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Buying tickets for Rosalía’s tour has been chaos for everyone. Except for Banco Santander clients

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The sale of tickets for the concerts in Madrid and Barcelona Rosalia have generated the expected collapse. An apocalypse of people running out of tickets, waiting at the seventy-something thousand stall in a virtual queue, and a lot of resellers rubbing their hands. We had the precedent of Bad Bunny, but not only have we not learned, but we have made it worse with an exclusive pre-sale that has left those who have approached through the general sale almost without tickets. He ritual than usual. Frozen screens, virtual queues that exceeded 50,000 people and the frustration of thousands of fans who after hours of waiting were left without access to the many seats available for pre-sale last Tuesday the 9th for the eight Rosalía concerts scheduled in Madrid and Barcelona between March and April 2026. Just 48 hours later, the general sale on Thursday the 11th replicated the same scenario, but much faster: all the tickets sold out in a matter of minutes. The immediate result was predictable: platforms resale offering seats for up to 1,200 eurosmore than ten times its original value. The bank account as an entrance to culture. In September 2023, the Banco Santander launched SMusica platform that links financial services with exclusive offers linked to concerts and musical events after close deals with relevant industry brands, such as Live Nation (owner of Ticketmaster), Universal Music, the Los 40 radio network and festivals such as Primavera Sound and Mad Cool. The mechanism is as simple as, in its essence, exclusive: Bank customers get early access to tickets 48 to 72 hours before the rest of the public. In practice, this means that when the general sale opens, most of the best-located seats (and sometimes all the capacity) have already been purchased. For her part, Rosalía simultaneously activated an “Artist Presale” through prior registration on her website. In this way, two privileged channels were generated before the official sale. But… how many tickets went to pre-sale? There are no official public figures. However, an expert (Chema Lamirán, director of the Master in Digital Marketing at the European University of Valencia) provides data about the usual operation of this system: “as a general and ethical rule of the industry, a quota should always be reserved for general sales.” According to their analysis, between 15% and 20% of the total capacity is usually reserved for general sales. But “in phenomena like Rosalía, where demand exceeds supply by 10 or 20 times, that 20% flies in seconds, giving the sensation that there were no tickets.” This would explain why in social networks comments abounded like this one: “They’re making fun of us, they must have sold all the Lux Tour tickets in the pre-sale, otherwise I can’t explain it.” The system also established differentiated limits: a maximum of two tickets per person in the Santander pre-sale compared to four in the general one, which in theory should leave more seats available for the general public, but in practice it barely makes a difference when the demand is so disproportionate. The precedent of Bad Bunny. May 8, 2025 marked a turning point in public perception of the ticketing system in Spain. What began as the announcement of three Bad Bunny concerts ended up becoming twelve dates spread between Barcelona and Madrid, an improvised increase on the fly while the Ticketmaster website collapsed under the weight of hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users. At 12:45, fifteen minutes before the official start of the pre-sale, the platform began to display errors 503 and 500, leaving buyers trapped in a digital limbo where virtual queues exceeded 400,000 people. But the technical chaos It was just one dimension of the problem. The OCU filed a formal complaint before the Ministry of Consumer Affairs after documenting how an entry initially announced at 79.50 euros It ended up costing 269 euros by including management fees (€36.50), “suggested” donations (€3.30) and additional VIP charges (€150). FOMO and banks. The phenomenon of concerts, without a doubt the “place to be” (and one of the few entertainment sectors that not only enters into crisis but also grows without apparent roof), extends its appeal to entities such as banks. The concerts of Rosalía or Bad Bunny are not considered as recitals for fans, but rather as massive events to which one must go, with the music being only a circumstantial element. The essential precedent of Taylor Swift (whose Eras Tour generated in Spain similar episodes of uncontrolled demand) has established a pattern where megaconcerts are perceived as unrepeatable events that banks, always on the hunt for young customers, are willing to take advantage of. In Xataka | Rosalía has entered her Catholic phase: she is only the latest in a long list of Spanish artists and filmmakers

