Iron Maiden's Return To Colombia Sells Out At Record Pace 11 Months Ahead Of Concert

Dave Murray, Bruce Dickinson, and Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden perform onstage during the Power Trip music festival at Empire Polo Club on Oct. 6 in Indio, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Power Trip)

Colombia has missed Iron Maiden. The legendary heavy metal band’s much-anticipated return to Bogotá next year sold out in a matter of minutes with ticket sales outpacing iconic acts such as The Rolling Stones, Coldplay, Madonna and The Weeknd.

Iron Maiden’s “The Future Past Tour” stop at El Campin Stadium on Nov. 24, 2024 — the band’s first concert in Bogotá in 13 years — sold 42,000 tickets in only 21 minutes. It is the first concert in Colombia to sell out so far in advance, and the sellout pace even exceeded that of superstar Karol G, who recently performed two sold-out stadium shows in her hometown of Medellín.

“We all expected strong sales given the long wait since they last performed here, which was March 20, 2011, but never in our wildest dreams did we think it would blow out in 21 minutes and smash sales records,” Alfredo Villaveces, managing director of promoter Move Concerts Colombia, said in a statement. “And if we factor in the fact we went up so far ahead of the show date — something no other artist had done here — it is truly amazing. Up the Irons!”

The English metal band will also be visiting Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile, on Nov. 27 and 28, marking the first time they will be playing two stadium shows in the country. More than 95,000 tickets have been sold so far for the two shows. Coldplay is the only other international act to have more than one date at Estadio Nacional, having performed four shows at the venue in September 2022.

Iron Maiden, repped by Creative Artists Agency’s Rick Roskin in North America and by K2 Agency worldwide, most recently headlined Goldenvoice’s Power Trip music festival in October at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. The influential band has 574 headline reports submitted to the Pollstar Boxoffice since July 13, 1999, grossing nearly $570 million. They performed two sold-out shows at Olympic Hall in Munich, Germany, on July 31 and Aug. 1 that grossed $2,272,656 off 23,015 tickets.