Tickets for the seven nights of concerts of the Brazilian edition of Rock in Rio this year sold out today, almost five months of the festival to be held in September in Rio de Janeiro, organizers said. With the sale of the last tickets still left for the nights that have as protagonists Justin Timberlake (September 17) and Aerosmith (September 21), the organization said it had sold 700,000 tickets that were offered for sale . Within hours of the first day of sales, on 6 April, concert tickets which will have as main attraction Maroon 5, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Guns N 'Roses with The Who were exhausted. A few days later ended the made available for the nights when Bon Jovi and Lady Gaga will be presented as large atracciones.Las sales were made exclusively online in the last twenty days and each entry was priced at 455.00 reais tickets (about 146.8 dollars), although students could buy them at half price.
The festival in 2017 will have seven monumental concerts on 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23 and 24 September in a "City of Rock" which will be built in the Olympic Park, the scenario last August hosted the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016. the new stage, with a space nearly two times higher than that was used until 2015, will allow the organizers to improve the amenities for attendees and include new attractions, including restaurants, bars, radical attractions and park amusement. The main attractions announced for the edition 2017 are Lady Gaga (September 15), Maroon 5 (September 16), Justin Timberlake (September 17), Aerosmith (September 21), Bon Jovi (September 22), The Who and GN'R (September 23) and red hot chili peppers (September 24). The 2017 will be the seventeenth edition of the festival and the seventh in Rio de Janeiro, where the event was born in 1985, before starting to take turns with cities like Madrid (three editions), Lisbon (six) and Las Vegas (one) . Organizers estimated the festival, considered the biggest event of music and entertainment world, has offered in its 17 different editions 1,604 attractions in 101 days of shows for about 8.5 million attendees. In its last edition in Rio de Janeiro in September 2015, a total of 595,000 spectators attended five different scenarios performances by 150 bands, including the legendary Queen and Metallica, but also groups like One Republic, System of a Down, Mastodon, Slipknot; singers like Elton John and Rod Stewart, and pop queens like Rihanna and Katy Perry.