Tour the entire Madrid subway in just 12 hours

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His name is Adham Fisher and his name is in the history books. Provided that we put in that bag the bizarre challenges that They are collected in the Guinness book of the records. His crushing is as simple as crazy and strategic. Fisher is the man who has taken less time to travel all the Madrid subway lines. No matter the order, the arrival station or the departure. It only matters to have gone through each and every one of the stations that are part of the Madrid Metro network. The record has been held since 2017 When he registered 12 hours, 15 minutes and 48 seconds touring the Madrid subsoil. The judges’ note says the following: “Adham possessed the record to travel faster the Paris subway and that of New York.” Also a notice: “record attempts will not be admitted if the applicant is under 16 years.” It is not mentioned in the notice if it is a matter of security or that they understand that with less than 16 years there are better plans than spending half a day underground running between stations. Anyway, Fisher has returned to Madrid. And it has an objective: to lower your time. Noon under the ground Adham Fisher’s relationship with the Madrid suburban is long. Although his best time in Madrid dates from 2017, he also held a record with 13 hours in the accountant. And although he tells ABC who knows that at least some students have tried to snatch their record (The attempt was carried out in 2021)we do not know if there have really been many more attempts. The strategy is the same as the one that already told The world That same year. Then I tried to find the limits of Madrid’s vicinity and, as on this occasion (Fisher is one of the claims of the European Mobility Week In Madrid), he already pointed out that the project takes a lot of study, noting the times in stops and Analyze what its origin and destination should be. Of course, keep them a secret until the challenge is launched and finished, if there is luck, to the edge of the half -time. This time, Fisher was doubtful. Madrid Metro Line 6 is being renovated And therefore, it is largely closed. It was not a big problem for the British who uses the special bus service that the city has available to follow the line of the line. However, perform part of the path on the asphalt already seemed an insurmountable handicap. And although Fisher also knows what he faced because He already tried to tour all London’s bus lines In less than 24 hours, from the Madrid subway they have confirmed that, finally, the British has preferred to devote its passage to Madrid to take times for a future attempt. These successive attempts and their years of dedication hatched three years ago in a documentary called Team Fisher in which his attempt is to travel the 272 stations of the London Metro before the end of the day. And he also tells his experience in the book Tube Challenge: The Ultimate Ride. And is that the challenge of touring all the stations of the London suburban It began in 1960. Since then, they have accumulated to 22 new records that, yes, dance slightly in the number of stations. At the moment, the innumerable works by Madrid It seems that they have delayed a new attempt by the British that has been one of the subway claims for this week mobility. But something tells us that we will find it again in one of the hundreds of platforms of the Madrid Metro, notebook and stopwatch in hand. Photo | Annie Mole and Deniz Demirci In Xataka | The icing on the cake to the works of Madrid: the city has become a gymkana of reforms, cuts and discomfort

Bad Bunny has decided not to take his tour to the United States. And so it has generated 196 million dollars for Puerto Rico

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Bad Bunny is, in all likelihood, The most important Latin artist in the world. And among its most striking characteristics is not only not having renounced its roots, but to show them: we all know that it is Portarriqueño because its music presumes its origin incessantly. And that is what has made him one of the most notable financial assets in his country, despite his international draft. An example. One of his greatest recent successes, ‘Newyol‘, it’s a Dembow that sample a song of Andy Montañez and the great combo of Puerto Ricoimportant Portive interpreters of salsa. His video clip shows scenes of the daily life of the Puerto Rican diaspora in New York and shows the statue of freedom with a country’s flag. The lyrics speak of the portorriqueña identity and its traditions. It is just another example in a discography full of winks, but very notable since THE MEME IN SOCIAL NETWORKS He ran like gunpowder, precisely, among Porician immigrants in the United States. 30 days in Puerto Rico. Aware of his power of convocation (in Spain we have also suffered it with the Deluste Fraticide fighting to get tickets For his concerts), Bad Bunny began a 30 -day residence in San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, which will end on the 14th day before renauding his world tour of Japan and Europe. He does so to compensate that he has not entered the continental United States (many see it as a sign of protest for anti-immigration policies in the country, the artist does not comment and has described his passage through the country as “unnecessary”). Consequence: It has carapacted the tourism and cultural life of the archipelago. 200,000 visitors. They are those that are estimated that this concert will attract Puerto Rico, and at a time when he needs it: when the fertile summer season has just finished. In a The Wall Street Journal article On the subject, a series of fans of the artist talk about how concerts to travel to Puerto Rico far beyond the mere night of the event. Someone will spend six days on the island; Another is going to spend seven thousand dollars on the trip; And relevant personalities such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, LeBron James, Kylian Mbappé Peélope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Jon Hamm have been seen by concerts, with what he has of media echo and advertising for the island. Money for the people. The Non -Lucrative Association Discover Puerto Rico encrypted in 196 million dollars that this flow of visitors will generate in the island’s economy, which is a considerable impulse and that Bad Bunny is perfectly conscious. First -line artists know that their performances move a very important amount of money not only around concerts themselves, but to everything that implies the experience of attending it (consumption, restaurants, hotels). What artists move. Last year, for example, There was talk of the Swiftnomicsthe economy generated by Taylor Swift in its concerts and that in 2024 came to the United States figures. Specifically, around 10,000 million dollars. Bad Bunny has decided that comparable amounts emphasize in his country of origin, which, he says what he says, gives a very special meaning to his decision to dodge the land of the United States for the second consecutive year. In Xataka | Will Smith’s last concert has resulted in enormous public success. Public made with ia

