There is a current signing on this page called breakupticketmaster, that petitions for the DOJ to make another investigation yet again, but there also are some grassroots lawsuit on the companies currently
somebody i know was a class A scalper - until he bought about 50 T.Swift concert tickets in Toronto to re-sell them, just to find out the day of the concert people weren't able to claim their tickets. Turned out the scalper purchased from a scammer and had to pay back every person he ripped off.
What Robert Smith did was incredible though. I bought tickets for a The Cure show two years ago for like 50 bucks, then Robert called out Ticketmaster for raising the prices because apparently he wanted the tickets cheaper. The guy somehow managed to make Ticketmaster refund everyone who bought a ticket (I got around 20$ back if I remember well). It’s really cool.
I got my wife and her friend tickets for an artist they love. Tickets was $200 each. Then you add in gas, Airbnb, food, parking etc. cleared about $2000. Then my wife wanted to go shopping a week later. Nope. You spent $2000 to see an artist. In her head it was only $200 each. My head I added the entire trip up. To this day she still thinks the trip was $200 per person smh
Some artists, like Billie Eilish, are finding ways to ensure that ticket prices are fair, at least when it comes to ticket reselling. She made it so that her tickets can only be resold for the original price they went for. I honestly think this is what the artists should be doing on ticketmaster, don't feed the greed.
Something I will always love and respect charlie for is, he is obviously a very rich man, but still understands that 200 dollars is an absolutely egregious price for a concert.
@@OVOJacob3 ah yes the ameritard way of thinking, aka, "fuck the poor, they shouldn't live or enjoy life or get to do anything ever lol brokie can't afford 200 dollars to listen to music for an hour or two" Get C bro.
Even smaller concerts are getting hurt by this. Went to a smaller metal show last week. Ticket listed price was $30. Got 2 Tix, and after fees, I paid nearly $90. Something really needs to change.
Ticketmaster buys out a lot of venues nowadays, I feel bad for local venues like this; they’re suffering whilst TM takes control of every process possible in getting to concerts
@@Greyscayl You’re right… AXS, StubHub, SeatGeek, VividSeats, all promote these kinds of pricing and often resells tickets from Ticketmaster with how much of a titan it is as a company. There’s no competition, every distributor is essentially in agreement to promote this monopolistic tendency of bonding together
In 1979, I was 10, and absolutely scandalized by the fact that my dad had to put out 40 whole bucks TOTAL for 4 tickets to see KISS. It was like a million to me. Times have changed alright.
I was also looking for tickets for the my chemical romance concert and saw one being resold for $98,766. I wonder if they were actually expecting someone to buy that or were actively trying to make a joke out of the system also, a tip for dealing with these resellers: ticket prices drop significantly right before the event. someone I knew was able to get a front row seat at a concert for $10 because she bought it a few minutes before the concert started. the tickets were in high demand and I remember them typically selling for $200+. the prices drop closer to the event since the resellers don't want their money to be wasted on unused tickets, and although it's scummy to do this you can just wait a little longer to get some better deals.
Someone will buy it. There is always someone with enough money to not care about the price, and there are enough of them for things to only get more unaffordable.
The vast majority of human beings on this Earth don't live directly outside of the concert venue they want to go to. If you're buying the ticket literal minutes before, then most people would have to commute there even before they have locked in buying the ticket. To commute to the venue and possibly even take time off work just for the *possibility* that they *might* still have the tickets available and *might* lower the price within your range (I'd guess the $10 ticket wasn't one of these $500+ scalped tickets to begin with)
YMMV. The last time I waited on resale prices to drop... They never did. Prices actually went up somehow, and stayed up, all the way until the concert started. Face value was $80 per. Average resale price afterward hovered around $500 or $600, then fucking skyrocketed to $900+ the day of. Two were still being listed at over $1k even well into the concert.
not scummy at all, its all supply and demand, if a concert is very desirable to see what is the problem with it being expensive, if people dont wanna see it and you pretend like tickets are expensive then you gotta take your loss and sell the ticket to someone for a loss, thats how this system works. But usually tickets are desirable and the prices only go up and up as more people buy and resell them.
'K-pop' concerts are another level. About $350 for average normal seats. If you want floor it’s always over $1000 for the tickets, many times reaching over $2000. But then if you want soundcheck, well over $15k per ticket. Not to mention they only go to a handful of locations in the u.s. so a pretty good amount of us have to pay travel expenses, hotels, etc. it’s pretty insane 💌
While I totally agree with you that Kpop concert prices are on another level, I have never seen a VIP soundcheck ticket above 1000$ if it’s not from resellers.
incorrect i paid 480€ for stray kids amsterdam vip sound check. and it’s a 3 hr concert w vip goodies. it’s bad but not unbearable and skz is like massive. resale prices a different thing entirely
I saw the the Cure in 2023, and the tickets were 60 bucks. It sold out fast, so Robert Smith decided to do another show the following day so everybody who wanted to go to see them live would have a chance. It was also a sold out show. That's what I call an artist who appreciates his fans.
alot bands do 2 concerts in a row if the first one sold out instantly. its not like this is anything special. if its a local band orso they will just keep adding shows untill the sales stop. i know of a band that did 9 shows
@@manuelferreira8772 theres another comment in here that said the same guy sold tickets for $30 and made ticketmaster refund everyone who bought from them after finding out they were charging $50 for the same tickets. so i think that guy might be one of the few who actually gaf
Dude I’m so glad Charlie is covering this issue. More people need to get on their necks for this shit. It’s so infuriating. I remember when prices per ticket for a kpop concert were around 80$ per ticket. And at the time I thought those prices were still expensive (Which they were btw). Now even for balcony seats they cost over 300 dollars. Don’t even get me started on floor and standing ticket prices. A whole ass mortgage payment. It’s absolutely insane.
We once had a Laufey concert in Singapore and I was super gassed to book tickets for it. Unfortunately the scum that are scalpers used bots to mass purchase seats to the point that I kid you not we couldn’t even buy them 5 minutes into opening sales. Worse, they also resold them at 5x the prices they were going for on other sites. Absolutely disgusting behaviour.
Dynamic pricing is so stupid. I recently tried to buy a train ticket which normally costs like 20€, but because the train was almost full the ticket would have cost over 200€
So glad you mentioned Robert Smith as hearing about this situation brought back the tour The Cure (favorite band ever) recently did - I remember that whole situation last year and how he got other sites to take down scalpers trying to re-sell their tickets.
Hearing Charlie say "That's it, I'm gettin' me mallet" in his classic semi-monotone voice is the best things to grace my ears when I clicked on this video!
The rabbit hole goes deep, live nation owns the venues, live nations owns ticketmaster, they control damn near everything, so when it comes down to it, it’s the band’s decision to set the original price. The biggest problem is the reselling, and that is made to be as easy as possible by love nation, because they own the venue they get all the profits
Ticket master sold me and my sister's tickets to someone else after we bought them. We bought tickets a few months early and they were on her account before we got to the venue. We stood in line for almost 2 hours to get front row spots and by the time we got to the front whoever else they resold our tickets to must have been infront of us because the tickets were unavailable on her account. We had to go buy new tickets on sight. Selling our tickets from under us was total BS and we realized a lot of people there had the same issue
Exact thing happened to me on stubhub. I paid 600 each too for GA. We got in bc I called the customer service line and flipped out for 45 minutes until they sent me new ones
I'm not a music guy whatsoever, never been to a concert in my life. I paid around 60€ for the most front row seats at the Barbican Center in London to watch the Sonic Symphony in 2023. Took pictures and autographs with the orchestra and bands, we talked about the games, even had a chat with Tomoya Ohtani and Jun Senoue and congratulated them for their excellent work in Adventure, Adventure 2, Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog, 06 and Frontiers (I know they've worked on more games but those were the ones we discussed about). All for 60€!!! I found the price tag to be refreshingly low and was very pleased. The production, the accomodations, the staff, they had a Sonic mascot having fun with fans and taking pictures for free, everything was wonderful. I had the impression that that was the industry standard, sad to see how bad it actually is industry-wide. Leave it to Sonic to be outstanding in the music department lol.
