Live Nation denied the Federal Trade Commission’s accusations that it worked with scalpers to make millions on resale tickets, but also told lawmakers that Ticketmaster would implement new safeguards to address several issues highlighted in the FTC lawsuit. As Billboard reports, Live Nation’s Executive Vice President Daniel M. Wall told …
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The U.K. government has “secured formal commitments” from Ticketmaster that it will be more upfront with fans about ticket prices following an uproar over the Oasis reunion tour on-sale last year. In a statement shared Thursday, Sept. 25, the Competition and Markets Authority said Ticketmaster will now “make sure fans …
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Jack Antonoff expressed his dismay with recent comments from Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino about concert tickets being “underpriced” with more room to rise, saying, ”This really breaks my heart and is a sick way of looking at it.” On X Thursday, Sept. 25, Antonoff shared some of Rapino’s comments …
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The live-entertainment industry in 2025 is defined by its contradictions. Concerts seem to be more popular than ever, yet for every successful run, there’s a growing number of tours being canceled for financial reasons. Post-Covid inflation has driven up prices everywhere, including the cost of putting on a great tour, …
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Live Nation and Ticketmaster have been accused of allowing scalpers to hoover up millions of tickets so they can be resold on Ticketmaster’s own resale platforms at a steep markups to customers. A new lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission and seven states accuses the country’s biggest concert promoter …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. If you want to “boogie, oogie, jiggle, wiggle, and dance,” there’s no better place to do it than at a Pitbull concert. Mr. Worldwide is hitting select cities …
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order today that takes aim at ticket scalpers and “rent-seeking behaviors surrounding the ticketing industry.” The order denounced scalpers for using “bots and other unfair means to acquire large quantities of face-value tickets” and reselling them at “an enormous markup on the secondary market, …
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Neil Young has pledged to eliminate high-priced “platinum” tickets from his future tours, the singer announced Saturday. Writing on his NY Archives site, Young said he was inspired by the Cure’s Robert Smith, a frequent critic of Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing” and “Platinum” offers — calling it “a “scam” that is …
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While Live Nation-Ticketmaster may have entered the year, as they called it, “hopeful” that Donald Trump’s presidency would bode well for its fight against the massive antitrust lawsuit filed by federal prosecutors last May, the company took a hit Friday when a Biden-appointed judge rejected its bid to dismiss a …
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Some Oasis fans hoping to see the band’s 2025 reunion tour have had their dreams “crushed” as Ticketmaster has begun canceling tickets the company believes were purchased via bots. According to the Guardian, Ticketmaster started the crackdown this weekend, with ticket buyers — many of whom claim to have legitimately …
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