Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

Post by irjustin » Fri, May 22, 2026, 1:35 AM UTC

ensen wrote: post #179

crazygringo wrote: post #41

Honestly, this could turn out to be a really great thing. When artists become popular, they often complain that the people they are making their music for, their biggest fans, tend to be the people least able to afford the concert tickets. The artists are often totally willing to set aside a chunk of tickets at a much cheaper price, but they need to be able to guarantee that these tickets aren't just purchased by sca…

seems like it would just get botted like anything else and also make it harder for fans of an artist who don't use spotify to get tickets

Post by jszymborski » Fri, May 22, 2026, 2:01 AM UTC

ensen wrote: post #179

crazygringo wrote: post #41

Honestly, this could turn out to be a really great thing. When artists become popular, they often complain that the people they are making their music for, their biggest fans, tend to be the people least able to afford the concert tickets. The artists are often totally willing to set aside a chunk of tickets at a much cheaper price, but they need to be able to guarantee that these tickets aren't just purchased by sca…

seems like it would just get botted like anything else and also make it harder for fans of an artist who don't use spotify to get tickets

Post by IncreasePosts » Fri, May 22, 2026, 2:02 AM UTC

pibaker wrote: post #195

Aboutplants wrote: post #175

Auction. Auction is the answer. Or, when a tour is announced, start tickets at 10X the regular price and have it drop down to the regular price over the course of a couple of weeks in a simple time based mechanism. After that, if tickets are not sold out it continues to drop until sold or it hits a reserve price for Door tickets. Good for artists, fair from a market perspective and gets rid of scalpers

You are overlooking the secondary effect — what happens if you, a musician, a person who lives off having a positive public image, becomes known as the kind of musician who uses free market forces to effectively price fans out? Fans will not like it. It is not rational but nothing in music is. You win the pricing battle but lose the PR war. It's bad for your business and the entire business of concerts in the long ru…

Post by airstrike » Fri, May 22, 2026, 2:10 AM UTC

iamalizard wrote: post #58

lbreakjai wrote: post #29

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Why should anything be done? If people are willing to pay five times the face value for a ticket, then it signals that tickets are priced too low. Let the market price itself. Harry Styles is playing in my city, he's apparently very popular, but there's still plenty of tickets available for as low as 47€ for tomorrow.

I never understood the issue with scalping and reselling tickets for a higher price. At all. And I've read a bunch of opinions here and on other forums and articles. None make any sense to me. It's a good that's being resold for profit. Not an essential one like rare medicine during a pandemic. I think some artists want to appeal to the poorer people so pricing their tickets higher or letting the free market work out…

Post by raincole » Fri, May 22, 2026, 2:13 AM UTC

wat10000 wrote: post #214

raincole wrote: post #192

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The fact there are more people want X than the total number of X.

That’s not a question, that’s just a situation.