This isn’t correct. This is what artists have convinced you is the case. The truth Ticketmaster has utilized dynamic pricing to maximize pain point for consumers having nothing to do with resale market. They keep prices as high as humanly possible for initial purchase because they know if it falls apart they can lower them to a level they need to to address the market or if it sustains keep them high. This flexibility makes it so they don’t have to estimate what is actually affordable. Instead they can concentrate on target numbers. The truth is the resale market usually fixes these things. Often at prices lower than tm itself. But it also does several other important things. It makes ur favorite artist viable. As much as u love to believe most artists crush box offices, it’s just not true. The majority of concerts would fail miserably without some of the resale market driving enthusiasm and ticket sales. Secondly ur favorite artist signs contracts that make seats premium to make money. They need them bought to keep touring as the most profitable aspect of musicianship currently. Bigger artists are of course fine but you’d be surprised how small a number bigger artists comprises. The market heat resale generates and the scarcity factor created makes a show a hot ticket. The fact is all components of the free market work in tandem to give the best experience. Ur 500 is charged whether the resale exists or not if fans will pay 500. Stop falling for artists nonsense about the market being driven up by such. It begins and ends with the manipulations of contracts and the ticket company itself.
The fix is relatively simple. Kill dynamic pricing. Force Ticketmaster to accurately assess an artists value and don’t give them the loophole of adjusting on the fly. They will set more reasonable pricing and that will filter through the entire ticketing market. If they choose to set it to high that concert will fail and hurt their bottom line. If they have to assess with profitability in mind we will get cleaner more respectable prices across the board. Relegate to the primary ticket companies only and the resale market will become equally more reasonable as a result.
Yea my lower bowl ticket came out to less than $100 and that’s with fees, taxes, etc. pretty reasonable relatively speaking! Especially considering how high demand he is right now
@@wyattcrapo8655Where did you see tickets at? If you didn’t sign up for his lottery system, you didn’t see legit tickets. His ticket system won’t allow tickets to be sold for more than $130.
The guys music is Awesome as fuck I love the heart in his songs he deserves a decent price for tickets he grew up in oologah there ain't a fucking thing in oologah but a few stores and a lake.....live it up man happy for you
that’s resale prices, most of the tickets are 400 for floor seats, but the resellers hike up the price tenfold. that’s mainly the problem with the concert scene rn.
Musicians aren't getting their money from record sales this day and age. Their greatest source of income is touring now. Bands back then could afford to do $20 concerts because they were selling millions of albums. Truth is streaming music is nowhere near as profitable as a record being sold or touring now. Can't blame the artist.
Also the dollar hadn’t lost all of its worth due to inflation yet back then. Hey, if we want to be specific it’s the government’s fault as usual for making our money worthless through inflation (money printing backed by nothing).
It’s not the artists fault, it’s the middle man. Ticketmaster is a legitimate distributor but golly do they operate like resellers. The fact that people are paying thousands for a Swift concert is mind boggling. That’s a whole ass vacation.
Fuck people, if you don't like it then dont pay. Don't go. And don't enjoy. If i want to see someone i like i will pay the fee. If zach bryan came to Australia, i would gladly pay whatever he wanted to charge... because i genuinely love not only his music but him as a person and performer. The only people that have an issue is those who are jealous of him. ... if you like him and can't afford to see him live, then just appreciate him on Spotify or UA-cam and get your shit together to see him live if that's what you want. Only jealous people are going to be negative towards this man. He is a living legend and will be remembered.
@@frankiethefrog1752 not through his songs but through interviews and podcasts. How he speaks is genuine and honest. You can absolutely get a sense of who he is as a person.
The problem is a huge percentage of the money you pay won’t even go to Zach Bryan. A lot of it goes to distributors like Ticketmaster. Most artists are reasonable and won’t charge tickets their fans couldn’t afford but with the middle man, they don’t really have control over that. The fact that a Taylor Swift concert costs a couple thousand dollars is absurd. In the 90s, a Madonna ticket costs $70 and a Nirvana ticket costs $25. Even with inflation, that doesn’t make sense regardless.
@trentwright9570 Dude, you get a sense of absolutely nothing. You've never met him or spent any time with him. You've seen interviews, and that's it. Seeing him on a screen is not enough to go off of in the slightest.
yeah except when people don’t buy the ticket the artist suffers, so no, that’s not the problem. The problem is the fact that Ticketmaster has a stranglehold on the industry.
@@GaugeMe43 Good luck on getting people to feel sorry for the Artist/performer, in actuality if these performers had any compassion for their “fans” they have the power to end Ticketmaster immediately
@@austinstone7912 see great shows at smaller venues. Blackberry Smoke, Blackstone Cherry, Steel Woods, Cody Canada and the Departed. None of them are cost over $45 a ticket.
@@davidtoney8399 yeah because not a single one of those artists or bands are big I literally know none of the people you listed. Just face the facts of people are popular The tickets are going to be a little more pricey You can't complain about tickets being over $50 that's literally cheap as hell.