I have played the ‘Nintendo Switch 2 Welcomme Tour’ thinking that it was a payment manual. It turns out that it is a science museum

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The presentation of Nintendo Switch 2 In April it was curious. In the event they revealed a lot of details and interesting games that excited the players, but after it, the Batacazo arrived. The console prices, of games and accessories. The monetary hangover lasted a few days and the lace was the ‘Nintendo Switch 2 Welcomo Tour’. This collection of mini -games was like the “manual” of switch 2 … of payment. 9.99 euros, specifically. It is not something I like in the community, but after trying it, I am clear that it is much more than a Nintendo Switch 2 user guide. 1-2 switch. When a console arrives with innovative characteristics, the best way to test them is through demos. With the launch of Switch in 2017Nintendo came up to launch a game that, for 19.99 euros, allowed to experiment with the control infrared sensor, with the HD vibration or with the movement sensors. Called ‘1-2 switch‘, it was curious, but nothing more, and accompanied in the launch of the machine by’ The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild ‘, because little attention was going to monopolize beyond the one granted by curious eyes. Welcome to Switch 2. literally. Nintendo Switch 2 is not that it is the pinnacle of innovation. It is a rather continuous console, than It is just what Nintendo needs After the resounding success of the predecessor, but as they know that many people may want to get on the train of the new switch, they have prepared something similar to ‘1-2 Switch’: ‘Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour’. The problem? That since it was announced, this collection of mini -games to know the technical details of the machine was more like a manual than as a video game. And, worse: a payment manual. I’m already Testing Nintendo Switch 2 for analysisI have mine on the way and what was clear was that this game did not call me or the least. Luckily I had to play it to see how wrong I was. A Science Museum. Because … yes and no. ‘Welcomome Tour’ is the console manual as long as it teaches us all the details of it. We review the command, we review the screen, all the buttons of the Joy-Con and every millimeter of the system and some of its peripherals, but we do it as if we were in a museum. As a child, the museums bored me, but when my parents took me to a Science Museumthe thing changed. That of pulling levers, moving a giant wave, seeing gears and ‘moves’ in motion was something that excited me. And, precisely, that is this game. We chose an avatar, we queue to enter a Nintendo Switch 2 giant and Ale, to explore. Each piece of the system has an information panel that rewards us if we find it, there are mini -games that allow us to explore how certain buttons and modes and also informative panels are used on hardware elements. If we want, we can spend a kind of exam to get prizes and move on the virtual console, and it really is fun. Cheat. At this point, I know how haptic vibration works, I know how the optical sensor allows the joy-with in mouse mode (very precise, by the waybut incompatible with some hands) and they will not discover anything at the technical level of the machine, but without being the target user of this, I have fun collecting the collectibles, and beyond for this test, I will continue playing. I think that, in addition, it can be a very didactic title for all types of audiences that buy the console and want to learn more about it and about technology in general. In addition to enjoying seeing how they explain one thing and, to the second, you can put that into practice. The problem is that … well, there are two problems. And it comes with controversy. One is that you cannot get 100% of the game only with the console and the Joy-Con. There are some mini -games and demonstrations that require a 4K television that can be common in homesbut … there are also those who need the Pro command (90 euros) and the camera (another 60 euros). Nintendo already specifies it in the game website With a “for certain technical demonstrations, additional accessories are required, for sale separately”, but it is curious. Minigame to test the mouse mode And another to experience vibration Oh, the precedents … And the second controversy comes with the price. Not so much for having to pay those 10 euros, but because it will mean a barrier for many people to enjoy this title. With the launch of PlayStation 5Sony included a demo, that of ‘Astro’s Playroom‘. Not only was it a precious tribute to the history of PlayStation, but a really fun platform video game. Liked that their developers had green light to develop a complete game, ‘Astro Bot‘, who ended up taking the award to’ Best Game ‘in the’The Game Awards‘of 2024. ‘Nintendo Switch 2: Welcome Tour’ would have been not only a perfect gift for Nintendo Switch 2 buyers to have something to play as soon as the console should turn on, but also the opportunity for more people to discover this game so curious and ‘cuckoo’ in which a few developers have been working. Because it shows that there is a lot of love in this “payment manual”, but precisely that it is paid and that it looks like a manual is what can be a wall for many users. And it’s not just ‘Asto’s Playroom’: Wii had ‘Wii Sports‘Included, and it was a huge pilar on which The success of the console was cemented. Images | Xataka In Xataka | The Switch 2 comes with a protector that many would remove without thinking. Nintendo has a warning for users

