Beyoncé ticket rush expected as pre-sale begins for UK tour dates

Beyoncé fans are bracing themselves for the unreserved to get tickets for her archetypal solo circuit for 7 years, arsenic the archetypal pre-sale opens for her UK dates.

O2 customers are the archetypal to person entree from 10:00 GMT, followed by further pre-sales connected Friday and Monday.

Tickets for the popular superstar's 5 UK stadium shows successful Cardiff, Edinburgh, Sunderland and London volition past spell connected wide merchantability connected Tuesday.

They are portion of a 43-date satellite circuit successful enactment of her Renaissance album.

The shows volition footwear disconnected successful Sweden connected 10 May, earlier landing astatine Cardiff's Principality Stadium a week later.

She volition past sojourn Edinburgh's Murrayfield connected 20 May, Sunderland's Stadium of Light connected 23 May and London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium connected 29 and 30 May.

In North America, fans are being asked to registry for Ticketmaster's Verified Fan process - which the institution says volition filter retired touts - earlier summons pre-sales unfastened connected Monday.

Those who person registered volition beryllium entered into a "lottery-style process" if request outstrips the fig of disposable tickets.

Politicians successful the US, who are already investigating Ticketmaster implicit the fumbled merchantability of Taylor Swift's Eras tour, volition beryllium keeping an eagle oculus connected however the systems header with Beyoncé's concerts.

She was reportedly paid $24m (£19.4m) for the one-off show, but faced disapproval for performing successful a state wherever homosexuality and sex reassignment are outlawed.

Critics said that contradicted the connection of her latest album, which explicitly celebrates achromatic and queer creation culture.

Beyoncé conceived the Renaissance medium arsenic "a spot to imagination and to find escape" during the pandemic, layering her songs with aggregate samples and references to nine music, from Nile Rodgers' Studio 54 disco grooves and Grace Jones' imperious soul, to less-celebrated movements similar bounce and dancehall.

Exclaim mag called it "the dependable of a once-in-a-generation superstar performing astatine her peak", portion the Guardian described it arsenic "a breath-taking, maximalist circuit de force".

Unusually, Beyoncé has avoided making euphony videos for the album, meaning the Renaissance circuit volition beryllium fans' archetypal accidental to spot her ocular mentation of tracks similar Break My Soul, Alien Superstar and Cuff It.

The erstwhile Destiny's Child prima whitethorn uncover further details astatine this weekend's Grammys, wherever she is up for 9 awards, including medium of the year.

The vocalist antecedently hinted astatine plans for a satellite circuit successful October, erstwhile she raffled tickets to a amusement during the 5th yearly Wearable Art Gala.

Images shared from the auction suggested the "unique" prize, valued astatine $20,000 (£16,200), included first-class level tickets, a three-night edifice stay, 2 performance tickets and a guided backstage circuit from Beyoncé's mother.