Ticketmaster canceled plans to sell Taylor Swift concert tickets to the general public this week after a hectic presale period generated plenty of bad blood.
The public on-sale portion of Swift’s “The Eras Tour” ticket rollout was scheduled to take place Friday morning before the company nixed those plans Thursday afternoon.
“Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow’s public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled,” Ticketmaster tweeted.
The announcement comes two days after millions of fans converged on the Ticketmaster website during the presale period, leading to long delays and causing the website to crash.
Ticketmaster on Tuesday pointed to “historically unprecedented demand” and was forced to delay the release of its West Coast tickets by several hours.
Swift’s tour, which includes three stops at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, next May 26-28, is the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter’s first in five years. The cheapest tickets to those New Jersey concerts currently cost well over $400 on the resale website StubHub.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., called for Ticketmaster to be broken up amid the chaos, slamming the company as a “monopoly” that shouldn’t have been allowed to merge with the promoter Live Nation. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmettian said he is investigating Ticketmaster following the fan complaints.
Known for songs such as “Love Story,” “I Knew You Were Trouble” and “Bad Blood,” the 32-year-old Swift released her 10th studio album, “Midnights,” last month.
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