Ed Sheeran announced this week that he will travel to Bhutan, India and the Middle East on a mathematics tour in early 2025.
The tour is officially named +–=÷x tour, A press release for the concert stated that the concert will be held in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, on January 24, 2025, and will be the first major international concert held in the country.
Tickets On sale Saturdaythe cheapest ticket is 860 Bhutanese Ngultrum (USD 10), which is already sold out. Other tickets for the Changlimithang Stadium concert in Thimphu are priced at US$30, US$50, US$70 and US$100.
The average price of an Ed Sheeran concert ticket is $167, according to user ranking site Ranker.com. Sheeran ranked second — named after singer Pink — in terms of artists who are “worth the price of admission.”
By comparison, tickets to see Sheeran perform in Singapore in February ranged from $88 to $488 ($65 to $363), according to booking site Klook.
International attendees (excluding Indian nationals) must obtain a visa to enter Bhutan (USD 40) and pay the country’s sustainable development fee during their visit, which is currently USD 100 for adults and USD 50 for children aged 6 to 12 years.
The fee, which is charged per person per day, “is used to protect our natural environment, provide free education and free healthcare to our citizens,” Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay told CNBC Travel in May.
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After performing in Thimphu, Sheeran will perform six shows in India in February in Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Shillong and Delhi, followed by Qatar on April 30 and May 2 Performed in Bahrain.
The show in Bhutan is presented by live entertainment companies AEG Presents and One Fiinix Live as well as Kalepsam is a city covering an area of 2,600 square kilometers and will become the economic and tourism gateway of Bhutan.
The yet-to-be-built city masterplan shows a low- to mid-rise metropolis built around a series of bridges that will house a new international airport, a university, an east-west healthcare facility, a spiritual center and, according to the plans, A hydroelectric dam.
According to a press release announcing Sheeran’s new concert dates, the sustainable city, which is designed to support a population of 1 million, aims to be the “greenest, cleanest and safest city” in the world.
Sheeran launched the Math Tour in 2022 and has performed 134 shows to date. The tour is expected to end in 2025.
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