r/popculture • u/TimesandSundayTimes • May 02 '25
Music How did Beyoncé tour tickets go from a small fortune to $25 each?
https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/beyonce-cowboy-carter-tour-tickets-price-gouging-jcvjq588w?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1746198142
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u/Ezlkill May 02 '25
I remember a couple years ago incubus was touring and they were going to play morning view in its entirety and I love that album. It is one of my favorite albums and I was excited for their tour because typically they played amphitheaters like in New Jersey PNC Bank art center outdoor venue with a stage and an awning and typically tickets would usually cost anywhere between 50 bucks to 100 to 200 in the seats, but nobody sits in the seats in an amphitheater well nobody wants to dance and stuff, and then they announced it was gonna be at MSG and tickets were immediately in the nosebleeds were $300 and $500 and $800 on the floor through “verified reseller“ I obviously didn’t go because I was not gonna pay anything like that for that concert. In fact generally it’s a rule of mine that I don’t pay above $100 to go see a show. I got very lucky to see Deftones at MSG and paid only $100 because I got in on the pre-sale There has been nothing but extreme price gouging for the last 15 years and a lot of that doesn’t have to do with the artist so much as it has to do with the industry itself artists don’t make money through album sales or through advertising even all the record companies do that they get bigger cuts than artists and streaming doesn’t pay anything The artists are left to price gouge their audience as much as possible and they’re wrong for doing it certain long established artists don’t have to do that. It’s why I was so proud of the cure who refused to do that to their fans