@@austinstone7912 why would it matter that you don't know who these bands are? Why I or anyone else give two shits about your opinion on the bands I like?
It broke my heart as we won’t be able to attend this. i already got 4 tickets all because i had a knee injury that got worse and i have to take a surgery please buy my tickets
I’ve seen Zach live twice. He is absolutely worth 10 percent of my monthly income for a show: Dude is fucking phenomenal. People also don’t realize a fraction of that money goes to him.
Exactly! People tremendously underestimate the huge talent this kid is. He’s not your typical showman, but he and his boys put on a helluva show. I think it’s just the authenticity of it. No other show feels as raw as his does. It’s really just a bunch of best buddies having the time of their lives!
He also did say 150 to 300 so that’s only five percent if it’s on the low end. Feasible to do it every month? Not at all but concerts are not supposed to be monthly events in your budget either lol
I agree. 150-300 I’d still feel like I got my monies worth. Obviously going to a concert isn’t a once in a lifetime thing, but I don’t think it should be an every weekend thing either. It would lose its intimacy. Guy in video mentions you should be able to mow a few yards and be able to cover ticket price. Even at 300 for a ticket, with the price of landscaping these days that’s still pretty easily obtained.
Ticketmaster and others add a lot of BS fees but I am annoyed when friends complain about a larger show being over $100. All the staff, travel, lighting, sound that goes into it and getting 2+ hours of entertainment. Plus 99% of musicians are making very little off record sales from streaming. So they rely on the concert sales.
Here's one musician/songwriter's perspective: Generally, there's more revenue for an established act through touring (and tour merch) than via record sales. My understanding is that the complexity in digital streaming has widened this gap, but there are probably thresholds where it changes somewhat--like for huge artists like Beyonce and Taylor Swift. If someone prefers to spend more time with their family and less on the road, that's their prerogative. As long as they can afford to survive on the revenue from streaming residuals and limited touring, that should be their choice. A popular artist should not need to apologize for being in demand and having strong bargaining leverage for (a) higher ticket prices, (b) fewer show dates, or (c) not even touring in support of an album. HOWEVER, every artist must remain cognizant of what a malleable industry this can be, and they must accept the end result of bypassing the chance to embark on a lucrative tour--because to paraphrase Cody Johnson: _If you've got a fan take it_ _cause tomorrow they may not show_
Back in the day you could only go see a concert if you wanted to camp in line at the venue's ticket window and that's only if it was in your city. If it was out of town you had to take time off work or away from school to drive there, camp out for 1-2 days, hope by the time you get up there there's still some decent tickets left, then drive back. I don't like the ticket prices, either, but I'm thankful I can get online and buy tickets to see anyone anywhere. I grew up in the era of the greatest bands of all time and didn't get to see any of them because they didn't come where I lived. These days I go to concerts all over the country.
After paying 20-40 dollars a ticket to see some great bands play 20 years ago, I wouldn't pay anywhere near 150 dollars for a ticket... Maybe 80. Maybe.. but probably not.
20 years ago? That was 20 years ago bud. There's Normal Inflation, plus covid inflation. $40 then is around $75 now. Not to mention he had a huge band.
I tried to get tickets to Zach’s show near me and they’re expensiveeeee. This is the corporations greed though. There was an interview with the main dude and he said he feels concerts should be treated the same as vacations. Once a year experience. Insanity. I saw more shows as a teen and young adult than I do an an actual adult
It would be nice if buying concert tickets was like plane tickets where you have to put your name on them and it needs to match up so reselling becomes a thing of the past
Ticketmaster made nearly $23 Billion in Revenue in 2023 up from $12 Billion in 2022 and $6 Billion in 2021. They are supposedly already up 36% Percent this Year, with Revenue sitting in the $31-$32 Billion Range.
People forget how much touring costs and how much venues cost to rent. That's why a fair price is between $150 to $300 on a median income. Dude has to make money somehow. Most artists go into debt even on a successful tour because it's so damn expensive to do it. From travel to hotel, food, and other expenses alone it's a killer thing to deal with.
This problem is much deeper than just ticket prices and stadium/venue size. If musicians could make more money from THEIR music via sales then their ticket prices could theoretically go down. Im not saying charge more for said albums but simply letting them get more % vs the corporate overlords taking it all for "publishing".
That’s why you gotta suffer through ticket drops from independent venues. I paid 150 dollars total to see tame Impala and turnpike troubadours play for 2 hours each (separate occasions, same venue). The worst part was navigating the ticket drop
Luke combs does this too, apparently his ticket prices are like $25-$30, I’m not fully sure since I’ve never actually been to one of his shows but I remember him saying that was what he charged because he didn’t think it was fair to charge a massive amount of money because that wasn’t his ultimate goal when becoming a country artist, his goal was to make music people would love to listen to and that he enjoys making
I saw him live about a year ago for only $70 in a cornfield in Iowa. It depends on the venue and city, and he's only getting exponentially more popular... his shows are still way more affordable and enjoyable than all these corny pop/rap artists.
