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Coachella Sells Out in Six Days, Kanye's Fault?

Posted Jan 27th 2011 10:15AM by Charley Rogulewski
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Well, that was quick! Passes for the 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, headlined by Kanye West, Kings of Leon and Arcade Fire, are "no longer available" according to the festival's website. Tickets for the 3-day festival in Indio, Calif. went on sale Friday Jan. 21, meaning it only took six days for the $319 three-day general admission passes to sell out.

And if you're thinking that more tickets will be released closer to the April 15 kick off date, there's some more bad news. The festival confirmed the news and tweeted that "no, we don't have any passes left to release, kthxbye."

Last year, Coachella broke a new attendance record when 225,000 people showed up over the long weekend to see headliners like Jay-Z, Gorillaz and Muse perform. Tickets sold out the week before the festival kicked off, a lot later than this year. Traffic was so bad on the first day of the fest, that ticketholders waited as long as six hours to get into parking lots. Festival organizers said the fest's success was due to "more relevant younger bands than ever before" being booked for the lineup.

Seems organizers stuck to the formula booking another major hip-hop headliner in Kanye, who last played the festival in 2006. Underdog bands include Best Coast, Wiz Khalifa, Cults, Tinie Tempah, Cage the Elephant, Cee Lo Green, Nas & Damian Marley, Black Keys, Cut Copy, Ms. Lauryn Hill and more. For a complete list head to Coachella.com

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Charley

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January 28 2011 at 6:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

SuperStudd01

Lmao. Anyone who`s been following Coachella for the past few years would know Kanye is responsible. I`m not a huge Kanye fan but you would be in denial to not think so. Jay-Z was the headliner last year and it took MONTHS longer, and this year there was all this bickering about the poor line-up, and the disappointment of Daft Punk not being there, yet it sold out and CRUSHED the record. Unfortunately with the inclusion of artists like Jay-Z and Kanye, Coachella is becoming mainstream. I can`t wait till Katy Perry is the headliner next year...Smfg. I will never understand America`s fixation with Kanye West...I never, never will.

January 28 2011 at 3:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

meka792

in no way did kanye have anything to do with this sellout. it's simply attributed to a) goldenvoice selfishly only selling three-day passes and b) goldenvoice allowing people to buy up to six passes each

perhaps most detrimental though, is the fact that coachella has now become the "cool thing to do" and therefore attracts every douche bag and his peroxide blond girlfriend to the desert whether they know the bands in fine print or not.

on a side note, for 2010 i still don't understand how coachella considers its capacity to be between 65k and 85k, only sold three-day wristbands which couldn't be resold, and yet still claims that 225,000 people saw their show. my math isn't great but does that mean they were overcapacity by about 150,000 people each day?

January 27 2011 at 12:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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alcor805

You are dead on. Kanye didn't sell one extra ticket - the experience of Coachella - even with this lousy lineup - is a hit.

Since Coachella sold out , both literally and figuratively, they should add ten more (smaller) bands to the Big 4 show. And set up a separate show for UK music - which up until this year was the best part of Coachella.

January 28 2011 at 2:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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