Since concert tickets went up for sale worldwide, some concert dates were sold out in just minutes. Tickets for the entire British tour, the band's first in 24 years, sold out within 30 minutes. Worldwide, they have sold about 1.5m tickets with revenues reaching $168m.he show [edit]. The first show was a preview concert held in Vancouver for 4000 members of The Police Fanclub on 27 May 2007, though the first official show of the tour was on 28 May 2007 in front of 22,000 fans at one of two nearly sold-out shows.