And I just paid 750 bucks for my 7 year old son and I to see ZB in St Louis. Best 750 I ever spent to see him sing along with ZB and everyone else at enterprise. Probably the only guy/band I’d ever pay close to that to see. It was weird though being the last time I saw ZB was in a small venue with about 100 people…
I grew up in the 80s and 90s Ticketmaster was huge. We used to go to tower to get our tickets for whatever we were going to go see I think this day and age either Ticketmaster needs to get with the program or the venues need to cut out middlemen like Ticketmaster and put it more in the hands of the artist. Come up with a way to cut out a lot of this extra where people have their hands in the bag. Bring the prices down.
ZACK has his own overhead as well . I know I wouldn't want ANYONE coming to see me play that had a crappy attitude towards me ..I've been going to concerts for 40 yrs and the economy sux more now than it's ever "suked" in my lifetime .. He pays and we pay ..
In the 90's I saw Metallica and GnrmR together at Reunion Arena in Dallas. I paid $55. I still have the stub. And my father thought I was crazy for spending that much of his money on a ticket. In the early 00's my wife and I saw Billy Joel & Elton John Back2Back show for $88 a ticket for platinum tickets at American Airlines. Granted online wasn't a thing yet for tickets to become a scalper's paradise. Recently I wanted to take my son to a Metallica concert at AT&T stadium, but the best deal I could get was $2,000 with fees for two tickets in nosebleeds, and I refused to do it. That didn't include parking which would've started at $150. Many say music streaming is to blame for this. But I bet if we solely relied on physical media like we used to, prices would still be outrageous. It's sad, because I would've loved to have had that moment with my son at a Metallica concert. My first concert was in the early 80s - my sister took me to a Joan Jett show. A week later I was seeing Pink Floyd with flying pigs in the arena. Her boyfriend sold drugs in the early 80s and he had access to incredible tickets: Ozzy Osbourne, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Iron Maiden. I can't even begin to remember all the concerts I've been to and the crazy beautiful memories that accompany each one. And I can't get one with my son. I mean I could, I'm not complaining like that, but $2,000 for Metallica is insane! I do love the band with all my heart tho.
PS I just brought both his CD's so I'm not just free streaming the music I like if I like it as much as I do Zach's then I buy the CD. Makes me old school I guess .
I’m still paying $20-$25 for the shows I go to because I’m a metalhead and most of the bands play small clubs and I can meet them. That’s what sucks when a band gets big, you have to pay more and then pay for parking and $8 water. Even the times I went to see a bigger band like Tool or Metallica it would be $75. ANYTHING over that is a rip off imo.
Honestly, promo sale discounts doesn’t give the venue the same amount of time when artist have to play and pay their own fees so to speak about their work it’s also not understand the process of making a purchase to sell flip tickets.
The concerts are still near sold out even at crazy prices. Know how? They all offer zero interest payments plans and I think a lot of ppl are using them if you're buying tickets for multiple people. Imagine them needing to offer this for a concert...Insane times.
The problem is bots and scalpers. They buy up everything and then resell. I just took my daughter to see him. It was $1000 for us. I have never paid that much ever. But what is messed up is his merch prices. $50-60 tshirts, his hoodies were $100-120, his f’ing hats were $40. People need to get on him about that.
Here is oklahoma, WHERE HE IS FROM concert tickets not in the massive venues only run about $30-$75 so the fact he says he'd rather play small shows for $150 is fucking wild because I've seen Panic at the Disco, Foster the People, Twenty One Pilots, Weezer and Modest Mouse, Vampire Weekend, and so many more for under $100 that are way bigger names than him here in Tulsa.
It went and saw some of the best bands in Detroit for like less than $50 for years. I get the prices have gone up because of the economy. I miss the old days.
I was so excited to attend my first concert show and listen Morgan Wallen for the first time in Canada. However, $400 (+Taxes) CAD for a ticket was just to damm high for a college student like me. Infact, majority of the audience was college students who attended his show with poor services.
@@UTP_ENTno..you didn’t lmfaoo you just spent the same percentage of your income you’d spend on a movie ticket and non necessary shopping on a ticket for a concert instead it’s not more unnecessary spending it’s just the unnecessary spending you chose over other unnecessary spending.
Sounds like he wants to make people happy, but at the same time getting defensive about his ticket prices. I know he could do these shows cheaper because I’ve been to these megastar concerts before where they get liquor sponsorships and other brands to help sponsor to offset ticket prices to $20-$100(depending on the seat). These companies then get to put branding and advertising everywhere and sell their products there. It’s not hard to get that to happen when you’re as big as he is. It just requires a little extra work not related to music specifically. ZB could definitely have his team figure it out if he wanted to.
How much is a fair ticket? Whatever the market will bear. That's how it works. One person doesn't like the price, but a large of chunk of ppl do. That's why the price is the price.
