All 428,000 tickets for this year's Ozzfest US tour have now been given away. As previously reported, this year's Sharon Osbourne produced, Ozzy Osbourne fronted rock fest is being funded by sponsors meaning all tickets (except VIP packages) were free. Tickets were given away via sponsors' websites, and the Live Nation site. Organisers say that the Ozzfest tour will amount to the largest number of free tickets being distributed in the history of the US concert business. The tickets have been snapped up by rock fans in less than a week, with 228,000 of the downloadable tickets being distributed on 12 Jun alone.
On it all, Live Nation US Music President Jason Garner told Billboard: "We're just so proud of the result, the demand was absolutely overwhelming. We distributed nearly half a million tickets in about 72 hours, including almost 300,000 in one 24-hour period. It says a lot about the demand for Ozzy and Ozzfest, a lot about the fans perceived value with this tour, and from our perspective we're very happy that livenation.com was able to handle that traffic and deliver such a resounding win for everybody".