The Taylor Swift Ticketmaster Debacle, Explained

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to dive deep into the chaos of trying to buy tickets to Taylor Swift’s newly announced Era’s Tour. They discuss who is to blame for the Ticketmaster meltdown, detail the process of setting ticket prices for concerts, and speculate on how Taylor Swift could shake up the live-concert ticket system. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:06.0	did you get taylor swift tickets last week producer craig struck out but i got four nosebleeds for one of the five LA shows next
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1:15.1	And the tickets with all the stupid fees attached were about 150 bucks each, not terrible.
1:20.6	But I'm one of the lucky ones.
1:22.3	The Swifties were very upset.
1:24.8	The pre-sale to so-called, quote, verified fans that got in the virtual line or
1:29.8	were put on the waiting list was a huge fiasco. The ticket master site crashed under the weight
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