Those 18-25 songs have a big price tag attached beyond 10% of someone’s income. Beyond the artist/band, all support for the road, venue costs and associated support, etc. Those are all real. When people don’t want to pay artisanal prices, they are saying artists aren’t worth it. But that sound guy? The light guy? The bus driver? They all are artists in their own right. They also have income needs and families, and it’s not necessarily stable employment either. They are the ones who facilitate the tip of that tour’s spear. When people think of fair prices, they often subconsciously don’t even consider the support and logistics costs of touring. It’s also a want for the audience but a need for the employees. And I guarantee the market is in the employees’ favor due to more want than the producers can provide. It’s a rough, hard life on tour. With so much time on the road their safety factor is skewed and the very baseline of the job is more dangerous than one might think. They’re out there busting their asses with bad sleep, crappy food, and generally improper living conditions so people can “touch” the music. If they want to touch the music, that’s great. But they could at least uncurl their fists first and think about the reality of their requests to others to lower their own value, so that they can used for a night, every night for as long as the tour is.
i would personally never pay more than 350 for a concert and it has to be a good ass lineup i’m not gonna pay 500 for 1 band i wanna see when there’s 4 ive never heard of or don’t like that much but i paid about 230 for vip $uicideboy$ tickets saw ski mask the slump god $not maxo kream and i enjoyed everyone who went on stage
I was excited Zach Bryan was coming to town until i looked at ticket prices, $400-$500 plus ticketmaster costs for me and my girl to go ses him was around $1200 and thsts not even one of the front rows, to me thats disgusting
I just watched dude get arrested and let go on celebrity arrests. They let him go with just a ticket. He kept saying how famous he was and was super argumentative. So annoying. I had to google him cause I’d never heard of him….. still don’t recognize nor know him.
It’s the industry that is scamming, not Zach. Ticketmaster is criminal. His tickets are fair priced, the resale tickets aren’t
I don't understand how Ticketmaster and the like are legal when scalping isn't. It's the same thing.
This isn’t correct. This is what artists have convinced you is the case. The truth Ticketmaster has utilized dynamic pricing to maximize pain point for consumers having nothing to do with resale market. They keep prices as high as humanly possible for initial purchase because they know if it falls apart they can lower them to a level they need to to address the market or if it sustains keep them high.
This flexibility makes it so they don’t have to estimate what is actually affordable. Instead they can concentrate on target numbers.
The truth is the resale market usually fixes these things. Often at prices lower than tm itself. But it also does several other important things. It makes ur favorite artist viable. As much as u love to believe most artists crush box offices, it’s just not true. The majority of concerts would fail miserably without some of the resale market driving enthusiasm and ticket sales. Secondly ur favorite artist signs contracts that make seats premium to make money. They need them bought to keep touring as the most profitable aspect of musicianship currently. Bigger artists are of course fine but you’d be surprised how small a number bigger artists comprises. The market heat resale generates and the scarcity factor created makes a show a hot ticket. The fact is all components of the free market work in tandem to give the best experience. Ur 500 is charged whether the resale exists or not if fans will pay 500. Stop falling for artists nonsense about the market being driven up by such. It begins and ends with the manipulations of contracts and the ticket company itself.
The fix is relatively simple. Kill dynamic pricing. Force Ticketmaster to accurately assess an artists value and don’t give them the loophole of adjusting on the fly. They will set more reasonable pricing and that will filter through the entire ticketing market. If they choose to set it to high that concert will fail and hurt their bottom line. If they have to assess with profitability in mind we will get cleaner more respectable prices across the board. Relegate to the primary ticket companies only and the resale market will become equally more reasonable as a result.
$10 a month for spotify. Forget the concerts. It's $10 for one stinking beer.
Remember, FOO FIGHTERS stood up to them! STOP! this is shit!
I just got a 75 dollar ticket for his show and that is a great price
Sounds to me like he got the memo👍🏽 Took a few complaints first though
I wish I could get one that cheap. The closest concert to me the cheapest ticket is 375 dollars
Yea my lower bowl ticket came out to less than $100 and that’s with fees, taxes, etc. pretty reasonable relatively speaking! Especially considering how high demand he is right now
@@wyattcrapo8655Where did you see tickets at? If you didn’t sign up for his lottery system, you didn’t see legit tickets. His ticket system won’t allow tickets to be sold for more than $130.
Yeah but your going to be in the back right next to the portable shitters
The guys music is Awesome as fuck I love the heart in his songs he deserves a decent price for tickets he grew up in oologah there ain't a fucking thing in oologah but a few stores and a lake.....live it up man happy for you
Yea but $500 for an average seat is not ok
I find it outrageous that there is people paying 2k to sit in nosebleed stadium seats to see Taylor swift
That’s wicked
that’s resale prices, most of the tickets are 400 for floor seats, but the resellers hike up the price tenfold. that’s mainly the problem with the concert scene rn.
And 150
There’s a reason why idol worship is forbidden in the Bible. Like it’s not WORTH it.
“Tear drops on my guitar” was more country than anything Zach Bryan puts out…..
