Adavance ticket sales for Adele's two-night run at The SSE Hydro descended into chaos after being released on Tuesday morning.

Fans took to Twitter to report issues with the Songkick booking service on Adele's website.

Many were forced to wait hours and still missed out on tickets whilst others were left frustrated by website failure.

User @BigNaz Tweeted:  "Got in for #adeletickets in Glasgow, no two adjacent seats, then kicked back out into the queue without venue details! Not good"

The rush for tickets also led 18-year-old Twitter user, @rfj_x, from Glenrothes, to post: "Never have I experienced such a difficulty getting tickets than I have Adele, Glasgow pre sale sold out". 

Karen McWilliams called the sales "a total joke" and added [sic]: "wasted 3hrs 20 mins on 2 devices for Glasgow Hydro tone told it's sold out."

And tickets soon appeared on GetMeIn! for over £500 each. 

The website, part of the Ticketmaster company, lists tickets to the singer's gig on March 25 on the first row of upstairs seats for £440, with an asking price of £550 for tickets on level 2. 

Her second date, March 26, saw asking prices of £220 for seats on the top row and £330 for a spot on the floor. 

Tickets to her show at London's O2 were cost between £346.50 and £825. 

The extortionate stubs for the 'Hello' star's concerts come despite her website displaying a message stating: "The resale of tickets will not be tolerated". 

A Ticketmaster spokesman said: "We always encourage fans to purchase tickets from recognised primary sites. However, when primary allocations are exhausted and levels of demand exceed availability, tickets will inevitably appear on resale sites – as has occurred today with Adele tickets."

"Seatwave and GetMeIn! are marketplaces, with sellers listing tickets at the price they set - we do not set the price tickets are listed for. Ticketing marketplaces are dynamic and react to demand and the willingness of fans to pay. With high profile events, such as Adele, tickets are sometimes listed at prices higher than the face value. Tickets very rarely sell at these elevated prices though, with many selling at face value or below the original price."

Last month, mega-star Prince postponed sales for his proposed appearance at the Hydro in protest of online ticket sellers, but the show was later cancelled entirely in wake of the Paris terror attacks. 

Other high profile acts such as Coldplay have hit out at the practice, which sees desperate fans shelling out for overpriced tickets.

There were also allegations that the site crash caused user's personal details to appear on other people's screens. 

Kiran Farmah, from Birmingham, wrote: "got through to buying tickets but it came up with someone else's screen with their card details & home address for SSE."

Suzy Twigg Tweeted her concerns to Songkick: "@songkick your tix system is broken trying to buy 1 tix 4 @adele and when I click to buy I get someone else's order incl billing details!"

A spokesperson from the SSE Hydro said: "We believe that true fans should get access to tickets at reasonable prices. And so its sits uncomfortably with us knowing that many of our customers are faced with prospect of ticket prices that are overinflated by professional scalpers taking advantage of the market.

 "Our partnership with Ticketmaster recognises the need to give customers an informed choice and opportunity to purchase tickets in a safe, and transparent way when the primary supply is no longer an option. GetMeIn! is a secure resale market where the ticket seller sets the price and other fans can choose whether or not they wish to buy at that price but safe in the knowledge that the tickets are legitimate”.

Songkick said: "One of the great unsolved problems of live events is how to ensure tickets end up in the right hands. Over the last weeks, over 500,000 people registered at Adele.com in the hopes of securing tickets to her highly anticipated upcoming tour. Songkick provided the opportunity to allow fans to register, and to use its proprietary technology to identify touts, reduce their ability to purchase tickets when advance sales commenced on December 1 and to cancel as many tickets appearing on secondary ticketing sites as possible. Songkick was responsible for selling 40% of tickets directly to fans, a portion of whom were unfortunately able to preview other users' shopping carts for brief periods due to extreme load. At no time was anyone able to access another person's password, nor their payment or credit card details (which are not retained by Songkick). We take the security of our users and Adele's fans very seriously, and we apologize for the alarm we have caused to those purchasers who experienced issues. 

"Tickets for the December 1 advance sales are now sold out and, while disappointed about the processing issues that occurred, we are happy to see low levels of activity on secondary markets for these much-anticipated events. This morning, Songkick sold 57,000 tickets to fans, with less than 2% of these tickets making their way onto resale markets by mid afternoon. Compared to other events, we believe these efforts helped to reduce resale by well over 50%, increasing the amount of fans that can attend these shows. Ultimately, artists' goals of ensuring 100% of tickets end up in the right hands will depend on a combination of both technology and legislative action. For example, the 2015 amendment of the UK's Consumer Rights Act requires secondary sites to list the specific locations of their tickets for sale, which - if adopted properly - would allow for the full-scale cancellation of touts' tickets. Until this happens, it is impossible to completely eliminate ticket touting."