Summary: “Beyoncé is selling “listening only” tickets for her Renaissance tour. The seats are behind the stage, so you can’t see any of the set or dancing, but they only cost $157 compared to the ~$900 fans have been paying for regular US tickets.”
haha!
fuuuuuuuck that.
Wait 900$ for a concert? That’s dumb enough for me.
Fuck these ultra wealthy pop stars. They are part of the problem. There are millions of independent artists across hundreds of genres we can support instead.
And I know it’s subjective to a large extent but 90% of pop is absolute garbage.
The problem isn’t exactly the pop stars but live nation’s monopoly which strangles every aspect of the live music industry. As a musician if you want to preform at almost any large venue you’ll have to get in bed with live nation or be black listed. If you run venue you better join live nation’s network and use ticket master or else you won’t be able to book money making artists. And as a fan you better buy your price gouged tickets through ticket master or else you won’t get to see anyone play.
Except you can’t actually buy the tickets through Ticketmaster because it throws errors for the first 5 seats you find, and then it’s sold out. You have to buy them from scalpers, which Ticketmaster now encourages and even allows them to resell right there on Ticketmaster.
Absolutely agree! Most of the pop scene is just rubbish squared… I wonder who the fuck is listening to that bullshit? Are most of the people so stupid?
And… 900$ for a fucking ticket?! Are they NUTS? I wouldn’t pay that to see my favourite artist let alone Beyoncé. In 2017 I paid 100$ for close to stage tickets at LP concert. That was to much (but worth it)… 900$ is just another another level of insanity.
I’d pay $157 for Beyonce to shut the fuck up.
I’ll chip in
I paid $60 for 5th row tickets to Ween at red rocks and $5 for a hit of acid - probably better than a front row Beyoncé ticket. $900 for anything but a combined front row/meet and greet/over the pants HJ from an artist sounds just absolutely insane to me.
So by Beyonce’s own math, only about 17% of her performance’s value is actually the music.
Sounds about right.
I’m not a Beyonce fan by and stretch of the imagination, but she is a crazy good singer.
I don’t understand why people are willing to pay that much for tickets. The “market” is ridiculously inflated. After my last experience at a live nation event first and only one in a long time, not for me not dealing with that cluster fuck and rip off trap ever again.
Live nation ticket checking procedure is dumb AF. You have to be online to show the ticket but because the wife and 5g arent working because 10k plus people are trying to use them it causes a problem. Then they don’t give you an arm band so every time I had to piss or whatever I had to show my ticket to get back to my seat. I cussed them out the 3rd time, almost got booted. I hate getting controlled like idiot sheep. Live nation doesn’t accept cash and want 17 bucks a drink. Force you to buy liquid death water too because dick you pay me.
I’m sticking to smaller venues, ones that dont have share holders to impress.
I agree with your sentiments, but you don’t need to cuss out the people just working at the venue. By all means boycott any and all events that go through live nation / ticketmaster, but there’s no need to pour your anger on the venue workers.
Because they like Beyonce that much?
This is just fucking ridiculous. Paying $157 to go to a concert for a regular seat for me is already a bit much, let alone this bullshit. The saddest thing is that I bet these seats will still sell out.
My nosebleed Taylor Swift concert tickets were cheaper than this, and I didn’t miss a single scene of the show.
Beyoncé really thinks she’s better than Taylor?
Beyoncé really thinks she’s better than Taylor?
Why not? Her fans do. You say it like its something that can be true, that one artist’s art is objectively better than another’s. I think they both make uninspired boring music personally. In either case they are both very popular and sell out shows wherever they go.
While at a Taylor concert I had the thought that it would be nice if they could give those seats out to vision impaired people just to enjoy it as well. Even those that are hard of hearing just to enjoy the bass would probably be lots of fun
Well we know Kanye’s opinion of that. He’s gonna let you finish though.
How much does it cost to listen from the rest rooms?
Before everyone freaks out (and yes, this shit is stupid-expensive), Beyoncé isn’t a complete piece of shit. But I guess you can afford this when you charge that much:
Beyoncé’s tour paid $100,000 to extend DC Metro hours after weather delayed show
Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” tour paid $100,000 to keep all 98 Metro stations in the Washington, DC, area open for an extra hour after Sunday’s show at the outdoor FedExField venue was delayed because of heavy rain and lightning, a news release from the transit authority said.
I used to go to a lot of concerts, but after COVID they got too expensive. $100 is insane for a ticket. $900 is almost rent. Who is her target audience?
She is popular in the realm that a significant percentage of society are fans.
So the rich from that group.
how in the world are tickets so expensive in the US? you can get tickets to big names when they tour here for like $200AU, the same acts that charge triple or more in the US. Is it a demand thing? blows my mind
@jcit878 Big US cities have big airports, international travel. You are no longer competing with just the local area.
to be fair thats a thing here in australia too, and people do travel to come to concerts here. still baffles me there is that demand anywhere in the world for those prices
Under the stage for $75, all you hear boomy bass and foot tapping from one of the biggest stars of all time!
lolol
While this is shitty, I don’t really care about Beyoncé and didn’t subscribe to this community to see news about her. I hope it doesn’t end up as a dunking on mainstream music community instead of a showcasing sweet alternative music community.
hehehhehhhehheheeeereeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhHA!
insanity
