Over 150,000 Black Sabbath fans join queue for Villa Park tickets
The final tickets went on sale this morning
Last updated 14th Feb 2025
Over 150,000 fans joined the queue this morning to try and buy the remaining tickets for Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning concert at Villa Park this summer.
After pre-sales on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the final general sale tickets for Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s swansong concert went on sale at 10am today (14th February).
Fans were immediately placed in a queue on Ticketmaster, and many took to social media to share screenshots of their position, with one a massive 157,099th in the ticket scramble.
Villa Park only holds around 42,000 people, and that colossal queue figure is almost four times the stadium’s capacity. There were significantly less than 42,000 tickets available, however, due to the various pre-sales.
How much were Black Sabbath tickets?
By 10.16am, Ticketmaster changed the ticket availability to ‘Limited’, but incredibly the show isn’t officially listed as sold out yet.
Ticket prices for the Back to the Beginning concert started at £195 and rose to almost £2,932.50 for 'Ultimate Side of Stage Experience' tickets.
Joining Black Sabbath and Ozzy at the concert on Saturday 5th July are an array of rock legends, including thrash metal titans Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax.
Andrew White managed to get two tickets to the Black Sabbath show.
He will be travelling from Perth to get to the gig in Birmingham. Andrew said he is expecting to pay thousands of Australian dollars to attend the show:
"It is worth every penny. I genuinely do not think I would be where I am today without the band and that music. To salute Ozzy on his final concert is 100% the right thing to do," he said.
"Their music has stood the test of time"
The second ticket he managed to get will be for his brother. Andrew told us how his whole family love heavy metal music:
"I recently took my son to a Megadeth concert in Melbourne. It was a four-and-a-half-hour flight and he was nine-years-old.
"He went to a Black Sabbath concert too when he was 2-years-old and they came to Perth.
"Their music has stood the test of time, I think it is a great investment," he said.