@@vividcyclone2143 Yo, hope you 2 have a great time there! Yeah hopefully you'll see the mascot too, guy in it was cool, I asked him to do the 06 pose where he extends his hand out and he nailed it lol. There were cosplayers and stuff at my show too so even if you don't end up seeing the official mascot you'll probably have some photo material if you're looking for photos!
Scalpers using bots to buy up all tickets to resell them at a markup. The markups stop happening when people stop buying them for that price. In person purchasing tickets will solve the problem, but a lot of these online ticket sellers are the reason why the prices are so high. In person ticket sales would literally almost certainly bankrupt the ticket online market.
would probably mean x% of seats reserved for offline only, preferably the cheaper seats because VIPS can go to hell since they're rich people anyway or to be the lesser evil, tie a VISA/passport into the ticket 7d after buying (automatically refunds if you do not tie a VISA) so resellers gets absolutely fucked
Exactly, people need to stop supporting scalpers. People are willing to sell their own daughters to get a ticket that seats them in the bathroom toilet half a mile away from the stage. They are the problem.
There was a law placed called BOTS Act 2016, it seems Ticketmaster is allowing this illegal thing to happen with having no precaution for burner accounts bulk buying/re-selling
We spent $900 for 2 floor tickets to Def Leppard, Steve Miller Band, and Journey in August 2024. Super expensive. That didn't include parking or any drinks. Parking was $38 in the ramp and get this a 24 oz water, in a plastic cup was $8.00 & a 24 oz beer, in a plastic cup was $14.00. Plastic cups are mandatory on the floor. Unreal, I'm shocked they didnt charge for the porta-potti's on ground level. The concert was awesome but come on!
this is why it is cheaper to buy some sennheiser headphones and feel the music in your soul at a comfortable volume win - win for me and 600 bucks cheaper which is insane .
It's getting insane to even go out to see small bands. A "cheap" night out adds up so fast. $20-30 tickets, $20 for a cheap meal, $30 for 2 drinks, $40 for gas+parking. $120 for 1 person to see a local band and get some food and drinks is getting so tough to justify.
That’s absolutely wild. I was at a festival last year to see then play, they did two songs and then the weather caused them the stop the whole thing. Aus law says if a headliner of a festival doesn’t perform you’re entitled to a refund, but Live Nation didn’t give a fuck. And who has the time or money to get a lawyer when you spent it all on the ticket 😓
Really disappointed to hear that MCR is doing the dynamic pricing...I REALLY hope that was purely a decision from management and they didn't have any say in it, cuz that would suck to hear they got greedy
and scalpers bro. MLB games are empty because scalpers buy tickets for box office price and list them for 5-10 times the price. the problem is that people who really want to go still buy the tickets
I got a ticket to a monster truck show in Galveston, Tx last month for $40, but then it was like 'oh by the way, you need a parking permit' that'll be another $200... I was like screw that, so I parked at the Wal-mart across the street for 2 hours--they towed my car and the bill was $320, so I'm boycotting WM now, and I'm never buying a ticket to anything again.
Man that sounds like some shit that would happen to me! Been burned by enough shows that I honestly never think about going or want to go. Honestly give me a decent movie at the theater for the middle of the day at $7.50 and I’m set. 👌 fuck Walmart
Paying two thirds of your earnings towards rent and utility bills while working dead end jobs is also making 80 percent of the usa population mad. See POTUS election. 😮
My school holds a big concerts twice a year and this semester Jason durulo came. This is a free concert for students but other students have exploited the sign up thing and people were reselling a free ticket for maybe 50$
that’s why I’m happy I live in Australia, ticket scalping is illegal and even though some people try to sell tickets online for a wild amount most places that resell tickets can only legally resell them for 10% more than the original purchase price
I'm the guy on your stream that worked at Ticketmaster for 5 years. I literally know everything. Matter of fact, one of my jobs was being in charge of Taylor Swifts boosts for the Look What You Made Me Do tour whichever that was.
If you have cinemarks near you I'd def get the cinemark app/membership, it's about 10 a month and you get a movie ticket a month that rolls over and you of course get discounts on food and buying other tickets. Worth if you enjoy going to the movies regularly 👍
why the hell are you going so mentally overboard over a single spot on a wall? That single spot is 1% visible, you had to look for it instead of simply watching the video.
That's a crazy price, last year in Japan I saw a festival, going from 10 am to 10 pm with bands such as BMTH, Babymetal, Maximum the Hormone, Yoasobi, I Prevail and Yungblood and the ticket was only 134 dollars.
I'm an A&M Student, and the CHEAPEST tickets available to the UT vs A&M game were $600 FOR NOSEBLEEDS. The average price per ticket was $1025. It's absolutely INSANE that I'd have to drop over half a grand just to see my school team compete.
Omg I didn’t realize students had to pay for that. At my school, students had free access to their own section no matter the game. Unless it wasn’t a home game but lol.
I recently saw Stevie Nicks and she included parking in with all the tickets. I thought that was nice considering I’ve never had that before with any of the other concerts I’ve attended
The 26th, and he was last seen on the 4th - So far, from what I've read abt his twitter posts and such, it's really seemingly like he took his own life Poor man
Mr. Burns: And to think, Smithers, you laughed when I bought Ticketmaster. "Nobody's gonna pay a 100% service charge." Smithers: It's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and ignorant, sir.
My go to band is Sabaton and so far the prices have been kept relatively low. I.e. when I saw them for the first time during their primo victoria tour, they charged $20, which included 4 bands, Steelwing, Raubtier, Dead by April, In flames. Of which today, when they have become much bigger, they took $50 in cost for when they played in Stockholm, with the bands Baby metal and Lordi.
I'm so glad I'm old and I was able to see tons of concerts before prices went insane. I went to my first show in like a decade, a few weeks ago. It was a smaller venue and a band most people never heard of - The HU, a Mongolian folk metal band. Tickets were app. $35 but went up to around $50 due to Ticket Master fees.
I wanted to see them too. I made a comment about Beyonce and MCR tickets I bought and TM removed the entire ad on Facebook and added another one with no comments at all about prices. The first one, everyone was pointing it out and then suddenly no push back. with beyonce, I waited right until the night of to purchase those tickets, right before closing the sales because the tickets went from 13,000 to 400 (which is still insane).
I see TX in your name, you should've seen em in Dallas. A friend and I got in for free because of his work, and the place was really dead. probably 150ish people. Amazed me to hear charlie say they were as much as he did
When Lars Ulrich sued Napster back in 2000(?), it sadly was a martyr suit viewed as a rich dude wishing for more money and taking it out on fans. Little did we know at the time that Lars was warning us. When you punish the band's largest source of income by taking physical sales out of the equation, you are indirectly making the fans pay more for their live shows. MCR is losing money because they don't receive shit from Spotify and Apple Music for their music, hence why they're boosting prices for their live shows which cost millions to operate. Live Shows were historically really cheap to promote Album sales, but now the Albums are made to promote Concert tickets. So while this may *technically* be the band's choice, it is an understandable choice given that they aren't making money otherwise. MCR are surprisingly not an ultra rich Rock band, they had 4 albums before calling it quits for 6 years and they came back with touring in 2019. That is not enough to fund several of the most anticipated comeback tours on the planet for a band that essentially was the life soundtrack to an entire generation. The system is rigged against both the artists AND the fans, and we are partially to blame for having denounced Lars' attempts at combatting the issue 25 years ago. We get what we asked for. We wanted free/cheap music from our favourite bands and so we stole that music while expecting them to perform a multi-million dollar tour every few years on a limited amount of income because we refuse to pay them.
Hahaha Lars is a BIG reason the metal industry kind of went to hell. Also modern Metallica is straight up a scam band. Over 100 dollars for their newest albums and like 200 dollar ticket entraces? Screw them too, they intentionally increased the price for metal concerts. Lars is just another massive scammer, defending him is the same as defending the people who push for those insane ticket prices.
