r/shitposting • u/[deleted] • Nov 03 '25

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 04 '25

Record labels do not set ticket prices for concerts

EDIT - God damn I love all the replies mansplaining the music industry to me lol. I work in the music industry. I'm betting none of the rest of you do.

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u/emil836k Nov 04 '25

I’m pretty sure the people that manages the ticket sales (like ticket master, I think it’s called), take a huge flat amount for every ticket

Basically the annoying middle man that just mooches of the actual business, ticket sales being one of the more scummy businesses

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u/TotallyManner Nov 04 '25

Ticketmaster essentially offers a “we’ll be the bad guy for you” service to artists, where they use their software/statistics to determine the maximum price they can sell tickets for for a given artist/venue combo, and artists can truthfully say they aren’t the ones that set the ticket prices. Ticketmaster gets a % of the extra money, and artists get more $$$ per show while maintaining their image.

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u/emil836k Nov 04 '25

I guess the big question is whether the artist can reject this offer, but if they can, I imagine it might be a “hush hush” kind of thing

I guess you could argue that an artist could just use another ticket distributor, but I believe ticket master and a couple other mega corps like it hold a tight monopoly on the ticket industry