Touts charged extortionate costs on the resale market within the final yr, with followers paying large sums for the most important bands together with Linkin Park, Dua Lipa and Black Sabbath
Oasis, Coldplay and Billie Eilish have topped an inventory of essentially the most touted gig tickets of 2025.
Seats for the Gallagher brothers’ epic comeback exhibits final yr topped demand from determined followers making an attempt to nab a spot type a tout. Some folks spent £800 a ticket to be at locations like Wembley and Cardiff to see the Wonderwall rockers in motion, consultants mentioned.
A probe discovered round 7million Brits have used uncapped resale websites within the final yr – regardless of greater than a 3rd of individuals being unaware of how they work – leaving them weak to considerably marked up costs.
O2 has now arrange a Stamp It Tout marketing campaign to sort out touts after the federal government outlined its intention to ban the resale of tickets for revenue final month. The telecoms firm – which offered 1.7 million tickets in 2025 to reside occasions all through the UK through its Precedence Tickets platform – is looking for swift motion to outlaw the resale of tickets for revenue, and has collated an inventory which highlights how touts have continued to money in on demand for each home-grown expertise and worldwide superstars’ exhibits all year long.
Throughout 2025, touts charged extortionate costs on the resale market, with these surveyed admitting to paying large sums for the most important bands, rounded off on the prime by Linkin Park, Dua Lipa and Black Sabbath.
Gareth Griffiths, of Virgin Media O2, mentioned: “From Coldplay to Billie Eilish, 2025 proved as soon as once more that Britain is the beating coronary heart of reside music – however ticket touts continued to take advantage of followers and undermine that have.
“The federal government has been clear – profiteering on the expense of music lovers has no place within the UK. But till new laws takes impact, reselling tickets for eyewatering mark-ups stays authorized. With world-class acts set to take the stage in 2026, motion can’t wait. Followers deserve a fairer ticketing system.”
Adam Webb, marketing campaign supervisor on the FanFair Alliance, added: “Till the Authorities brings within the price-capping laws that they’ve promised, on-line ticket touts and rogue resale platforms will proceed to revenue off the again of audiences and extract lots of of thousands and thousands of kilos from the UK financial system.
“Investigations by FanFair Alliance have routinely highlighted how anti-consumer and illegal practices are endemic within the so-called secondary ticketing sector, and alongside O2 we are going to proceed pushing for a fairer, fan-friendly resale market.”
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