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What incentive would Oasis have to help bring down the prices for their own shows anyway?
Having seen shows with super-premium prices at the front, with half the place being non-reactive to the show because people paying extra are not actually huge fans but huge wallets, yeah you need to put down prices and get those front tickets to fans if you want to have nice shows
The biggest promotor here, Mojo, a subsidiary of Live Nation, occassionally requires venues to use Ticketmaster (Live Nation-owned) for events featuring the artists they manage.
The artist is why people buy tickets, and they control that part of the market.
In the US they also own a bunch of venues. They can pressure other independent venues into using Ticketmaster, they own 80% of big venues in the US, so the venue needs the artist, not the other way around.
No independent venue wants to use Ticketmaster, but they have to to book the big names.
The older I get, the less interested I am in seeing big bands. I'm lucky to live in an area with a great local music scene, plenty of independent venues. I can't think of a single band I'd pay these extortionate prices for, I'd much rather support a local band and local venue.
Are you suggesting that others should share your musical taste in order to punish Ticketmaster?
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OASIS did that one when they announced their return tour. "We have no control over the ticket prices" Yeah you do, there's no show without you...
What incentive would Oasis have to help bring down the prices for their own shows anyway?
The idea that they care if their fans live or die really comes down to whether they could get sponsors on board or not.
One detail I haven’t seen in other comments. In the uk at least, live nation / Ticketmaster will sign exclusive deals with artists - limiting them to a summer run of (for eg) five live nation festivals and no performances at any non live nation events. So even if alternative venues / festivals exist, live nation squeezes them out by being able to sign bigger multi venue/event deals.
The market wont change until someone discovers a method to sell better than ticketmaster. Yes ticketmaster sucks, but when competition pops up, it isnt like an order of magnitude better than ticketmaster. Its like Cabcharge. The first real thing that ever challenged it was uber. I change here needs to be similar. Maybe a presale marketplace to attract events? Tours could change to follow the money to an extent? Then…
Many of the other commenters have explained how the ownership structure of Ticketmaster gives them near monopoly control because they also own the radio stations and the venues and the promoters. (I'm using "they" and "own" very liberally in this paragraph.) The simple fact that there's an ownership link between Ticketmaster and the scalper I mean totally legit resale sites is so wildly corrupt that, well, it's textb…
Go to a lot of smaller shows, been using DICE for a long time - I think they dominate the smaller venues (in the UK at least). They've made tickets as easy as Amazon made ecom. Alerts when for when tickets go on sale, (almost one click!) buy for friends and share, bans if you sell over face value, and (for a lot of places) you can return tickets to the pool to resell if you can't go (so there's often last minute wait…
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What incentive would Oasis have to help bring down the prices for their own shows anyway?
Idk about Oasis specifically, but there have been multiple examples of other bands fighting to keep the concert tickets affordable for their fans. Nirvana did that for example. And even if you explicitly want to charge as much as possible from your fans, why claim that you have no influence over the price?
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What incentive would Oasis have to help bring down the prices for their own shows anyway?
Presumably the don't want only old rich people and empty seats. Otherwise you could self-scalp all the tickets at the highest price possible, maximisung revenue for a single gig but making it so unfun/bad press that you come off worse.
It is the same question of: "why hasn't there been a real competitor to Facebook Events and why many people post events information only there?"
Fwiw I have never heard of facebook events
Since I don't own a FB account, I don't have access to the events information as well.