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We’ve got you covered if you’re looking for how to get tickets to Rascal Flatts’ 2025 concert tour. How to buy tickets for Rascal Flatts’ 2025 concert tourYou can buy standard original tickets to Rascal Flatts’ 2025 concert tour on Ticketmaster. Prices for tickets to Rascal Flatts’ 2025 reunion tour vary depending on the date, location, and demand for each show. Meanwhile, resale tickets for Rascal Flatts’ 2025 Life Is a Highway Tour are generally comparable to or cheaper than standard original tickets. The available VIP packages include the Rascal Flatts Hot Ticket Package (starting at $200), Rascal Flatts VIP Lounge Experience (starting at $315), and Rascal Flatts Premium VIP Lounge Experience (starting at $415).

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With their upcoming concert dates having already gone on sale, there are a few ways to buy Aespa tickets for their 2025 tour. We’ve got you covered if you’re looking for how to get tickets to Aespa’s 2025 concert tour. Aespa 2025 tour scheduleSo far, Aespa has 14 gigs booked in North America and Europe throughout 2025. How to buy tickets for Aespa’s 2025 concert tourYou can buy standard original tickets to most dates on Aespa’s 2025 tour on Ticketmaster. Ticket prices to see Aespa on their 2025 concert tour vary depending on the date, location, and demand for each show.

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New Delhi CNN —Fans eagerly awaiting the return of Coldplay to India were shocked to find tickets being resold online for as much as $11,000, prompting police to seek a statement from the CEO of the shows’ vendor over allegations of fraud. Tickets were scheduled to go on sale by the official vendor, BookMyShow (BMS), at 12 p.m. local time on September 22. Amit Vyas, a lawyer and founding partner of Mumbai law firm Vertices Partners, was among fans waiting for tickets on the vendor’s website when he was suddenly locked out. The complaint was in connection with the alleged sale of fake tickets for concerts on certain platforms, according to CNN affiliate News18. Coldplay fans told CNN their attempts to buy tickets to January’s shows at DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai left them frustrated and disappointed.

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Shortly after announcing North American tour dates, the band said it will not be participating in dynamic pricing. Dynamic pricing occurs when a ticket seller adjusts the cost of a ticket in real time based on live demand. The band's announcement comes after the U.K. government scrutinized Ticketmaster and its dynamic pricing model in relation to the sale of Oasis concert tickets. Some music fans feel that fandom and devotion should be considered when granting ticket sale access. Oasis said in a news release that it plans to take the tour to "other continents outside of Europe and North America later next year."

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☆ Oasis announce US tour dates
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —To borrow from one of their song titles, Oasis has decided to “Acquiesce” to their North American fans who want to get in on their reunion tour. The British rock band has announced an expansion of their 2025 tour, which now includes dates in the US. “Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing model will not be applied to the forthcoming sale of tickets to Oasis concerts in North America,” a statement from the band’s management shared on Instgagram reads. Presale registration for the North American tour is currently available on Oasis’ website until Tuesday at 8 a.m ET, while the general ticket sale will begin at noon Friday local time. The band plans to also tour outside of Europe and North America.

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☆ Visa is being sued for illegal monopoly that adds to the price of ‘nearly everything’
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —The US Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing Visa of illegally monopolizing the debit card market. The antitrust suit is one of several major actions taken by the Justice Department recently. It also comes just three years after the Justice Department sued to block Visa from merging with financial technology startup Plaid. According to the new complaint against Visa, which was filed in federal court in New York, more than 60% of debit transactions in the country take place on Visa’s debit network. Visa, in turn, is able to charge more than $7 billion in processing fees on those transactions, the department says.

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☆ Oasis tickets: Ticketmaster probed in the UK over concert sales
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Hanna Ziady | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —Britain’s competition watchdog is investigating Ticketmaster over concerns the company treated customers unfairly when selling tickets to the upcoming Oasis reunion tour. The authority will also consider whether people were pressured to buy tickets quickly at a higher price than they understood they would have to pay. One individual posted on X that he had waited five hours to buy tickets only to receive a message that read: “Your session has been suspended.”Fans should be “treated fairly” when buying tickets, CMA CEO Sarah Cardell said in Thursday’s statement. Ticketmaster faced public scrutiny in November 2022 for its handling of the massively popular Taylor Swift Eras Tour. It was also caught in controversy after a blunder relating to sales of tickets for a concert to celebrate the ascension of King Charles to the British throne.

