 23, 2024

Summary: Tickets for Coldplay's concert in Mumbai on January 18, 19, and 21, 2025, sold out in minutes.

Coldplay, a British rock band, created a huge stir in India when they announced that they would be performing in Mumbai as part of their Music of the Spheres World Tour. However, BookMyShow, where Coldplay concert tickets for India were slated to go on sale at noon, crashed, leaving fans unhappy.

Coldplay is scheduled to perform on the 18th and 19th of January 2025, but due to the growing demand for tickets, one more show will take place on the 21st of January 2025. However, many fans were unable to get the tickets for the last show as well.

Fans flooded social media channels after being unable to book Coldplay concert tickets for January 18 and 19, 2025, in Navi Mumbai's DY Patil Stadium.

An X user, Anirudh Garg, posted a video displaying the ticket availability of 30%, yet he was unable to book the tickets. “I still can’t believe it. What happened with me? It’s Cheating. It was my turn. Ticket availability was around 30% each for 4 stands as soon as I selected, but showed not available. This is heartbreak!”

One user wrote, “WTF @bookmyshow WTF IS THIS!!! @coldplay, cancel your show here in India. Your ticketing partners have internally given out tickets to Blackmarket! #Coldplay #Coldplayindia”

Some users are, however, offering free Coldplay tickets in exchange for likes and retweets. A user wrote, “Giveaway alert. Giveaway: 4 #Coldplay tickets. Like & Rt, we will select 4 lucky winners and will give 4 tickets for free.”

As part of a practice known as "engagement farming," which is essentially an effort to promote engagement through the use of controversial posts, other users are sharing the same screenshot with the promise of similar freebies.