Drake UK tour tickets on Viagogo for more than £1,700 just minutes after going on sale
The Canadian artist released tickets for his upcoming Assassination Vacation tour at 9am on Friday morning.
But fans were left furious after tickets were snapped up by touts and posted online for hundreds of pounds.
The initial general sale price for one ticket at standing price was already an eye-watering £140, while seated tickets were priced between £53 and £174.
But a single ticket on a private row with unrestricted views at the O2 arena in London for the final date of his UK tour was being sold for £1786.
Other tickets available for the London gig on April 5 started at £602 each.
Tickets for a Sunday date at the Manchester Arena ranged from £321 to £555 each.
Meanwhile tickets in Birmingham were listed for anything between £127 and £605.
It comes days after fans complained the original pricing was too expensive.
FAN FURY
Fans have since vented after the tickets were snapped up within minutes of going on sale today.
Tracey Muir tweeted: "Genuinely SICK of these idiot ticket touts trying to rinse people!!! #drake tickets going for up to £1000 on viagogo! He can p*** off with that".
One said: "Tried and failed for Drake tickets, sold out within seconds but I really dunno if I even wanted to pay the £139 price tag for a ticket anyway."
Genuinely SICK of these idiot ticket touts trying to rinse people!!! #drake tickets going for up to £1000 on viagogo!
Eleanor wrote: "“Cba with Drake tickets selling out in approx 1 min cos all the touts have got them now n r gonna rinse people for them [sic].”
The Toronto musicians’s last album Scorpion came out in August, which went on to become one of the top ten best-selling albums of 2018.
Drake last toured the UK in March 2017 for his fourth album Views.
VIAGOGO UNDER FIRE
It comes as Viagogo was accused by regulators of not sticking to a court order stopping the firm ripping off consumers.
The concert ticket reseller previously failed to give key ticket information including original price and resale restrictions.
That meant buyers would not know if they were paying way over the face value or if there was a risk of being turned away at the door.
Some Ed Sheeran fans were refused entry at gigs on his tour last year after the singer’s promoters banned the reselling of tickets in a bid to battle touts.
Viagogo’s repeated breaches lead to the Competition and Markets Authority taking the firm to the High Court — which ordered it in November to stick to the rules or face “severe penalties”.
The deadline to comply was last Thursday, but the regulator said: “Having conducted urgent checks, the CMA has serious concerns Viagogo has not complied with important aspects of the court order.
“If they don’t make changes without delay, we will go back to court to force them to.”
Viagogo claimed it had met the High Court deadline requiring it to make changes including providing a ticket’s seat number and restrictions.
This week Andrew Newman, 28 — named as one of the main touts selling tickets on sites such as Viagogo — was rapped for showing off his new £1million mansion west of Edinburgh.
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