Billie Eilish Faces Main Fan Backlash Over Excessive Ticket Costs

Billie Eilish is reportedly struggling to promote out her six-night residency at London’s O2 enviornment because of excessive ticket costs, with followers expressing frustration over the prices.

Regardless of the singer’s success along with her new album, quite a few seats stay out there, contrasting along with her sold-out 2019 tour. Eilish’s UK tour begins in July 2025.

Billie Eilish’s wrestle to promote out the O2 enviornment comes after she criticized prolonged performances and continues her environmental advocacy along with her mother’s non-profit, Help + Feed.

Eilish is seemingly discovering it troublesome to fill the seats at her six-night residency at London’s O2 enviornment, with many followers attributing the low gross sales to excessive ticket costs.

In Might, the singer introduced that tickets have been out there for her 2025 “Hit Me Exhausting and Mushy” tour, which incorporates six reveals on the 20,000-seat venue.

Nevertheless, regardless of the success of her newest album within the UK and US charts, ticket gross sales have lagged. Quite a few seats are nonetheless up for grabs on the AXS web site, the O2’s official ticket accomplice.

In keeping with the Every day Mail, standing tickets begin at £145 [$187], whereas lower-tier seats are priced at a staggering £388 [$505] every, irritating her fan base.

One annoyed fan took to X [formerly Twitter] to specific their anger in a tweet that has gone viral.

They wrote, “I am glad Billie Eilish cannot promote out and even marginally fill any of her three dates on the O2 enviornment as a result of the one approach we are going to get cheaper ticket costs is by not shopping for vastly overpriced tickets. £234 being the most cost effective ticket is ridiculous.”

The viral tweet about Eilish’s low ticket gross sales prompted a flood of reactions from different followers of the singer.

One disheartened fan wrote, “It is disgusting truly I’d like to see Billie however these tickets costs stopped me in my tracks!!! Would not really feel like that way back I paid £25 to see Gaga on the O2, what the hell has occurred.”

“Completely ridiculous. Artists want to understand you are not going to promote out arenas within the UK charging the sort of costs they cost within the US. Her tickets ought to be a max of £90,” one other particular person stated.

A 3rd particular person known as the scenario “mad,” writing, “I simply do not get the place they’re getting these costs from anymore. Slipknot have been charging £90 for standing… I’ve by no means paid greater than £65 for a ticket on the o2.”

One other fan fumed, “When did these artists go from ‘I am nothing with out my followers’ to performing like ‘my followers are nothing with out me’? It’s important to be on an entire different degree of vanity to suppose you are price that a lot of somebody’s hard-earned cash.”

The backlash over excessive ticket costs and poor gross sales is a stark distinction to Eilish’s 2019 “The place Do We Go?” Tour, the place overwhelming demand pressured organizers so as to add two additional reveals in London.

Eilish is about to start her UK tour in July 2025, with two reveals in Glasgow, six in London, and 4 in Manchester.

Earlier this yr, the 22-year-old singer made an announcement about prolonged performances whereas speaking about her reveals.

“I am not doing a three-hour present, that is actually psychotic,” Eilish stated, per Web page Six. “No person needs that. You guys don’t need that. I do not need that. I do not even need that as a fan. My favourite artist on this planet, I am not making an attempt to listen to them for 3 hours. That is far too lengthy.”

Many perceived the remark as a jab at pop star Taylor Swift, who’s at present on her “Eras Tour” and normally performs for prolonged hours.

Eilish’s comment additionally got here after she obtained heavy criticism concerning her feedback in a Billboard interview about artists being wasteful by releasing a number of variations of an album.

Once more, some followers felt the 22-year-old singer was throwing a jab at Swift, prompting her to launch an announcement clarifying her feedback.

Throughout an look on the BBC podcast “Miss Me?” Eilish opened up in regards to the challenges of preserving buddies in her life after seeing fame at a younger age. Labeling the expertise as a “actually laborious” one, she disclosed that she misplaced all her buddies as she “could not relate to anybody.”

Eilish first gained notoriety in 2015 along with her debut single, “Ocean Eyes,” and has since gone on to be among the many largest names within the music business, successful 9 Grammy Awards and two Oscar awards, amongst others.

“Effectively, I misplaced all of my buddies once I bought well-known,” she informed hosts Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver, per the Every day Mail. “I all of a sudden was well-known, and I could not relate to anyone. It was powerful. It was actually laborious.”

The “Unhealthy Man” crooner has seemingly managed to keep up contact along with her finest good friend, Zoe, and her staff, who’re additionally buddies.

Eilish has now seen success in preserving pleasant connections.

“Precisely a yr in the past, I reconnected with a bunch of previous buddies, and now, I’ve so many buddies,” she shared. “I  have a crew now! I might actually cry about it. It has been the best factor that is occurred to me.”

She revealed that she was moved to tears when she lately went with them to a celebration at Coachella.

“I used to be like, ‘Guys, I’ve buddies and I simply love you guys a lot, and it has been so lengthy since I’ve had buddies.’ I cried… and it is actually as a result of I even have friendship now once more,” she stated, per BBC.