Seriously MJ haters, the humble pie is in the oven for you.
The King of Pop has blown all expectations out of the water for his final London concerts. Originally a 10-date concert tour, excessive demand that downed two websites has forced concert promoters to extend it to a record-breaking 50 dates, the last taking place in February of 2010.
AEG Live has revealed that 360,000 tickets allotted for the pre-sale have already been sold, within 18 hours. This means that, before tomorrow's general sale, Jackson's concerts havethe fastest ticket sales in history. Jackson has broken other records, such as the highest attendance record for one city and the highest attendance for a group of arena shows.
There is a three month break between the first and second legs of the concert tour, which makes one wonder what Jackson will be doing during this time; it is unsure, although not unlikely, that Michael will use this time to perform elsewhere, such as the United States.
The pre-sale wasn't without its problems; UK Ticketmaster suffered a website crash when 2 million fans rushed to purchase tickets yesterday. Some fans who received pre-sale codes where turned down because of the overload, either leaving them without tickets or with bad seats or dates. Among the pre-sale buyers were scalpers, who purchased tickets and almost immediately jacked up prices into the $1000 range, when their face value is 1/10th of that. It hasn't stopped people from resorting to eBay and Seatwave to get their Jackson tickets.
AEG promoters have alluded to the possibility of a world tour if these concerts are successful, so here's to hoping that Michael does amazingly and he comes to NEW YORK (or Hartford, Connecticut)!
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