The great Ticketmaster meltdown of 2022, a Taylor Swift concert-ticket presale that more or less broke the Internet this week, left many fans ticketless and ticked off, along with some members of Congress.
Swifties, as Swift loyalists are known, may not overlap much with the presumably older, sensibly shoed and largely male crowd that populates a typical Bruce Springsteen or Pearl Jam show. But now, they have something in common: A run-in with Ticketmaster.
Ticketmaster is the music-industry behemoth concert fans love to hate — although, to be fair, much of what goes on in the dog-eat-dog world of scalpers, ticket-snatching bots and desperate buyers spins beyond the control of Ticketmaster or anyone else.
Bands, Congress and the Justice Department all have squared off with the ticket seller before. Here, then, are five of history’s biggest Ticketmaster dustups.
