Laneway Festival does not publicly state exactly how many tickets are sold in the presale , and that number can change by year and by city, so there is no single fixed figure anyone outside the organisers can quote with certainty.

What we do know about Laneway presale

From recent Laneway information and media coverage:

  • Presale is run as a limited allocation of the cheaper “early release” tiers (1st and often 2nd release), not the whole festival capacity.
  • It usually runs for a set window (for example, around 23 hours for 2025–2026 presales) or until that presale allocation sells out, whichever comes first.
  • Any tickets not sold in that window roll over into the general sale the next day.
  • Fans’ queue experiences (e.g., “900 people in front of me”, “15,000 in line”) show there is high demand, but those numbers reflect the queue system, not the exact number of presale tickets.

In other words:

  • Each city (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane/Gold Coast, Adelaide, Perth, Auckland, etc.) has its own total capacity.
  • The presale gets a slice of that capacity at discounted “presale-only” release prices. The precise slice is internal to the promoters and is not published.

How to estimate (roughly) for yourself

If you want a ballpark feel, you can think about it like this (purely as an estimate, not an official figure):

  • Many mid-to-large Australian festival sites run roughly from 8,000–20,000+ capacity depending on the city and layout, though Laneway’s exact caps per site are not officially broken down by city in public materials.
  • A “typical” model festivals use (again, this is a general industry pattern, not an official Laneway rule) is to allocate something like a fraction of total capacity (for example, a chunk of early-release tickets) to presale, then hold the rest for general sale and later tiers.

Because Laneway has:

  • Multiple release tiers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th release; VIP tiers).
  • Presale restricted to early tiers (1st and 2nd release only).

…it’s safe to say presale is only part of the total tickets, not everything.

If you need a reliable number

For an exact or official figure (for example, for a report, blog, or business case), you would need to:

  1. Contact Laneway Festival or the ticketing provider directly (via their media, press, or customer service channels).
  2. Ask specifically for “presale allocation per city” or “total presale tickets released” for the year you care about.

Without that direct confirmation, any specific number (like “X,000 tickets”) would be guesswork, and current public info doesn’t give a precise count.

TL;DR:
Laneway’s presale sells a limited allocation of early-release tickets over about a 23‑hour window per city, but the organisers do not publish how many tickets that is, so there is no confirmed public number for “how many tickets are sold in presale Laneway.”

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.