Coldplay adds more show to Aussie A Head Full of Dreams tour dates after fans snap up tickets

YOU don’t expect stadium concerts to sell out in an hour but Coldplay fans wanted no time snapping up the decent seats to their December shows.

YOU don’t expect stadium concerts to sell out in an hour but Coldplay fans wasted no time snapping up the decent seats to their December shows.

The English supergroup have added an extra show at Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium on December 10 and Sydney’s Allianz Stadium on December 14.

Tickets for the second shows in each city go on sale from midday on Wednesday. Coldplay have always felt the love in Australia, playing to 207,530 fans over four concerts on the east coast during the Mylo Xyloto in 2012.

They will beat that figure on the A Head Full Of Dreams tour with five concerts now booked for the end of the year.

Chris Martin from Coldplay performs on stage at the BRIT Awards 2016 at The O2 Arena on February 24. Picture: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

The tour has also boosted their chart fortunes her with the record leaping 20 spots to land at No.14 this week fuelled by excitement about the tour. It has already achieved platinum sales and should eclipse that by the time the last piece of confetti falls on fans in December.

Frontman Chris Martin has hinted their seventh album could be an ending for this phase of their career.

Coldplay tickets are in-demand Down Under. Picture: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

But he reiterated taking time off from the stadiums and not touring off the back of their previous record Ghost Stories had reinvigorated the band’s love of playing the big shows for tens of thousands of fans.

“I am so comfortable right now with the idea of music being like food. If you are lucky in this life, you can choose what to eat and choose what to listen to,” frontman Chris Martin said.

“That made me stop worrying about what people who don’t listen to us.”

There will be at least 250,000 Australians who will agree with him this year.

Originally published as Coldplay adds more show to Aussie A Head Full of Dreams tour dates after fans snap up tickets