This is why artists and fans are turning on Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster and Live Nation agree to start showing ticket fees up front after meeting with President Biden
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With the return of major acts like Taylor Swift and Beyoncé to the tour circuit after many years, there's been a great deal of talk about the price of concert tickets recently. If you're one of the millions of fans who went through hell and back to try to buy a ticket, a process that Swift likened to "several bear attacks," then you know exactly why. Something is wrong with the concert ticket industry, and Ticketmaster is at the heart of it. Their decades-long domination of the US market is coming back to bite them as fans accuse them of price-gouging and exploiting their position.
The spread of harmful practices like dynamic pricing is concerning as Ticketmaster's reputation continues to take a beating in the court of public opinion.
Click through the following gallery for a breakdown of the Ticketmaster scandal, and the artists whose concerts have been affected.
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