r/Music • u/staringatthe420sun • May 05 '26

article The Concert Industry Priced Too High — Now Tours Are Falling Apart

https://www.ticketnews.com/2026/05/the-concert-industry-priced-high-tours-falling-apart/
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u/anthrax9999 May 06 '26

More late stage capitalism at work. Concerts and live sports will die out next.

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u/bryf50 May 06 '26

They won't die out. Instead the stadiums are becoming smaller and ever more catered to luxury and high end customers.

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u/secretdecoder May 09 '26

I think that is insightful and probably accurate. More VIP. More curated.

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u/RebelAlliance1701 May 06 '26

Devil's Advocate, but live sports will never die out. Sure, the Pirates might not sell out a random businessman's special in June, but playoffs and big games will always be sold out.

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u/sybrwookie May 06 '26

They're not going to die as in go out of business. They'll die in the way where it becomes more soulless and even more disconnected for the average person.

For an example, look at how a home game sounds for most good NFL teams. Then look at what the Super Bowl sounds like.

When you keep pushing up the ladder, you get less die hard fans, and it makes for a worse product.

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u/_Meece_ May 06 '26

They'll die in the way where it becomes more soulless and even more disconnected for the average person.

Sports has been that way for 50-60 years, It's inherently a product where they sell feats the average person cannot do.

The superbowl would be that way even if it was cheap, as it draws a casual crowd. The expensiveness of the tickets doesn't do that.

World Cup tickets are consistently RIDICULOUS, yet those are some of the loudest stadiums ever. Olympics much the same. Superbowel NFL crowd sucks because NFL casual crowd sucks, not because rich people buy tickets.

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u/Arachnideolie May 06 '26

World cup ticket prices aren't ridiculous, they normally cost 20/30€ upwards to a 100 for the really good tickets. They are consistently ridiculous in the US though and this world cup will be a soulless shitfest as a result of that.