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Paul McCartney Concert Sells Out In Seven Seconds

Tickets are snapped up by US fans...

  • by Jason Gregory
  • Wednesday, March 11, 2009
  • Photo by: WENN.com
  • filed in: Pop
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Tickets for a forthcoming gig by Sir Paul McCartney in Las Vegas have sold out in seven seconds.

American fans rushed for the chance to see the former Beatle perform a one off show at the Hard Rock Hotel Casino on April 16th.

Promoters' said the 4,000 tickets sold out at a rate of 600 per second.

A spokeswoman for the Guinness Book of Records told The Telegraph newspaper that they didn't have a category for the rate of ticket sales for a single concert.

The record for the fastest selling tour of all time his held by Take That, who sold 600,000 tickets for their upcoming Circus dates in just four and a half hours.

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  • How is this physically possible?!

    ~ by Murphy 3/11/2009

    Reply to this comment View 1 Reply

    • Online ticket sales. Thats how.

      ~ by beatlesk 4/25/2009


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