Tickets to Adele’s two-night run at Denver’s Pepsi Center went on sale seven months ago. And seconds later, they were gone. Adele went from filling out the 1,600-capacity to two nights at the Pepsi Center — a combined total of around 40,000 seats — in the span of just one tour cycle.
As is (sadly) the norm, many of those tickets were grabbed by scalpers who were savvy to the British singer’s almost biblical ability to draw a crowd.
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Fittingly, those scalpers have given rise to an after-market ticket price inflation of epic proportions.
According to secondary market ticket sale aggregator , resale price of the average Adele ticket for this weekend’s shows clock in at an unreal $552, making Denver the sixth most expensive resale market for the North American leg of Adele’s latest tour. (Only Nashville, Atlanta, Dallas, Boston New York and Washington D.C. have higher average prices.)
To put that in perspective, the average resale price for a ticket to the Bronco’s AFC Championship game against the Patriots was $500, though it’s worth mentioning Mile High Stadium has nearly four times the capacity of the Pepsi Center.
There is some good news for Adele fans still looking for a miracle: The median list price for an Adele ticket in the aftermarket has fallen sharply in the last month. Ticket prices for Saturday’s show have fallen 53% and Sunday’s shows have dropped 40%.
So, yeah! You’ll only have to to say “Hello” from the nosebleeds of the Pepsi Center this weekend. Lucky!
