Drake’s eighth annual OVO Fest was announced on Tuesday (June 28) along with its lineup, which includes OVO Sound artists PARTYNEXTDOOR, dvsn, Roy Woods and Majid Jordan. Drake, of course, will headline the Toronto, Canada show.
Naturally, fans flocked to Livenation and Ticketmaster’s websites to cop tickets early Thursday (June 29) the moment they went on sale. The problem — the August 7 event sold out in a matter of minutes. Many people blamed ticket bots: internet robots tasked to buy a large amount of tickets at one time so they can be resold at a higher price on sites like StubHub.
As of this week, the provincial government of Ontario, Canada implemented new ticketing guidelines, making ticket bots illegal and capping resale ticket prices at 50 percent above face value. It’s unclear how the rules will actually be enforced.
For now, Drake fans are taking to Twitter to express their frustration that they could miss yet another OVO Fest despite the 16,000 to 20,000 capacity of the Budweiser Stage where the concert is being held.
See some of the best reactions below.
Surprised it took up to a minute
Your losses. A true Drake fan doesn’t wait until they feel like buying an OVO Fest ticket. They buy it the second it’s announced. And there are millions of Drake fans in the world wanting to see the best festival man has to offer, so yeah, they will sell very quickly. *old fisherman voice* Gotta be quicker than that. Real ting, ya know? #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife
You can’t buy tickets before they actually go on sale numbnuts. They can announce it whenever, but ticketmaster doesn’t actually start selling the tickets until a certain date/time.
Dude you know ever time you comment you look like the biggest douche asshole piece of shiit ever? I can see why everyone fucking hates you on this site.
Still mad drake ethered both feminem and kendoll lamer in sales?
Damn sold more than more life in the 1st week ?
Ticketmaster will never get rid of its bots. It makes up for the large majority of their ticket sales.
The Budweiser Stage capacity could be increased to up to a milli and it still won’t be enough lol
Wanted to grab extra tickets for profit but oh well
When did they change the name of the Molson Amphitheater to Budweiser stage? Drake needs to host this on that air old military base Downsview park they held that free Rolling Stones show at foe SARSStock. It held like 500 000 people.
That concert going to be half women and half gay men.
Lmao facts!
The new Public Enemy album sounds dope. I recommend it.
I ain’t into artists pushin 60. I prefer the ones pushin 50, go get that MC Eiht album!
This ain’t news. It’s just like reporting Morgan Freeman is black or Kdot a midget.
LOL
Get a real life people*I can’t go see my idol Frake spelled correctly*boo hoo*people disgust me*our priorities in this country are fucked up*
Agreed its exactly why the average american doesnt even have $5,000 in there bank account because all they want to do is piss there money away before they make it and not spend any time making money i used to spend 80+ hrs a week while my companies were on there ways up and while doing it i remember my best year bringing me $375,000 now with a few extra companies and smarter choices i only work 20-30 hrs a week now and still bring in $250K+ a year average i havent had a year where i made less than $125K in 10 years and during all those years i couldnt have SHIT for a life couldnt do anything but work and think about work and money now im still not even 30 yet and only work part time and get to do what i want for the most part and all my employees are fine with it cause more money for them if im not around lol people need to learn what sacrifices are and that lifes not just about being entertained and tickled happy constantly
They’re all mad cause Drake has the biggest bulge!