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LAS VEGAS, October 24, 2009--Tickets for the first five weekends of Garth Brooks concerts at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas have sold out.Tickets for his 20 confirmed concert performances went on sale on Saturday, October 24 at 8 a.m. and were completely sold by 1 p.m.
The Wynn Las Vegas Web sites and phones were inundated with traffic for concert tickets this morning. The resort phone lines were able to accommodate 141,934 calls before the system reached maximum capacity and callers received a busy signal. Over the course of the morning, the Web site received more than 5.4 million page views with up to 40,000 people waiting in an online queue at any given time. Every effort was made to ensure the systems were operating at peak and processes will be examined to ensure improved performance when future concerts are placed on sale.
In Garth Brooks’ other life, the one he lived announcing his retirement in 2000, one of the albums he put out that helped him surpass Elvis Presley as the biggest-selling solo performer in pop music history was titled “Ropin’ the Wind.” That describes pretty well the experience of anyone — and there were many -- who tried to lasso him back into public performance during the last eight years. Until, that is, billionaire Steve Wynn announced Thursday that he had talked Brooks into coming to Las Vegas for what’s envisioned as a series of intimate, solo acoustic performances that will begin Dec. 11 at Wynn’s 1,500-seat Encore Theater.
Family guy and country superstar Garth Brooks will launch a five-year residency of weekend-only shows in the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas.