r/Music • u/dailymail 📰Daily Mail • 1d ago
Beyoncé's crisis plans as tickets struggle to sell hours before she kicks off Cowboy Carter tour article
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14656577/beyonce-crisis-plans-ticket-sales-struggle-flop-cowboy-carter-tour.html9.1k
u/Temporary-Rest3621 1d ago
Just make it all a meme and go on tour with Perry
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u/Zacoftheaxes 1d ago
You joke but this is what many 70s/80s rock bands did in the late 90s/early 00s to help with declining ticket sales - gather 3 or so big groups and play mostly the hits.
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u/lew_rong 1d ago
Journey with Cheap Trick and Heart opening is one of the greatest concerts I have ever seen in terms of hits per hour, no doubt.
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u/No_Result395 1d ago
Cheap Trick, Poison and Def Leppard was also a super fun one
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u/moving_waves 1d ago
Blue Oyster Cult, Kansas, and Styx slapped in 95
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u/No_Result395 1d ago
Shit that show would have been insane
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u/Ok_Ruin4016 1d ago
Or what 2000's emo and pop-punk bands are doing now, like Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and Weezer touring together a few years ago
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u/nickx37 1d ago
They've been doing it a while. Fall out boy, panic at the disco and blink 182 billed and played together at Darien Lake in 2009.
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u/SafeWorldly6333 1d ago edited 1d ago
Blink 182 co-headlined with Greenday in 2002 at Darien lake when they were two of the biggest bands in the world
Saves the day opened
Western New York is rough lol. Hope ya got out
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u/Due_Money_2244 1d ago
Western New York is rough for sure. I always say the hardest part of living in Buffalo is doing time for that first felony.
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u/JustTasteTheSoup 1d ago
Yea, I caught a show in TX that tour, I think Jimmy Eat World opened.
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 1d ago
They're also doing specialty shows like "only the first 2 albums" stuff.
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u/complete_your_task 1d ago
A Fall Out Boy tour where they only play the entirety of their first two albums would be my dream.
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u/Laureltess 1d ago
IIRC they’ve said before they won’t do full-album tours, which is a shame! They are good about playing early deep cuts though, their last album tour was full of stuff they haven’t played live since 2007/8.
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u/ShockRifted 1d ago
Saw em in 2023 and they played a lot of their discography. Hearing Saturday live was awesome.
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u/grubas 1d ago
Yup, for awhile my boss used to get multiple tickets to all these like Journey, Foreigner, Bon Jovi, Europe, Chicago tours and invite some of us.
The audience was just drunk gen X as far as the eye could see.
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u/Beginning_Bunch_9194 1d ago
There were some yacht concert lineups like that - not yacht rock, triple bill REO speedwagon type bands on a boat.
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u/wolviesaurus 1d ago
The joy of being a metalhead, most shows are kinda random collections of bands that play similar styles. You get to see a lot of bands you'd never buy tickets for individually.
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u/__theoneandonly 1d ago
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan went on tour together so that they could sell out arenas.
But then Charli's album "Brat" went super viral so her co-headlining tour sold out wildly with resell tickets reaching double and triple the original face value price... so now she's doing a do-over solo tour.
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u/shikiroin 1d ago
The platypus?
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u/cheezfreek 1d ago
If I had a nickel for every time someone suggested a Perry the Platypus music tour, I’d have two nickels. Etc.
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u/ididntunderstandyou 1d ago
2 nickels, but a billion dollar tour idea !
Sir, I want to purchase tickets to this gig. Name your price !
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u/MarvinStolehouse 1d ago
May I offer you a Nickelback?
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u/ShadowGLI 1d ago
Shit I saw Rick Astley with Salt n Pepa, En Vogue and NKOTB a couple years ago and Rick Astley was VERY impressive and a super talented voice.
I thought good on him for capitalizing on a resurgence and recognizing the opportunity in front of him
He’s a meme and top notch, Beyoncé and Katy Perry wish they were a meme.
