Beyonce fans hanged for ticket crowd – and high prices

Beyonsey fans have booked The Morning of Work and approved their credit card, as tickets for Star’s latest tour are on general sales.

Six UK dates of the Cauter Carter Tour at Tottenham Hotsper Stadium in London in June will be his first show since the Record-Breaking Renaissance tour of 2023, and Ticketmaster says the prices range from £ 71 to 950.

Several days after pre-selling, normal sales begin at 12:00 GMT on Friday. It promises to be a huge day for concert-goers, with a string of high-profile tour launching.

Tickets will also be available Ozi Osbourne’s last gig with Black Sabbath Plus Condrick Lamar and SZA, Patty Smith, Bake, Morrisi, Mumford & Sons, Razorlite and Smashing Pumpkin.

A fan told the BBC that he was ready to pay up to £ 2,000 to participate in Black Sabbath’s charity concert in Birmingham, including Metalica, Panera, Anthrax, Gojira and Guns N ‘Rose members. .

“This is actually Ozi’s last show with Sabbath,” Alex Woodford said,

“I know it seems crazy, but I will be ready to give foolish money for it because it is going to be a lifetime show.”

Fan of British Beyonsey Ben Archer, who has participated in all her concerts since the 2014 Mrs. Carter World Tour, says: “He is an artist I look strongly to see every time.”

Eleven years ago, he paid £ 60 for a permanent ticket. This year, he paid about four times.

“If the ticket was always expensive, I could not see it as many times,” they say.

“I wonder if the price increase only leads to dihard fans (he is included!), Then participate on the price of ‘potentially new/casual fans’ which is cheap. Can be ready to take. “

Going to Big Gigs is a rapidly expensive pursuit.

Prior to the epidemic, according to the Billboard Boxscor, the cost of getting into a concert was increasing by 3% to 4%, which tracks ticket prices.

During the seizure resume, the number exceeded double, the prices increased an average of 9.9% annually.

The last time was played in London, the cheapest ticket was at a cost of £ 56.25, while the £ 2,400 VIP package bought you a seat on the stage. The cost of an average ticket is £ 139, according to Data from Polstar,

For this summer show, the ticketmaster says that “the price of tickets is in advance for travel, £ 71.60 to £ 950 (including fees)”, but does not include VIP packages.

In the pre -bikri of this week, regularly standing tickets were offered at £ 224.85 – but the locations standing in the nearest small areas of the stage were £ 858.10.

For some tourism, including the last one of Beyonsey, the prices increase prices to adjust prices, depending on the ticketmaster’s “Dynamic Pricing” scheme.

This means that fans on log on to claim a seat often do not know what will be charged on them.

A person who is trying to combat uncertainty is, Washington, DC, a fan Frederica Fakei, who is doing crowded data on prices for a new tour of Star.

He said that some people who had accessed a fan in the US had paid well on obstacles – sometimes from hundreds of dollars – but most of the seats in the UK were within the advertised range.

Fekkai decided to hit the data after purchasing its tickets for the Cowboy Carter Tour. In his city, the ticket seller did not have to advertise the base value or mark-up, and he found the process heavy.

“I was on the page for hours, thinking what a good deal was,” she tells the BBC.

“I have seen online (that) very much discussed who was paying what was paying, but of course, nothing was held. I have worked in business counsel for years, so I have worked in dirty information. Used for

After calling on Reddit and Tiktok, He received more than 1,000 reactions from fans – and Plot the results on a graph To show variance in value.

He noticed that fans who used a pre-cell through Beyoncé’s “Bayhaive” Fan Club often pay more than those who had gone through pre-spires for sponsors such as MasterCard and Verizon.

She says, “The bahiva sales had increased the purchase of a lot of nervousness from the ticketmaster/seats and/or dynamic prices – I think both,” she says.

“They see that no one is ready to buy $ 100 (£ 80) tickets for no $ 1,000 (£ 800), so they offer that price repeatedly, and it snatches,” she gives the principle .

Fekkai hopes that fans will use their data to monitor prices when normal sales start, and avoid paying too much in the crowd to secure tickets.

But why are the concerts suddenly so expensive?

Ticketing expert Tim Chambers say the cost of tour has exploded in the last few years.

As Beyoncé sings on its latest album, it takes 16 vehicles To make a hawker to their shows around the world – and the cost of fuel, housing and work visas has all rocked.

Star also appointed 304 people on his last tour, all of whom had to pay a living wage, even not performing in those days.

But this is not all.

“There is also a certain amount of recurrence in Kovid’s lost years of Kovid,” says Chambers.

“Artists were forced to take out a few years, because no one could visit, but they still had the expenses of living expenses and lifestyle. So apart from the increase in cost, what are you from live experience Can

However, he notes that artists such as Ed Sheeran and Coldplay have deliberately made efforts to keep their shows cheaper.

Tickets to see coldplays at Wambali Stadium starts at just 20 pounds in this summer, 10% of the total income to help the young band at the beginning of his career to go to the music venue trust.

But most artists, they say, are “lazy”.

“I mean this is the best way, but they want to reduce as much as possible and pay as much as possible.”

The increased cost is also putting pressure down on the rest of the concert industry.

“Every time when a leading artist announces a ticket at £ 200 or £ 300, the consumer does not necessarily have additional amount in his wallet, so they see to cut back where they can. , “Chambers say.

“This is an increasing level of evidence to show that the middle-market and ground-level market is being squeezed with top level success.”

Concert Promoter Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino says high prices are to live here – but the argument is that the musicians will never match the allegations of sports teams.

“In the game … somehow it is a badge of honor that if you spend $ 7,000 (£ 5,600) for a lacquer ticket, it’s fine,” He told Bloomberg last year.

“But Sally from the valley believes that she should look at Olivia (Rodrigo) at $ 79 (£ 63) because, you know, she broke for that music with her lover.

“So where (artists) find the line where it is accessible, the fan feels connected to them (but) they don’t think they are doing gooling?”

Nobody knows, he said, but “it is slowly growing over time”.