Touring giant Live Nation’s industry dominance and the seemingly ever-inflating costs of live music ticketing associated with its subsidiary Ticketmaster have been challenged in court since 2024.
In November 2022, the Beverly Hills, Calif.-based company bungled the sale of tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. Many among the pop superstar’s legion of fans reported getting stuck in ticket-queue purgatory for hours, left to scrap for mediocre seats at eye-popping prices in the hundreds or thousands of dollars — if they could get anything at all.
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