Håkan Hellström’s upcoming concert at the Ullevi stadium in Gothenburg immediately sold out in the pre-sale, according to organisers.

Tickets to see the Swedish artist at the 70,000-capacity stadium on 6 June 2025 were snapped up two days before the general sale.

Promoters FKP Scorpio called the sell-out “historic” and reacted by adding a second date at Ullevi on the day after (7 June).

“A major concert sold out completely in advance… this has not happened with a Swedish artist before, as far as I know,” Joel Borg from Hellström’s record company Tro & Tvivel told Aftonbladet.

“When we noticed that the pressure was so colossal, we released more tickets so that more people could buy and later chose to release the extra concert.”

“A major concert sold out completely in advance… this has not happened with a Swedish artist before”

Borg says that fans can still purchase tickets for both concerts during the general sale on Friday (30 August), as the stage will be moved into the middle of the arena to free up extra seats.

“We are working on the arena layout now to get as many good tickets as we can,” continues Borg. “But we expect very high pressure then.”

Hellström previously made history at Ullevi in 2016 after setting a new attendance record of 70,144 people with his 5 June concert.

In the summer of 2020, he was scheduled to celebrate 20 years since his first album, Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg (Don’t Feel Sad For Me Gothenburg), with four concerts at Ullevi – all of which were cancelled due to Covid-19.

The 50-year-old’s latest album Poetic Attempts was released in 2023.

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Swedish pop icons Gyllene Tider are moving their last-ever domestic show to a larger venue, after selling more than 100,000 tickets for their upcoming farewell tour over the past three days.

Gyllene Tider (‘Golden Ages’), fronted by former Roxette singer Per Gessle, are one of the best-selling Swedish bands of all time. Their 40th-anniversary tour, GT40: Avskedsturnén (GT40: Farewell Tour), begins at the Brottet in Halmstad, Sweden, on 4 July, and is scheduled to wrap up at the Dampskipsbrygga in Fredrikstad, Norway, on 9 August.

Their final Swedish date, in Gothenburg on 3 August, was previously set for the 8,480-seat Slottsskogsvallen, but has been moved to the larger Ullevi stadium, which can hold up to 75,000 people for concerts, due to demand for tickets.

Tickets for the Ullevi show, promoted by Live Nation Sweden, are released tomorrow (Friday 8 February) at 9am via Livenation.se and Gotevent.se.

“We are stunned and overwhelmed by the interest in our summer concerts,” say the band in a statement, “so it is with pride that we, once again, realise we need to move our gig in the nation’s second-largest city to the majestic Ullevi. It is the third time this has happened to us and we, of course, hope for an even bigger party in the middle of Gothenburg and the middle of the Swedish summer.”

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Ticketmaster has renewed its partnership with the largest venue operator in Gothenburg, Got Event, for a further three years.

The agreement will see Live Nation-owned Ticketmaster, the world’s biggest ticket agency, provide ticketing for all Got Event venues, including Scandinavium (12,000-cap.), Ullevi (43,200-cap.), Lisebergshallen (3,500-cap.) and Bravida Arena (6,500-cap.), and its more than 400 annual events.

“It’s great to have the opportunity to continue our work with Ticketmaster”

“Got Event provides the magic of live entertainment to hundreds of thousands of fans every year,” says Kristian Seljeset, CEO of Ticketmaster Sweden. “We’re very proud to have not only renewed our partnership with Got Event but strengthened it with the addition of its sports club ticket sales.”

Lotta Nibell, CEO of Got Event, comments: “It’s great to have the opportunity to continue our work with Ticketmaster. As a business that runs over 400 events annually, it is of utmost importance to have a partner capable of managing all different kinds of ticket sales to fans across Sweden and beyond.”

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