Beyoncé tour chaos as fans crash O2 pre-sale site before it even goes live
Beyonce super fans are in for a long morning as the O2 site for tour tickets crashed before the sale even went live.
The singer, 41, caused a frenzy when she announced her 2023 Renaissance tour, her first one in seven years, with the locations confirmed yesterday, including Cardiff, Sunderland and two dates in London.
However, such is the hype that fans hoping to snap up pre-sale tickets on the O2 Priority site crashed the webpage before the sale went live today at 10am.
Fans took to Twitter to express their disappointment, with one person writing: "What the hell 02!!!!!! TWO MINUTES until we can BUY Beyoncé tickets and the apps down!!!!"
Beyonce's Renaissance tour is coming to the UK (beyonce.com)
It's her first tour in seven years (Getty Images for Atlantis The Ro)A second wrote: "Omg 10 mins before 02 priority happens for Beyoncé and the app and website has crashed... the stress."
Beyoncé announces 2023 tour dates - but major cities are missing from line-up
A third frustrated fan said: "O2 priority crashing before these Beyonce tickets go on sale does not give me hope."
One dejected O2 user simply wrote: "Beyonce has broken 02 Priority."
A Virgin Media O2 spokesperson said: “We apologise to any customers who are experiencing difficulties trying to get Beyonce tickets through our Priority platform today.
"We’re seeing huge demand and we’re doing everything we can to help ensure all our customers can get through."
Beyonce's tour caused the O2 Priority site to crash (AFP via Getty Images)The Crazy in Love singer will be kicking off her first tour in seven years in Europe by travelling to Stockholm on May 10 and then Brussels before making her way to the UK.
Her first stop in the UK will be Cardiff's Principality Stadium on May 17, from where she'll travel to Edinburgh's BT Murray Field Stadium on May 20. Three days later, the Break My Soul singer will perform at Sunderland's Stadium of Light before jetting across the Channel to Paris' Stade de France on May 26.
She'll be back in the UK on May 29 and 30, during which she'll be performing at Tottenham Hotspur's stadium in London.
Sadly, Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle will be missing out on welcoming Beyonce to their cities.
Beyoncé will go on to perform in Barcelona, Marseille, Cologne, Amsterdam, Hamberg, Frankfurt and Warsaw throughout June.
Her North America tour will begin on July 8 in Toronto and ends on September 27 in New Orleans.
'Renaissance' 2023 World Tour: Here’s how to get presale Beyoncé tickets today
The superstar is said to have set out a strict set of rules for any staff on her upcoming world tour, not only implementing a strict no alcohol or drugs policy but also carrying out checks to make sure everyone from her dancers to roadies passes a '#MeToo' test.
The O2 Priority site crashed (priority.o2.co.uk)It comes after she performed live for the first time in three years at a "once in a lifetime show" show in Dubai last month.
However, her gig also sparked criticism from some after it was reported she earned an eye-watering $24 million (£19.3 million) for the show, despite the fact that LGBTQ+ people in Dubai face several legal challenges as homosexuality is illegal under Sharia law in the United Arab Emirates.
Read more similar news:
Comments:
comments powered by Disqus
