“The Eras Tour”
Over $90,000 for a ticket: Black market prices for Taylor Swift tour soar to the absurd
Earlier in November, Taylor Swift announced her new tour via Instagram as “a journey through the musical phases of my career (past and present!)”.
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Taylor Swift will be touring again in 2023. If you didn’t get a ticket for the USA gigs super fast, you have to dig deep into your pockets.
Taylor Swift (32) recently expanded her upcoming “The Eras Tour”. As the US singer announced, a total of 52 appearances are planned for 2023.
All newly announced concerts will take place in US cities that were already part of the tour. Now she’s on stage at least two or three times in every city. A total of five concerts are planned for the end of their tour in Los Angeles.
“Swifties” paralyzed the ticket platform
Millions of Taylor Swift fans flocked to the Ticketmaster website, which was supposed to handle ticket sales, on Tuesday to secure good seats on the singer’s first tour in five years. This led to repeated failures and long online waiting times, as reported by the British Guardian.
The ticket sales site said when asked that there had been “historically unprecedented demand”. This had caused “temporary problems” that the company was working flat out on.
Fans, in turn, reported waiting in online queues for up to eight hours to purchase tour tickets, which cost between $49 and $449 each, according to the Guardian.
Tickets for the Las Vegas show are trading at over $90,000
While pre-sale tickets were initially only available to Swift fans listed as “verified fans,” some of the tickets soon went on sale on dedicated resale sites for up to $22,700 each. The current black market price for a ticket – for example for the show in Las Vegas on March 24, 2023 – is an incredible $91,708 (88,200 euros).
In early November, Swift called her new tour on Instagram “a journey through the musical phases of my career (past and present!)”. She was last seen live on her “Reputation Stadium” tour in 2018 and gave a total of 53 concerts.
Sources: Guardians, Ticket Exchange StubhubSpotOn