Musicians aren't getting their money from record sales this day and age. Their greatest source of income is touring now. Bands back then could afford to do $20 concerts because they were selling millions of albums. Truth is streaming music is nowhere near as profitable as a record being sold or touring now. Can't blame the artist.
Same but only to a degree. $500 is outrageous. Not a fair price at all.
Also the dollar hadn’t lost all of its worth due to inflation yet back then. Hey, if we want to be specific it’s the government’s fault as usual for making our money worthless through inflation (money printing backed by nothing).
Touring is always how bands made their money, 20 dollars used to be a lot of money
@@GameChanger597when you think about the 2k tickets for Taylor swift or Beyoncé I think it’s generous
Idk, pay for what it's worth too you, better seating more features, better price....
It’s not the artists fault, it’s the middle man. Ticketmaster is a legitimate distributor but golly do they operate like resellers. The fact that people are paying thousands for a Swift concert is mind boggling. That’s a whole ass vacation.
Go get your bag Zach. I’ll definitely pay.
Fuck people, if you don't like it then dont pay. Don't go. And don't enjoy.
If i want to see someone i like i will pay the fee.
If zach bryan came to Australia, i would gladly pay whatever he wanted to charge... because i genuinely love not only his music but him as a person and performer. The only people that have an issue is those who are jealous of him.
... if you like him and can't afford to see him live, then just appreciate him on Spotify or UA-cam and get your shit together to see him live if that's what you want.
Only jealous people are going to be negative towards this man. He is a living legend and will be remembered.
Living legend?😂😂😂 I like his music but pump the breaks. You don’t know ANYTHING about him as a person through his songs. Get real.
@@frankiethefrog1752 not through his songs but through interviews and podcasts. How he speaks is genuine and honest. You can absolutely get a sense of who he is as a person.
The problem is a huge percentage of the money you pay won’t even go to Zach Bryan. A lot of it goes to distributors like Ticketmaster. Most artists are reasonable and won’t charge tickets their fans couldn’t afford but with the middle man, they don’t really have control over that. The fact that a Taylor Swift concert costs a couple thousand dollars is absurd. In the 90s, a Madonna ticket costs $70 and a Nirvana ticket costs $25. Even with inflation, that doesn’t make sense regardless.
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@trentwright9570 Dude, you get a sense of absolutely nothing. You've never met him or spent any time with him. You've seen interviews, and that's it. Seeing him on a screen is not enough to go off of in the slightest.
The problem isn’t the price it’s the people who pay that price
yeah except when people don’t buy the ticket the artist suffers, so no, that’s not the problem. The problem is the fact that Ticketmaster has a stranglehold on the industry.
@@GaugeMe43 Good luck on getting people to feel sorry for the Artist/performer, in actuality if these performers had any compassion for their “fans” they have the power to end Ticketmaster immediately
Omg THANK YOU SO MUCH! ❤💯 I was hoping someone...ANYONE else would say this. You're my kind of people!
@@GaugeMe43 yeah but I'm not gonna buy a ticket cause I feel bad for an artist.
Scalping should be made illegal again
His a good man
He is such a sweetheart!
That’s great!! Haven’t been able to afford going to concerts since I saw Credence Clearwater in the early 1970’s!!
Love the smaller venues. Won't pay over $50 to see a show.
That's just ridiculous cheap. You'd spend more going to the movies nowadays. Come on dude.
@@austinstone7912 see great shows at smaller venues. Blackberry Smoke, Blackstone Cherry, Steel Woods, Cody Canada and the Departed. None of them are cost over $45 a ticket.
@@davidtoney8399cause those are shitty artists
@@davidtoney8399 yeah because not a single one of those artists or bands are big I literally know none of the people you listed. Just face the facts of people are popular The tickets are going to be a little more pricey You can't complain about tickets being over $50 that's literally cheap as hell.
@@austinstone7912 why would it matter that you don't know who these bands are? Why I or anyone else give two shits about your opinion on the bands I like?
It broke my heart as we won’t be able to attend this. i already got 4 tickets all because i had a knee injury that got worse and i have to take a surgery please buy my tickets
I’ve seen Zach live twice. He is absolutely worth 10 percent of my monthly income for a show: Dude is fucking phenomenal. People also don’t realize a fraction of that money goes to him.
Exactly! People tremendously underestimate the huge talent this kid is. He’s not your typical showman, but he and his boys put on a helluva show. I think it’s just the authenticity of it. No other show feels as raw as his does. It’s really just a bunch of best buddies having the time of their lives!
He has a terrible voice 😂😂😂😂😂😂
You must not have others to care for but he is legendary
He also did say 150 to 300 so that’s only five percent if it’s on the low end. Feasible to do it every month? Not at all but concerts are not supposed to be monthly events in your budget either lol
I agree. 150-300 I’d still feel like I got my monies worth. Obviously going to a concert isn’t a once in a lifetime thing, but I don’t think it should be an every weekend thing either. It would lose its intimacy. Guy in video mentions you should be able to mow a few yards and be able to cover ticket price. Even at 300 for a ticket, with the price of landscaping these days that’s still pretty easily obtained.
