Who knew protecting the nation’s Swifties was a bipartisan issue?
Taylor Swift can add antitrust activist to her already impressive resume. The musician unintentionally spawned a long overdue reckoning of the ticketing industry — and more specifically, Live Nation’s monopoly of it — when tickets for her 2023 Eras tour proved historically difficult to get last year, crashing Ticketmaster and ending public sale of tickets early.
“You can't have too much consolidation — something that, unfortunately for this country, as an ode to Taylor Swift, I will say, we know ‘all too well,’” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Senator Richard Blumenthal, meanwhile, told Live Nation's CFO that “Ticketmaster ought to look in the mirror, and say, ‘I’m the problem, it's me.’”
U.S Senators and speakers also name-dropped artists we never thought we’d hear on the Senate floor, including Bruce Springsteen, Bruno Mars, Shania Twain, Prince, Bad Bunny, Madonna, and Garth Brooks to illustrate how wide-reaching a demographic the ticketing problem affects.
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