There are still enough tickets available for all Adele gigs at Ticketmaster. Because they are so expensive?
Adele has announced ten shows in Munich between August 2nd and August 31st, 2024 – the entire Bavarian summer month will be dedicated to the British superstar, who is only giving concerts in Europe this year in Munich and is even having her own arena built for it. It has space for 80,000 people. For ten concerts that amounts to 800,000 spectators. Maybe a record in this country. It is questionable whether bands like the Rolling Stones or singers like Sheeran or mega-singers like Taylor Swift attract so many concertgoers on their German tours within a year. Adele isn’t even going on tour, she’s doing a residency.
It is now well known that superstars massively boost a region’s gastronomy and tourism industry simply through a (short) visit to stadium stages. Taylor Swift will make Gelsenkirchen bloom in the summer, and after the Adele announcement there were even voices from Munich politicians who enthusiastically raved about the Bavaria effect.
It doesn’t matter whether there are 800,000 Germans who admire Adele on stage in August or visitors from all over the world. Since the 35-year-old is only appearing in Munich this year, there are certainly plans for thousands of international fans to inaugurate the “Adele Arena” with her.
Now the pre-sales start for the first of the ten performances was almost a month ago (January 31, 2024), and it can be said that there are still tons of tickets for the “Hello” singer. They are available for all concerts and, perhaps even sadder, especially for the opening concert on August 2nd.
So is it because of the ticket prices?
A look at the Ticketmaster page on Saturday (February 24, 2024) shows that there is still room in the arena later on – for August 31, for example, there is still a lot of Tix in the “Front of Stage 2” area . Cost per nose: 369 euros. And that’s not even the closest thing to Adele, because that would be “Front of Stage 1”.
So is it because of the ticket prices that Adele isn’t sold out yet? This is supported by the fact that the seats at the back, i.e. the cheapest ones, are almost sold out at all ten performances.
Ticketmaster recently had to experience a strange situation at Pearl Jam – although Eddie Vedder and the band are only giving two concerts in Germany this year (July 2nd and 3rd), there were still a number of tickets available after presales began on Friday. But at untypical PJ prices of up to 300 euros, which makes fans of the grunge heroes angry, as we read on Facebook.
There are now around five months until “Adele live in Munich”. It will definitely get more crowded. But until then the question remains: are ten concerts too high? Is Adele even an open-air artist? Adele has so far performed in the hall in this country. She has so far easily filled venues like the Lanxess Arena in Cologne or the Mercedes-Benz Arena – but they only fit a quarter of the people she expects for the “Adele Stadium” in Munich per gig.