Ticketmaster and others add a lot of BS fees but I am annoyed when friends complain about a larger show being over $100. All the staff, travel, lighting, sound that goes into it and getting 2+ hours of entertainment. Plus 99% of musicians are making very little off record sales from streaming. So they rely on the concert sales.
100 a ticket is like 2 million a show. Before any merch is figured in. Alot of artists struggle. Zach is not one of them.
Here's one musician/songwriter's perspective:
Generally, there's more revenue for an established act through touring (and tour merch) than via record sales. My understanding is that the complexity in digital streaming has widened this gap, but there are probably thresholds where it changes somewhat--like for huge artists like Beyonce and Taylor Swift.
If someone prefers to spend more time with their family and less on the road, that's their prerogative. As long as they can afford to survive on the revenue from streaming residuals and limited touring, that should be their choice.
A popular artist should not need to apologize for being in demand and having strong bargaining leverage for (a) higher ticket prices, (b) fewer show dates, or (c) not even touring in support of an album.
HOWEVER, every artist must remain cognizant of what a malleable industry this can be, and they must accept the end result of bypassing the chance to embark on a lucrative tour--because to paraphrase Cody Johnson:
_If you've got a fan take it_
_cause tomorrow they may not show_
Fuck yeah. Love the punk rock spirit in country music
I LOVE ZACH BRYAN
$175 right now for his concert next year and it's in Tampa
Back in the day you could only go see a concert if you wanted to camp in line at the venue's ticket window and that's only if it was in your city. If it was out of town you had to take time off work or away from school to drive there, camp out for 1-2 days, hope by the time you get up there there's still some decent tickets left, then drive back. I don't like the ticket prices, either, but I'm thankful I can get online and buy tickets to see anyone anywhere. I grew up in the era of the greatest bands of all time and didn't get to see any of them because they didn't come where I lived. These days I go to concerts all over the country.
After paying 20-40 dollars a ticket to see some great bands play 20 years ago, I wouldn't pay anywhere near 150 dollars for a ticket... Maybe 80. Maybe.. but probably not.
That’s the one rule I have 😂
20 years ago? That was 20 years ago bud. There's Normal Inflation, plus covid inflation. $40 then is around $75 now. Not to mention he had a huge band.
@a.nobodys.nobody You're more than welcome to spend your own money as you see fit.
Best bet is festivals for the headliners. $100 for the whole day, and you can even get front row if you commit to working your way up for 4 hrs.
I tried to get tickets to Zach’s show near me and they’re expensiveeeee. This is the corporations greed though. There was an interview with the main dude and he said he feels concerts should be treated the same as vacations. Once a year experience. Insanity. I saw more shows as a teen and young adult than I do an an actual adult
What a neat guy.
The guy has a band of 713 players
and half them cant play for shit
It would be nice if buying concert tickets was like plane tickets where you have to put your name on them and it needs to match up so reselling becomes a thing of the past
Ticketmaster made nearly $23 Billion in Revenue in 2023 up from $12 Billion in 2022 and $6 Billion in 2021. They are supposedly already up 36% Percent this Year, with Revenue sitting in the $31-$32 Billion Range.
I got one for 113, absolutely worth it. Live version of his songs have a different kind of energy
People forget how much touring costs and how much venues cost to rent. That's why a fair price is between $150 to $300 on a median income.
Dude has to make money somehow. Most artists go into debt even on a successful tour because it's so damn expensive to do it. From travel to hotel, food, and other expenses alone it's a killer thing to deal with.
This problem is much deeper than just ticket prices and stadium/venue size. If musicians could make more money from THEIR music via sales then their ticket prices could theoretically go down. Im not saying charge more for said albums but simply letting them get more % vs the corporate overlords taking it all for "publishing".
That’s why you gotta suffer through ticket drops from independent venues. I paid 150 dollars total to see tame Impala and turnpike troubadours play for 2 hours each (separate occasions, same venue). The worst part was navigating the ticket drop
Zach Bryan is the goat 150-200 is fair if you listen to his reasoning he’s not in it for the money
Great short! And love the hat! Where can I get a hold of one these!? Please if you can share a link? Thank you in advance.
Luke combs does this too, apparently his ticket prices are like $25-$30, I’m not fully sure since I’ve never actually been to one of his shows but I remember him saying that was what he charged because he didn’t think it was fair to charge a massive amount of money because that wasn’t his ultimate goal when becoming a country artist, his goal was to make music people would love to listen to and that he enjoys making
1300 in Edmonton next year and the seats ain’t even that good shit needs to change
I am your biggest fan I love Zach Bryan
Hes fuckin wild ill give your $30 or ill stay home and drink and crank my stereo with my buddies
I saw him live about a year ago for only $70 in a cornfield in Iowa. It depends on the venue and city, and he's only getting exponentially more popular... his shows are still way more affordable and enjoyable than all these corny pop/rap artists.
