Taylor Swift - Aviva Stadium June 2024

Sorry but saying that if you're a big enough fan you'll pay for VIP, is utter bullshït. Some people are die hard fans but don't have that disposable income.

Yeah it seems that wherever you were first was carried through (minus those who didn't try for the next sale).

I was 27000s for Friday and Saturday and 24000s for Sunday. Doesn't seem particularly random.

Hi all,

I am looking for 2 tickets for my wife and daughter for the Taylor Swift concert, if anyone is unable to go or have spare 2, I will gladly buy them, thanks,

Snoop

Me too - I was in the late 40ks for all 3 dates and my wife was in the early 50ks for all 3. I was buying for my daughter on her own TM account which is only a few weeks old (I didnt get a code for the presale). I think I made the mistake of repeatedly pressing "Join waiting room" when it didnt respond the first time, my wife did the same - after that for the other 2 just pressed it once within 5 secs of the countdown clock hitting 30 minutes but I got pretty much the same crap position as the first time

Ticketmaster account since 2009, past events include the 1989 and reputation tours, ended up 41,000, 46,000 and 53,000. It's completely random.

I tend to agree about the randomness. I created a TM account associated with the email/ code on Monday and got in the 3000s.

This. Reminds me when my wife got the free tickets during her last Croker fiasco. And TS said that shes the first female artist to have 2 nights at Croker.

I know in Munich, they released some regular tickets after about a week, probably vip sales weren't going well.

So keep an eye.

Got tickets for the last Paris show.

If you think Ticketmaster is bad here, frogmasters are even worse. Was 5k in a q and when it was my turn it said sold out. They kept drip feeding tickets. Was refreshing the page for the next 20mins till managed to grab them.

This VIP stuff is legitimised touting as far as I can see. The 'extras' for the €750 ones are laughable.

'Reserved seat'. What other kind of seat would I have?

'Special VIP entrance'. Who cares?

'Early entry to merch'. So I have have to pay extra to just buy more stuff inside?

'Prints/badges etc'. Great, totally worth it.

No one besides ticketmaster, mcd and Taylor Swift team know. But you could see what seats/rows were being offered as VIP and make educated guess that it was at least a few thousand per night.

they alter the number of VIP at any given moment based on demand

Excellently said.

Its largely a myth too that big artists don't make much from record sales.

The rights for Swifts first 6 albums recently changed hands for 300m dollars.

She was so incensed that she couldnt get her hands on the rights that she has bizarrely rerecorded some of these albums to try to make more money.

Spot on. An artist of the calibre and popularity of Taylor Swift is making money from every single angle that she can, especially record sales (where her re-recorded vinyls that you mention are not cheap).

I was at Record Store Day this year and every third person was just there for her RSD exclusive €50 vinyl, I'd never seen such a high concentration attending for one full priced album.

It is pure and utter greed (which is to some extent is her right) but whilst it doesnt bother me per se what she does with releases, I hate hearing from people that she does things "for the fans", because it's not, it's for the dollars.

For the fans lol.

Whats funny is that her fans and the media in the US are trying to blame Ticketmaster, touts, and whoever they can for the ticketing issues and high prices over there.

She feels her fans pain she says.

Now we have her and the likes of Michael Rapino saying ticketing in the US is broken and they are the ones to fix it.

Rapino head of Ticketmaster earned 136m last year, Taylor could earn over 1bn for her tour which is going to go into 2025.

Yes Im sure these people have the best interests of the fans in mind.

They have only one God and it is money.

Will the people on the waitlist get a chance for normal price tickets anyone know or just VIP?

My original gripe with her being a greedy hoor was with the Midnights album (I think). There seemed to be 4 or 5 different coloured albums, advertised as collectors editions, each with a different photo on the cover. The songs were the same on each, just the colour was different. I remember standing in Golden Disks with my daughter saying what a 'rip off merchant' (nice version of my actual words) she had turned into, trying to get young, gullable fans to part with hundreds of euros for different copies of the same album.

I am open to being corrected on this but that is what I took from the different albums.

This concert and the VIP packages have cemented my view that she is just about the money. I agree €6m is a lot to leave on the table for one night but she is playing across the world. I heard she is to take in over €1Billion from this tour. That may be exaggerated, again I am open to correction but run a few numbers and its probably not far off for a world tour at those prices.

I just googled it, there are over 20 different formats of the Midnights album. Fcuk me pink!!!

https://www.billboard.com/pro/taylor-swift-midnights-every-version-album/