Tickets for Glastonbury 2025 sell out in 35 minutes
Social media users have debated whether the new queueing system is more or less fair after tickets sold out rapidly on Sunday morning
Looks like Glastonbury is once again the hottest festival ticket in town, with passes for next year's Festival reportedly selling out 35 minutes this weekend.
Thousands of potential customers joined an online queue at 9:AM on Sunday (November 17), with many left disappointed 35 minutes later when the Somerset-based festival confirmed all available tickets had been snatched up.
“Tickets for Glastonbury 2025 have now Sold Out. Thanks to everyone who bought one and sorry to those who missed out, on a morning when demand was much higher than supply." organisers wrote on Twitter at 9.35:AM. "There will be a resale of any cancelled or returned tickets in spring 2025.”
Tickets for Glastonbury 2025 have now Sold Out. Thanks to everyone who bought one and sorry to those who missed out, on a morning when demand was much higher than supply.
— Glastonbury Festival (@glastonbury) November 17, 2024
There will be a resale of any cancelled or returned tickets in spring 2025.
Glastonbury is set to take place at Worthy Farm in Somerset from 25th to 29th June 2025. Tickets cost £373.50, plus a £5 booking fee (an increase of £18.50 from 2024).
On Thursday last week (November 14), bundle tickets including both the festival and coach travel sold out in 25 minutes.
This year, Glastonbury debuted a new booking system that saw people randomly allocated a place in the online queue. This was introduced to reduce the number of fans that game the system by using bots, refreshing the site or buying on multiple devices.
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Under the new system, customers needed to log on the page a few minutes early in order to secure a place in the queue, with a gradually increasing green bar indicating how far along they were.
Feedback on the new system has been mixed, with some fans believing it makes the process more fair and others saying the opposite.
“Such an awesome system, got in on mobile using mobile data, so easy,” says Adam Collins on Twitter.
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While DazFG said: “Wow, think that was the most boring glasto morning of my life and I defo don't trust the new system.... Bars barley moved, no numerical queue counter, all very smoke and mirrors”
Simon McEvoy called on the festival to create a system that prioritises those who have previously failed to get tickets saying: “The tent I bought 10 years ago for Glastonbury is still in its bag. At this rate, my children might be the only ones to get to use it.”
The tent I bought 10 years ago for Glastonbury is still in its bag. At this rate, my children might be the only ones to get to use it.
— Simon McEvoy (@tweetsimonm) November 17, 2024
Many reported technical issues with the site such as putting in all their details and getting through to the purchase page, only to be confronted with the message “access denied”, and not being able to buy the tickets.
Last year, general sale tickets sold out in 57 minutes and 210,000 people attended the event in June 2024.
Glastonbury organsier Emily Eavis has confirmed that the festival will not go ahead in 2026, as it will take a fallow year.
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With line-ups yet to be announced, rumours have already been circulating about who could be the headline acts.
The team at OLBG say there is an 80% chance that Olivia Rodrigo will be named the headline act, with The 1975, Fred Again.. and Fontaines D.C. also in the mix.
Meena Sears is Mixmag's Digital Intern, follow her on Instagram
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