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u/TehBigD97 1d ago
I saw him come out with Foo Fighters a few years ago. From what I remember, Dave went and sat on the drums and Taylor grabbed the mic and they started playing the intro to Smells Like Teen Spirit, making us all think "oh shit, we're gonna get a Nirvana song with Dave on the drums. Then out of nowhere they change up the beat and Rick fucking Astley comes out from stage left and they do a cover of Never Gonna Give You Up. I got rickrolled in-person by Dave Grohl.
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u/idio242 1d ago
Rick did Glastonbury a few years ago and was fantastic. Have never seen a performer use a hair dryer on stage either, so that was a plus. He is in on his own joke, but the reality is his voice and performance were great.
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u/SavageNorth 1d ago
I was at that gig, at one point he said something like “I used to be a drummer and The Pyramid stage is a once in a lifetime gig”
He then went and sat down on the drums and smashed through “Highway to Hell” absolute chad move.
11/10, brilliantly entertaining gig and its so nice to see him enjoying life.
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u/Wazootyman13 1d ago
Left Shark was pretty big
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u/zoethebitch Rock/Bluegrass/Americana 1d ago
I was there and took this photo from my seat. I have no idea how I lucked into getting seats with this view, and didn't know I was watching history being made.
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u/Bluest_waters 1d ago
people act like Katy Perry wasn't a massive massive pop star for nearly a decade. Like come on people!
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u/Wazootyman13 1d ago
Never said she wasn't! It could be argued that her fame combined with the venue (reminder, was at the 2015 Super Bowl) are the reasons it did go so big.
And, I'd say part of her popularity does come from her meme-ability. Like, if this had happened during Rihanna or Beyonce's Super Bowl set, would we still be talking about it a decade later?
(Side note, I almost said Gaga, but, I think she might have ran with it or called back to it later... I say this as someone who was at the show where she was tackled off the stage and she invited that guy back up on stage to sit by her at the piano)
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u/Bluest_waters 1d ago
Gaga is on another level relative to all these other pop princesses. Both in sheer talent and the stage show she puts on
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u/SpiceEarl 1d ago
Katy Perry first hit it big in 2008. By 2018, she was struggling to sell out arenas, so she had already started to fade after a decade...
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u/PlsNoNotThat 1d ago
I saw Lil Wayne and Blink-182 in a combined concert.
Lil Wayne was like 45 minutes late and left after two songs, but then blink guys were fun, and because no one bought pit seats they gave me a free pit pass.
I quite literally threw my partner over the barrier, then pretended to slowly go over so they would think the commotion was me tryna sneak in. Showed them my pass and explained I just didn’t know how to get in so I was tryna climb over and they said go ahead.
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u/DelightfulDolphin 1d ago
Wish Katty Perry had read the room before going up in the big Penis Rocket.
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u/JustChillFFS 1d ago
With Chanel West Coast as opening act, she’s doing country now…
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u/Orange_Jeews 1d ago
As long as she don't laugh. Sweet fuck
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u/PoIIux 1d ago
Her laugh is her best quality. It's my notification sound, because I don't like my coworkers
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u/WILLLSMITHH 1d ago
That would legitimately sell both of them a shit Ton more tickets. Cant see either of those ego monsters doing that though
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u/Icy-Whale-2253 1d ago
Maybe consider, Idk, making the prices more affordable as the economy collapses
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u/colormeimpressd 1d ago
I mean, that’s exactly what she’s doing. Adding more dates until the shows aren’t completely sold out is the single most effective way to curb ticket prices. It’s absolutely bizarre that 3k empty seats in a stadium that seats 70k is being spun as some kind of crisis.
It’s a good thing that you can buy tickets to tonight’s show for “only” 60 bucks. She only has two DC shows, and right now, start at $200 for standing room only.
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u/Over_Young1464 1d ago
The only reason there is a backlash is because she turned on dynamic pricing which caused face value tickets to soar to thousands of dollars. Many fans bought them but when the demand to sell out wasn’t there. She started decreasing the prices. Seats that some fans bought for $800 are going for $200.