Katy Perry has taken advantage of her trip to space to promote her tour. Going to space is like going to El Hormiguero

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The little New Shepard rocket in Blue Origin has taken off this Monday for the eleventh time with six people on board. On this occasion there were six women. Among them, pop superstar Katy Perry, who has taken the opportunity to promote the opening concert of his tour in Mexico. A space flight without men. Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission has been The first space launch without men since 1963when the Soviet Union put the first woman in space into orbit: Valentina Tereshkova. Chosen by Lauren Sanchez, the fiance of Jeff Bezos, to “inspire the coming generations,” five women and Sanchez herself They flew above the line of Kárman (the official border of the space), floating in the capsule for three minutes before falling back to the ground with parachute. In addition to Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez, among the crew members were Gayle King (co -exposed “CBS Mornings”), Aisha Bowe (former NASA rocket scientist), Amanda Nguyen (researcher in Bioastronautics) and Kerianne Flynn (film producer). Short, but intense. The six women traveled to the launch platform in two Rivian electric trucks, The rival brand of Tesla financed by Amazon and Jeff Bezos. Bezos was driving one of them. They made a brief stop in front of the rocket for some photos and then uploaded to the capsule to take off. The New Shepard rocket ignited its hydrogen and liquid oxygen engine at 13:30 UTC. Two and a half minutes later, it detached from the capsule, which amounted beyond the border of space, Up to 107 kilometers above sea level. Oprah, Kris Jenner or Khloe Kardashian looked up from the public. On the 7:30 minute, the rocket landed on its own. A minute later, the capsule opened the three parachutes to cushion its descent, between shouts of joy of the crew, who touched earth over the 10th minute. The suborbital flight was brief, but intense, judging by the micro open inside the capsule. Promotional moment Katy Perry took advantage of the minutes in the space to sing “What a Wonderful World” and reveal part of the setlist of his new tour, which will begin in Mexico; turning a space launch into promotion, as if it had gone to El Hormiguero. The singer and Gayle King have joined the growing list of celebrities who have flown to the space with Blue Origin. Jesús Calleja was in the previous missionNS-30, as part of a documentary financed by Amazon Prime Video and Mediaset. William Shatner, Captain Kirk in “Star Trek”, also did in 2021 invited by Jeff Bezos, the company’s owner. Laura Shepard (Alan Shepard’s daughter, the first American in space, which gives name to the rocket), Ed Dwight (The black astronaut that never flew) or the YouTuber Coby Cotton (of the Channel Dude Perfect) have also crossed the karm line aboard the New Shepard rocket. Many of them as part of an effort of Blue origin to promote its tourist flights. Meanwhile, in Spacex. Spacex has had a small number of totally private missions. The first It was inspiration4funded by businessman Jared Isaacman, who is one step away from directing NASA. The Missions of the AXIOM company, operated by Spacex, to the International Space Station mix services for space agencies (ESA sends some of its astronauts in this way) with space tourists willing to live a couple of weeks as authentic crew members of the ISS. Polaris Dawn, again funded by Isaacman, made history with The flight to higher altitude from the Apollo missions and The first commercial extravehicular activity of history. More recently, Fram2 launched a Bitcoin tycoonChun Wang, and his friends on the first flight in polar orbit. From Dennis Tito to Katy Perry. As the reusable rockets (and space airplanes such as Virgin Galactic) reduce the cost of launching people into space, more and more millionaires fulfill their dream of seeing the earth from above as did the New Yorker Dennis Tito, The first space touristin 2001. Tito paid $ 20 million to fly to the ISS for eight days aboard a Soyuz Russian ship. His trip opened the door to a handful of extremely rich individuals who followed their steps during the next decade: Mark Shuttleworth (South African, 2002), Gregory Olsen (American, 2005), Anousheh Ansari (Iraní and First Space Tourist, 2006), Charles Simonyi (Hungarian, 2007 and 2009), Richard Garriott (British 2008) and Guy Laliberté (Canadian and founder of the Circo del Sol, in 2009). The price of a seat in the New Shepard rocket is confidential, but It is estimated at just over one million dollars. Little more than a flight in the Richard Branson space aircraft cost Commercial Space Stations are operational. Image | Blue Origin In Xataka | The Calleja effect: Going to space is going from a great aspiration of humanity to a “Ryanair with rockets”

