Excerpts from the article :
>The band knows all too well how the likes of Taylor Swift and Oasis have faced backlash for astronomical ticket pricing, but have very little sympathy.
>’How has it become less expensive to go overseas to see your favourite band than just see them in your own city?,’ Nick questions, before Tyson interjects: ‘We’re at a point with this conversation where the responsibility, especially in the headliner, falls on the artists. It’s on the fans to say, well, does my favourite artist need to make $75, 000,000 this summer? Or could they make $30,000,000? Is that enough money for you?’
>The singer adds: ‘It’s become a one-percenter’s experience, and I think that’s f****d up, because the people who love music the most, the people who need music the most, are the people that are hand-to-mouth, the people that come from where we’re from. It shouldn’t just be a District 1 Hunger Games kind of luxury to go to concerts. That type of artist, their audience will pay whatever, because they set that lifestyle of extravagance. We need to hold artists responsible.’
>The band are now tapping into uncharted territory by allowing fans to summon them to their city to play backyards, bowling alleys, and beyond, and reckon their house parties can fix a broken industry.
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My only question is, and maybe I’m just too dumb to know what I’m talking about, is how do tickets end up on Seat Geek for hundreds to thousands of dollars more than face value when, on Ticketmaster, it says the artist has opted in to make tickets nontransferable and only resaleable at face value?
I’m specifically talking about Noah Kahan tickets in Cincinatti since he’s the most recent artist I’ve tried getting tickets for. Here is exact;y what Ticketmaster says: No Resale Over Face Value
Noah Kahan is using Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange to help fans get tickets at the original price. Tickets will be non-transferable and can only be resold on Ticketmaster at face value. It then lists states that have blocked resale terms and Ohio isn’t listed. Yet the cheapest ticket on Seat Geek is $310 and there are none at all llisted on Ticketmaster for the Cinci stop.
Like it just doesn’t really make sense to me?
the reason why is the lack of general audience tickets. assigned seats are gonna make your US concert far more expensive than flying abroad
of course, it’s worse with artists who do dynamic pricing (afaik neither taylor nor oasis did that) but like, obviously if there’s a better seat they’re gonna overprice it
I’ve been trying to get Ariana Grande tickets for this summer. For this tour since it was announced last summer. Have been 4 ticket requests. All 4 have been unsuccessful for me.
The first drop, of course the bots and resellers got all the tickets. They are selling tickets 10x the price. The prices have only gone up. These prices are $1600 for the 200s and $844 usd for level 400s. For two people. That’s criminal.
I’m sorry I refuse to give up a paycheck for tickets. Artists have a choice to turn off dynamic and to prohibit resales more than face value. They simply didn’t want to .
I bought 2 eras tour tickets for $180 total, including fees. The eras tour was actually really reasonably priced because she didn’t have change maker tickets (equivalent to McDonald’s asking you to round up), or dynamic pricing. It got expensive on resale sites. Now yeah, she could’ve turned off face value ticket reselling but it also doesn’t stop reselling on other sites. But overall the eras tour was actually very well priced on face value, especially for a 3.5 hour show going over almost 20 years of music.
And the reason it’s cheaper in other countries is because they (seem) to have more consumer protections but considering America is a corporation first, that won’t happen here, especially under this current administration.
These bands have to divorce themselves from their huge labels. My Chemical Romance is *swiftly* (sorry I’ll show myself out soon) losing their reputation because of the ridiculous acts of Warner Music Group. They’re complicit in those moves until they buy their masters back.
They really believe this, as they recently did a $10 popup show near me. It was packed for blocks, so the ‘people don’t want to go to shows’ rhetoric from the record and ticket companies is nonsense.
you know what i think the issue is – they make fa money off streams now which is how most of listen to music rather than buying hard copies so they hike the shit out of ticket prices to make more profit. unfair to the fans really as its not our fault
I agree with them.Ticket prices are insane.
Everything in America is now a one percenter experience.
The Ari sub continues to make excuses for the bullshit with the eternal sunshine tour. I’m sorry Ariana is not a helpless baby and know exactly what’s going on and how many of us have been screwed multiple times with the ticket master pre sale, main sale, then 2 fkn lotteries.
I completely agree it’s the artists responsibility as well. Concerts used to be so accessible but with social media and trends spiking, concerts are now a luxury. I wanted to see Rosalia and nosebleeds were around 600! Not to mention they all sold out. I don’t see myself seeing any big artists until this gets under control. Crazy
They just did this in a small town near me for cheap. People drove from all over the state!!
I still stand by the fact that Ticketmaster, artists and concert goers all share some of the blame here. People will complain about resell prices, but still fork over unreasonable sums of money for them.
Remember when ABC tried to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air? I’m sure Disney stock was about to tank because so many people cancelled DisneyPlus subscriptions en masse.
If people stop buying from resellers, and they are left with millions of dollars worth of tickets, venues nor the artists get any additional revenue from concession stands and merchandise sales- I guarantee you guardrails would be put in place.
If The Cure could manage to keep prices reasonable and restrict resale to face value* during their 2023 North American tour, so can other bands.
*There were a handful of exceptions as a few states have protections for resellers 🙄
okay, i love them, i agree with them, but the only issue i have is the inclusion of taylor in this conversation like bruh what 😭😭😭
taylor was not a part of this, and lately it’s become so normalized to add her in this conversation for no reason, is it because it’s easy to dog on her? does it make these articles circulate more? like if you wanna have a genuine conversation about this maybe talk about the issues that did happen