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WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee will hold a hearing on Jan. 24 on the lack of competition in the ticketing industry after Ticketmaster's problems managing the sale of Taylor Swift concert tickets. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing is titled "That’s The Ticket: Promoting Competition and Protecting Consumers in Live Entertainment." "We will examine how consolidation in the live entertainment and ticketing industries harms customers and artists alike." Consent decrees are often used to prohibit potentially anticompetitive practices or impose other requirements as a condition of merger approvals. A previous Ticketmaster dispute with the Justice Department culminated in a December 2019 settlement extending the consent agreement into 2025.

☆ What to know about 'Naatu Naatu,' the song that beat out Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga at Golden Globes
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Brahmjot Kaur | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

“Naatu Naatu,” a song from the hit Telugu-language film “RRR,” was the unexpected and historic winner for best original song at the Golden Globes Tuesday, beating out Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Rihanna. Majumdar said she was surprised but thrilled “Naatu Naatu” took home the award. “Earlier, that was seen as a feature that was strange about Indian cinema. Keeravani accepts the Best Original Song award for "Naatu Naatu" from "RRR" during the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Tuesday. “When I envisioned the ‘Naatu Naatu’ song,” Rajamouli told Variety.

☆ 'M3GAN' is an internet star thanks to her TikTok-esque dance. Director Gerard Johnstone calls the viral reaction 'unbelievable.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Kahlan-Rosenblatt.Jpg | Kalhan Rosenblatt | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Before she ever hit the big screen, M3GAN was a social media icon. The killer android doll is the star of the film "M3GAN," which released nationwide Friday. Models perform the viral dance at a special screening of "M3GAN" in New York on Wednesday. Like other viral phenomena before it, M3GAN’s social media success was a happy accident — something Johnstone didn't see coming. "That’s incredible”He credits some of the film's early praise to social media buzz.

☆ A solo Ticketmaster might attract financial fans
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Jennifer Saba | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

NEW YORK, Dec 15 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The drums are beating louder for a breakup of Live Nation Entertainment (LYV.N). For Live Nation, it’s not entirely clear that the flywheel is spinning smoothly. Live Nation says it is so dominant because it’s so much better than the competition. Putting the complicated legal and regulatory questions aside, there’s probably a financial case for Ticketmaster to become a solo act. Live Nation merged with Ticketmaster in 2010.

☆ Taylor Swift set to make her feature directorial debut
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Taylor Swift’s about to yell action! The singer-songwriter will make her feature directorial debut with Searchlight Pictures, the studio announced. Swift also wrote the original script for the movie, which will be produced by Searchlight. The film is also eligible for the short film category at the upcoming Academy Awards. Searchlight has made Oscar winners like Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” and Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland.”

☆ Congress wants to grill Live Nation’s CEO over the Taylor Swift Ticketmaster fiasco
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( David Goldman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

It also wants answers about how Ticketmaster plans to improve in the future. Swift’s Eras tour kicks off March 17 and will have 52 concerts in multiple stadiums across the United States over five months. In its letter to Rapino, the committee also said it wants information about the fees Ticketmaster charges customers. Rapino and Live Nation have caught the ire of Congress before. Senator Amy Klobuchar criticized Ticketmaster in an open letter Rapino in the days following the ticket snafu, saying she has “serious concerns” about the company’s operations.

☆ Didn’t Get Taylor Swift Tickets? There’s a Few Things You Can Do
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Neil Shah | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Unprecedented demand for Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” has caused a frenzy amongst her passionate fans. Millions of Taylor Swift fans missed out on concert tickets due to an unprecedented surge of demand that crashed ticket-selling websites. So what can fans do now to see her “Eras Tour”? For starters, they can prepare to pony up and lose some sleep hunting for tickets.

☆ Where can you buy Taylor Swift tour tickets? Not Ticketmaster
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( James Skoufis | James Skoufis Is A Democratic New York State Senator Representing The Hudson Valley. In | He Undertook A Legislative Investigation Into Predatory Ticketing Practices | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Ticketmaster is, yet again, pointing blame at literally everyone but itself after the latest debacle involving tickets for Taylor Swift’s 2023 “Eras” concert tour. Federal anti-trust regulators never should’ve allowed the company’s 2010 merger with Live Nation — and should course-correct by breaking up Ticketmaster. It’s likely that at each of Taylor Swift’s 52 upcoming concerts, thousands of tickets will be “held back” and never released to the general public. Even if you do secure a ticket, fees are out of control. “I should not be left to my own devices,” sings Taylor Swift.

