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Ticket resellers spar with country singer Eric Church
Country singer Eric Church has strong words for ticket resellers, accusing brokers of profiting from fans' losses. According to Church, resellers "join our fan club, infiltrate our system, take advantage of our system, and buy up all these tickets." Church says these practices result in few available seats being left and the purchased tickets being sold at much higher prices. "We've been trying to play that game of keeping their access away on the back half of the tour, and it's still a challenge," Church told Billboard.biz. "They are just some slimy sons of [expletive]," he added.
In response to that statement, Don Vaccaro, the CEO of TicketNetwork, says he sees no difference between Church's actions and that of resellers. "It's apparent that Eric Church is holding the best tickets to sell at $199 each, depriving his fans [by] buying them at the face value of $40. It's very deceptive to the average concert goer," said Vaccaro.
Big names hit the road for big tours in '12
Van Halen, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, and Radiohead are promising to be the five biggest concert tours of 2012.
As TicketNews previously reported, tickets for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's "Wrecking Ball" tour went on sale during the last week in January. The was of course planned to support Springsteen's newest album, "Wrecking Ball," which will be released on March 6.
Ticketmaster melt-down frustrates Bruce Springsteen fans
Bruce Springsteen fans are in an uproar after tickets for his upcoming tour disappeared in a matter of minutes, leaving many fans facing the prospect of paying as much as 20 times face value to snag tickets to the concerts.
While the prospect of a sold-out concert is hardly a new situation, in the case of Springsteen's upcoming "Wrecking Ball" tour, it appears that the instant sell-out wasn't a simple case of too many fans trying to buy too few tickets. Rather, it appears that an influx of computer "bots" jammed Ticketmaster with purchases, causing a significant number of fans to be locked out of the system.
Legend of Zelda hits the road with symphony tour
Fans of the popular video game series The Legend of Zelda are in for a special treat of surprising class and sophistication. Nintendo’s celebrated Zelda franchise, which has sold over 65 million games throughout the course of the series, is getting the full orchestral treatment. Eleven dates have been announced for the Symphony of the Goddess Tour, a string of live performances based on the music of Zelda.
Commonly hailed as one of the best video game franchises of all time, The Legend of Zelda is particularly well suited to orchestral adaptation because of the centrality of music and musical instruments to many games in the series. The new four-movement symphony will draw primarily from the music and storylines of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time™, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker™, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess™ and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past™, but also from other titles.
Daily tour recap: Odd Future, Theory of a Deadman, more
Odd Future, Theory of a Deadman, and Bear Grylls are included in the daily tour recap for January 26, as compiled by TicketNews.
The ever-controversial hip-hop collective Odd Future has lined up some fresh concert dates for North America this spring in between tours of Australia and the United Kingdom. The concert calendar includes shows from March 9 at The Marquee in Tempe, AZ, through April 11 at Showbox SoDo in Seattle, WA.
Daily tour recap: James Taylor, Norah Jones, more
James Taylor and Norah Jones are among the artists with new dates and upcoming onsales included in the daily tour recap for January 25, as compiled by TicketNews.
James Taylor has started getting his summer concert calendar in order. The iconic singer-songwriter has North American dates booked beginning with a June 27 show at the International Jazz Festival in Montreal, QC, and continuing with a June 30 gig at Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, NH.
Bruce Springsteen confirms U.S. tour dates for 'Wrecking Ball'
Bruce Springsteen this week announced not only details of his next album, but also dates for the first U.S. leg of his 2012 tour with the E Street Band.
Taking its name Springsteen's new album, the U.S. Wrecking Ball Tour presently features 19 dates in 16 markets. The whole thing launches March 18 at Philips Arena in Atlanta, GA, and wraps with a May 2 event at Prudential Center in Newark, NJ.
Daily tour recap: Bruce Springsteen, Alison Krauss, more
Bruce Springsteen and Alison Krauss are among the artists featured in the daily tour recap for January 24, as compiled by TicketNews.
Bruce Springsteen fans: Wait no longer. The Boss finally announced U.S. dates for his 2012 Wrecking Ball Tour with the E Street Band. Nineteen dates are booked so far for the spring outing, which runs from March 18 at Philips Arena in Atlanta, CA, through May 2 at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ.
Daily tour recap: Eddie Vedder, Florence + The Machine, more
Eddie Vedder and Florence + The Machine are among the acts featured in the daily tour recap for January 23, as compiled by TicketNews.
Eddie Vedder, frontman for Pearl Jam, is again going solo this spring for a 13-date U.S. tour. The outing begins April 11 at pearl Concert Theater in Las Vegas, NV, and wraps May 16 at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre in Orlando, FL.
What Twitter-app integration may mean for ticket sales
A recent partnership between music intelligence platform The Echo Nest and social media giant Twitter will help to build artist-to-fan interaction. The real question is whether it also may lead to an increase in ticket sales.
The integration between the two companies will enable application developers to incorporate "tweets" from music artists' Verified Accounts into their app. The partnership, announced earlier this month, is part of a Twitter pilot program that opens Verified Accounts' public data to the developers of music and entertainment service apps.
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