I’m so excited this morning! Today is finally the day when the online public sale of admission tickets for Sammi Cheng’s concert on this coming July at Hong Kong Coliseum starts. The aim to watch her concert in Hong Kong is already fixed in my mind ever since she announced late last year that she will be holding her 11th solo concert tour in July 2023.
Her tour this time is called ‘You & Mi Sammi Cheng World Tour’ and will begin in Hong Kong with 13 shows (originally planned to have only 8 dates but 5 more shows were added later on due to overwhelming response in the priority sale for specific bank card holders earlier). The tickets are priced at HKD1080, HKD680 and HKD380. Although I have been her fans for over 2 decades and I have watched three of her past concerts at Genting Highlands before (last one being in 2015), but I have never actually watch her performing at her home turf in the famous Hong Kong Coliseum (or commonly known as Red Hall).
The online public sale today commenced at 10am. I was working but I was already standby with the ticketing website on my office desktop once I reached my office couple of minutes after 9am. However, as soon as the clock reaches 9.57am, one of my superiors called me for a quick discussion. Haiya….Once that was over by 10.01am, I immediately get back to my work station and clicked on the purchasing page. I was already in a queue with over 80 000 people ahead of me. I was only late for like 2 minutes. What the heck!!! At that moment, I felt so defeated. With only 64 000 tickets available to purchase out of her 13 shows (with a huge portion already reserved for organizers earlier), it would be impossible for me to get any with that many person ahead of me (and one person can buy a maximum of 4 tickets). There was also some technical glitches with the website (very much expected due to extremely high traffic to the website) this morning that made me felt worst.
Luckily, I did ask my eldest sister to help to buy this morning too since she will be going with me for the concert along with my second sister and her partner. She came prepared with two phones, one laptop and one iPad to try to snap the fast-selling tickets. And yup…she managed to purchase 4 tickets priced at HKD680 each for the show on 18th July (Tuesday). She immediately told me the good news and I’m so delighted! Can’t thank her enough! Once I got into the purchasing page some 10 minutes later, all the shows were already sold-out with no option to purchase seat with any prices on any dates. The website then made an official statement an hour or two later that all the shows are sold out. My sister was so lucky. By the way, we will only be able to collect the physical tickets once we arrive at Hong Kong close to the date of the show that we purchased.
And yup..I will be going to watch her HK concert and it’s now confirmed that my next travel destination will be Hong Kong on this coming July, exactly two months from now. Haha…Perhaps I will include one day trip to the neighbouring Macau as well since I have not been there before (I have been to Hong Kong once back in 2006). I have just returned from my solo trip to Dubai two days ago (and had already been to Australia and Japan early this year) and now I have to start planning for another one. My life is mostly about travelling this year, I guess…Haha…it is undeniable that travel is great! I hope more and more good news like this one today will come rolling to me for the rest of the year.
Like what I mentioned earlier, this will be my first time seeing my idol performing at the four-sided central stage in the Hong Kong Coliseum. Can’t wait for it. With this 13 shows planned, this would push her total number of shows held in Hong Kong Coliseum to 115. She is already the third female artist with most number of shows in that famous venue, only behind Paula Tsui and the late Anita Mui. With 115, she will also join the list of top 10 artists with most number of shows in Hong Kong Coliseum. What an achievement! Also let’s not forget she had won 4 best actress honors from her critically acclaimed performance in the film ‘Lost Love’ early this year including from the prestigious Hong Kong Film Awards.
She recently released a new song with spectacular MV that involved over 100 dancers and was shot in Taiwan last year. The song is very catchy and I quite like it. It also features a new young artist, Jeffrey Ngai who is an actor, model and singer that does the rap part/English part of the song. You can have a listen to the song below from YouTube:
It has become a very common occurrence nowadays that concert tickets in Asia were all snapped up very quickly for any popular singers recently. Earlier, I was informed of news that Jacky Cheung’s shows planned at Singapore had been extended to 9 dates and all were sold out immediately. Same to Aaron Kwok’s coming 3 shows at Singapore as well. Then, Eason’s shows at KL last weekend were also sold-out quickly according to one of my friends who did attend his concert. And then, news came out yesterday that Coldplay concert at Malaysia in this coming November sold out immediately too once the tickets are released. Everyone suddenly have huge interest on watching concerts and the singers are making big bucks!
(Images in this post are from various online sources)