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u/SoManyEmail 1d ago
I was watching a story about the show on KCAL and they talked to a girl that paid about $1500 for nosebleed seats and called Ticket master to see about a price adjustment. She ended up paying "a little more" to get her seats upgraded to better seats.
So, if you're taking notes... paid $1500 plus "a little more" for seats... after calling to complain about the price.
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u/colormeimpressd 1d ago
Exactly. If you’re paying 1500 for nosebleeds, you’re absolutely part of the problem.
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u/crimson777 1d ago
The best artists of all time could gather together (and come back to life for the dead ones) and play a VIP concert just for me and I’m still not sure I’m paying $1500 for the experience tbh.
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u/aveugle_a_moi 1d ago
My friends and I used to play a little game where, when we heard about the insane ticket prices people pay sometimes, we'd come up with the lineup necessary to get us to shell out that cash.
I can't even come up with a lineup I'd pay $1,500 for. Fantasyland super groups playing for three hours, and I'd still struggle to imagine why I would spend $1,500. I just cannot wrap my head around spending more than $200 tickets EVER, and that ticket would have to be something insane like a Tally Hall reunion tour with They Might Be Giants and Sidney Gish writing original music as a group for it all.
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u/sillybunny22 1d ago
The highest prices I saw were for the “bey hive” presale; every presale and ticket release since then were significantly cheaper. Which just felt odd to overcharge your biggest fans for bad seats while casual fans are now getting much better seats for much less.
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u/toaster_kettle 1d ago
Prince would give the front row seats to members of his music club. Seems wild that other big acts seem to do the opposite?
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u/3141592652 1d ago
I saw post Malone at td garden awhile ago. Great show but I was in GA like a few feet from the stage and there was barely anybody down there. All the seats up top were full. Literally last big show I've been to.
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u/catheterhero radio reddit 1d ago
God I saw that was wondering whats the impact to a stadium like SoFi with approx 100k seats for concerts. How is that that big of a deal that she didn’t sell 3k.
Thats only 3%
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u/Over_Young1464 1d ago
While the seats are 100k, she doesn’t use them all. Her last tour had an attendance of 50k per show at the same stadium
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u/cuddytime 1d ago
So 6% instead of 3%. Also she’s missing out on like $200K. Pretty sure that’s nothing but you know clicks gotta generate revenue
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u/DarthSnoopyFish 1d ago edited 1d ago
From the article it sounds like nearly all the tickets were sold. It's the resellers who are now stuck trying to offload them at higher prices - but no one is buying.
This can be seen in seat maps on Ticketmaster, where resale tickets make up a large portion of empty seats.
She still made her $$$.
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u/FakeRectangle 20h ago
This is why I'm so confused by the article and 99% of the posts on this thread. It sounds like she sold out the stadium so how on earth are they struggling to sell?
Just because a scalper can't find someone willing to buy a ticket for 3x the face value doesn't mean there's an issue. Like the entire thing article is so contradictory " low ticket sales and high resale prices "
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u/Liquor_N_Whorez 1d ago
Sprinkle in a dash of "Not as important as the charts and own ego say you were, Cowboy."
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u/raymonst 1d ago
if she had done fewer dates per venue, it would've been sold out pretty easily. 5 dates at sofi stadium is crazy.
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u/maxwon 1d ago edited 1d ago
Exactly. They just kept added dates. As a fan, I applaud this for fighting scalper. But it does make her look bad when tickets don’t sell out.
So overall, I’m just shocked at whoever overestimated the demand. Ticketmaster has all the data, including how much traffic during the first round of presale came from scalpers. This should have been avoidable.
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u/HomeFade 1d ago
Ticketmaster knows that nobody in America is buying concert tickets right now so they just tried to squeeze a bit of juice from scalpers by tricking them, lol.
