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2. Explainer-Why U.S. concert tickets are so expensive - AOL

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   Here are several factors why ticket prices are so expensive. FEES Announcing the lawsuit, Attorney General Merrick Garland said: "Ticketmaster can impose a seemingly endless list of fees on fans.

3. Why do concert tickets now cost as much as a games console?

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   So why have costs skyrocketed? ... thanks to Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing. ... (£116). And the most expensive tickets for Billie Eilish’s 2025 UK tour (£398, of which £151 goes to local ...

4. $11,000 to see Taylor Swift? How concert tickets got so expensive

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   Ticketmaster has started trying to set market-clearing prices through a program it calls "platinum tickets," where it sells the most in-demand seats separately from the primary ticket offering.

5. Taylor Swift–Ticketmaster controversy - Wikipedia

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   Taylor Swift performing on the Eras Tour in 2023. Ticketmaster received criticism for mishandling the U.S. ticket sale of the tour.. The American ticket sales platform Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment were met with widespread public criticism and political scrutiny over blunders in selling tickets to the 2023 United States leg of the Eras Tour, the sixth concert ...

6. Ticketmaster - Wikipedia

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   Ticketmaster was founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 1976 [5] by college staffers Peter Gadwa and Albert Leffler, Gordon Gunn III, as well as businessman Jerry Nelson. [6] [7] The company originally licensed computer programs and sold hardware for ticketing systems.

7. Ticket resale - Wikipedia

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   Ticket resale is common in both sporting and musical events. Ticket resale is a form of arbitrage that arises when the number demanded at the sale price exceeds the number supplied (that is, when event organizers charge less than the equilibrium prices for the tickets). During the 19th century, the term scalper was applied to railroad ticket ...

8. Concert ticket prices are expensive. How surging prices for ...

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   There’s so much more artists can do to help, said Mateer. “They can do things in the community and offer free concerts, and spend their time in [rarely visited] places,” he pointed out.

9. United States v. Live Nation Entertainment - Wikipedia

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   United States, et al. v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. and Ticketmaster Entertainment, LLC is an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and twenty-nine states and Washington, D.C., against entertainment company Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster, following the Taylor Swift–Ticketmaster controversy in 2022.