It’s hard to believe these venues will find buyers: Ticket prices for Taylor Swift’s upcoming US tour are skyrocketing on resale sites, reaching insane amounts. On the specialized sites StubHub and Viagogo, many tickets exceed 1,000 euros. A usual cost for these platforms, but some exceed 16,000 euros, and even reach 91,708.
The official ticket pre-sale was held Tuesday on the Ticketmaster website. The original cost ranged between 49 and 449 dollars (between 47 and 431 euros) depending on the placement, according to the guardian. To prevent scalping, Ticketmaster had set up a system that favored the singer’s proven fans, a precaution that obviously wasn’t enough.
Very quickly, millions of Internet users rushed to make these pre-sales, an “unprecedented request in Ticketmaster’s history,” according to a press release from the site.
the guardian He specifies that “intermittent concerns” have resulted from this that complicate purchases: some fans have claimed to have waited in virtual queues for hours, and pre-sales for certain concerts have been postponed for several hours.
years of waiting
This 52-date US tour titled The Tour of the Ages, which will start in March and end in August, is the subject of particular enthusiasm. In the first place because it follows the commercial triumph of midnight, Taylor Swift’s tenth album released on October 21, but also because it will be the singer’s first tour in five years. International dates will be announced soon, according to the artist’s official website.
the lovers festival, his last tour scheduled for 2020, had been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, Taylor Swift has released three original albums (Folklore, Increasingly Y midnight) and two re-recordings of his earlier works (Bold Y Red), all successful, without being able to defend any of them on stage.
So for her return to the stadiums, Taylor Swift has opted for a tour that will celebrate her 17-year career, with a retrospective of all her albums.
Source: BFM TV
