Record "sold out" speed
At 10am on November 12, the organizers opened ticket sales for the second concert “Call Me by Fire” on the Ticketbox platform. Just 2 minutes later, the website crashed and was overloaded due to too many visitors. The program’s fanpage announced: “The website is down... Gai (fans of the program), please stay calm.”
After the problem was fixed, around 10:10 a.m., the site was back up and running, with one viewer sharing his position behind more than 70,000 people. Around 10:12 a.m., another viewer shared his position behind more than 115,000 people.
On the ticketing platform’s fanpage, “Call Me by Fire” officially sold out within 40 minutes. Concert tickets “sold out in record time.”
Previously, on November 7, the organizers of the show "Anh trai say hi" opened an early sale. About 45 minutes later, the organizers announced: "The early sale tickets were sold out after 45 minutes". At 12 noon the same day, the organizers decided to open additional ticket sales (1 day earlier than expected), after 1 hour, all ticket categories were sold out.
Thus, Call Me by Fire has a record-breaking ticket selling rate compared to Anh trai say hi.
According to sources, because the sponsor of Call Me by Fire "held" 20 thousand tickets, the speed at which tickets for this concert sold out was faster.
The highest ticket for the concert “Anh trai say hi” is 10 million VND, “Call Me by Fire” is 8 million VND
The time, location and ticket prices of the two shows are different. Concert 2 “Call Me by Fire” will take place on December 14 at Vinhomes Ocean Park 3, Hung Yen. The show has 3 ticket groups including standing, sitting and VIP, with 12 ticket classes corresponding to different costs. The cheapest price is still 800,000 VND and the highest is 8 million VND/ticket.
Meanwhile, the concert “Anh trai say hi” took place on December 7 at My Dinh National Stadium, Hanoi. The show also divided into 12 ticket categories but with many prices, the lowest being 500,000 VND and the highest being 10 million VND.
Desperate audiences, stars also hunt for tickets to “Call Me by Fire”
More than 150,000 viewers waiting to buy tickets for "Call Me by Fire" created an uncompromising ticket-hunting race. At first, viewers were "confused" because the website crashed. They heatedly debated the time the website crashed, with comments such as: "So heartbreaking! This is hunting for the time the website crashed, not hunting for tickets"; "Crashed at exactly 9:59", "The ticket sales platform crashed before it opened for sale", "The scene of ticket hunting is unprecedentedly thorny"...
Then, after about 10 minutes when the website was back up, viewers shared how many people behind them they were. Viewer Quynh Hoa shared a screenshot that stopped at 10:53, position 169,883. Many viewers shared screenshots of positions over 100,000.
And when the organizers announced that “all tickets are sold out”, many “Call Me by Fire” audiences left “desperate” comments. Many also expressed their wish that the show would hold more shows.
The "Call Me by Fire" ticket sale also created an interesting phenomenon in which the artists participating in the program were also "helpless" in the ticket hunting campaign. For example, "talented" Dang Khoi lamented: "I'm not satisfied. Am I really not allowed to go to the concert?". "Brother" Cuong Seven wrote: "I just read the message from the crew saying to post information calling for everyone to buy tickets, I was about to post it but then stopped... Any brothers and sisters who are of immeasurable merit, please sell me 4 tickets, I will take them for my family"...
The previous concert “Anh trai say hi” also created a chaotic “ticket hunt”. Many audiences “complained” when they tried every way possible but still could not buy tickets to the show.
"Brother" and explosive shows in Ho Chi Minh City
Previously, both programs held shows in Ho Chi Minh City.
On the evening of October 19, the concert “Call Me by Fire” held at Saigon Riverside Park, Ho Chi Minh City quickly “sold out” after more than an hour of going on sale. The show lasted 4 hours, attracting more than 20,000 spectators.
On the same evening of October 19, the concert “Anh trai say hi” at Van Phuc Urban Area (Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City) attracted about 20,000 - 30,000 spectators. Before that, the first large-scale concert “Anh trai say hi” at Saigon Riverside Park (September 28) also attracted a huge audience.