@@juanmam.2113 tf you mean $100 for albums?? What record store are you going to? Lars was right about Napster because it evolved into modern day Spotify and Apple Music which allows consumers to pay less for the music and forces bands to charge more for live shows to make budget ends meet. Their ticket prices were completely fine before Napster. They only jumped in price after they started losing money due to lack of sales, despite still being a massively successful band.
@@TheBlackQueen to an average CD shop. Hardwired was selling for over 100 and on top they even have a "deluxe" edition that was even pricier. Another CD shop I go to which is specifically dedicated to metaI just doesnt bother to buy the newest metallica stuff lol, too expensive.
@@TheBlackQueen maybe he was right about Napster, but that doesnt negate all the damage he did first to the band, despite being its founder, and then to the industry.
Ive never paid more than $40 for a concert. Ive never sat in the nosebleeds. I just saw suicideboys a few months ago. I would not pay more than $50 for a ticket. You shouldnt either. Prices will go down when you dont just pay whatever. If prices are high, dont go. Festivals are the way to go anyway.
I'm calling cap you went to Greyday for $40 not in the upper bowl without knowing someone with a ticket already. Easily the most expensive show I've been to this year
I don't understand why there aren't more people with your mindset. If something is too expensive (not talking about necessities), just don't buy the product. And if people ARE buying something expensive, then it means the price is A-OK
@@A7X31610 Dallas. I dont count fees because they are never more than $20 for tickets under $50. Get tickets first day available, they went up to $90 a week after I got mine, and friends said hundreds thereafter. Literally just get alerts for artists youd see live, signup for their presale, get in the online queue as soon as it starts. Like I said, if its over $50 I just forget the option to see them exists. There are other festival and clublike options that provide way more value if you have to get out a couple times a month.
When you decide to live in a very built-up area, like Florida sure. Here in Maine, I regularly get big-name-band tickets for anywhere between $30-$50 at the Cross Insurance Center. Me and my girl saw Trippie Redd, Kendrick Lamar, A Boogie, Dead and Co., RHCP, etc, respectfully all for under $120 for 2 tickets
@@-Negative-3- this guy isnt a bot hes just copy pasting shit, bots usually have a redirectory to another page on their account, this guy is just the base account in all of his replies
I agree you wouldn’t believe how blown away I was when i went to a rocky horror music show and tickets were like literally 10$ and merch was pretty cheap too
SZA and Kendrick Lamar are going on tour and the FARTHEST seats are $400. Decent seats are $730. Close to the stage gonna run you $2700, and the energy floor $3240. This is almost 6 months before the concert 😭
Dude, my daughter wanted to see Rainbow Kitty Surprise! I spent 156 dollars for 2 tickets. I even bought the scam of insurance for another 15 dollars!! On the day of the show Ticketmaster said i didn’t have an account? I tried all of my 3 emails and none of them worked! I driven 5 hours to San Francisco, rented a Airbnb for 200 and ended up buy 2 more tickets for 156 dollars because of no response from my complaint that day!! Ticketmaster can go and get fvcked!! I’m not even going to mention the bullshit I’m going through to get my original purchase refunded
My economy teacher rants everyday about the livenation and ticketmaster monopoly. The ticket prices ARE RIDICULOUS, especially that dynamic pricing crap
On a separate note, I was really hoping you were going to say My Chemical Romance whenever you were talking about how expensive the tickets were because we were talking about the exact same thing whenever we got the tickets. Hope I see you there!
My sister fell out with me recently because i said it was outrageous how much she was paying to see Sam Fender. She was defending the prices because its "fair" apparently. People are genuinely brainwashed by monopolies...
I tried to go to the rockettes in NYC with my girlfriend for next week. I didn't even want the best seats, just decent seats. Over 500 bucks for both of us. She told me never mind and I felt bad and she outright told me not to buy them cause they're expensive even though I would've. Tickets to a Broadway show weren't far behind but I bought 2 for $400 and will surprise her. Yeah. $4-500 for a couple hours. Ticket prices are crazy.
I looked at a Post Malone show for next Summer. Cheapest was $200 for nose bleed. Mid level started at $500, Floor seats near the stage $1400. These are not resale and are just the tickets. No VIP lounge, no parking, no merch.
Thank you Charlie for being a champion of truth! I work in the ticketing industry TM is the meat shield for the artists so their fans don’t realize how greedy they are! And if you hate DP blame the band, it’s not automatically active bands have to elect to activate it. If y’all want things to change you’re aiming your ire at the decoy like the artists and promoters want, call out the artists and stop buying tickets if you care that much.
That's what I thought Blink came by. Nosebleeds were going for $250. I was surprised to see how cheap Linkin Park tickets were, $160 for the floor at a big arena. Granted I signed up for their fan club to get presales before scalpers can get their hands on those tickets.
I've bought a lot of concert tickets recently. (1) I was fortunate to get MCR tickets right when they went on sale. Bought tickets for a friend and I in the nosebleeds for $70/each. That night I looked out of curiosity and saw similar tickets going for just under $500! It's only gotten worse since then (2) A year ago I saw Poppy. Bought tickets pretty last minute with no issue. She's playing the same venue on her next tour and tickets sold out the same day and were reselling for 3x as much as I usually pay for gigs at that venue. Tbf, she's a bigger artist now (and I love that for her!) but it was still insane to me that tickets got so expensive so quickly. Luckily I was able to find at-cost tickets from someone who must have realized they couldn't go after they bought their tickets but those were the only two that weren't crazy priced. (3) I was gonna take my mom to see Pentatonix for her birthday. Found nosebleed tickets that were at the high end of my budget. Ticketmaster added $50 worth in fees to EACH ticket ($100 in total), so we decided to do something else for her birthday.
I turned on my shower speaker after watching this and accidentally hit play on the speaker and “THATS IT IM GETTING ME MALLET” blared so loud scared the shit out of me hahahahaha
My friends an I are planning on going to Vegas in April for Wrestlemania then we found out the prices for some nosebleed seats are over $1500 and there’s 4 of us. Insane prices.
Hey Charlie! The ticket prices are not set by the bands or the performer. The organisers are the people who are setting the price of the tickets because bands/artists have a fee that they will go and perform for and that could range from 1000$ for smaller artists all the way up to 6-7 digits depending on their size. The team who organizes the event will sell the tickets on a price that will make them profit but on top of paying the artists they have to pay for the sound, lights and the workers who work there. So the band plays a part on the price of the tickets because the most expensive part of the whole operation is getting the artists to perform, but we also have to consider the people who are working to make the event happen in the first place and they have to make a profit to keep making more shows. So in conclusion MCR don't control how much the tickets will sell for or if its dynamic pricing or not it the organizers who made it like that. (unless MCR organised the event well then its on them)
@@P3et97 Yep. Those seats haven't been available for the run of the tour, but have been openened up for the final 3 shows as a last chance for anyone who just wanted to be there for cheap. They were on sale for $15, but naturally scalpers got there first, so nobody got them for that price. It sucks.
The problem. Isn't that they are expensive. The real problem is that despite that, people buy them anyway instead of simply boycotting those ticket prices. I'd keep screwing people over, too, if all they did was grumble and hand me their money. Love the content. Thank you for doing this for us every day, Charlie. Appreciate you!
I think a big part of this issue is artists make most of their money off of touring nowadays. When I was a kid we had to buy cds and artists made allot off of that but now with everything on UA-cam and streaming platforms album sales are down. Re-sellers and ticket companies definitely make this issue worse.
Metalheads are still buying cds and vinyls and even cassettes believe it or not. Also metal discographies dont usually take every penny from their bands.
wanna add onto this and say that vtuber concerts are becoming more and more popular. With that, a popular idol Suisei from hololive is preforming soon, and the tickets started at $80, skyrocketing to $1000+ because of scalpers, shits ridiculous
when i got 2 Bring Me The Horizon tickets last year, it was 2 for £150 standing. Within a week of resale it was £350 EACH. It definitely needs to be sorted out
@@juanmam.2113 Nah Metalcore is goated, and just the bigger ones. Most shows are still $25-40 bucks. $80 for A Day To Remember floor tickets is the most we paid for a core show, though BMTH is proably a lot bigger over in Europe, and able to play the biggest arenas. Because I know they played the same small arenas as ADTR when they came by.
