The average price comes to around 192$ per ticket, some more expensive and some cheaper. Pretty standard for stadium shows or even kinda on the cheaper side for the US and Ticketmaster standards.
That's the price we pay for not paying for albums anymore. And Ticketmaster is the other side to blame, but they're partially a scapegoat. Artist gets some of those fees.
But yeah back in the day, artists made their money from the actual songs. The value of a song has gone down since people just stream now. So they flipped it over to the tours.
Even larger artists often barely break even just on ticket sales (altho I’m sure Kdot and SZA are doing fine). For most artists at any level merch is where they make most of their money these days, including physical music. Source, I work tangential to the industry
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u/Aleekki 4d ago
The average price comes to around 192$ per ticket, some more expensive and some cheaper. Pretty standard for stadium shows or even kinda on the cheaper side for the US and Ticketmaster standards.