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Taylor Swift’s Movie Pre-Sales Defeat Star Wars, But Not Marvel
Hollywood truly is about to become Taylor’s Version. Tickets went on sale Thursday for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, a nearly three-hour concert film based on the artist’s most recent tour, and it reportedly sold about $US37 million in tickets on the first day from the three biggest theatre chains alone: AMC, Regal, and Cinemark.…
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Desperation for a Viral Moment Is Driving Concerts Off the Rails
On June 18, Bebe Rexha was performing a hometown show at The Rooftop at Pier 17 in Manhattan. During the performance, an audience member threw an iPhone at the pop singer-songwriter, which hit her just over the right eye. The impact immediately ended the show, and Rexha required three stitches in the aftermath, leaving her…
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Ticketmaster Blames Bots for Taylor Swift Presale Chaos
If there’s one thing the polarised body of the U.S. Congress can agree on, it’s that Ticketmaster sucks. After a spectacular failure of Live Nation Ticketmaster’s sale systems during presale for Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour, the company was under the microscope of a Senate hearing today.
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Taylor Swift: Antitrust Hero
Taylor Swift’s legion of rabid fans might just be able to accomplish something decades of legal scholars, millions in political lobbying, and the Biden administration couldn’t: implement meaningful antitrust reform.