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☆ Ticketmaster Confirms Data Breach. Here’s What to Know.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Sopan Deb | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ticketmaster confirmed in a federal filing on Friday that it was investigating a data breach after a hacking group known as ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for stealing the information of more than 500 million Ticketmaster customers. In the filing, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, said it had “identified unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database environment.”Who is behind the breach? ShinyHunters, a hacker group believed to have been formed around 2020, is believed to have been behind the breach. Brett Callow, a threat analyst with the cybersecurity company Emsisoft, said it was a “credible threat actor,” though not much more was known about the group.

Persons: ShinyHunters, Brett Callow, Emsisoft Organizations: Ticketmaster, U.S . Securities, Exchange Commission, Nation Entertainment

☆ If Live Nation gets busted up by the feds, we’ll have Taylor Swift to thank
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“It is time to break it up.”It is difficult to overstate just how thoroughly Live Nation, which acquired Ticketmaster more than a decade ago, controls live entertainment in America. Through Ticketmaster, Live Nation controls 80% of venues’ primary ticketing for concerts. There’s a fine line between vertical integration and all-out monopoly, and Live Nation is, at minimum, very clearly toeing it. Artists, fans and venues have been complaining about Live Nation and Ticketmaster pretty much since they agreed to merge in 2009. Live Nation, Wolfson said, is likely to come out swinging.

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☆ What the major Ticketmaster lawsuit means for you
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

But the Department of Justice says those complaints are just the symptom of a more fundamental problem with Live Nation. Live Nation, for its part, says even if the lawsuit succeeds, it won’t lead to cheaper ticket prices. An uncertain path forwardTo fix the issue, regulators say Live Nation must be broken up. But based on past criticism of Live Nation, one possible outcome at a minimum could be a spinoff of Ticketmaster. Better customer serviceComplaints about Ticketmaster and Live Nation are nothing new.

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☆ Live Nation, Ticketmaster’s parent company, sued in groundbreaking monopoly lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Brian Fung | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Washington CNN —The US government and dozens of states sued Live Nation in a groundbreaking antitrust lawsuit on Thursday, alleging that for years the parent company of Ticketmaster abused its industry dominance to harm concertgoers nationwide. It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster.”In a statement, Live Nation called the DOJ’s allegations “baseless.”“The DOJ’s lawsuit won’t solve the issues fans care about relating to ticket prices, service fees, and access to in-demand shows,” Live Nation said in a statement. The lawsuit highlights how regulators now believe, more than a decade on, that the behavioral modifications Live Nation agreed to have failed. According to the lawsuit, Live Nation directly manages more than 400 artists, controls around 60% of concert promotions at major concert venues across the country, and controls more than 265 concert venues in North America. And through Ticketmaster, the suit says, Live Nation controls roughly 80% or more of major concert venues’ primary ticketing for concerts.

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☆ U.S. Plans to Sue Ticketmaster Owner, Accusing It of Defending a Monopoly
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( David Mccabe | Ben Sisario | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Justice Department and a group of states plan to sue Live Nation Entertainment, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, as soon as Thursday, accusing it of illegally maintaining a monopoly in the live entertainment industry, said three people familiar with the matter. That helped the company maintain a monopoly, raising prices and fees for consumers and limiting innovation in the ticket industry, the people said. The government will argue that tours promoted by the company were more likely to play venues where Ticketmaster was the exclusive ticket service, one of the people said, and that Live Nation’s artists played venues that it owns. Live Nation is a colossus of the concert world and a force in the lives of musicians and fans alike. Its scale and reach far exceed those of any competitor, encompassing concert promotion, ticketing, artist management and the operation of hundreds of venues and festivals around the world.

Organizations: Justice Department, Live Nation Entertainment, Ticketmaster

☆ From Taylor Swift tickets to gasoline — these days everyone feels like they’re being price-gouged. Are they?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Elisabeth Buchwald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Taylor Swift performs onstage during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at SoFi Stadium on August 09, 2023 in Inglewood, California. At the core of the increasingly common accusation of price gouging is the sense that the consumer is being exploited. Price gouging is in the eye of the bidderGavin Roberts, chair of Weber State University’s economics department and who studies the effect of anti-price gouging laws, said the laws themselves often don’t define what price gouging is. Corporations charging as much as they can, as painful as it may be for consumers, doesn’t mean they’re necessarily price gouging, said Roberts. Steven Suranovic, an economics professor at George Washington University who has also published research on price gouging, sees it differently.

