Coldplay, scheduled to play in India as part of their “Music of the Spheres” World Tour in January 2025, has announced a fourth concert in the country, following “incredible fan demand”.

The British band had earlier announced three concerts at the DY Patil Sports Stadium in Mumbai, on January 18, 19 and 21. The fourth concert will be held on January 25 at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, and tickets for the same will go on sale from November 16 noon on BookMyShow, the official ticketing partner.

Sharing the update on social media on Wednesday morning, the band wrote: “2025 AHMEDABAD DATE ANNOUNCED for Coldplay: The band will play their biggest ever show, at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on 25 January, 2025. Tickets on sale Saturday, 16 November at 12pm IST.”

The ticket booking process will have a virtual queue with a randomised system. The platform has a ticketbooking guide.

“Early entry in the waiting room does not give priority access to the queue. Once the sales begin at 12pm IST, each user will be assigned a position in the queue through an automated queue randomisation,” BookMyShow said in a statement on Wednesday.

The announcement comes as a second chance for concert-goers who were left disappointed when they failed to procure tickets for the Mumbai concerts, following a fiasco over the sale of ticketsin September.

Minutes after the tickets for the first two concerts had gone live on BookMyShow on September 19, the portal crashed. A third date was added to the list but with the same result.

This was followed by an uproar on social media accusing third-party platforms of selling tickets at several times the original prices. Ticket scalpers like Viagogo listed the tickets at a price 20 times higher than BookMyShow.

Some individuals too claimed to have tickets and offered to resale them at phenomenally high prices. With the announcement by these websites, BookMyShow received severe backlash, for an alleged ticket scam.

Following the backlash, the cyber wing of Maharashtra police issued a notice to BookMyShow, asking the platform to implement strict measures, including the sale of name-based tickets for the concerts. A PIL was filed in Bombay High Court seeking ways to curb ticket scalping and black marketing at such big-scale events.

“In addition to the FIR filed by BookMyShow on the black marketing and scalping of tickets for recent high-demand live entertainment experiences, we have also provided all requisite information and details to law enforcement agencies in their investigations and will continue to proactively fight against scalping and black marketing of tickets — practices that are condemned and punishable by law in India,” BookMyShow had said in a statement.

“To those who got tickets, congratulations! For those who missed out, we understand your disappointment and are committed to bringing memorable entertainment experiences your way,” a BookMyShow spokesperson had shared with The Telegraph.

The fourth concert date thus comes as a boon for thousands of Coldplay fans in India, who had earlier missed out on a chance to lay their hands on tickets for the concerts.