CHASING PAYMENT
£38,000 FOR FRONT ROW SEATS AT ADELE GIG
ADELE fans will need to be Rolling In The Dough, as her Vegas tickets are £38,716 each on a resale website.
They are the top price front row seats for the opening night of her US gig run on November 18.
Cheapest options on the back row of the 4,100-seat Colosseum at Caesars Palace are £579.
Ticket resale website Stubhub is charging the inflated prices for the Weekend With Adele opener.
Such sites are the only option for fans hoping to see the Chasing Pavements singer as all tickets were snapped up within minutes of going live.
When they first went on sale, prices ranged from £73 to £590.
The resale prices eclipse those for former Vegas headliners like Celine Dion, Sir Rod Stewart, Sir Elton John and J.LO.
Brodie Cooper, of US entertainment PR firm Prrppd, said: “Websites would not charge those fees if people were not willing to pay those sums.
“Without a doubt Adele’s ticket prices are by far the highest ever in the history of the Las Vegas strip.”
Stubhub and Adele’s representatives were contacted.
Her 32 gigs will run until next March. They are rescheduled dates after the singer pulled the plug with just 24 hours’
notice in January. Speaking about her decision to cancel her gigs earlier in the year, Adele, 34, told BBC’S Desert Island Discs: “I definitely felt everyone’s disappointment and I was devastated and I was frightened about letting them down, and
I thought I could pull it together and make it work and I couldn’t, and I stand by that decision.”
The London-born mum of one, now based in Los Angeles, has revealed she intends to study online for a degree in English literature after her Vegas stint.
Adele – who has praised her school English teacher for inspiring her – told fans at a Q&A session in LA on Friday: “If I hadn’t made it singing, I think I would be an English lit teacher.”