Aaaah.. the great feeling i had few years ago when Rage Against The Machine visit my country (Poland) and noticing that after many years of supporting them, buying their albums (which was not easy at that time) singing their songs against the system etc. that they wanted to cash 500 dollars for tickets.... their music was listened by the poor and now they dont want poor to be on their concerts... I had sooo many friend who were fans but refused to buy tickets just because it was farse... rage against my ass
Concert ticket bs has been the bane of my existence for years now. My whole day is structured around making sure I’m on a device to get show tickets, even to smaller venues simply because of all these situations. My whole day was planned around making sure I got Linkin Park tickets even on presale, because they hit high hundreds on day of sale. This system is terrible
They allow people to buy up tickets and then resell them through the app. Then some of them show up with the paper copies of the tickets they sold and manage to get in. This happened and we had to have them removed from our seats
Yeah…the last time I went to a concert was back in 2012 when Deadmau5 came to Atlanta…one of the GREATEST nights of my life and with price of entry and the BOOZE, I spent no more than $200!!! 😂
A creator I watch apparently said that dynamic pricing is automatically set and has to be manually requested to be not used if a performer doesn't want to use it
not sure if you saw it or if it ever came to an end, but ticketmaster actually went to judicial court or something earlier this year in like may for being a monopoly. Idk what ever happened to that tho.
Charlie lead the revolt against Ticketmaster!! Last time I bought tickets to a small show the “fees” were 60% of the ticket cost. Ticketmaster must be stopped!
I saw Hatsune Miku in Australia last month. US$200 for an okay ticket. Four band members and a projection on a screen. $200! But you know what? The whole venue was sold out regardless. People will pay anything to see a performer, and promotors and ticketing agencies know it. Everyone is lifting their prices. Sadly the only thing we can do is vote with our wallets and stop paying these prices, but that won't happen. While venues keep being sold out we're all sending a signal that the prices could be even higher.
Never been to a concert before so knew nothing about prices, when I saw the price for Miku Expo's ticket was only around 230 AUD I had been in such deep relief haha
That's why I like Oliver Anthony. He refuses to charge more than like 25 bucks for a basic ticket, and if a venue over prices it, he will cancel. The show and refund everyone
Pearl Jam tried to fight back against Ticketmaster for their greed in 1995 with a lawsuit and FAILED even then. Now here we are 30 years later
How much are the tickets now
There is a current signing on this page called breakupticketmaster, that petitions for the DOJ to make another investigation yet again, but there also are some grassroots lawsuit on the companies currently
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@@NoHandle44 yes
Ticketmaster is a monopoly that needs to be broken up
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actually it’s ridiculous
Or in this case, Live Nation since they own Ticketmaster
they get "fines" every year but when you make billions, who cares about losing 2 million
Live nation* not only do they own ticketmaster, but nearly every major venue as well
somebody i know was a class A scalper - until he bought about 50 T.Swift concert tickets in Toronto to re-sell them, just to find out the day of the concert people weren't able to claim their tickets. Turned out the scalper purchased from a scammer and had to pay back every person he ripped off.
What kind of weak sauce scalper is buying tickets from another scalper?
What Robert Smith did was incredible though. I bought tickets for a The Cure show two years ago for like 50 bucks, then Robert called out Ticketmaster for raising the prices because apparently he wanted the tickets cheaper. The guy somehow managed to make Ticketmaster refund everyone who bought a ticket (I got around 20$ back if I remember well). It’s really cool.
There’s a reason he saved the day in South Park
Didn’t he like also not allow re selling or something
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@@Y-MAN771 Loser
You can't even buy tour tickets directly anymore, it's always from third parties such as Ticket Master.
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yeah ikr! its so annoying. i wish artists would sell the tickets directly instead of using ticket master or something.
I got my wife and her friend tickets for an artist they love. Tickets was $200 each. Then you add in gas, Airbnb, food, parking etc. cleared about $2000. Then my wife wanted to go shopping a week later. Nope. You spent $2000 to see an artist. In her head it was only $200 each. My head I added the entire trip up. To this day she still thinks the trip was $200 per person smh
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And now ticketmaster has an in-house reselling program. It's suddenly okay when they do it themselves because now they get a cut.
Some artists, like Billie Eilish, are finding ways to ensure that ticket prices are fair, at least when it comes to ticket reselling. She made it so that her tickets can only be resold for the original price they went for. I honestly think this is what the artists should be doing on ticketmaster, don't feed the greed.
What about the good artists? They're the ones who need to ensure fair prices >:/
how can she make sure of someone selling it on some random site?
Something I will always love and respect charlie for is, he is obviously a very rich man, but still understands that 200 dollars is an absolutely egregious price for a concert.
No way you think 200 dollars is expensive you sound broke
@@OVOJacob3 for most people, the amount of money they have is irrelevant to what they consider cheap and expensive unless they are insecure.
@@OVOJacob3 ah yes the ameritard way of thinking, aka, "fuck the poor, they shouldn't live or enjoy life or get to do anything ever lol brokie can't afford 200 dollars to listen to music for an hour or two"
Get C bro.
@@OVOJacob3 ok, boomer
Who the fuck thinks $200 is a normal price? Thats ludicrous
Even smaller concerts are getting hurt by this. Went to a smaller metal show last week. Ticket listed price was $30. Got 2 Tix, and after fees, I paid nearly $90. Something really needs to change.
Ticketmaster buys out a lot of venues nowadays, I feel bad for local venues like this; they’re suffering whilst TM takes control of every process possible in getting to concerts
Yeap jam bands too. The band posted tickets were $58, after fees jumped up to $87. What are these fee's for a barcode digital ticket. It's ridiculous
same, i bought tickets for Kali Uchis in 2023, and it was 30 each, and with all the fees, it totaled to 90
@@DerpySpy The tix i got were through AXS. The whole industry is in on the scam
@@Greyscayl You’re right… AXS, StubHub, SeatGeek, VividSeats, all promote these kinds of pricing and often resells tickets from Ticketmaster with how much of a titan it is as a company. There’s no competition, every distributor is essentially in agreement to promote this monopolistic tendency of bonding together
That Squidward "mediocre" got me pretty good.
mediocre? 🥺
In 1979, I was 10, and absolutely scandalized by the fact that my dad had to put out 40 whole bucks TOTAL for 4 tickets to see KISS. It was like a million to me.
Times have changed alright.
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@@crimsonitacilunarnebula yikes.
@@crimsonitacilunarnebula for each, right?
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I was also looking for tickets for the my chemical romance concert and saw one being resold for $98,766. I wonder if they were actually expecting someone to buy that or were actively trying to make a joke out of the system
also, a tip for dealing with these resellers: ticket prices drop significantly right before the event. someone I knew was able to get a front row seat at a concert for $10 because she bought it a few minutes before the concert started. the tickets were in high demand and I remember them typically selling for $200+. the prices drop closer to the event since the resellers don't want their money to be wasted on unused tickets, and although it's scummy to do this you can just wait a little longer to get some better deals.
Someone will buy it. There is always someone with enough money to not care about the price, and there are enough of them for things to only get more unaffordable.
The vast majority of human beings on this Earth don't live directly outside of the concert venue they want to go to. If you're buying the ticket literal minutes before, then most people would have to commute there even before they have locked in buying the ticket.
To commute to the venue and possibly even take time off work just for the *possibility* that they *might* still have the tickets available and *might* lower the price within your range (I'd guess the $10 ticket wasn't one of these $500+ scalped tickets to begin with)
YMMV. The last time I waited on resale prices to drop... They never did. Prices actually went up somehow, and stayed up, all the way until the concert started. Face value was $80 per. Average resale price afterward hovered around $500 or $600, then fucking skyrocketed to $900+ the day of. Two were still being listed at over $1k even well into the concert.
My bad that was a typo I was trying to sell them for $9.87 but would take 0.66 can’t give these things away
not scummy at all, its all supply and demand, if a concert is very desirable to see what is the problem with it being expensive, if people dont wanna see it and you pretend like tickets are expensive then you gotta take your loss and sell the ticket to someone for a loss, thats how this system works. But usually tickets are desirable and the prices only go up and up as more people buy and resell them.
