Tickets to Prince sell out in minutes

Prince (Getty)
Prince (Getty)

Pop legend Prince announced his first-ever New Zealand shows just days ago, but if you were planning on going along, you're probably out of luck.

The 4000 tickets sold out within 10 minutes of going on sale at 12pm today.

The 57-year-old is due to perform twice on February 24 at Auckland's ASB Theatre at Aotea Centre, at 6.30pm and again at 10pm.

Only two tickets per person were available to combat scalpers as well as a number of other rules around the purchasing and collection of tickets.

Physical tickets will only be available for collection from the venue from midday on the day of the concert. The purchaser and their guest must attend together to collect their tickets and be wrist banded at the time of ticket collection with photo ID, booking number and the credit card used, according to the ticketing website.

His 39th studio album, Hit n Run Phase Two, was released in December last year.

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