Taylor Swift Forces the US Government to Go After Ticketmaster

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Taylor Swift’s Eras tour tickets were slated to go on sale this month. It didn’t go as planned.

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Swift’s first tour since 2018, the 52-date trek will take her across America’s finest stadiums in the spring and summer of 2023.

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The singer-songwriter has published four albums in the last four years, including this year’s “Midnights,” and recorded and rereleased two others owing to a contract disagreement with her former company.

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Swift is one of the most successful singers on the planet; following the album’s release, eight tracks from “Midnights” charted in the Billboard Top Ten.

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Demand for the tour is at an all-time high, and Ticketmaster (LYV) – Get Free Report has a Pre-Verified system that it claims is designed to help get tickets into the hands of true fans.

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However, when the pre-sale for verified fans began, Swifties encountered lengthy lines in the Ticketmaster queue. According to reports, the website also failed many times

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In a statement, the business stated that “historically enormous demand” had resulted in “intermittent difficulties” that it was “urgently” working to resolve.

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Many fans were irritated because they were unable to obtain tickets, which quickly became available on second-hand resale markets such as StubHub,

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One floor seat at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium sold for $21,600. Ticket prices for regular admission began at $49, with VIP packages beginning at $199.

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