Ticketmaster has just done something interesting with tickets for this tour
Olivia Dean was very vocal about how Ticketmaster was handling resale tickets for her 2026 tour. She didn’t hold back with an Instagram post on Friday (November 21):
“[Ticketmaster], [Live Nation], [AEG]: You are providing a disgusting service. The prices at which you’re allowing tickets to be re-sold is vile and completely against our wishes. Live music should be affordable and accessible, and we need to find a new way of making that possible. BE BETTER.”
Ticketmaster, which seems to be under all kinds of legal and public pressure all the time, has responded. The company has capped resale prices for her The Art of Loving Tour” at–wait for it–face value.
Here’s what the company posted on Instagram:
“We support artists’ ability to set the terms of how their tickets are sold and resold. @OliviaDeano, we will cap resale prices on our site at face value and hope other resale sites will follow.”
Nice, but as you can see, this doesn’t cover resale tickets on sites like StubHub and all the rest of them, but it does affect the price of tickets on Ticketmaster’s reseller site.
Lovely sentiment, but this really won’t solve any problems.
- Third-party resellers will continue to sell tickets at inflated prices.
- People looking to flip tickets for a profit won’t use Ticketmaster’s secure resale site and go right to third-party resellers.
- This potentially opens the door to a bigger black market of unregulated ticket resales.
BTW, anyone catch The Simpsons this past weekend? Bart got into the scalping business for a K-pop concert in Springfield. It was a great send-up of this whole controversy.
