All 10,200 tickets to Metallica's June 17, 2009 concert at Spektrum in Oslo, Norway were snapped up within 15 minutes after they went on sale at 9:00 a.m on Monday, October 20.
Kristin Svendsen of concert promoter Live Nation said, "It is difficult to say whether this is a record, but it can't be far away from it." He added that it's not technically possible to sell tickets any faster.
Same thing in Finland. All 26000 tickets to two shows in Helsinki on June 14 and June 15, 2009 at the Hartwall Arena were sold within 40 minutes after they went on sale this on Monday, October 20.
Metallicas's last show at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland — on July 15, 2007 — was attended by more than 50,000 people, which is nearly 1 percent of the country's 5.5-million population. Tickets to that concert were snapped up in about 45 minutes after they went on sale on February 28, 2007.