Paid 125 to see him play in college station as part of a festival. He had a solid 2 hour set as well.
Well, my wife loves his music, sooooo, I'm going to pay... 😄
Looked up the tickets the other day. Definitely not cheap, but it will make her happy! ❤
I’m with Zach on this one.
And I just paid 750 bucks for my 7 year old son and I to see ZB in St Louis.
Best 750 I ever spent to see him sing along with ZB and everyone else at enterprise. Probably the only guy/band I’d ever pay close to that to see.
It was weird though being the last time I saw ZB was in a small venue with about 100 people…
payed about $225 for the show in chicago for quittin time and it was worth every cent even got some merchandise too
I grew up in the 80s and 90s Ticketmaster was huge. We used to go to tower to get our tickets for whatever we were going to go see I think this day and age either Ticketmaster needs to get with the program or the venues need to cut out middlemen like Ticketmaster and put it more in the hands of the artist. Come up with a way to cut out a lot of this extra where people have their hands in the bag. Bring the prices down.
Zach Bryan was the cheapest ticket I've ever bought, so pumped.
Tickets for his show in my area are $350 for the nosebleed seats
musicians nowadays have to make all their money from touring, because they don’t sell the records anymore. so he’s valid imo
If it was Taylor Swift thay pay 10k.
ZACK has his own overhead as well .
I know I wouldn't want ANYONE coming to see me play that had a crappy attitude towards me ..I've been going to concerts for 40 yrs and the economy sux more now than it's ever "suked" in my lifetime ..
He pays and we pay ..
In the 90's I saw Metallica and GnrmR together at Reunion Arena in Dallas. I paid $55. I still have the stub. And my father thought I was crazy for spending that much of his money on a ticket. In the early 00's my wife and I saw Billy Joel & Elton John Back2Back show for $88 a ticket for platinum tickets at American Airlines. Granted online wasn't a thing yet for tickets to become a scalper's paradise.
Recently I wanted to take my son to a Metallica concert at AT&T stadium, but the best deal I could get was $2,000 with fees for two tickets in nosebleeds, and I refused to do it. That didn't include parking which would've started at $150.
Many say music streaming is to blame for this. But I bet if we solely relied on physical media like we used to, prices would still be outrageous. It's sad, because I would've loved to have had that moment with my son at a Metallica concert. My first concert was in the early 80s - my sister took me to a Joan Jett show. A week later I was seeing Pink Floyd with flying pigs in the arena. Her boyfriend sold drugs in the early 80s and he had access to incredible tickets: Ozzy Osbourne, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Iron Maiden. I can't even begin to remember all the concerts I've been to and the crazy beautiful memories that accompany each one. And I can't get one with my son. I mean I could, I'm not complaining like that, but $2,000 for Metallica is insane! I do love the band with all my heart tho.
PS I just brought both his CD's so I'm not just free streaming the music I like if I like it as much as I do Zach's then I buy the CD. Makes me old school I guess .
I agree with Zach here
His tickets in my city are 300 dollars for back fucking row and 500 for floor seats
I’m still paying $20-$25 for the shows I go to because I’m a metalhead and most of the bands play small clubs and I can meet them. That’s what sucks when a band gets big, you have to pay more and then pay for parking and $8 water. Even the times I went to see a bigger band like Tool or Metallica it would be $75. ANYTHING over that is a rip off imo.
plenty of bigger bands are still known to charge $100 or more a ticket. I listen to zach bryan and metal. times are different. never a guarantee
Honestly, promo sale discounts doesn’t give the venue the same amount of time when artist have to play and pay their own fees so to speak about their work it’s also not understand the process of making a purchase to sell flip tickets.
The concerts are still near sold out even at crazy prices. Know how? They all offer zero interest payments plans and I think a lot of ppl are using them if you're buying tickets for multiple people. Imagine them needing to offer this for a concert...Insane times.
The problem is bots and scalpers. They buy up everything and then resell. I just took my daughter to see him. It was $1000 for us. I have never paid that much ever. But what is messed up is his merch prices. $50-60 tshirts, his hoodies were $100-120, his f’ing hats were $40. People need to get on him about that.
He’s acting like he put the O back into country music
he’s not playing shows for as long as he lives, this is his last tour ever. the quittin time tour-24
Here is oklahoma, WHERE HE IS FROM concert tickets not in the massive venues only run about $30-$75 so the fact he says he'd rather play small shows for $150 is fucking wild because I've seen Panic at the Disco, Foster the People, Twenty One Pilots, Weezer and Modest Mouse, Vampire Weekend, and so many more for under $100 that are way bigger names than him here in Tulsa.
Tickets in Edmonton to see him next November are literally a thousand each
Just spent £300 on 2 tickets for June next year on American Express rate as well 😂
It went and saw some of the best bands in Detroit for like less than $50 for years. I get the prices have gone up because of the economy. I miss the old days.
