{"id":1834283,"date":"2023-02-03T14:19:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T19:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1834283"},"modified":"2023-02-03T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T19:21:43","slug":"senate-warns-ticketmaster-were-watching-beyonce-tour-ticket-sales-following-taylor-swift-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-warns-ticketmaster-were-watching-beyonce-tour-ticket-sales-following-taylor-swift-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Warns Ticketmaster \u2018We\u2019re Watching\u2019 Beyonc\u00e9 Tour Ticket Sales Following Taylor Swift Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-warns-ticketmaster-were-watching-beyonce-tour-ticket-sales-following-taylor-swift-debacle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1834283&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee warned Ticketmaster that they\u2019ll be watching what happens with ticket sales for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/beyonce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>\u2019s recently announced Renaissance tour.<\/p>\n<p>The committee\u2019s Twitter account said, \u201cWe\u2019re watching, [Ticketmaster],\u201d The headline announced the tour. Following a well-publicized catastrophe with ticket sales, the warning comes shortly after. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s Eras Tour last November.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019Re watching, ahref=&#8221;https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ticketmaster?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#8221;>@Ticketmaster<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LuWjoXrWX4\">https:\/\/t.co\/LuWjoXrWX4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senate Judiciary Committee (@JudiciaryDems) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryDems\/status\/1621191756531236866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multiple senators blasted Ticketmaster\u2019s parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, during a hearing about the ticket sales fiasco. This was spurred by allegations against Ticketmaster. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ticketmasters-botched-sale-of-taylor-swift-tickets-converted-gen-zers-into-anti-monopolists-ftc-chairman-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monopolized<\/a> After merging with Live Nation, the industry was transformed in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>When fans tried buying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/music-industry\">Tickets<\/a> The entire website crashed for the Eras Tour after people pre-registered. This caused some people to wait in line for hours and never get tickets. The general sale was eventually cancelled due to high demand.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Rapino, CEO of Live Nation, stated that they weren&#8217;t equipped to handle the demand Swift concert tickets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe invited a million and a half on that day to come and buy those tickets, but it\u2019s kind of like having a party,\u201d He a href=&#8221;https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/taylor-swift-finally-breaks-silence-after-eras-tour-ticket-fiasco&#8221;>explained<\/a>. \u201cEverybody crashed that door at the same time with 3.5 billion requests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sold 2 million tickets, the most we\u2019ve ever sold in one day in history, and another million tickets of other artists on the same day,\u201d Rapino continued. \u201cSo although we regret it was a slowdown in some queues and some error codes for a short period for some fans, we did manage to recover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis whole concert ticket system is a mess \u2014 it\u2019s a monopolistic mess,\u201d During the hearing, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D\u2013CT) spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) agreed. \u201cI believe in capitalism, and to have a strong capitalist system, you have to have competition,\u201d She spoke. \u201cYou can\u2019t have too much consolidation \u2013 something that unfortunately for this country, as an ode to Taylor Swift, I will say we know \u2018All Too Well.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Live Nation anticipates that ticket demand for the Renaissance tour will be high, but they\u2019ve put some new systems in place to help avoid what happened before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week, the company sent an email to its fans stating that there were a record number of pre-sale registers. \u201calready exceed the number of available tickets by more than 800%\u201d Some locations may not be available <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/03\/senate-warns-ticketmaster-were-watching-beyonce-tour-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Per<\/a> The New York Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is expected that many interested fans may not be able to get tickets because demand drastically exceeds supply,\u201d The email stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some measures used to facilitate the buying process include staggered sales and Verified Fan technology, which was also used for Swift\u2019s concert tickets. This is to prevent tickets being resold at high prices by third-party sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee warned Ticketmaster that they\u2019ll be watching what happens with ticket sales for Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s recently announced Renaissance tour. The committee\u2019s Twitter account said, \u201cWe\u2019re watching, [Ticketmaster],\u201d in response to a headline announcing the tour. The warning comes on the heels of a highly-publicized disaster with ticket sales for Taylor Swift\u2018s Eras Tour &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1834286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[15819,10896,5219,3740,7366,4656,7657,12073,12074,3633,14140,4419],"class_list":["post-1834283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-beyonce","tag-debacle","tag-sales","tag-senate","tag-swift","tag-taylor","tag-ticket","tag-ticketmaster","tag-tour","tag-warns","tag-watching","tag-were"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}