Ticketmaster has again cracked the weight of Taylor Swift’s ticket sales — this time in France.
French fans prepared to buy tickets Tuesday for six concerts on Swift’s Hellas Tour in May and June 2024. 4 shows in Paris and 2 shows in Lyon — Ticketmaster’s website displayed a huge queue of customers looking to buy.One screenshot seemed to tell fans: 1,023,504 Shoppers lined up in front of them.
Ticketmaster coming soon announced Sales for those shows were said to have been “paused.” The company did not provide an explanation, but said it will announce a new sales date and that “codes that have not yet been used will remain valid.” However, some fan social media posts appeared to point to a technical error on Ticketmaster’s website, which included a “keep spinning and spinning” progress icon. . 1 fan — speaks English with an American accent, but your shopping cart contains tickets worth €762 — put it in.
Representatives for Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment did not respond to requests for comment.
The situation in France looked like a frustrating repeat of the problems that plagued the Swift’s North American presale in November. At that time, the influx of millions of fans and bots overwhelmed Ticketmaster’s system, with fans reporting problems such as tickets disappearing from shopping carts before they could be purchased. I was able to purchase it. As a result, Ticketmaster suspended general sales, but the company also Said More than 2 million tickets for the tour were sold in one day.
Problems like those at Swift’s presale in November and long-simmering concerns about Ticketmaster and Live Nation’s market dominance led to a brutal Senate judiciary hearing in January. Senators from both parties flatly called the company a monopoly and were skeptical of executives’ explanations that Ticketmaster had failed to defend itself against an onslaught of bots during Swift’s presale.
“This is unbelievable,” Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn said at the hearing. “Why haven’t we developed an algorithm to distinguish between what is a bot and what is a consumer?” she added.
But demand for Swift’s tickets has been extraordinary, with sold-out arenas everywhere Swift plays and tickets fetching thousands of dollars on the secondary market. She will complete the North American leg of her tour next month, before playing in Latin America, Asia and Europe.
The Justice Department is conducting a separate antitrust investigation into Live Nation. The Department of Justice has denied the investigation, but Live Nation Chief Executive Michael Rapino said: talked Be open about it.