'K-pop' concerts are another level. About $350 for average normal seats. If you want floor it’s always over $1000 for the tickets, many times reaching over $2000. But then if you want soundcheck, well over $15k per ticket. Not to mention they only go to a handful of locations in the u.s. so a pretty good amount of us have to pay travel expenses, hotels, etc. it’s pretty insane 💌
While I totally agree with you that Kpop concert prices are on another level, I have never seen a VIP soundcheck ticket above 1000$ if it’s not from resellers.
incorrect i paid 480€ for stray kids amsterdam vip sound check. and it’s a 3 hr concert w vip goodies. it’s bad but not unbearable and skz is like massive. resale prices a different thing entirely
I agree I think DUI Tickets Should Be Less
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I saw the the Cure in 2023, and the tickets were 60 bucks. It sold out fast, so Robert Smith decided to do another show the following day so everybody who wanted to go to see them live would have a chance. It was also a sold out show. That's what I call an artist who appreciates his fans.
alot bands do 2 concerts in a row if the first one sold out instantly. its not like this is anything special.
if its a local band orso they will just keep adding shows untill the sales stop. i know of a band that did 9 shows
Doesnt necessarily mean they appreciate their fans, maybe they just appreciate their fans money. Idk the band though
@xSPLOOMPHx true, but compared to this MCR situation, they can appreciate my money all they want.
@@manuelferreira8772 theres another comment in here that said the same guy sold tickets for $30 and made ticketmaster refund everyone who bought from them after finding out they were charging $50 for the same tickets. so i think that guy might be one of the few who actually gaf
@@manuelferreira8772 oops i meant to reply to the other guy, not you LOL
Dude I’m so glad Charlie is covering this issue. More people need to get on their necks for this shit. It’s so infuriating. I remember when prices per ticket for a kpop concert were around 80$ per ticket. And at the time I thought those prices were still expensive (Which they were btw). Now even for balcony seats they cost over 300 dollars. Don’t even get me started on floor and standing ticket prices. A whole ass mortgage payment. It’s absolutely insane.
We once had a Laufey concert in Singapore and I was super gassed to book tickets for it. Unfortunately the scum that are scalpers used bots to mass purchase seats to the point that I kid you not we couldn’t even buy them 5 minutes into opening sales. Worse, they also resold them at 5x the prices they were going for on other sites. Absolutely disgusting behaviour.
RIP i saw laufey for free in 2021
@bencal there's a time and a place for flexing bro
@@bencalokay?
Thats what happens when you allow a free market to run on its own devices with no regulation whatsoever.
Same concept with taking a train to JB
Dynamic pricing is so stupid. I recently tried to buy a train ticket which normally costs like 20€, but because the train was almost full the ticket would have cost over 200€
where is it?
Thanks to all those tech bros and MBAs.
So glad that my local train tickets are fixed price, no matter when you buy. Freaking BS that you pay way more just buying last minute
So glad you mentioned Robert Smith as hearing about this situation brought back the tour The Cure (favorite band ever) recently did - I remember that whole situation last year and how he got other sites to take down scalpers trying to re-sell their tickets.
Hearing Charlie say "That's it, I'm gettin' me mallet" in his classic semi-monotone voice is the best things to grace my ears when I clicked on this video!
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I just checked online few months ago and tickets for a Taylor Swift concert in Miami this October are going for 2100 to 19000 dollars. It's insane.
Resellers dream
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I can’t believe these idiots pay that much money just to listen to a stupid devil worshipper sing sh*tty songs about her being a whore😂😂😂
wtf
Because Taylor swift is a toxic, greedy whore who makes so many breakup songs she practically invented the genre
The rabbit hole goes deep, live nation owns the venues, live nations owns ticketmaster, they control damn near everything, so when it comes down to it, it’s the band’s decision to set the original price. The biggest problem is the reselling, and that is made to be as easy as possible by love nation, because they own the venue they get all the profits
Ticket master sold me and my sister's tickets to someone else after we bought them. We bought tickets a few months early and they were on her account before we got to the venue. We stood in line for almost 2 hours to get front row spots and by the time we got to the front whoever else they resold our tickets to must have been infront of us because the tickets were unavailable on her account. We had to go buy new tickets on sight. Selling our tickets from under us was total BS and we realized a lot of people there had the same issue
same thing happened to my classmate who invited me to a concert. stupid, evil ticketmaster.
Lawsuit? That sounds like theft.
Exact thing happened to me on stubhub. I paid 600 each too for GA. We got in bc I called the customer service line and flipped out for 45 minutes until they sent me new ones
Dont you have anti monopolies laws in your country?
@@juanmam.2113yeah, but if you're rich enough & can keep moving assets around shell companies, it's more of a suggestion than a law
Same I couldn't even get a ticket for bbno$ tour, scalpers got em.
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Did you mean U2?
I'm not a music guy whatsoever, never been to a concert in my life. I paid around 60€ for the most front row seats at the Barbican Center in London to watch the Sonic Symphony in 2023. Took pictures and autographs with the orchestra and bands, we talked about the games, even had a chat with Tomoya Ohtani and Jun Senoue and congratulated them for their excellent work in Adventure, Adventure 2, Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog, 06 and Frontiers (I know they've worked on more games but those were the ones we discussed about). All for 60€!!! I found the price tag to be refreshingly low and was very pleased. The production, the accomodations, the staff, they had a Sonic mascot having fun with fans and taking pictures for free, everything was wonderful. I had the impression that that was the industry standard, sad to see how bad it actually is industry-wide. Leave it to Sonic to be outstanding in the music department lol.
I think it's cause Europe has more regulations when it comes to ticket selling compared to North America
Glad you had fun at the show!
my gf got us tickets for the 28th very hyped especially now that I know the sonic mascot will be there lol
@@vividcyclone2143 Yo, hope you 2 have a great time there! Yeah hopefully you'll see the mascot too, guy in it was cool, I asked him to do the 06 pose where he extends his hand out and he nailed it lol. There were cosplayers and stuff at my show too so even if you don't end up seeing the official mascot you'll probably have some photo material if you're looking for photos!
Scalpers using bots to buy up all tickets to resell them at a markup. The markups stop happening when people stop buying them for that price.
In person purchasing tickets will solve the problem, but a lot of these online ticket sellers are the reason why the prices are so high. In person ticket sales would literally almost certainly bankrupt the ticket online market.
Hope they know the new tax law they have to report any profit in a single transaction of more than $600 and they have to pay taxes on it.
would probably mean x% of seats reserved for offline only, preferably the cheaper seats because VIPS can go to hell since they're rich people anyway
or to be the lesser evil, tie a VISA/passport into the ticket 7d after buying (automatically refunds if you do not tie a VISA) so resellers gets absolutely fucked
How about we just make scalping illegal just like price gouging is illegal?
Exactly, people need to stop supporting scalpers. People are willing to sell their own daughters to get a ticket that seats them in the bathroom toilet half a mile away from the stage. They are the problem.
There was a law placed called BOTS Act 2016, it seems Ticketmaster is allowing this illegal thing to happen with having no precaution for burner accounts bulk buying/re-selling
We spent $900 for 2 floor tickets to Def Leppard, Steve Miller Band, and Journey in August 2024. Super expensive. That didn't include parking or any drinks. Parking was $38 in the ramp and get this a 24 oz water, in a plastic cup was $8.00 & a 24 oz beer, in a plastic cup was $14.00. Plastic cups are mandatory on the floor. Unreal, I'm shocked they didnt charge for the porta-potti's on ground level. The concert was awesome but come on!
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this is why it is cheaper to buy some sennheiser headphones and feel the music in your soul at a comfortable volume win - win for me and 600 bucks cheaper which is insane .
It's getting insane to even go out to see small bands. A "cheap" night out adds up so fast. $20-30 tickets, $20 for a cheap meal, $30 for 2 drinks, $40 for gas+parking. $120 for 1 person to see a local band and get some food and drinks is getting so tough to justify.