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☆ Senate subcommittee issues subpoena to Live Nation and Ticketmaster after Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | Morgan Rimmer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“Live Nation has egregiously stonewalled my Subcommittee’s inquiry into its abusive consumer practices—making the subpoena necessary,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, who chairs the subcommittee. Ticketmaster has drawn the ire of Congress since its botched handling of presale tickets for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. Pre-sale tickets for “The Eras Tour” frustrated Swift fans across the country in a debacle that stayed in the headlines for weeks. Lawmakers grilled a top executive of Live Nation in January in a three-hour hearing. “I want to congratulate and thank you for an absolutely stunning achievement,” Blumenthal said to Live Nation president and CFO Joe Berchtold during the January hearing.

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☆ Ticketmaster’s hidden fees remain common long after it vowed to scrap them
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Noah Pransky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

In this photo illustration, A Ticketmaster ticket is shown on a cellphone on November 18, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Klobuchar asked the company to provide an update on its price transparency efforts by Oct. 31. Live Nation didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on her letter. New York, Connecticut and Tennessee have each passed ticket transparency laws, requiring all ticket sellers to display total prices upfront in searches. As a result, Live Nation doesn't let venues hide fees in those states.

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The unparalleled enthusiasm helped propel “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” to a massive, first place debut between $95 million and $97 million in North America, AMC Theatres said Sunday. The two superstars posed together at the premiere of “The Eras Tour” earlier this week in Los Angeles. Political Cartoons View All 1211 Images“The Eras Tour,” directed by Sam Wrench, is not just playing on AMC screens either. Elizabeth Frank, the executive vice president of worldwide programming and chief content officer for AMC Theatres, said in a statement that they are grateful to Taylor Swift. The concert film offered fans both better seats and a much more affordable way to see the show for the first or fifth time.

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But “The Eras Tour” heralds something new and potentially game-changing in the movie industry. BTS earlier this year released a concert film, with higher ticket prices and limited showtimes. But “The Eras Tour” could be the start of an expansion of what, exactly, a movie theater can be. The movie, directed by Sam Wrench, would be a way for millions more to experience the Eras Tour. “The industry needs it and, frankly, so do consumers.”Meanwhile, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” is poised to become the biggest concert film ever in about two days of release.

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☆ Why Taylor Swift might have chosen theaters for the Eras Tour film's debut, according to experts
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —Taylor Swift’s fans know the greatest films of all time were never made, but that could be called into question come October 13, when her Eras Tour concert movie is set for release in North America. Experts say that choosing movie theaters for the Eras Tour film’s debut over the small screen is a move fitting of both Swift’s business acumen and relationship with her fans. Unlike her previous concerts, the Eras Tour has become a cultural phenomenon. Others seemed to have their own reasons for concern about the Eras Tour film release’s timing. The “Exorcist: Believer,” originally scheduled to be released on the same day as Swift’s film, moved it up a week.

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New York CNN Business —Taylor Swift’s era-defining “Eras” tour is flying like a jet stream, high above the music scene — by billions of dollars. The tour could gross $2.2 billion in North American ticket sales alone, according to August survey data from research firm QuestionPro provided to CNN exclusively. ‘An economic phenomenon’“Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras’ tour is rewriting the playbook of entertainment economics,” said Chris Leyden, director of growth marketing at SeatGeek. “She’s not just a performer — she’s an economic phenomenon.”The average resale price of an “Eras” ticket was $1,607, SeatGeek told CNN. Swift kicked off the highly-anticipated “Eras” — her first tour since her “Reputation” stadium tour in 2018 — in March.

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☆ How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Conquered the World
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Ben Sisario | More About Ben Sisario | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But Swift has also made each show a news event by adding two “surprise songs,” often with headline-grabbing guests. Music critics have portrayed the Eras Tour as showing Swift at the top of her game as a media-savvy, big-tent talent, a pop star with a knack for grand spectacle as well as the polished artistry of a classic songwriter. Shania Twain, the country-pop star whose career in some ways prefigured Swift’s, caught the Las Vegas stop of the Eras Tour, a 44-plus song production that goes as long as three and a half hours. She praised Swift’s “beautiful balance” of high-tech stagecraft and intimate performance segments. (Swift’s representatives declined to comment for this article.)

