Expert reveals how to increase Glastonbury ticket chances against 6,000,000 devices

After the Eras Tour, Oasis, and more, euphony fans person spent endless hours queuing successful an effort to get gig tickets — present it’s Glastonbury’s turn.

The 2025 festival has not announced immoderate headliners yet but speculation is successful afloat plaything with immense names similar Olivia Rodrigo and Green Day successful the running.

This year, Glastonbury organisers announced a large alteration to the mode their summons strategy works successful hopes of making things easier.

Rather than desperately refreshing the leafage trying to get through, fans volition find themselves successful a acquainted queue, having been randomly assigned a position.

However, according to LG gram, determination could beryllium up to 6,000,000 devices vying for tickets with galore of america utilizing our phones, tablets, and computers to summation the odds.

The probe suggests 750,000 of america mightiness person adjacent telephone successful sick from enactment to effort and guarantee we’re location for Thursday’s manager merchantability kick-off.

Tickets for the historical festival went connected merchantability connected Thursday, November 14, astatine 6pm for coaches past the wide merchantability opens connected Sunday, November 17 astatine 9am.

Last twelvemonth astir 2.5million radical tried to get Glastonbury tickets — that’s the estimated colonisation of Greater Manchester each scrambling connected the website.

With lone 135,000 tickets up for grabs, present are an expert’s apical tips connected however to summation your chances of heading to Worthy Farm.

Be up of time

Nick Drewe, co-founder of discount level Wethrift, has shared his apical tips for securing tickets for Glastonbury 2025.

According to him, the ‘most important step’ is to beryllium online and acceptable to spell earlier the merchantability adjacent opens.

‘Log successful early,’ Nick said. ‘Aim to beryllium online and acceptable up astatine slightest 15 minutes earlier the authoritative merchantability time.

‘Although this caller strategy whitethorn look much orderly, it’s inactive indispensable to beryllium punctual. Being online earlier the tickets spell unrecorded gives you a amended accidental of being assigned a bully spot successful the virtual queue.’

If you’re not the astir Type-A person, mounting up aggregate alarms to punctual you to log connected is an casual mode to support connected track.

Nick added: ‘It sounds simple, but this measurement often gets overlooked. Use some your telephone and machine alarms to marque definite you’re not rushing past minute.’

Optimise your net connection

Dodgy net connections are the force of a summons queue arsenic 1 cut-out could spot you kicked retired of your purchase.

Nick said: ‘If possible, usage a wired transportation alternatively than Wi-Fi for added stability. Any lag oregon cut-outs during the summons acquisition process could mean the quality betwixt occurrence and disappointment.’

While you’re attempting to get tickets, helium advises asking anyone other successful the location to clasp disconnected streaming oregon immoderate different net activity.

‘The less devices competing for bandwidth, the smoother your acquisition volition be,’ helium explained.

Consider uncovering a quiescent spot with much reliable transportation if you’re incapable to usage a wired transportation astatine home.

Sunday is apt to beryllium a engaged Wi-Fi clip truthful caput to your bureau if you can, Nick said: ‘If you enactment successful an bureau oregon co-working abstraction with fantabulous net connectivity, see queuing for tickets there, arsenic determination volition beryllium less radical utilizing the web connected that day.’

Prepare aggregate devices

Multiple devices are some a assistance and a hindrance to fans attempting to get tickets, doubling some the queue and your chances.

Nick shared: ‘Having aggregate devices connected your broadside tin beryllium a crippled changer. It’s overmuch much efficient, arsenic you fundamentally person aggregate chances of getting through.’

However, helium has a informing astir utilizing aggregate tabs arsenic sellers proceed to ace down connected scalpers and bots trawling for tickets to flog for higher prices.

‘Only usage 1 browser per instrumentality astatine a time,’ helium warned. ‘Using aggregate could emblem you for antithetic enactment and effect successful losing your spot altogether.’

Form a radical of six

Unlike immoderate bigger gig income which person been constricted to four, Glastonbury volition let you to bargain six tickets per transaction.

Nick advises ‘coordinating’ with your friends to amended your chances, having each your details acceptable to spell for whoever gets to the beforehand first.

‘The astir convenient mode to negociate this is with a shared spreadsheet,’ helium shared. ‘The details required for a summons are your afloat name, postcode, and registration number, which are sent to each applicants via email.

‘Assign 1 idiosyncratic arsenic the designated purchaser. When a subordinate of the radical reaches the front, they tin bargain tickets for everyone, avoiding delays caused by last-minute scrambling.

‘Also, marque definite the designated purchaser has each the funds readily disposable successful their account.’

Alternatively, each six of you could queue with entree to the spreadsheet — that could beryllium 12 queue slots if you’re each connected 2 devices, which aren’t atrocious odds.

Luckily, Glastonbury only requires a £75 deposit astatine the clip of purchase, with the remainder of the £373.50 each owed successful April.

However, if you’re aiming for Coach packages, these necessitate afloat outgo upfront truthful you request to beryllium prepared to cough up a ample sum successful 1 go.

Avoid browser refreshing

Seasoned Glastonbury summons hopefuls volition beryllium precise utilized to frantically refreshing the leafage successful a hopeless effort to interruption done to purchase.

However, this twelvemonth refreshing your leafage is simply a immense mistake arsenic it mightiness propulsion you further backmost successful the queue.

‘With the queue-based system, refreshing tin really propulsion you further back, truthful you’ll request to beryllium patient,’ Nick explained.

‘As hard arsenic it whitethorn be, spot that your spot successful the queue is unafraid erstwhile you’ve got it.’

Often fans volition instrumentality to societal media and assertion that they refreshed the leafage and jumped forward, don’t autumn for it!

Be acceptable with outgo details

Once you’ve made it done the queue each the mode to the end, outgo is the last hurdle lasting betwixt you and Worthy Farm.

You truly don’t privation to beryllium frantically searching for your paper portion the checkout timer ticks distant truthful marque definite your outgo accusation is readily available.

If you’re purchasing connected a idiosyncratic device, marque definite you prevention your outgo accusation into immoderate autofill enactment beforehand arsenic this could prevention you precious seconds.

‘If you’re relying connected manual entry, marque definite you cognize your details by bosom oregon person them written down,’ Nick said.

‘Delays successful outgo could origin your transaction to clip out.’

May the likelihood beryllium ever successful your favour.

Tickets for Glastonbury wide merchantability opens connected Sunday, November 17 astatine 9am.

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