Håkan Hellström’s ‘historic’ Gothenburg sellout

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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