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Beginning in November 2022, the American ticket sales company Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment attracted public criticism over their blunders in selling tickets to the United States leg of the Eras Tour, the 2023 concert tour by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.

partnered with Ticketmaster, the world's leading ticketing platform, to sell tickets to the tour. The U.S. leg's first round of on-sale began on November 18 via the platform's Verified Fan pre-sale program. Media outlets described the demand of the Eras Tour as "astronomical", with 3.5 million people registering for the program. Within an hour of commencing, the pre-sale website crashed, with users completely logged out or in a frozen queue. 2.4 million tickets were sold that day despite the outage, breaking the all-time record for the most concert tickets sold by an artist in a single day. Ticketmaster attributed the crash to heavy site traffic—"historically unprecedented demand with [14 million] showing up"—but users blamed poor customer service. Live Nation blamed Swift's "staggering" demand "overwhelming" the website beyond capacity, and canceled the general on-sale due to "insufficient" inventory. Swift stated she was promised by the company that they could handle the demand. Ticketmaster apologized to Swift and fans via social media. A large number of tickets, however, were purchased by scalpers and re-listed on ticket resale websites such as StubHub for extortionate prices.

Ticketmaster was met with widespread censure nationwide. Fans and consumer groups called the platform deceitful and alleged that the company is abusing its dominant market position. In response, several members of the U.S. Congress voiced their support to revert the 2010 merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation,[note 1] which they dubbed a monopoly experiencing no competitive pressure, leading to substandard service and higher prices for consumers. Following investigations initiated by several state attorneys general, the U.S. Department of Justice was reported to have opened a federal probe into the companies. Swift's tour promoter, AEG Presents, said Ticketmaster had exclusive deals with the majority of U.S. live venues, coercing AEG into working with Ticketmaster. In December 2022, several fans sued Live Nation-Ticketmaster for intentional deception, fraud, price fixing, violations of antitrust law and various other laws. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee examined the merger and fiasco with a hearing in January 2023.

Various publications noted that the controversy brought the spotlight on one of the longstanding issues in the music industry. Ticketmaster went on to distribute invalid tickets for the World's Hottest Tour of Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny in Mexico City, which also led to overcrowding at the venue, attracting further criticism. The PROFECO, Mexico's consumer protection agency, fined Ticketmaster 10 percent of its 2021 income.  Taylor!

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