Glastonbury Festival's very own Emily Eavis responded to requests for the festival to have a ticketed ballot system. When the final batch of tickets was released in April for this year's festival, where the likes of Dua Lipa, Coldplay, Little Simz, Sza , Burna Boy, Disclosure, Avril Lavingne and Shania Twain will perform, it sold out in 20 minutes as dedicated fans waited on their devices to purchase it. A limited amount of ticket packages were sold out in 18 minutes just three days before.
The initial batch came out in November and many fans were left disappointed when they missed out on the chance to attend the festival. They even asked organisers to create a ticket ballot system to make things fairer for fans. Co-organiser Emily sat down with Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw for their Sidetracked podcast and said there was a 'discussion' about creating a new system.
When questioned whether she thought about doing a ballot, she said: "It’s been a discussion, actually. I think there are so many people on our database that are registered for tickets. And I think a lot of them don’t try as hard as [others].
"Half of them try really, really, really hard [to buy tickets] and half of them maybe try and then don’t – they’re not as bothered about coming. So I’m not saying..
. it’s hard to say the percentage exactly. And I think if we did a ballot, we’d end up with some people [getting tickets] who weren’t necessarily as bothered about coming.
" She added: "It’s really .