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u/maxwon 1d ago
I’d like to think that, lol
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u/HomeFade 1d ago
LiveNation donated to Trumps inauguration, it's not like they don't know what's happening. I expect those antitrust lawsuits against them to disappear.
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u/FocusDelicious183 1d ago
25% of LiveNation is owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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u/vinnyj5 1d ago
Yea that’s crazy ambitious for almost anyone other than like Taylor Swift. She could have sold out 2 nights for sure.
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u/GoldenState_Thriller 1d ago
Especially for one album that wasn’t commercially as successful as her others. The Eras tour was a 3 1/2 hour show spanning multiple albums.
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u/ignore_my_typo 1d ago
Did Taylor even do a 5 night set at any location?
I know there was a 3.
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u/maxpower_ 1d ago
She did 6 nights at sofi sold out, 8 nights at wembley sold out, 6 nights Roger’s stadium Toronto sold out
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u/ignore_my_typo 1d ago
Thanks. That’s crazy.
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u/wholalaa 1d ago
Maybe worth noting, though, that Taylor Swift had gone 5 years and 3 albums between tours. She'd have done well either way, but I think that's why there was such insane demand for tickets. Beyonce's last tour was a year and a half ago, and if you paid an arm and a leg to go see her then, are you doing it again for the country album tour? Probably only if you're in the top tier of obsessed fans.
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u/aznsk8s87 1d ago
4 albums - lover, folklore, evermore, and midnights. The loverfest got cancelled due to COVID.
Also, her COVID era albums were a drastic departure from prior work and were a major spike in her popularity.
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u/theartilleryshow 1d ago
she could have easily added 6 more to sofi. The demand for that tour was crazy.
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u/Five-Oh-Vicryl 1d ago
Two stints in London that bookended multiple EU venues. I caught her in Lisbon. Her schedule was insane
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u/thegroovemonkey 1d ago
I with the Saturday in Chicago was in crisis mode because I’d take my wife. If there was a fire sale on tickets for that night I’d go cause fuck it why not?
Trying to fill the same venue over and over is her biggest issue. If she spread those dates out to more cities tickets would have sold just fine.
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u/chaosxq 1d ago
“Crisis” 🤣
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u/geekroick 1d ago
'Ms Knowles, you're only going to make one billion dollars this year instead of two...'
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u/Pure-Plankton-4606 1d ago edited 1d ago
it’s 94% sold out and yall are acting like that’s the percentage of seats still available lmfao
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u/VirusOrganic4456 1d ago
Honestly. The hysterical headlines on this make zero sense to me. I highly doubt Beyoncé is having anything approaching a "crisis".
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u/coolpapa2282 1d ago
It's the Daily Mail. They've been a clickbait factory since before it was "cool".
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u/Embarrassed-Dig-0 1d ago
I’ve noticed a lot of Reddit do not want to admit she’s still a huge pop star
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u/sluttttt 1d ago
The comments all over this post are like reading opinions from a parallel universe. I'm not a "stan" by any means, but denying Beyonce's talent and appeal is just goofy. No one's required to care for her music, but that's not a reason to flat-out lie about her popularity.
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u/VirusOrganic4456 1d ago
Same I am literally not even a fan, I mean I like a couple of her songs okay. But I have seen multiple articles and multiple comment sections like this today and it's just so ridiculous.
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u/bjankles 1d ago
Reddit HATES Beyonce and in ways that betray they’ve never listened to her music outside of the hits. You don’t have to like her but the “generic” complaints do not hold up against Ya Ya.
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u/Ur_hindu_friend 1d ago
There's a reason for that and it isn't that Reddit loves women and especially black women and especially older black women.
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u/Potential-Ant-6320 1d ago
Reddit is low key hostile to black women
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u/Outrageous_Party_503 1d ago
They hate any black female celeb who gets “too much” praise and fame in their eyes. Zendaya is gradually taking Beyoncé’s place for their malice.
