Harry Styles spotting deals in Amsterdam, fans ‘desperately looking for tickets’
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Harry Styles tonight in a sold-out Ziggo Dome. The 28-year-old Briton is one of the genesis of the moment. His future fans have been waiting in Amsterdam in cases ever since they entered. The concert started a little after 9 pm.
The fact that the singer is popular in our country is also apparent from the many people who were looking for tickets earlier today. Almost 30,000 people searched for tickets on the ticket exchange website Ticketswap, and they also asked for tickets on Twitter and at the Ziggo Dome itself. Fans, however, seemed to have little sympathy for giving up their tickets. About 3000 tickets were offered and sold on Ticketswap until the concert.
“I think we could have filled the Arena with all the fans who go to this concert and want to go,” refers Ziggo director Danny Damman to the stadium opposite his concert hall. About 15,000 people could attend the concert in his hall, and about 70,000 fans are admitted to sold-out concerts in the Johan Cruijff Arena.
“Today we had to scale up our inquiry-handling department,” said the director. “The majority of the questions were, ‘Are there still tickets available?’ But it’s really sold out.” There was room in the Ziggo Dome to also schedule a concert by the singer tomorrow. Damman: “We could have had four sold-out concerts by him in the Ziggo Dome. But that is not allowed in Styles’ full tour schedule.”
‘Looking possessed’
People were also looking for tickets on Twitter in the hours before the concert. So wrote a mother: “My teenager is desperately looking for tix for Harry Styles (Ziggo tonight). Just like a million others, I’m afraid. No chance?” and foreign fans who are in the Netherlands are still hoping for a ticket. A fan from Los Angeles who leaves her whole Twitter account to the singer, writing that she is “desperate and that only scammers seem to be selling tickets”. She went to the Ziggo Dome in the hope of being able to authorize a ticket.
The vast majority say longer of the fans is female director Damman, who has been away since noon. “It’s a concert with mostly fixed seats, so actually they don’t have to be here that early. But they want to extend their experience.”
“They had to wait more than two years for this, because the concert was postponed due to corona. And they also join new friends in the line as they join other groups.” He speaks of a King’s Day-like atmosphere combined with Amsterdam Fashion Week. “I have often seen people dressed so nicely to the Ziggo Dome.”
This can partly be explained by the singer’s own clothing style. He often wears lavish and designer clothes.
Styles became world famous as the lead singer of the boy group One Direction. The group members meet at the UK version of the talent show The X Factor and especially with a young audience a lot of success. After the band announced a break in 2015 and group member Zayn Malik resigned, the members continued as solo artists.
While all members have had and have success to a lesser extent, Styles is by far the best of them. are single Like it was broke the record for most-streamed song in one day ever (8.3 million) in the United States in April and became one of the most played songs in one day worldwide. The video clip has been viewed more than 200 million times on YouTube.
Still standing Like it was high on the international charts. In the Dutch top 40, the song has been at number 1 almost continuously for twelve weeks The depth of S10 knocked him off the top position for a week at the end of May. Styles previously had success with, among other things, Watermelon Sugar from 2019. He won a Grammy Award and the song has been listened to over 1.8 billion times on Spotify to date.
In addition to his career as an artist, the Briton is also an actor. He made official debut in the war drama Dunkirk from 2017. This year two films will be released in which he plays leading roles.