Glastonbury 2025 tickets sell-out in minutes
The first set earlier this week took just half an hour to be snapped-up
Last updated 17th Nov 2024
Without a single artist for the 2025 edition of Glastonbury Festival even being announced, next year's event is already a sell-out!
The record for general tickets remains for the 2015 event - which saw general admission spots going in just 25 minutes.
This year, though, things have been working just a little bit differently - because now, those hoping to secure one of those elusive spaces on Somerset's Worthy Farm will be randomly assigned a place in the queue if they're already waiting on the website.
This change comes after a spotlight was shone on various issues within online ticket selling including the use of dynamic pricing and tickets being resold by touts - with the subject making headlines after the release of Oasis tickets in September prompted the Government and the UK's competition watchdog to pledge they would look at the use of prices surging in line with demand.
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For 2025, we now know took just 35 minutes for all tickets to be snapped up by those lucky enough to be given a place near the front of the queue.
It follows the sale of coach tickets earlier this week, which were all gone in just half an hour.
A statement from the official festival X account announced at 6.32pm that tickets had "sold out", alongside a note on its website.
"The Glastonbury 2025 tickets + coach travel which were on sale this evening have now all been sold," it said.
"Our thanks to everyone who bought one.
"Standard tickets are on sale at 9am GMT on Sunday morning - and @nationalexpress will offer coach travel to standard ticket holders from across the UK."
Looking into a quick history of the time it took Glastonbury tickets to sell out, well, there's quite some disparity nowadays, compared to how it used to be.
Looking into this with Statista, the trend is certainly getting faster, as in 2011, it took (a mind-boggling length, if you compare to the modern day) four hours for them all to be snapped up.
Whilst for the 2020 edition of the event, which was later postponed because of the Coronavirus pandemic, saw those finding out if they were lucky enough to snap one up waiting just 33 minutes before they were all gone.
2026 the likely fallow year
Organiser Emily Eavis has previously been chatting about the festival - and has hinted that Glastonbury is likely to take a fallow year in 2026.
The festival usually takes place four out of every five years, with the fifth year reserved for rehabilitation of the land.
The last official fallow year was 2018, but the festival was also cancelled in 2020 and 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic and had "enforced fallow" years.
Eavis's father, Sir Michael Eavis, founded the festival on his Somerset farm in 1970 and is still involved, but his daughter and her husband Nick Dewey take on the majority of the organisation.
In 2024, Dua Lipa, SZA and Coldplay will headlined the world-famous Pyramid stage - making it the first year the event has featured two female headliners.
On the Saturday, Coldplay made history as the first act to headline the festival five times.
People waiting for the gates to open on Day 1
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