Digital Stores See Unprecedented Demand For Spandau, Prodigy Tickets From Bands’ Online Stores

· Tickets For Prodigy Show Sell Out Within 5 Minutes

· Spandau Ballet Tour Tickets Fly Out

10am Thursday 26th March: – Digital Stores, one of the UK’s leading direct-to-consumer online retail service providers, yesterday saw unprecedented demand for concert tickets for The Prodigy and Spandau Ballet on the official online stores they run for both bands.

Tickets for The Prodigy’s concert at Brixton, the first London show since the release of their number one new album ‘Invaders Must Die’, went on sale exclusively at 10:00am yesterday via their official website and the band’s allocation sold out within FIVE minutes. The tickets go on general sale at 10am this morning.

Meanwhile tickets for the reformed Spandau Ballet’s first tour in twenty years went on sale on their official online store at 2.30pm, where they are exclusively available for 24 hours. The London ticket allocation sold out almost immediately and by the end of the day they had sold many, many thousands of tickets for a variety of dates via the band’s official website. The London allocation has since been increased and is expected to sell out this morning.

Said Simon Coates, Product Director at Digital Stores, “We sold out of our initial allocation for Spandau Ballet’s O2 show almost straight away. The response has been phenomenal, although we knew the world would be blown away by the band getting back together.

“We’ve been secretly planning this comeback with the band for months behind closed doors, and all the good work is paying off.”

As more and more bands look to connect directly with fans and sell tickets, music and merchandise through their own websites, Digital Stores are finding their services increasingly in demand. In addition to The Prodigy and Spandau Ballet, Digital Stores provide official online stores for the likes of The Beatles, Queen and Oasis.

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About Digital Stores:

Digital Stores, are one of the UK’s leading direct-to-consumer online retail service providers. The company provide entertainment brands with complete end-to-end e-commerce, live-event ticketing, interactive marketing, data collection and fulfillment services.

Digital Stores’ state of the art e-commerce system allows fans to purchase a wide variety of products from their clients’ stores in one single transaction, including: tickets, digital downloads, merchandise, CDs, DVDs, and toys and games. Digital Stores’ clients include The Beatles, Queen, Oasis, Cartoon Network and ITV.