Tickets to pop star Jay Chou’s (周杰倫) Taipei Dome concerts in December sold out within five minutes this afternoon for all four shows.
The pop star is holding concerts for his Carnival World Tour at the new arena from Dec. 5 to 8, the first time he is to perform in Taiwan in years.
Tickets went on sale at noon today on the tixCraft Web site for the event, set to be the largest indoor solo concert ever held in Taiwan.
Photo courtesy of JVR Music
A total of 890,583 users visited the site at once to purchase a total of 150,000 tickets, JVR Music said.
All tickets were snapped up within five minutes by lucky fans, the company said.
The box office value of the tickets reached more than NT$657 million (US$20.48 million).
Yesterday, a tool to practice buying concert tickets saw millions of visits as fans prepared to vie for their chance to see the pop star.
A Threads user on Monday shared a tool they made to practice buying tickets, as they were predicted to sell out quickly.
The tool recreated the tixCraft site, including options to choose the day, seat, number of tickets and verification.
As of 9:40am today, the site had already seen 20 million visits, crashing it several times.
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