It’s awesome to hear Charlie likes The Ghost of You. It’s my favorite MCR song and the music video is a masterpiece.
1:43 “that’s not even a word and I agree with you!”
Gold mine?
@ it’s an episode about the health inspector from SpongeBob where he says “We’ve been Smeckeldorfed!” And Mr. Krabs replies⬆️
I tried to buy two tickets for a FOB concert once but the added fees were more than the price of a ticket. I didn't go
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good on you for not getting scammed . anything over 150 and i say hell no .
We have laws in my country to prevent that
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That’s absolutely wild. I was at a festival last year to see then play, they did two songs and then the weather caused them the stop the whole thing. Aus law says if a headliner of a festival doesn’t perform you’re entitled to a refund, but Live Nation didn’t give a fuck. And who has the time or money to get a lawyer when you spent it all on the ticket 😓
Really disappointed to hear that MCR is doing the dynamic pricing...I REALLY hope that was purely a decision from management and they didn't have any say in it, cuz that would suck to hear they got greedy
I almost got those tickets but my morals wouldn't allow me 😢
The amount of SpongeBob references in less than 2 minutes is amazing.
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Big Ticket has us all by the balls.
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and scalpers bro. MLB games are empty because scalpers buy tickets for box office price and list them for 5-10 times the price. the problem is that people who really want to go still buy the tickets
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I got a ticket to a monster truck show in Galveston, Tx last month for $40, but then it was like 'oh by the way, you need a parking permit' that'll be another $200... I was like screw that, so I parked at the Wal-mart across the street for 2 hours--they towed my car and the bill was $320, so I'm boycotting WM now, and I'm never buying a ticket to anything again.
Man that sounds like some shit that would happen to me! Been burned by enough shows that I honestly never think about going or want to go. Honestly give me a decent movie at the theater for the middle of the day at $7.50 and I’m set. 👌 fuck Walmart
1:20 Ask Matt if he will hold you on his shoulders so you can see everything .
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He's alone in this situation though that's the reality
Paying two thirds of your earnings towards rent and utility bills while working dead end jobs is also making 80 percent of the usa population mad. See POTUS election. 😮
My school holds a big concerts twice a year and this semester Jason durulo came. This is a free concert for students but other students have exploited the sign up thing and people were reselling a free ticket for maybe 50$
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"I'm gettin me mallet!"
Eustace was ready to be a fighting game character. Had a round start line and everything.
1:34 Charlie uses his real voice. AI couldn’t say mediocre.
That actually tripped me out 💀💀💀
I was confused lol
@@zevac haha me too
I think he was quoting Squidward 😂
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Kurt Cobain once said in an interview, " Madonna charges $100 for a show? ", with a shock face*. That was back in the in the 90s
minimum wage was like 5-6$ back then, so yeah it's crazy expensive for the 90's
@@thecanadakid7622it was even less lmao it was on average 4.25
that’s why I’m happy I live in Australia, ticket scalping is illegal and even though some people try to sell tickets online for a wild amount most places that resell tickets can only legally resell them for 10% more than the original purchase price
The crazy thing is people still pay these prices
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I never pay stupid money for tickets. I usually draw the line at £100 but Lana Del Rey is performing at anfield and im prepared to pay £300
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I'm the guy on your stream that worked at Ticketmaster for 5 years. I literally know everything. Matter of fact, one of my jobs was being in charge of Taylor Swifts boosts for the Look What You Made Me Do tour whichever that was.
Movie tickets are like this too, like why am I paying 16 dollars to go watch a movie on top of having to buy snacks
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There is one first run theater in town that still has a $5 early bird showing.
Let's see, a large Coke and Jumbo Popcorn, that will be $28.99.
If you have cinemarks near you I'd def get the cinemark app/membership, it's about 10 a month and you get a movie ticket a month that rolls over and you of course get discounts on food and buying other tickets. Worth if you enjoy going to the movies regularly 👍
For the heated reclining seats and the experience 🥲 (wear a big coat and bring your own snacks lol 🤫)
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4:27 that white dot on the wall is melting my brain
Why did you time stamp it’s there the whole video
@@sazon860 it's most prominent in that timestamp obviously
why the hell are you going so mentally overboard over a single spot on a wall? That single spot is 1% visible, you had to look for it instead of simply watching the video.
@@ImperialCubnono the squatch has a point. That white dot is gonna destroy us all I just know it.
@@ImperialCubdude you seem more bothered than they were
That's a crazy price, last year in Japan I saw a festival, going from 10 am to 10 pm with bands such as BMTH, Babymetal, Maximum the Hormone, Yoasobi, I Prevail and Yungblood and the ticket was only 134 dollars.
Chappell Roan is trying to combat this very thing.
Kiki Rockwell is better tbh
Kanye too i think, i went to a concert of him in paris for about €100 with pretty good seats
I'm an A&M Student, and the CHEAPEST tickets available to the UT vs A&M game were $600 FOR NOSEBLEEDS. The average price per ticket was $1025. It's absolutely INSANE that I'd have to drop over half a grand just to see my school team compete.
Was that competing?
Are games empty or still full?
Ur an idiot they were like 200 dollars at ticket pull and it was the biggest game of the last 10 years
Omg I didn’t realize students had to pay for that. At my school, students had free access to their own section no matter the game. Unless it wasn’t a home game but lol.
@@namesurname624 109,000 people attended that game...
I recently saw Stevie Nicks and she included parking in with all the tickets. I thought that was nice considering I’ve never had that before with any of the other concerts I’ve attended
The former drummer of my chemical romance passed away at 44 this past month
RIP Bob Bryar
The 26th, and he was last seen on the 4th - So far, from what I've read abt his twitter posts and such, it's really seemingly like he took his own life
Poor man
Love the random Charlie rants lol
Mr. Burns: And to think, Smithers, you laughed when I bought Ticketmaster. "Nobody's gonna pay a 100% service charge."
Smithers: It's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and ignorant, sir.
My go to band is Sabaton and so far the prices have been kept relatively low.
I.e. when I saw them for the first time during their primo victoria tour, they charged $20, which included 4 bands, Steelwing, Raubtier, Dead by April, In flames.
Of which today, when they have become much bigger, they took $50 in cost for when they played in
Stockholm, with the bands Baby metal and Lordi.
Swedish pagans marching ashore, forged in Val Halla by the hammer of Thor 🎶 🎉
Pro tip - call the venues box office and either buy in person or over the phone to avoid extra fees 😊
Exactyl. Are americans really that lazy?
The one single concert I’ve been to didn’t offer that. The venue had been bought out Ticketmaster
Good luck finding places that do that. Ticket master controls most everything.
@@mikepalmer1971 in my country we mostly buy in-person
Almost no venues do this now. Especially for any larger artist/band. Those days are gone my friend lol
This is even worse now that we know the drummer died recently
I'm so glad I'm old and I was able to see tons of concerts before prices went insane. I went to my first show in like a decade, a few weeks ago. It was a smaller venue and a band most people never heard of - The HU, a Mongolian folk metal band. Tickets were app. $35 but went up to around $50 due to Ticket Master fees.
@lunachick The HU is a very cool band. I hope you had fun at the show!!!!
Dont worry, in my country we still can enjoy amazing bands for decent prices
I think I have heard of the HU. The TM fees are rather exorbitant.
@@juanmam.2113 Do you also tell Ukrainians not to worry because your country isn't invaded?
@@perlundgren7797 what has that got to do with anything. We are talking music not wars
I wanted to see them too. I made a comment about Beyonce and MCR tickets I bought and TM removed the entire ad on Facebook and added another one with no comments at all about prices. The first one, everyone was pointing it out and then suddenly no push back. with beyonce, I waited right until the night of to purchase those tickets, right before closing the sales because the tickets went from 13,000 to 400 (which is still insane).
I see TX in your name, you should've seen em in Dallas. A friend and I got in for free because of his work, and the place was really dead. probably 150ish people. Amazed me to hear charlie say they were as much as he did
That Squilliam Fancyson “mediocre..-“ was spot on.
