ST. PAUL, Minn. - Fans that weren't able to secure tickets to one of her two shows next summer at least have the perfect soundtrack to drown their sorrows.
Tickets for Adele's back-to-back shows next July went on sale to the public at 10 a.m. -- both online at Ticketmaster.com and in-person at the Xcel Energy Center box office. Not long after, all tickets to both the July 5 and July 6 shows were gone.
A large mass of fans packed the Xcel Thursday morning, waiting for wristbands to be handed out with corresponding numbers for a lottery. At 9:50 a.m., a lottery number was drawn to select the first person in line to buy tickets.
Jora Bart, public and media relations senior manager of the Xcel Energy Center, said there was a record number of people in line at the box office. They handed out 549 wristbands -- blowing the old record out of the water. Bart said previously, the most wristbands they handed out was for the Bob Seger & Kid Rock concert and only about 300 were given out then.
Mike Nowakowski, a partner with Ticket King, said he's never seen demand quite like this.
"Today has been crazy," he said. "Ticket King has been in the Twin Cities for 25 years and I have never seen a ticket that has been sought after as much as these Adele show tickets."
He said their previous biggest seller -- the Hannah Montana concert -- "pales in comparison to the demand for Adele."
Tickets for the show at Ticket King are currently selling for about $500 a pop -- just to get in the door. Yes, that's the price for the nosebleed seats.
Fans even looked at neighboring concert venues but didn't have much luck there -- Chicago's three shows sold out in less than an hour.
Other ticket brokers, like StubHub!, showed Adele tickets selling for anywhere between $350 to the are-you-kidding-me price of $9,000.
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