Is the 2026 figure higher than 2025's 2,604,404 tickets?

Five of the last eight Fringes cleared 2.5 million tickets: 2017 (2,696,884), 2018 (over 2.8 million), 2019 (3,012,490), 2024 (2.6 million) and 2025 (2,604,404). The three that did not were 2016 (2,475,143), 2022 (2,201,175) and 2023 (2,445,609). Over the ten festivals since 2015 it is five of ten. The recent clustering matters more than the fraction: the last two festivals finished within a few thousand tickets of each other, which is what a market looks like when capacity rather than demand is the binding constraint.