tigermilk

There is a magic secret I discovered with Livenation. ;)

That was easy Floor 12 Row K, $124 each ouch!

They actually only sold about 4,000 tickets for each day from 13,000. The rest have been allocated to various media and venue.

But Samsung AT&T are essentially dropping a huge chunk of cash to sponsor the event, which benefits the Grammy Foundation. Like you said, it is a great program. I know a few people who wouldn't have taken degrees in music production and engineering without the Grammy Foundation. Sound Engineers are the unsung heroes of the music industry.

The ticket prices are high and I agree with you on that. However, it is a benefit event for the Grammy's (or NARAS) more than a Coldplay concert. Coldplay probably had no input on prices and left to the NARAS organization to determine prices. The money from tickets is going to NARAS, which does some excellent work on supporting musicians, producers and engineers. Also, making it easier for people to enter college and get degrees. Without that kind of support it would be harder for music to be made.

Most of the tickets are $150, even section 8,9 and 10

Wouldn't have mattered because Ticketmaster.com page didn't open at exactly 10am. Unlike the Ticketmaster.ca page which did.

Well I managed two Pit tickets for a friend of mine. Guess they owe me big time because my third browser yielded 'no tickets available'.

The location has nothing to do with the ticket prices. It is getting all those popular artists to play that costs so much. I know the BEP, John Mayer, Alica Keys etc aren't playing for free! I would caution against anyone who is thinking of blowing hundreds of bucks they don't have to see this show. The sets will be radio friendly i.e. short-probably 20-30 minutes. The shows will probably be broadcast live. The $45 seats have obstructed view. I would say looking at the seat map, you have virtually no view except for screens.

I think part of the problem is that this gig is exclusively private, but then the resort putting on the show is saying 'well you can watch it outside on a big screen'. So there is a public teasing, but also a firm you can't get in. Plebs can stand outside and watch a screen, but the elite can see it up close and personal. I think that is the only questionable element for many, because Coldplay have played lots of private corporate gigs-I saw Chris Martin play 5 songs at one. For the most part most of us never hear about these things, but they are an essential part of a artists life-they have to please record companies, sponsors, radio/tv. It is part of the corporate culture. EMI is owned by Terra Firma Capital and many of EMI's artists play private gigs for Terra Firma.

There are not any tickets. It is a guest list, so no chance of seeing tickets on ebay or craigslist. It is an invite event-if your name isn't on the list then you aren't getting in. And booking a room will not get you in-the Cosmopolitan was already sold out because it is fully booked for the corporate event. So don't get sucked in to a ticket-scam folks.

End of day, most bands play corporate gigs and this is not Coldplays first. Usually you never hear about it. It is a way, to secure extra income for a few hours work. Let me assure you as someone who has been to several of these corporate gigs, they are pretty dull affairs where mostly everyone sits and politely claps. You aren't missing much. If you could attend, you will stood with 30-something bankers and high rollers you will be more concerned with checking their blackberries and iphones. BTW For those slagging off playing Vegas, it is pretty lame. Some of us live here and have normal lives, in a varied multi-cultural city with some of the most diverse natural landscape anywhere in the world. It is not all about the Strip! Those early comments were pretty ignorant and prejudiced. Besides every time Chris has played Vegas, he always like to joke that in 10 years he will be headline at the local cabaret and hopes we will still come along.

There were tickets in the first few rows...they have gone now! They were returns from promoters/band/radio etc

There are rows 5-10 just dropped on ticketmaster right now.

New tickets in the 100's have dropped on Ticketmaster