My Beyoncé Ticket Cost $4,000: Why the Touring Industry Might Be Broken

Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

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🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Content creator and head of the Beyhive Kalen Allen is more than OK spending four thousand dollars on one ticket for Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour. 2023 feels like a big year for huge stadium tours for artists like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Ed Sheeran and more. But why are tickets so expensive, and how much are fans willing to put up with in order to go? Sam talks with music journalist Nate Rogers about why the touring industry might just be broken and what lawmakers and some artists are trying to do to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and
0:06.0	justice produced with Vox Creative.
0:09.7	Thousands of Afghans were forced to flee their homes and fear for their lives when the Taliban
0:14.4	took control of Afghanistan in 2021.
0:17.9	The UK government pled to take in 20,000 of them as refugees, but in the first year, only
0:24.0	22 Afghans have been approved for asylum in the UK.
0:28.5	So what happened?
0:29.5	And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people left behind?
0:33.5	Hear that story on the latest episode of Into the Mix.
0:40.7	You're listening to Into it from Vulture and New York magazine.
0:43.5	I'm your host, Sam Sanders.
0:45.5	So then what level of a beehive member do you consider yourself to be?
0:48.9	Oh, I have Renaissance on vinyl.
0:50.7	Okay.
0:51.7	I've seen her live now five times.
0:54.2	And I am the kind of fan who knows that actually the best Beyoncé album is Beda.
1:01.2	Okay.
1:02.2	See?
1:03.2	I'm in.
1:04.2	I'm with you on that one.
1:06.2	That is Kaelin Allen.
1:07.8	You could call him the executive director of the beehive.
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