When Lars Ulrich sued Napster back in 2000(?), it sadly was a martyr suit viewed as a rich dude wishing for more money and taking it out on fans. Little did we know at the time that Lars was warning us. When you punish the band's largest source of income by taking physical sales out of the equation, you are indirectly making the fans pay more for their live shows. MCR is losing money because they don't receive shit from Spotify and Apple Music for their music, hence why they're boosting prices for their live shows which cost millions to operate.
Live Shows were historically really cheap to promote Album sales, but now the Albums are made to promote Concert tickets. So while this may *technically* be the band's choice, it is an understandable choice given that they aren't making money otherwise. MCR are surprisingly not an ultra rich Rock band, they had 4 albums before calling it quits for 6 years and they came back with touring in 2019. That is not enough to fund several of the most anticipated comeback tours on the planet for a band that essentially was the life soundtrack to an entire generation. The system is rigged against both the artists AND the fans, and we are partially to blame for having denounced Lars' attempts at combatting the issue 25 years ago. We get what we asked for. We wanted free/cheap music from our favourite bands and so we stole that music while expecting them to perform a multi-million dollar tour every few years on a limited amount of income because we refuse to pay them.
And yes, scalpers are separately but overwhelmingly responsible for the 500x increases to ticket prices.
Hahaha Lars is a BIG reason the metal industry kind of went to hell. Also modern Metallica is straight up a scam band. Over 100 dollars for their newest albums and like 200 dollar ticket entraces? Screw them too, they intentionally increased the price for metal concerts.
Lars is just another massive scammer, defending him is the same as defending the people who push for those insane ticket prices.
@@juanmam.2113 tf you mean $100 for albums?? What record store are you going to?
Lars was right about Napster because it evolved into modern day Spotify and Apple Music which allows consumers to pay less for the music and forces bands to charge more for live shows to make budget ends meet. Their ticket prices were completely fine before Napster. They only jumped in price after they started losing money due to lack of sales, despite still being a massively successful band.
@@TheBlackQueen to an average CD shop. Hardwired was selling for over 100 and on top they even have a "deluxe" edition that was even pricier. Another CD shop I go to which is specifically dedicated to metaI just doesnt bother to buy the newest metallica stuff lol, too expensive.
@@TheBlackQueen maybe he was right about Napster, but that doesnt negate all the damage he did first to the band, despite being its founder, and then to the industry.
Ive never paid more than $40 for a concert. Ive never sat in the nosebleeds. I just saw suicideboys a few months ago.
I would not pay more than $50 for a ticket.
You shouldnt either. Prices will go down when you dont just pay whatever.
If prices are high, dont go. Festivals are the way to go anyway.
I'm calling cap you went to Greyday for $40 not in the upper bowl without knowing someone with a ticket already. Easily the most expensive show I've been to this year
I don't understand why there aren't more people with your mindset. If something is too expensive (not talking about necessities), just don't buy the product. And if people ARE buying something expensive, then it means the price is A-OK
@@A7X31610 Dallas. I dont count fees because they are never more than $20 for tickets under $50. Get tickets first day available, they went up to $90 a week after I got mine, and friends said hundreds thereafter.
Literally just get alerts for artists youd see live, signup for their presale, get in the online queue as soon as it starts.
Like I said, if its over $50 I just forget the option to see them exists. There are other festival and clublike options that provide way more value if you have to get out a couple times a month.
When you decide to live in a very built-up area, like Florida sure. Here in Maine, I regularly get big-name-band tickets for anywhere between $30-$50 at the Cross Insurance Center. Me and my girl saw Trippie Redd, Kendrick Lamar, A Boogie, Dead and Co., RHCP, etc, respectfully all for under $120 for 2 tickets
1:34 he just can't stop with the banger SpongeBob references 🤣🤣🤣
Nobody cares lol⚡⚡ 🙋🏻♂️🇩🇪
@@Y-MAN771 germany isnt even right anymore theyre one of the most left countries lmao, but i wouldnt expect some 12 year old to know that
@@aronicus. it's a bot, say something they know peopl'll react to so they can get attention to their channel
@@aronicus. These bots are ancient 🤣🤣🤓🤓
@@-Negative-3- this guy isnt a bot hes just copy pasting shit, bots usually have a redirectory to another page on their account, this guy is just the base account in all of his replies
I agree you wouldn’t believe how blown away I was when i went to a rocky horror music show and tickets were like literally 10$ and merch was pretty cheap too
SZA and Kendrick Lamar are going on tour and the FARTHEST seats are $400. Decent seats are $730. Close to the stage gonna run you $2700, and the energy floor $3240. This is almost 6 months before the concert 😭
Dude, my daughter wanted to see Rainbow Kitty Surprise! I spent 156 dollars for 2 tickets. I even bought the scam of insurance for another 15 dollars!! On the day of the show Ticketmaster said i didn’t have an account? I tried all of my 3 emails and none of them worked! I driven 5 hours to San Francisco, rented a Airbnb for 200 and ended up buy 2 more tickets for 156 dollars because of no response from my complaint that day!! Ticketmaster can go and get fvcked!! I’m not even going to mention the bullshit I’m going through to get my original purchase refunded
78$ isn't bad per person. other forms of entertainment cost more. movies, video games.
@@kyloren8133 he paid 2 times + the 200
They saw someone bought insurance and knew they had a sucker on their hands /s
@@kyloren813377 dollars for a movie per person????
@@hashbrown777 yep!! Dipshit!
My economy teacher rants everyday about the livenation and ticketmaster monopoly. The ticket prices ARE RIDICULOUS, especially that dynamic pricing crap
On a separate note, I was really hoping you were going to say My Chemical Romance whenever you were talking about how expensive the tickets were because we were talking about the exact same thing whenever we got the tickets. Hope I see you there!
ME TOO LMAO. HE WOULD BE IN MY SECTION TOO
Same!
Ticketmaster is the president of Ticket scamming prices
Nobody cares lol⚡⚡
the *master of ticket scamming prices?
My sister fell out with me recently because i said it was outrageous how much she was paying to see Sam Fender. She was defending the prices because its "fair" apparently. People are genuinely brainwashed by monopolies...
I tried to go to the rockettes in NYC with my girlfriend for next week. I didn't even want the best seats, just decent seats. Over 500 bucks for both of us. She told me never mind and I felt bad and she outright told me not to buy them cause they're expensive even though I would've. Tickets to a Broadway show weren't far behind but I bought 2 for $400 and will surprise her. Yeah. $4-500 for a couple hours. Ticket prices are crazy.
I looked at a Post Malone show for next Summer. Cheapest was $200 for nose bleed. Mid level started at $500, Floor seats near the stage $1400. These are not resale and are just the tickets. No VIP lounge, no parking, no merch.
Thank you Charlie for being a champion of truth! I work in the ticketing industry TM is the meat shield for the artists so their fans don’t realize how greedy they are! And if you hate DP blame the band, it’s not automatically active bands have to elect to activate it. If y’all want things to change you’re aiming your ire at the decoy like the artists and promoters want, call out the artists and stop buying tickets if you care that much.
Paying nearly 300$ for nosebleed seats is criminal. I really wanted to see them perform live
That's what I thought Blink came by. Nosebleeds were going for $250. I was surprised to see how cheap Linkin Park tickets were, $160 for the floor at a big arena. Granted I signed up for their fan club to get presales before scalpers can get their hands on those tickets.
I've bought a lot of concert tickets recently.
(1) I was fortunate to get MCR tickets right when they went on sale. Bought tickets for a friend and I in the nosebleeds for $70/each. That night I looked out of curiosity and saw similar tickets going for just under $500! It's only gotten worse since then
(2) A year ago I saw Poppy. Bought tickets pretty last minute with no issue. She's playing the same venue on her next tour and tickets sold out the same day and were reselling for 3x as much as I usually pay for gigs at that venue. Tbf, she's a bigger artist now (and I love that for her!) but it was still insane to me that tickets got so expensive so quickly. Luckily I was able to find at-cost tickets from someone who must have realized they couldn't go after they bought their tickets but those were the only two that weren't crazy priced.