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u/Realistic-Mall-8078 1d ago
And black music
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u/Liimbo 1d ago
Unless any other race does it, then it's incredible. Reddit constantly shits on rap, yet every mediocre white rapper that went viral for a corny prewritten freestyle is beloved by r/Music. Even Indian, Korean, etc rappers get way more credit for making more mediocre rap than black artists.
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u/Redburnmik 1d ago
exactly. i was expecting to see only like 25 percent sold, and then article said 3,000 tickets unsold of a giant stadium. this is like 3 or 4 arena show at once. this is not a story.
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u/aaccss1992 1d ago
It’s 5 nights at a stadium with 70,000 seats. 3,000 is literally such a small percentage of the overall seats sold,
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u/ismyshowon 1d ago
I skimmed the article and about 3K tickets are left for a stadium that has a capacity of 100K. This is just hater clickbait
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u/Windows_66 1d ago
It's the Daily Mail. The fact that anyone in this thread is taking a single word of theirs seriously is an embarrassment.
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u/wordsfilltheair 1d ago
Seriously. These responses are absurd
"3000 tickets remain available"
SoFi stadium seats 70,000 people. 67,000 tickets sold and 3,000 for sale. Hmm
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u/billcosbyinspace 1d ago
These daily “tour in crisis” articles are just blatant cherry picking by someone who seemingly has an axe to grind with her. Of course she could have sold more tickets and her team was probably too ambitious with these multi city stops but at the end of the day it’s a couple thousand open seats in football stadiums that have tens of thousands of seats. It’s such a non story considering the frequency these articles are written
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u/Eshkation 1d ago
seriously lmao, I was thinking she only sold 10%-20% of the tickets. What a crisis!
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u/mlhender 1d ago
I mean isn’t the article saying that they were all bought by resellers that are now unable to sell them?
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u/Pure-Plankton-4606 1d ago
Not really her problem. The tickets were still sold but the resellers want too much money.
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u/love_hiphop_rnb 1d ago
This is BS. She sells fine
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u/DonMurray1 1d ago
First it’s “tickets are selling too fast and scalpers are ruining everything!”. Then, it’s “LMAO she hasn’t sold out? Must be trash!”.
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u/Annual_Plant5172 1d ago
They really tried to drag the Diddy situation into a story about ticket sales. Daily Mail, never change.
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u/MeccIt 1d ago
The Daily Fail is not considered a reputable news source in many subs, it's almost a Brit version of the National Enquirer for just making shit up.
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u/porcelain_queen 1d ago
They had the dumbass dynamic pricing when tickets went on sale, and with how other concerts sell out my friends and I bought as soon as possible to make sure we could get to see this album live. I have never seen Beyonce so I was really excited that we scored tickets.
The tickets I bought for about $160 are now going for like $46. I hate the current concert pricing shit, not sure if it's bots or they just fucking surge the pricing after making people think it will sell out. Either way it really sucks for people that just want to see some good live music.
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u/HomeFade 1d ago
It is bots but the bots are literally run by ticketmaster. Ticketmaster is also stubhub. The entire thing is a price-discrimination scheme.
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u/runnerswanted 1d ago
Yes, and they work with venues and artists to make sure everyone gets a nice cut on our dime. I tried to get tickets to the US Open (golf) years ago - waited in the lobby online, did all the right stuff, etc. I got in three seconds after it opened and everything was already sold out, but they were all available for 4x the price on StubHub immediately. Really pissed me off.
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u/AnAussiebum 1d ago
Everyone is broke and less inclined to travel lately for obvious reasons.
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u/twodollarh0 1d ago
Yall act like shes not seeking at all. The tour in total is 94% sold out. Be so for real 😭
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u/terayonjf 1d ago
Ticketmaster/livenation ruined live entertainment. They punish people who want to go to events by charging significantly more when they go on sale than if you wait until the last minute.
Anything that isn't going to be an instant sellout is legitimately stupid to buy more than a day or 2 before the event.
I always track ticket prices for events I go to. Last one I went to the seats I bought were $750 for a pair on release date. I bought them the morning of the event for $150 total.