Alejandro del Rey achieves his first victory of the year and marks a recital of Spanish golf in the second tournament of the DP World Tour

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Alejandro del Rey achieved his first victory on the DP World Tour this Sunday in an authentic recital of Spanish golf, where David Puig and Iván Cantero also finished among…

Aguirre sees the positive side of trying young people on the South American tour of Mexico

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Before playing two games for South America, coach Javier Aguirre said that the result in both games would be the least important. The essential thing was to see the performance of the young players who received the opportunity in the absence of the usual starters who were not loaned by their clubs. In the matches against Internacional de Porto Alegre from Brazil and River Plate from Argentina, “Vasco” Aguire made 14 players debut with El Tri. One of them was Gilberto Mora, who became the youngest player to debut with the national team. The Tijuana midfielder is 16 years and three months old. Mexico defeated Inter 2-0 and then lost by the same score against River. “I leave with the feeling that the tour was worth it,” Aguirre said the day before. “You have to keep balance and draw conclusions. It’s good for me for the future. The objective of the tour was met. There are three or four players who really deserve a chance on the next occasions.” The veteran coach did not want to go into detail about who those players are who could fight for a place in the Nations League, where Mexico will have its next official match on March 20 against Canada. Who took advantage? Although he has few spotlights, recovery midfielder Elías Montiel is the next jewel of the Pachuca quarry and in both matches he showed why. At just 19 years old, the player became a starter for the Tuzos in the previous tournament and was one of the most outstanding in the last edition of the Intercontinental Cup. Aguirre summoned him for both matches and he was one of the few who repeated his lineup in both matches. The problem for Montiel is that in that position there is tough competition for ownership. Edson Álvarez (Fulham) and Luis Chávez (Dinamo Moscow), both with World Cup experience, usually occupy those positions. Luis Romo (Chivas) also fights for minutes. A similar case is that of Jorge Ruvalcaba, who excelled with a goal and several dangerous attempts against the Brazilians. The Pumas winger, with experience in Europe with Standard de Lieja, moves along the left wing, a sector where Julián Quiñones, Alexis Vega, César Huerta and Hirving Lozano fight to be starters. Of the rest, goalkeeper Raúl Rangel, full-back Jesús Gallardo and forward Guillermo Martínez, the only ones previously mentioned by Aguirre, fulfilled what was expected and will surely continue to be regular in the calls. What’s next? In Aguirre’s original plan, in addition to playing games outside of friendly environments such as the fields of the United States, it was contemplated to carry out “mini-cycles” of training with players from the local league. That idea was presented and approved by then-high commissioner Juan Carlos Rodriguez, who resigned from his position in December. After the little support shown by the clubs to release players for the South American tour, it is unlikely that they will want to release them for training sessions originally scheduled from Monday to Wednesday. If nothing changes, Aguirre will have to wait until mid-March to have a full team again before facing Canada in the Nations League.

Aberg shoots a 63 in the first round and leads by two at Torrey Pines

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SAN DIEGO — Ludvig Aberg shot a 9-under 63 Wednesday at what he calls his favorite place in the world, taking a two-shot lead over Danny Walker and Hayden Springer in the opening round of the Farmers Insurance Open in Torrey Pins. Aberg took the lead in a PGA Tour first round for the first time, after posting the best opening score of his young career. The 25-year-old Swede took advantage of playing the easiest North Course at Torrey Pines, hitting 16 of 18 greens while notching eight birdies and an eagle on the coastal course. “I like when you hit a lot of drives, and I feel like I did that a lot today, and I’ll probably do the same thing tomorrow,” Aberg said. “I love any golf course when it looks like that, when you have the views, and Torrey Pines is a really great place.” Walker, 25, was outstanding in his fourth appearance on the Tour. He recorded the best round of the opening day on the more difficult South Course, where the stroke average was 72.487 compared to 70.218 on the North. Walker and Springer finished one stroke ahead of Lanto Griffin, Zac Blair, 48-year-old Zach Johnson and 20-year-old Aldrich Potgieter. They all played on the North Field. The Japanese Hideki Matsuyama, the highest ranked among those present at the tournament and winner at The Sentry in Kapalua, shot a 68 in the South. Aberg, who finished ninth last year in his debut at Torrey Pines, began the new season with a fifth-place finish at Maui after undergoing knee surgery last fall. After earning the Tour’s rookie of the year award in 2023, he went winless last year despite placing in the top five six times, including runner-up finishes at the Masters, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the BMW Championship. The Farmers Insurance Open begins on a Wednesday and ends on a Saturday to avoid a final-round conflict with the conference finals in the NFL. ___ This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.

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