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Jack Antonoff Responds to Live Nation Head

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  1. Melody Bot Sep 29, 2025
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    Jack Antonoff responded to the head of Live Nation, Michael Rapino, who said on a recent earnings call that concert ticket prices were too cheap:

    I always joke: Sports – it’s like a badge of honor to spend 70 grand for a Knicks courtside [seat]. They beat me up if we charge $800 for Beyonce, right? We have a lot of runway left. So when you read about the ticket prices going up, it’s still – average concert price is $72. Try going to a Laker game for that, and there’s 80 of them, or whatever the hell. So the concert is underpriced, has been for a long time.

    Antonoff responded on Xitter:

    answer is simple: selling a ticket for more than its face value should be illegal. then there is no chaos and you give us back the control instead of creating a bizarre free market of confusion amongst the audience who we love and care for.

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  2. finnstigator Sep 29, 2025
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    if i'm reading this correctly, then Jack is advocating for higher face value tickets which would squeeze the secondary/reseller market. Artists would see their cut of higher-priced primary tickets, whereas they would not see a dime from any resale tickets. Kinda the same argument Rapino is making, no?
     
  3. MrSwetz Sep 29, 2025
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    I don’t think that’s the point Jack was trying to make….
     
  4. Allthegiganticthings Sep 29, 2025
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    As a humble concert goer, I do feel the pain of what seems to be already high prices. But there’s definitely a lot to consider. For one, Beyonce isn’t the average concert so I wonder what else is included in the calculation of $72.
    Next, he’s talking about a ban on reselling at a higher price, not that he wants prices to go up, per se. But in this view there would be some massive prices for ultra vip tickets akin to court side seats at the lakers.
     
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