NEW YORK (AP) — Swifties, your girl has spoke on the Ticketmaster meltdown. Taylor Swift posted a story Friday on Instagram expressing her anger and frustration over the hours spent by fans trying to buy tickets for her tour next year.
Greg Maffei, the CEO of Ticketmaster’s largest shareholder, Liberty Media, blamed bots for the ticket-selling company’s struggle to get Taylor Swift concert tickets into the hands of over one million “verified fans.”
Abortion provider Planned Parenthood is ready to unleash a record $50 million spend across the nation ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Pop Star Lizzo is vowing to donate $500,000 from her tour proceeds to Planned Parenthood, which the entertainment company Live Nation will match for total of $1 million. The Joe Biden campaigner made the announcement on Friday, after the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade.
HOUSTON — A congressional committee has launched an investigation into the promoter of the Astroworld music festival in Houston, in which 10 people were killed during a massive crowd surge and attendees were packed so tightly that many could not breathe or move their arms.
Dozens of people who attended the deadly Astroworld Festival in Houston are suing rapper Travis Scott and other organizers for a total demand of $750 million in compensation.
Rapper Travis Scott and the entertainment company Live Nation are now facing an additional seven lawsuits in the wake of chaos that ensued Friday at the Astroworld Music Festival in Houston, Texas, where at least eight people were killed.
Rappers Travis Scott and Drake, as well as the venue and entertainment company Live Nation, are being sued by concertgoers who say they were injured on Friday at the Astroworld Music Festival in Houston, Texas, where at least eight people were killed.
The entertainment industry likes to lecture ordinary Americans about the importance of diversity while continually failing to live up to its own woke standards. The latest evidence: a new study showing music company executives are overwhelmingly white men, with less than 5 percent of CEO, chair, and president roles occupied by black people.
Live Nation announced that it will be converting its concert venues into polling locations for the November election. The concert industry giant says it is “working with local officials to examine the feasibility of using more than 100 Live Nation venues” across the country.
Investors fear that people will avoid movie theaters, concert venues, and gyms if the coronavirus hits the U.S. hard.
Event ticketing giant Ticketmaster has partnered with a facial recognition software developer in an effort to create a concert experience that doesn’t require a physical or digital ticket at all — just your face.
