Coldplay breaks the record for filling the Olympic Stadium four nights in a row

Nobody before had been able to fill the Estadi Olímpic four nights in a row as Coldplay is going to do. Not even three. The closest anyone had been to the goal scored by the British band was with two consecutive concerts. Artists like the Rolling Stones, in 1990, or Bruce Springsteen, who did it in 2012 and plans to do it again next year, on April 28 and 30, according to sources from B:SM, the municipal company that operates the facilities, had achieved it. The Rolling Stones and the Boss shared that record, precisely, with the band led by Chris Martin, who played two consecutive nights in 2016. But two concerts in the Catalan capital must not be enough for them.

Coldplay announced on Monday that they would play again in Barcelona, on May 24 and 25, 2023, the only dates for all of Spain. They had already visited the city in 2009 and 2016. This time they will return to the Catalan capital immersed in their Music of the Spheres World Tour, which began in Costa Rica in March and has just closed six sold-out nights at London's emblematic Wembley Stadium. The group is presenting their ninth album, a journey to a fictional planetary system, encouraged by the imagery of Star Wars.

Only with the presale of tickets for Coldplay in the Catalan capital, which began on Wednesday at 10 in the morning, the promoter Live Nation decided to add one more date, for May 27, "due to the incredible demand" they had already detected.

Tickets went on sale at ten in the morning this Thursday and, with three dates available, many thought they wouldn't have to fight to get one. Nothing could be further from the truth. A few minutes after sales opened, as The New Barcelona Post was able to verify, there was already a virtual queue of more than 278,000 people.

It was of little use that Live Nation scheduled one more date, for May 28, just an hour and a half after the box office opened. "Never before had there been such a demand as that experienced in recent days to see the British band in Barcelona next May," it reported, "Coldplay adds a new and final date to its visit to Spain." By 4 p.m. this Thursday, all tickets, a total of 200,000, had sold out in just 24 hours.

With this demand, Coldplay has surpassed all the statistics that the Estadi Olímpic had registered until now. There was no record of any band doing three or more consecutive concerts, B:SM points out. Chris Martin and his band will also become the ones who will accumulate the most concerts on the Olympic stage, with a total of seven, surpassing the Rolling Stones, who led the ranking until now, with six (1990, 1998, 2003, 2007 and 2017).