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☆ Ticketmaster halts tickets for Taylor Swift’s French concerts after another snafu
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Anna Cooban | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

London CNN —Ticketmaster has created more bad blood with Taylor Swift fans after its website glitched Tuesday, preventing thousands of Swifties from buying tickets for the singer’s upcoming concerts in France. Ticketmaster said on Twitter Tuesday that it had “put on hold” ticket sales for four dates of Swift’s hugely popular Eras Tour in Paris, including two dates in Lyon, both scheduled for spring next year. Responding to Ticketmaster’s tweet, one Twitter user said she had been “waiting hours.”“Will the ticket sales commence again today? It’s a problem Swift fans know all too well: The ticketing site crashed in November after millions of people flocked to the platform to try to snag Eras Tour tickets. In March, Ticketmaster ran into trouble again when some fans of the Eurovision Song Contest found they were unable to access the platform.

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☆ Ticketmaster Pauses Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Sale in France
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Ben Sisario | More About Ben Sisario | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ticketmaster has once again cracked under the weight of a Taylor Swift ticket sale — this time in France. As French fans prepared on Tuesday to purchase tickets to six concerts in May and June 2024 on Swift’s Eras Tour — four shows in Paris, two in Lyon — Ticketmaster’s website displayed a gigantic queue of customers ready to buy; one screenshot appeared to tell a fan that 1,023,504 shoppers were in line ahead of them. Soon, Ticketmaster announced that sales for those shows had been placed on “pause.” The company gave no explanation, but said that a new on-sale time would be announced, and that “all codes not already used will remain valid.” But some fans’ social media posts seemed to show technical errors on Ticketmaster’s website, including a progress icon that “keeps spinning and spinning and spinning,” as one fan — speaking English with an American accent, but with 762 euros’ worth of tickets in their shopping cart — put it. Representatives of Ticketmaster and its corporate parent, the concert giant Live Nation Entertainment, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Persons: Taylor Swift Organizations: Ticketmaster, Entertainment Locations: France, Paris, Lyon

☆ The agony and ecstasy of scoring last-minute face value Taylor Swift tickets
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“My family [last weekend] took the gamble to drive down the 5 hours to Nashville to see if we could get face value tickets,” she said. Another Twitter account called @ErasTourResell, which has 120,000 followers, has gained significant traction working with resellers who want to sell their tickets at face value. The trio of twenty-somethings aim to make Swift tickets as accessible to fans as possible without them overpaying or getting scammed. “So far we’ve posted somewhere between 2,700 and 3,000 tickets, all for face value,” the trio said in a DM conversation on Twitter. “It’s truly so rewarding seeing these tickets go to real fans for face value when the resale market has insane prices with people making three times the profit.

☆ Live Nation posts $3.1 billion revenue and record attendance despite controversies Live Nation posts $3.1 billion revenue and record attendance despite controversies
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Live Nation posted a record $3.1 billion in revenue – up 73% from last year – in the first quarter of 2023, despite possible regulation and tremendous fallout from botched Ticketmaster sales for the Taylor Swift Eras tour. In an earnings release, the ticket-industry giant said over 19 million people attended events across 45 countries in the first quarter. In a single day last November, more than two million Taylor Swift tickets were sold on Live Nation’s Ticketmaster, a record for any artist. Live Nation stock rose about 15% on the news, to close at about $77 a share. Congressional hearingsLawmakers grilled Live Nation president and CFO Joe Berchtold in a three-hour hearing in January, alleging the ticketing giant wields too much monopolistic control over the industry.

☆ Legislation Aims to Increase Live-Ticketing Competition
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Anne Steele | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Richard Blumenthal and Amy Klobuchar are sponsoring the Unlock Ticketing Markets Act. Photo: Tom Williams/Zuma PressSenators on Wednesday introduced legislation aimed at improving competition in live ticketing by preventing ticketing companies from locking up venues in long-term exclusive contracts. The move follows a Senate hearing in January on Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift ticketing problems last fall. The Unlock Ticketing Markets Act, sponsored by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.), would allow the Federal Trade Commission to prevent the use of “excessively long” multiyear exclusive contracts with event venues that the senators say lock out competitors, discourage innovation of new services and increase costs for fans.

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