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Oasis fans in the UK who purchased tickets from a reseller may be SOL—Live Nation and SJM have announced over 50,000 tickets for the UK shows will be invalidated for being resold.
When the tour dates for Oasis Live ‘25 reunion tour were announced earlier this year, Ticketmaster had a spate of 1.4 million tickets to hawk. The ticket seller says more than 10 million people attempted to purchase those tickets, and within hours of going on sale, some of these tickets appeared on secondary ticketing sites selling for thousands above face value.
Live Nation and SJM confirmed to the BBC that around 4% of those tickets ended up on resale sites, which puts the estimate of impacted tickets around 50,000. Tickets that made their way to secondary ticketing sites outside of Ticketmaster or its resale partner Twickets will be invalidated in the coming days. Anyone who purchased through a secondary ticket seller will be impacted.
“These terms and conditions were successfully put in place to take action against secondary ticketing companies reselling tickets for a huge profit,” a Live Nation spokesperson confirmed to the BBC. “Only four percent of tickets have ended up on resale sites. Some major tours can see up to 20% of tickets appearing via the major unauthorized secondary platforms.”
“All parties involved with the tour continue to urge fans not to purchase tickets from unauthorized websites as some of these may be fraudulent and others subject to cancellation,” the statement continues.
Despite the warning of ticket invalidation, secondary ticketing website Viagogo says it will continue to offer Oasis Live ‘25 ticket resales. “2% of Oasis tickets are on Viagogo and StubHub,” Matt Drew, an oversee of business development for Viagogo told the BBC. “We will continue to sell them in the way that the regulator says we can. We are serving a clear consumer need, we will continue doing it on that basis.”
The UK Oasis dates were sold with dynamic pricing, which saw the ‘face value’ of tickets rise to as high as £350 for tickets with a face value of £150. When the US tour dates were announced earlier this year, Oasis announced those tour dates would not use dynamic pricing after the massive backlash from fans, describing it as an “unacceptable experience” for UK fans.