Thanks to a web of exclusivity contracts with artists and venues, consumers usually have to go through Ticketmaster to see the artists they want to see. In 2019, Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation agreed to settle with the DOJ over antitrust violations and extend terms of its regulatory decree (basically, a set of antitrust agreements that the DOJ made Live Nation promise to abide by in order to allow the merger happen). This week, the New York Times reported that the Department of Justice is reportedly going to open an antitrust investigation into Ticketmaster. Brown explains that merger gave Ticketmaster a virtual monopoly over ticket-buying consumers, artists like Swift, and the venues where they play. It’s part of a coalition of organizations called “ Break Up Ticketmaster” that seeks to undo the 2010 merger between Ticketmaster and concert promotion company Live Nation. The AELP is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that focuses on dismantling monopolies and lobbies to assert antitrust laws. Krista Brown, a senior policy analyst at the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP), explained to me, this Swift failure is a symptom of a bigger problem. Swift issued a statement on social media saying that she and her team asked Ticketmaster repeatedly if they could handle the volume and intensity of her fandom, and compared the ragged experience to “several bear attacks.” On the surface, the problem looks like a classic case of Ticketmaster not being able to keep up with the demand. Millions of devoted fans were shut out of buying tickets altogether. Ticketmaster said on November 17 that it would not even be selling tickets to the general public. The fans that got through - via a system of presale codes and designated purchase times - ran into numerous malfunctions, some being told to wait hours to be able to spend hundreds of dollars on seats. Over the past week, that giddy anticipation liquefied into bleak, resentful disappointment as tickets became increasingly difficult to purchase.Īccording to Ticketmaster, there were approximately 14 million users on the site at once during the presale push, and the company sold 2.4 million presale tickets. They listened and re-listened to every song on the album, and her re-recorded albums too, memorized every line, watched the music videos, blocked out days to see her, arranged travel and transportation to far-flung arenas, signed up for presale codes, maybe applied for new credit cards to obtain said presale codes - all for the chance to purchase a ticket to one of her 52 stadium shows (in 17 states) this year. Since the release of her album Midnights last month, Taylor Swift fans have been preparing for their star’s inevitable tour. Many of her tour dates, including her last two in New York, are sold out.There’s something deeply wrong in Taylor Swift’s America. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised Swift handled her wardrobe malfunction like a pro, as her hugely successful Speak Now tour has outsold Paul McCartney’s tour making her the top selling summer tour. The back of her skirt stayed folded up for a bit before she brushed it down. She quickly brushed her skirt down, without missing a note in the song. Some people are calling them granny panties, but watch the video below and you can decide. She must have suspected this might happen, as she was wearing tan, full coverage underwear or Spanx. “Someone pointed in the wrong direction,” a close pal reveals. Swift walked on stage wearing a knee-length, floaty gown and started singing, You Belong with Me, when a gush of wind blew her dress up, revealing her underwear! Louis during her Speak Now tour – and one fan caught it all on video! Taylor Swift had a Marilyn Monroe moment when her blue dress blew up while performing live in St.
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