(3) I was gonna take my mom to see Pentatonix for her birthday. Found nosebleed tickets that were at the high end of my budget. Ticketmaster added $50 worth in fees to EACH ticket ($100 in total), so we decided to do something else for her birthday.
I turned on my shower speaker after watching this and accidentally hit play on the speaker and “THATS IT IM GETTING ME MALLET” blared so loud scared the shit out of me hahahahaha
$250 are a steal for the nosebleeds in Toronto
Nobody cares lol⚡⚡ 🙋🏻♂️🇩🇪
And then you have to Toronto curse where concerts get cancelled last minute
if its in the smaller venues and you're early you can get pit tickets for 35, typically if you like bands
@@Y-MAN771bot
I've heard from friends concerts in Canada are super lame lol. Deadest crowd ever I've been told.
My friends an I are planning on going to Vegas in April for Wrestlemania then we found out the prices for some nosebleed seats are over $1500 and there’s 4 of us. Insane prices.
Nobody cares lol⚡⚡ 🙋🏻♂️🇩🇪
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@@Y-MAN771you are a useless member of society wasting your time posting this on every comment I want to read
Hey Charlie! The ticket prices are not set by the bands or the performer. The organisers are the people who are setting the price of the tickets because bands/artists have a fee that they will go and perform for and that could range from 1000$ for smaller artists all the way up to 6-7 digits depending on their size. The team who organizes the event will sell the tickets on a price that will make them profit but on top of paying the artists they have to pay for the sound, lights and the workers who work there. So the band plays a part on the price of the tickets because the most expensive part of the whole operation is getting the artists to perform, but we also have to consider the people who are working to make the event happen in the first place and they have to make a profit to keep making more shows. So in conclusion MCR don't control how much the tickets will sell for or if its dynamic pricing or not it the organizers who made it like that. (unless MCR organised the event well then its on them)
This type of content is relaxing tbh, im new to the channel and i find this entertaining
"No View" tickets for a Taylor swift concert here in Vancouver are selling for thousands of dollars.
Paying thousands to not even watch the show is insane
no view???!!!
I Can Still See Swifties Swarming To Scoop Them Up.
@@P3et97 Yep. Those seats haven't been available for the run of the tour, but have been openened up for the final 3 shows as a last chance for anyone who just wanted to be there for cheap. They were on sale for $15, but naturally scalpers got there first, so nobody got them for that price. It sucks.
And she's lip syncing too. A youtuber proved it by audio analysis.
TSO floor tickets went from $65 two years ago to $120. So freaking upsetting. Hate it.
The problem. Isn't that they are expensive. The real problem is that despite that, people buy them anyway instead of simply boycotting those ticket prices. I'd keep screwing people over, too, if all they did was grumble and hand me their money. Love the content. Thank you for doing this for us every day, Charlie. Appreciate you!
Thank you for the continued 90’s cartoon references that are sprinkled in your videos. That Eustace line had me giggling super hard 😂
I swear I could listen to this guy rant all day 😂😂😂
I think a big part of this issue is artists make most of their money off of touring nowadays. When I was a kid we had to buy cds and artists made allot off of that but now with everything on UA-cam and streaming platforms album sales are down. Re-sellers and ticket companies definitely make this issue worse.
Metalheads are still buying cds and vinyls and even cassettes believe it or not. Also metal discographies dont usually take every penny from their bands.
wanna add onto this and say that vtuber concerts are becoming more and more popular. With that, a popular idol Suisei from hololive is preforming soon, and the tickets started at $80, skyrocketing to $1000+ because of scalpers, shits ridiculous
Anybody who's paying 80 bucks for a Vtuber concert in the first should get a handler for financial decisions lmao
She actually told her fans to not buy resold tickets, as much as it may sting to not see her live. She knows what's happening and is NOT happy.
@@dimadobrik4516 no different than paying for a normal concert. let people enjoy what they like 👍
Ptv finna go on tour and I already know those tickets are not gonna be easy lol
I KNOW SAME IM GONA TRY TO GET TICKETS
when i got 2 Bring Me The Horizon tickets last year, it was 2 for £150 standing. Within a week of resale it was £350 EACH.
It definitely needs to be sorted out
Ha. Mainstream band. Metalcore bands are so expensive (and overrated)
@@juanmam.2113 Nah Metalcore is goated, and just the bigger ones. Most shows are still $25-40 bucks. $80 for A Day To Remember floor tickets is the most we paid for a core show, though BMTH is proably a lot bigger over in Europe, and able to play the biggest arenas. Because I know they played the same small arenas as ADTR when they came by.
@@juanmam.2113 Do you feel special now? Do you need attention?
@@juanmam.2113 Nobody cares, Juan.
@@bugginonthewall your wallet sure does
Aaaah.. the great feeling i had few years ago when Rage Against The Machine visit my country (Poland) and noticing that after many years of supporting them, buying their albums (which was not easy at that time) singing their songs against the system etc. that they wanted to cash 500 dollars for tickets.... their music was listened by the poor and now they dont want poor to be on their concerts... I had sooo many friend who were fans but refused to buy tickets just because it was farse... rage against my ass
Bro. They bowed to the government and promoted "listen to Biden, do as they say" for years now. Rage On Behalf Of The Machine.
@justinlast2lastharder749 so fucking sad... so fucking true...
RATM should’ve disbanded after the battle of Los Angeles
Hey! We ship plenty of CDs and Vinyls from Polish bands to my country. I have several on my collection! Shout out Poland!
Concert ticket bs has been the bane of my existence for years now. My whole day is structured around making sure I’m on a device to get show tickets, even to smaller venues simply because of all these situations. My whole day was planned around making sure I got Linkin Park tickets even on presale, because they hit high hundreds on day of sale. This system is terrible
They allow people to buy up tickets and then resell them through the app. Then some of them show up with the paper copies of the tickets they sold and manage to get in. This happened and we had to have them removed from our seats
Yeah…the last time I went to a concert was back in 2012 when Deadmau5 came to Atlanta…one of the GREATEST nights of my life and with price of entry and the BOOZE, I spent no more than $200!!! 😂
My friend saw Roger Stone last year. He paid 35
This was a very nice video Charlie! I hate greed too
Oasis turned off dynamic pricing for the us tour… my tickets were still $450 EACH for MEH SEATS
Charlie you're sleeping on I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love. Best MCR album by far
You spelled Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge wrong
@@MeaganSal96 no
I like I brought you my bullets, you brought me your love. But the vocals sound off tbh, I think if the vocals were better it could be my favorite
@@Bubbagaming90000I agree, but when they play the bullets songs live they sound so much better.
Lukewarm take but all of their albums got better maming Danger Days no. 1 and Bullets last. But ultimately - all bangers, no sleeper albums at all
A creator I watch apparently said that dynamic pricing is automatically set and has to be manually requested to be not used if a performer doesn't want to use it
not sure if you saw it or if it ever came to an end, but ticketmaster actually went to judicial court or something earlier this year in like may for being a monopoly. Idk what ever happened to that tho.
7:25 hours? it only takes minutes for scalpers to gobble up most tickets
Charlie lead the revolt against Ticketmaster!! Last time I bought tickets to a small show the “fees” were 60% of the ticket cost. Ticketmaster must be stopped!
I saw Hatsune Miku in Australia last month. US$200 for an okay ticket. Four band members and a projection on a screen. $200! But you know what? The whole venue was sold out regardless. People will pay anything to see a performer, and promotors and ticketing agencies know it. Everyone is lifting their prices.
Sadly the only thing we can do is vote with our wallets and stop paying these prices, but that won't happen. While venues keep being sold out we're all sending a signal that the prices could be even higher.
you paid 200 to watch a video you are the problem
Never been to a concert before so knew nothing about prices, when I saw the price for Miku Expo's ticket was only around 230 AUD I had been in such deep relief haha
@@GigaAndy I know right Hatsune MIku should've just walked and sing in person, the audacity of this Hatsune Miku person.
@@GigaAndy100%
That's why I like Oliver Anthony. He refuses to charge more than like 25 bucks for a basic ticket, and if a venue over prices it, he will cancel. The show and refund everyone