Fans Think Pop Stars Are Cancelling Tours Due To 'Blue Dot Fever'

Eh... successful that lawsuit wherefore are my performance tickets still truthful expensive?

Exactly. Fortune said that mightiness beryllium portion of the problem. 

The work said that the mean summons terms has changeable up successful the past twelvemonth successful the US (where galore stars person cancelled the astir shows), from $115 (£84) past twelvemonth to $144 (£106) successful 2026. It was $82 (£60) successful 2020.

That applies connected this broadside of the Atlantic, too: data showed that betwixt 1996 and 2025, the mean UK performance summons terms accrued 521%.

People simply mightiness not beryllium consenting oregon capable to pay. And if you deliberation the inflated summons costs mightiness screen that shortfall, music information level AndR claimed: “From a $100 [£73]ticket, the creator keeps an mean of $8.16 [£6], [which is] little than the ticketing fees”.

Additionally, rising substance prices pursuing the Iran struggle mean that tours, which trust connected planes, trains and automobiles to get artists from spot to place, are seeing their already razor-thin margins shrink.

In America, musicians are battling for people’s wages against specified stiff contention arsenic 2026′s Fifa World Cup, tickets for which have been described arsenic “extortionate”.