Why are so many big tours selling poorly? Please read this…

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Yea I agree with that part. But have you noticed all these articles keep bringing up J Lo? Anyone with a brain knows she has no real fans outside of three cities. There was a Yahoo article about Justin Timberlake struggling and it's like yo....these artists are finished. The amount of legacy acts who can effortlessly do arena tours isn't long for pop. If you aren't Madonna or Janet Jackson you're probably gonna be in trouble, whether we look at 2024 or 2014.

So is it one of those situations in where those type of artist come to the realization that they need to start acting other acts to the tour to move tickets? I'm starting to see it more and more often these days with legacy acts.

 

[OJ Simpsom]

Too many middle men

 

[CHICAGO]

People also need to tour smaller theaters, not everyone needs an arena. I went to see Lauryn Hill and OutKast on the miseducation/aquemini tour - two of the biggest albums that year. That tour was a 4000 seat theater, way better than watching them in a 16,000 seat arena

I FEEL LIKE THE HARD KNOCK LIFE TOUR
WAS THE START OF HIP HOP ACTS
DOING ARENA TOURS





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[Sir Richard Spirit]

From reading the article it seems like Live Nation is putting acts in arenas who shouldn’t be in arenas. If fans buy the tickets cool, if not

The article even quotes Live Nation saying tickets sales are up. They don’t care. They get paid off the ticket and the food and everything in between.

 

[Sad Bunny]

You get more for your money at music festivals. 10+ music acts for the same price.


Only Usher, Chris Brown, Drake etc are only worth the expensive ticket prices.

And Bad Bunny

 

[Pressure]

We ain't trying to spend 600 on tickets and 300 on merch every month. fukk these tours and those prices.

 

[DeuceZ]

I have a story: A few weeks ago Norah Jones tickets went on sale for the Ravinia in Highland Park. I wanted to go because she is an international artist and doesn't tour like that. You see her now or you risk not seeing her period.

I stayed home because tickets were going on sale at 8am and they started at like $35. I'm literally in line from 7-something when the queue began until 8 am. What happened?

-Website lagged.
-I see whole rows of decent seats when it finally comes up, grab two seat, checkout.
-Wait 6 minutes
-"Tickets are no longer available in that section."
-Go through this two more times
-All tickets sold.

Go to work an hour later and see $35 tickets being sold for $200+. Front row seats with $1000+. I badly want to go see her, and I wanted to take my girl, but that would be almost $600 for two tickets. We are going to get the Chicago city pass to do 5 events (museum, boat, etc) for 135. The ticket sellers and bots have completely ruined the experience for me. Same happened with two other shows I wanted to see where the door prices vs resellers were waaaaay off. If I can buy at the door, I will go, but no more of this seatgeek type of bullshyt. I see tickets listed for one price and literally have to pay 8x that to actually get one.

I was looking to buy US Open tickets in presale... same thing happened. 80 tickets for 200+ for seats that should come with an oxygen mask no sir!

 

[The Guru]

unfunny comedians with podcasts seem to be selling well

 

[ISO]

Too expensive and too many shows

 

[Ribbs]

One thing that people don't really put into account of everything being expensive, what's the first thing you most likely would be willing to go without? It's probably entertainment. Between rent, food, gas, you name it, who can afford to go see a concert when the tickets, the drinks/food, merch, parking is all priced out? Especially when the quality of all these things aren't going up along with the price. A few years ago I'd have no problem with paying up for a band tee but now, a $50 tee is out of my budget.

This year I started buying albums of music acts who I've been fans of for a decade because I just can't see myself paying to see them in concert knowing it's going to cost too much.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

either you got the bread or you fukkin don’t and let keep it 5000… if your not on icon status people ain’t paying the high price of admission to go see ya show it’s that simple… unless your Tyler swift…

 

[At30wecashout]

I was looking to buy US Open tickets in presale... same thing happened. 80 tickets for 200+ for seats that should come with an oxygen mask no sir!

Bruh I'm sorry. US Open is one of those things 100% worth spending bread on so I feel you. I don't go to many shows and my last one was damn near 10 years ago. I didn't know the metagame now is to be ready to pay 3rd parties EVEN IF YOU WERE WAITING IN LINE FOR TICKETS VIRTUALLY.

I'm not about to set up a bot like oldschool Ebay just to cop tickets. If this is how that plays out, I won't see shows. Its nuts that the system is set up one way but actually goes another. Surge pricing type ish.

 

[david yow's jeans]

seems like every larger venue just sells out immediately and gets dropped on ticketmaster/stubhub/axs resale at 3x face value plus service portal markups. not going to pay $400/ticket for nosebleeds.

I also have zero desire to camp out on an app/website to hopefully a) get a ticket before the above happens or b) scour day-of discounts as the supply curve goes back to normal. can't imagine i'm alone in this.

 

[Day_Walker]

Oh lord.. tickets have gone up, but real expensive tickets you can afterpay..

Shyt aint gon kill you that much..sheesh

If you have to use afterpay to buy concert tickets your shouldn't be going.

 

[Lord Beasley]

the bubble will burst. and artists/management companies need to crack down like they did on mp3s.