Ed Sheeran publicizes concert in Bhutan – tickets from $10

Ed Sheeran announced this week that he can be taking his math trip to Bhutan, India and the Middle East in early 2025.

The tour, officially called +–=÷x Tour, features a notable stop in Bhutan's capital Thimphu on January 24, 2025 – in keeping with a press release announcing the concert, it’s going to be the primary major international concert to happen within the country.

Tickets went on sale on Saturdaywith the most cost effective tickets priced at 860 Bhutanese ngultrum ($10) already sold out. Other tickets for the concert at Changlimithang Stadium in Thimpu are priced at $30, $50, $70 and $100.

According to user rating website Ranker.com, the common price of an Ed Sheeran concert ticket is $167 Sheeran ranked second – after singer Pink – in reference to artists who’re “worth the price of admission.”

In contrast, tickets for Sheeran's performance in Singapore in February ranged from 88 to 488 Singapore dollars (US$65 to 363), in keeping with booking website Klook.

International participants, except Indian nationals, are required to use for a visa to enter Bhutan ($40) and pay the country's sustainable development fee during their visit, currently set at $100 for adults and $50 is ready for kids aged six to 12.

The fee is charged per person per day and is meant to guard our natural environment and supply free education and free healthcare to our residents, Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay told CNBC Travel in May.

After his performance in Thimphu, Sheeran will play six shows in India in February – within the cities of Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, Shillong and Delhi – followed by shows in Qatar on April 30 and Bahrain on May 2.

The Bhutan performance is promoted by live entertainment firms AEG Presents and One Fiinix Live, in addition to Gelephu Mindfulness City, a 2,600 square kilometer city designed to function an economic and tourism gateway to Bhutan.

Master plans for the town, which is just not yet built, show a low- to mid-rise metropolis that can be built around a series of bridges and can house a brand new international airport, a university, an Eastern and Western medicine clinic, etc center and a hydroelectric power plant, in keeping with the plan.

The sustainable city, which goals to feed a population of a million people, goals to be the “greenest, cleanest and safest city” on this planet, in keeping with a press release announcing Sheeran's recent concert dates.

Sheeran launched the Mathematics Tour in 2022 and has performed 134 shows thus far. The tour is scheduled to finish in 2025.