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This year, 2015, is surely the Year of Adele. The 27-year-old British singer broke one record after the other in terms of album sales and hits on music charts.
Over the weekend, after the release of her U.S. tour schedule, Adele again broke records, this time by enticing 10 million people in the United States to buy tickets for her North America concerts. Because of the high demand for concert tickets, some of Ticketmaster North America's systems crashed, says Jared Smith, president of the company.
So far, Ticketmaster has sold 750,000 tickets without any systems problems, reports Music Feeds. Despite some crashes, Smith believes that Ticketmaster still delivered a good experience for many Adele fans.
According to Daily Mail, some of Adele's fans in the U.S. were stuck for 45 minutes or longer on ticketing websites but ended up frustrated when they found out that tickets for major cities of her 56-date tour were gone in minutes. The tour begins in St. Paul, Minnesota on July 5, 2016, and ends in Mexico City on Nov. 15.
One of the frustrated buyers is Maggie Sage Hunter who tweeted, "Hello from the ticket line. I've clicked refresh a thousand times."
For Adele, who took three year to make a comeback after giving birth to son Angelo, it could only mean "kaching" as the frustrated ticket buyers would likely have to contend buying her "25" album, which as "Hello" as its carrier, and add to the 5.2 million albums sold in the U.S. that also broke another record.