I was so excited to attend my first concert show and listen Morgan Wallen for the first time in Canada. However, $400 (+Taxes) CAD for a ticket was just to damm high for a college student like me. Infact, majority of the audience was college students who attended his show with poor services.
Hilarious! A lower bowl ticket in Vancouver is $600 plus $116 in fees!!
Billie Joe, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Nirvana, and many other shows for around $50 back in the 80s.
About %10 of your monthly income is spent on personal items and bs expenses anyway why not by a ticket instead of random shit from target
People like you are ruining this world
Because you just raised your personal expenses to over 20%
@@UTP_ENTno..you didn’t lmfaoo you just spent the same percentage of your income you’d spend on a movie ticket and non necessary shopping on a ticket for a concert instead it’s not more unnecessary spending it’s just the unnecessary spending you chose over other unnecessary spending.
I paid $30 in ‘22, $50 in ‘23 and $55 in ‘24
Sounds like he wants to make people happy, but at the same time getting defensive about his ticket prices. I know he could do these shows cheaper because I’ve been to these megastar concerts before where they get liquor sponsorships and other brands to help sponsor to offset ticket prices to $20-$100(depending on the seat). These companies then get to put branding and advertising everywhere and sell their products there. It’s not hard to get that to happen when you’re as big as he is. It just requires a little extra work not related to music specifically. ZB could definitely have his team figure it out if he wanted to.
Ticketmaster Canada is currently charging 1400 for a show in 5 months :(
I'm so confused what the point is
Try to get a ricket to one of his shows for 100$😂
Zach Bryan told the police when he got stopped - I’m a very famous musician. He was very offended when police said I don’t know you. 🤣🤣
now his tickets are almost a grand
Love his music, but anyone willing to pay that IS the problem!
That is ridiculous. I would not pay that!
How much is a fair ticket? Whatever the market will bear. That's how it works. One person doesn't like the price, but a large of chunk of ppl do. That's why the price is the price.
I think it should be free with anonymous donation system and let your music earn itself.
Paid close to $900 for 2 tickets to see zach Bryan in a month 😂
Cradle of filth, gwar, as i lay dying a whole album each per set 25 bucks at the door at the fillmore. Those were the days
INK, FIR, Underoath, and catch your breath tickets were $25 in iowa.
Those 18-25 songs have a big price tag attached beyond 10% of someone’s income. Beyond the artist/band, all support for the road, venue costs and associated support, etc. Those are all real. When people don’t want to pay artisanal prices, they are saying artists aren’t worth it. But that sound guy? The light guy? The bus driver? They all are artists in their own right. They also have income needs and families, and it’s not necessarily stable employment either. They are the ones who facilitate the tip of that tour’s spear. When people think of fair prices, they often subconsciously don’t even consider the support and logistics costs of touring.
It’s also a want for the audience but a need for the employees. And I guarantee the market is in the employees’ favor due to more want than the producers can provide.
It’s a rough, hard life on tour. With so much time on the road their safety factor is skewed and the very baseline of the job is more dangerous than one might think. They’re out there busting their asses with bad sleep, crappy food, and generally improper living conditions so people can “touch” the music.
If they want to touch the music, that’s great. But they could at least uncurl their fists first and think about the reality of their requests to others to lower their own value, so that they can used for a night, every night for as long as the tour is.
But you gotta remember back then 20 bucks was quite a bit of money
300 is how much it costs to go to music festival,fuck the love i need 300 per head for a 2 hour show
It’s his art. Don’t like it. Then that is fine.
I will never spend a dime on a ticket to see him!!! Or buy any of his music!! 😂😂😂
He’s playing in Sacramento this year and floor seats are >$1,000. Not saying that’s him. But shits wild out here
He lied about it being cheaper. Vegas tickets in December were insane
Zach Bryan is one of the first to come along and tell the audience really what's up.. with just that I respect him
i would personally never pay more than 350 for a concert and it has to be a good ass lineup i’m not gonna pay 500 for 1 band i wanna see when there’s 4 ive never heard of or don’t like that much but i paid about 230 for vip $uicideboy$ tickets saw ski mask the slump god $not maxo kream and i enjoyed everyone who went on stage
Well he does play at NFL stadiums now, mile high stadium and the lions stadium
My dad couldve went to a concert about 3 years ago for about 20 dollars but his girlfriend at the time said she didnt want him to go
I was excited Zach Bryan was coming to town until i looked at ticket prices, $400-$500 plus ticketmaster costs for me and my girl to go ses him was around $1200 and thsts not even one of the front rows, to me thats disgusting
Artist work for a label, ya know like how we work for a company?
Real one
saw him at bogarts for 100, great time
I just watched dude get arrested and let go on celebrity arrests. They let him go with just a ticket. He kept saying how famous he was and was super argumentative. So annoying. I had to google him cause I’d never heard of him….. still don’t recognize nor know him.
I dont care what planet they are from no way am i paying 500 dollars to see something thats already plastered across then internet for free 😂