Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

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Post by elffjs » Thu, May 21, 2026, 4:26 PM UTC

Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
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Post by boringg » Thu, May 21, 2026, 6:32 PM UTC

the next ticketmaster... I really loathe what spotify has become

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Post by Aboutplants » Thu, May 21, 2026, 6:33 PM UTC

So scalpers will use bots to generate listens and shares, boosting listens for Spotify, in order to gain access to premium tickets. They are just adding a “barrier” that only inflates their listen counts while probably making it worse on actual valid ticket purchasers. I don’t see how this works out as planned

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Post by 827a » Thu, May 21, 2026, 6:36 PM UTC

Aboutplants wrote: post #3

So scalpers will use bots to generate listens and shares, boosting listens for Spotify, in order to gain access to premium tickets. They are just adding a “barrier” that only inflates their listen counts while probably making it worse on actual valid ticket purchasers. I don’t see how this works out as planned

Spotify is actively incentivized to mitigate that, because they're forced to pay royalties on every stream. This is, at least, a better situation than with Ticketmaster, who is actively incentivized to get scalpers as many tickets as they can.

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Post by 827a » Thu, May 21, 2026, 6:41 PM UTC

For those against this: I'm curious to hear your take on how you'd stop/mitigate scalping.

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Post by maheenaslam » Thu, May 21, 2026, 6:42 PM UTC

Streams and share won't be fair metric

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Post by badgersnake » Thu, May 21, 2026, 6:43 PM UTC

827a wrote: post #5

For those against this: I'm curious to hear your take on how you'd stop/mitigate scalping.

Make it illegal to sell tickets above face value.

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Post by whycome » Thu, May 21, 2026, 6:44 PM UTC

boringg wrote: post #2

the next ticketmaster... I really loathe what spotify has become

Competition in that space would be kinda good

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Post by 317070 » Thu, May 21, 2026, 6:44 PM UTC

827a wrote: post #5

For those against this: I'm curious to hear your take on how you'd stop/mitigate scalping.

Named tickets, like airplane seats?

Sorry, I only thought about this for 5 seconds, but there are markets where scalping doesn't cause issues. We could look at those.

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Post by joshl32532 » Thu, May 21, 2026, 6:45 PM UTC

This is the problem with public listed companies that need to "maximize shareholder values" and look for infinite growth.

I just want Spotify for music (playlist, recommendation, lossless audio). I don't need their podcast, audiobook, ChatGPT, concert tickets etc. This just makes their app bloated for features I will never use.