Glastonbury 2027 tickets sold out just 42 minutes after going on sale this morning. The initial batch of tickets went on sale on Thursday and sold out within 30 minutes, with general admission sales launching at 9am. At 9.42am, official ticket partner See Tickets announced they had sold out.
New ticketing system to combat bots
The festival returns to Worthy Farm in Somerset from June 23 to June 27 next year, having skipped 2026. A brand new ticketing system has been introduced this year, designed specifically to combat bots and touts.
Prospective attendees were now required to input a registration number before joining the queue, whereas previously this was only necessary once tickets had been secured. Attempting to enter the same number across multiple devices or browsers will prove fruitless — each person is allocated just a single place in the queue.
Queue experience and line-up speculation
When hopefuls entered their registration number, they were presented with a progress bar indicating how far they were from the front of the queue. Many reported the bar advancing to two bars before grinding to a halt, while others were considerably more fortunate, reports the Mirror.
As yet, no acts have been officially confirmed for the festival, however given its reputation for attracting the world's biggest bands, singers and performers, attendees can rest assured they'll be treated to a spectacular show. Festival chief Emily Eavis has confirmed that all three headline acts for next year have already been secured, though she has kept their identities firmly under wraps.
Harry Styles is currently the bookmakers' top pick, according to the Manchester Evening News. Oasis, who are embarking on a second reunion tour next year, have been ruled out, as has Madonna.
Successful ticket holder shares her method
One woman who successfully secured tickets on Thursday shared exactly how she managed it. Posting a video on TikTok, Jade Chelsea said: "I am a Glastonbury ticket holder. I can't even believe I'm saying that. I thought I would just give a quick rundown of what we did, because I was asking for tips and tricks the other day. Somehow I have tickets today, I can't believe it."
Explaining that she and her sister had managed to secure coach tickets departing from Cardiff on the Thursday morning, she said: "There was two of us doing it - me and my sister. I used my phone, she used her phone. My phone was on my house WiFi with, obviously, my registration number to get me through. Her phone was on 5G with her registration number to get her through."
"And I entered the waiting room type thing, you know, where it's got, a little countdown timer before you reach the green bar at about 5.20, and I wanna say she entered it at about half past. So there was about 10 minutes between us entering that little waiting space. And when we then got into it, my bar pretty much continuously moved throughout the whole time. She went to two bars and never moved."
"So after, literally after, like, I think it was two minutes past six, hers was at two bars and didn't move at all, even once. I checked out and I got our tickets, hers didn't move at all. I think I got in about, I want to say about 17 minutes past six. I was losing faith a little bit as the time was going on, but I got into it. My screen didn't crash, obviously. I went straight to looking at just Thursday tickets."
She added that she had her registration numbers, postcodes and bank details all written down on a piece of paper beside her, and that she double, triple and quadruple checked everything, knowing that entering anything incorrectly would throw her straight back out.
Concluding, she said: "I think it must have been about 10 minutes later, I was looking on social media and it said then it sold out. But I used one phone and one device only with my registration. I didn't use extra devices, was just mine."
"I want to say it's pot luck, but it might help you. Good luck for Sunday's ticket sales."
Sadly, it's now too late for anyone who hasn't managed to snag tickets.
