Taylor Swift - Reputation (November 10, 2017) Album • Page 120

To clarify, Mariah Carey drag is the “who is she?” incident?

 

Mariah has many drags. She is an artist. She dragged my fave and I couldn't even be mad!

 

I've got feud rules I count them

 

It's I don't know her Garrett

 

GOAT tweet

 

now we’ve got bad blood ian

 

song is still the best

 

That’s very fun and exactly what the video needed to be

 

some really great outfits/styling in this. i loved the way they styled her hair with the bangs out of her face. pls tay. do something with those bangs.

 

Just realized who Taylor's hairstyle reminds me of

 

Now they always say...reputation


Sorry. I’ll see myself out.

 

It's still blowing my mind how much the tickets skyrocketed from the presale to general sale. My exact seat for the show she's doing the night before is $320. I paid $150. I can't decide if it's cool she did that or kind of awful, but I'm glad it worked out fo me.

 

Are you positive you aren't looking at verified resale?

 

Same thing happened to my tickets. Not verified resale.

 

Yea definitely. It was still a blue dot. The resales are the little red ones.

 

Crazy

 

Yeah I got mine on the presale for $168 each. Now they are over $300. Kinda sucks for people who waited, but honestly for a big stadium act I would've expected those bottom seats to be about 300 anyways.

 

As someone who thought prices were going to stay the same I’m pissed about it.

 

I heard they were trying to price out scalpers or something? Idk if that's a real thing or Stan logic tho lol. Oh wait

Taylor Swift Has Concert Industry Embracing 'Slow Ticketing' Model

That means less tickets on sites like StubHub. Unlike her 1989 tour where 30 percent of the tickets were sold via the secondary market, according to Marcus, only three percent of Taylor Swift's tickets made it to the secondary market this time -- about 70,000 tickets of a total of approximately 2.5 million tickets available.

"There's less inventory on the secondary market and it's more expensive because the tickets tend to skew toward premium seats," explains Jesse Lawrence, founder of TicketIQ, a search engine for primary and secondary tickets. Contrast that with the primary where "there are plenty of inexpensive tickets still available."

The shift could mean an additional $1-1.5 million in revenues per show for Swift and promoter Louis Messina, Lawrence says, noting that during the 1989 tour three years, brokers had marked up tickets on average by 30 percent.

"This time, the artist and promoter are capturing that revenue and not the secondary market," he said

 

Yea I'm aware of this, and it's smart from a business perspective (Taylor captures all the revenue, instead of stubhub). But if you have to pay the insane prices as a fan anyway, then this doesn't help anyone but Taylor.

The cheapest ticket I can find to the first night is $139, which is actually a resale ticket. The cheapest primary seller ticket is $170, which comes out to $200 after fees for nosebleed seats. Idk this whole thing is weird and interesting, and I'm not condemning Taylor or anything. Figuring out what to do with scalping tickets and all that is not an easy challenge, and they're obviously onto something now. I can't help but feel that charging $200 for the highest nosebleed seats is still ridiculous though. Like at the very least she should've advertised that it would be cheaper to buy during the pre-sale.

But I mean it worked out for me so I'm happy in the end. Mostly just curious about it all and the logic behind it.

 

Oh yeah def not saying I love that model but from what the article says it sounds like it's gonna become a norm for bigger artists

 

Yea and I'd guess a lot will come down to how well the tour actually does end up doing by the end, but she is definitely paving the way for a new ticketing model - I just don't think this will be exactly how it ends up.

 

JT’s ticket prices were super high so I’d say it’s already catching on