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☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ snubbed at Grammys? Here’s what really happened
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The Grammy nominations are always fodder for surprises and snubs, but in the case of Taylor Swift, it’s not what it may appear. Swift was already the most streamed artist over a 24-hour period on Spotify and good luck getting tickets to her upcoming tour. So some are asking why her newest collection of songs was not nominated for a Grammy on Tuesday. Turns out the deadline to be considered for a Grammy nomination this year was October 1 and Swift’s album was released a few weeks after that. Swift received for four nominations including song of the year for “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (The Short Film).”

#TaylorSwiftTix” one fan wrote, echoing the frustration of thousands of “Swifties,” the nickname for diehard Swift fans, vying to see their favorite artist in her first concert tour since before the pandemic. Backlash against the ticketing companies has also grown: When a major artist announces a tour, fans inevitably complain on social media about Ticketmaster’s high fees and unchecked scalping. Users shared screenshots of emails from Ticketmaster that said “Your invitation to TaylorSwiftTix Presale powered by Verified Fan.” “You’ve been selected!” the email reads. As for the Swift ticket sales chaos on Tuesday, Ticketmaster urged fans on Twitter to avoid going through its homepage to get tickets. "If you received a code to the TaylorSwiftTix Presale, please login and access the queue through the link you received via text rather than entering through the Ticketmaster homepage," Ticketmaster tweeted.

☆ Taylor Swift’s Concert Ticket Sales Plagued by Ticketmaster Delays
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Anne Steele | Ashley Wong | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Taylor Swift’s 52-date run is slated to be her most extensive U.S. stadium tour to date. A rush to buy tickets for Taylor Swift ’s first tour in five years—and five albums—left fans scrambling and distraught Tuesday as Ticketmaster’s system was overwhelmed in markets across the U.S. and would-be buyers waited in long lines. Live Nation Entertainment Inc.’s Ticketmaster site, which is selling tickets for the 2023 tour via a system meant to give preferential treatment to longtime fans, crashed in New York and other cities amid a crush of fans trying to snap up what industry executives have anticipated will be the hottest tickets since the lift of pandemic restrictions on the live touring business.

Announced shortly after her latest album, "Midnights," dropped on October 21, the Eras Tour is Taylor Swift's first stadium concert since 2018's Reputation Tour. Here's a full breakdown of the schedule, presale dates, general sale details, and ticket pricing for the Taylor Swift Eras Tour. Taylor Swift Eras Tour Tickets Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour kicks off on March 18 and will hit 20 cities across 35 dates. Taylor Swift Eras Tour Tickets Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour kicks off on March 18 and will hit 20 cities across 35 dates. How much are Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets?

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘The Eras Tour’ Will Hit 20 U.S. Cities
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Joseph Pisani | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Taylor Swift has released four new albums since 2017’s “Reputation,” but none have been performed on tour. Taylor Swift is heading out on tour next year for the first time in nearly five years. “I can’t WAIT to see you. It’s been a long time coming,” Ms. Swift said in a tweet.

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ sees biggest album debut week in nearly 7 years
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

In streaming, Swift scores the third-largest streaming week for an album, by total on-demand official streams (549.26 million), and also logs the biggest streaming week for a non-R&B/hip-hop album and any album by a woman. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 110,000 equivalent album units earned (down 49%) after scoring the top spot a week prior. 6 in its debut week with 37,500 units (of that total, 28,500 units consist of album sales). 7 with 37,000 equivalent album units earned. 8 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%) and Beyonce’s former No.

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Breaks Album Sales Records in First Week
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Anne Steele | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Taylor Swift is the only artist to sell at least a million copies in a single week for five different albums. Taylor Swift ’s newest album marked her biggest debut yet, a feat in the streaming era as fans snapped up the music digitally and purchased a record amount of vinyl. “Midnights” sold 1.58 million copies across formats, according to Luminate Data, formerly Nielsen Music, delivering it to the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart with the biggest sales week of the year—and the biggest sales week since Adele ’s “25” seven years ago.

