What to know
- Bruno Mars adds a third Toronto show for The Romantic Tour on May 27 due to overwhelming demand.
- Presale tickets for the May 23 and 24 shows opened last Wednesday, drawing hundreds of thousands of fans.
- Many concert-goers reported long waits and slow-moving online queues, with some fans waiting nearly an hour just to access tickets.
- Tickets range from $98 to $2,000, and general on-sale begins Jan. 15 at 12:00 p.m.
Bruno Mars has added a surprise third show in Toronto for his highly-anticipated The Romantic Tour due to high demand, as hundreds of thousands of fans joined the pre-sale queue Wednesday.
Last week, Mars announced The Romantic Tour would be coming to Rogers Stadium on May 23 and 24.
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Pre-sale tickets for the tour were released at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, and the lineup was anything but short, in fact, hundreds of thousands of people were in the queue for both of his shows.
@nowtoronto After hundreds of thousands of fans joined the presale queues, Bruno Mars adds a third Toronto show on May 27. #BrunoMars #Toronto #RogersStadium ♬ Bruno Mars New Jack Swing – Daisuke"D.I"Imai
Nearly two hours later, LiveNation announced that a third show on May 27 would be added in Toronto and five other U.S. cities due to high demand, with general sales beginning at 12 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 15
Pre-sale ticket prices were as low as $98 to as much as $2,000.
Despite the additional shows, some concert-goers are still shocked by the long wait for pre-sale tickets, with some reportedly waiting in the queue for nearly an hour just for a chance to get their hands on tickets, while others say the queue simply wasn’t moving fast enough.
“This bruno mars presale queue for the Toronto shows is actually slower than a turtle,” an X user said.
“This Toronto queue for Bruno Mars feels like prison, 45 minutes and I’m only 28k in queue,” an X user added.
“Why is the Toronto queue for Bruno Mars so slow, it’s been half an hour and only moved up by 10k,” another user said.
The Romantic Tour comes as Mars gets set to release his first solo album in a decade, The Romantic, on Feb. 27.