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ video edited to remove ‘fat’ reference after criticisms
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Taylor Swift’s music video for “Midnights” lead single “Anti-Hero” has been edited to remove a scene that shows her stepping on a bathroom scale that read “fat.”The music video on Apple Music appears to no longer shows the scale, instead, Swift’s anti-hero clone just looks at her with a face of disappointment. The music video on YouTube still features the scale displaying the word “fat.”Contacted by Variety, reps for Swift and Apple Music did not immediately have a comment. “But the way that Lana (Wilson, the film’s director) tells the story, it really makes sense. I’m not as articulate as I should be about this topic because there are so many people who could talk about it in a better way. If I was given a punishment, I registered that as bad.”

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ Music Video Cuts ‘Fat’ Scene Following Backlash
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A screen-grab of the bathroom scale scene from Taylor Swift’s music video for ‘Anti-Hero’ on YouTube. A scene was removed from Taylor Swift ’s “Anti-Hero” music video during which she stepped on a scale that read “fat,” a segment some critics called fatphobic. In the video, which was released on Oct. 21, Ms. Swift goes through a series of what she calls her nightmare scenarios. The moment in question involved her stepping on a scale in a bathroom before a camera zooms into the reading, which has no numbers and just says “FAT.”

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Has Already Moved a Million Copies. And Her Opening Week Isn’t Even Over Yet.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Neil Shah | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” is having a monster opening week—one that could prove to be the largest of her entire career. The pop star’s new album, which came out Friday, has moved over 1.2 million units in the U.S. in its first three days of release, according to initial numbers from Luminate, the data tracker behind the Billboard music charts. The album’s final tally is expected to be even higher, since Luminate’s tracking week goes through this Thursday, Oct. 27. On Sunday, “Midnights” is all but certain to top the latest Billboard album chart with the biggest sales week of the year.

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ music video appears to have been edited on one platform amid backlash
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The backlash against one moment in Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” music video appears to have prompted an edit on at least one platform. The video, which was written and directed by the singer, is meant to portray Swift’s “nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts,” according to her Instagram. The version of the video featured on Apple Music no longer cuts to the word, a moment some body positivity advocates construed as fatphobic. The YouTube version of the music video still featured the controversial scene as of Wednesday afternoon. In her 2020 documentary “Miss Americana,” Swift said unflattering pictures and unkind comments about her figure would sometimes “trigger me to just starve a little bit – just stop eating.”The controversial moment in Taylor Swift's music video, 'Anti-Hero' from the album 'Midnights'.

☆ 6 things Taylor Swift has taught me about living well
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Over that time, here is what I’ve learned from Taylor Swift about living better. Taylor Swift performs at the 41st Annual Country Music Association Awards, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007, in Nashville, Tennessee. When “Taylor Swift is canceled” was trending on Twitter, she turned the experience into an album. I’ve learned from Swift not to take life too seriously and to be the first to laugh at my blunders. Many young people growing up alongside Taylor Swift have learned so much as she shares her growth with us.

☆ Penn Badgley channels 'You' character in his TikTok debut
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

CNN —Penn Badgley got a killer star on TikTok. The actor channeled his “You” character, serial killer Joe Goldberg, for his debut post Monday. In his TikTok post, Badgley is seen running to the door. When he opens it, Badgley is there, dressed like his “You” character. Badgley as himself lip syncs, “Hi” before the Goldberg character drops the lyric, “I’m the problem, it’s me.”His followers went wild, including Swift who dropped an “OMG” with the starry eyed emoji in his comments.

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ is already breaking records, of course
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

On TikTok, the hashtag “Gaylor” has more than 264 million views; the term refers to Swift fans who subscribe to the theory that she is queer. Fans have gone down these rabbit holes before, speculating over other hints across Swift’s songs, music videos and social media posts. Previous Easter eggs discovered by fans include the album title for “Lover” hidden in the background of the music video for “Me!” ahead of the album title’s announcement. “I think a lot of people have to deal with this now ... because we live in the era of social media,” Swift said. In a 2019 interview with Vogue, she addressed why she made her support for the LGBTQ community more visible.

☆ Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ album is out. So, what’s the verdict?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Toyin Owoseje | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Taylor Swift is endorsing late nights with her first original album in two years. The 11-time Grammy Award winner unveiled her 10th studio album, “Midnights,” on Friday, following a surprise announcement at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. Taylor Swift performs onstage during NSAI 2022 Nashville Songwriter Awards at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee on September 20, 2022. Another said: “Taylor Swift mothered so hard with Midnights no one will ever come close to her level of prodigiousness. “She’s playing with cadence and emphasizing the grain of her voice like never before … eventually you stop caring what’s drawn directly from Swift’s real life and what’s not,” he writes.

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