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This year is jam-packed with tours and festivals around the world, from Eagles’ Long Goodbye tour to Lollapalooza 2023. No matter what kind of music lover you are, there are an endless amount of shows to attend. Unfortunately, purchasing tickets can be costly, and that doesn’t take into account the stress of getting a presale code (if applicable).
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That’s where resale ticket brands come in. Instead of purchasing overpriced tickets from scalpers, there are numerous resale ticket sites that’ll provide cheap concert tickets to your favorite artists or festivals.
To take the work out of researching where to find reliable resale tickets, we did the research and rounded up the best cheap ticket sites, so you can see your favorite artists live while avoiding the disapproving look from your wallet.
Keep reading to see where to score affordable tickets to concerts and festivals year-round.
Vivid Seats
$Starting at $22
Rather than wait in a virtual line, Vivid Seats gives you access to thousands of events from live sports, concerts and festivals. You search based on artist, team, venue and more, whether you’ve scored a travel deal or just want to stay local. When looking at tickets, some sales are verified with a checkmark to show they’re from what the site considers a “super seller” and the brand guarantees instant delivery to your smart device.
StubHub
$Starting at $28
StubHub is another popular choice that people go to for grabbing resale tickets at a more affordable price. The site allows you to search by artists, genre or even in alphabetic order to see all artists playing this year. It also uses a verified Fan Protect to help protect you from scammers.
TicketNetwork
$Starting at $39
TicketNetwork is a non-primary seller that aims to get tickets in your hands without having to worry about signing up for a presale. The brand does notify shoppers that some tickets may be sold at above face value, but it offers a place that helps minimize the risk of being scammed. You can also see a ranking of the most popular shows based on the genre of music.
Gametime
$Starting at $16
Looking for cheap last-minute tickets? Gametime has gained attention for providing last-minute verified tickets for a more budget-friendly cost. Whether you’re waiting for day-of tickets of are looking for something to do on a Friday night, this site will show you what’s going on near you as well as sort by some of the hottest events of the year.
Ticketsmarter
$Starting at $26
Ticketsmarter promises 100% guarantee when selling tickets and allow you to search based on music genre, venue and VIP packages. Tickets available are rated on a scale of “smartness” with the highest number being the best.
Ticket City
$Starting at $34
Since 1990, Ticket City has been providing people with a place to buy and sell tickets to some of the most sought out performances. The brand offers 100% guarantee on tickets bought through the site and if that’s not the case, then Ticket City will provide you with comparable or better tickets than you ordered, or you’ll be offered a refund or a credit.
viagogo
$Starting at $23
Viagogo is one of the largest reselling sites and provides a place where sellers can go to resell tickets above or below face value. For buyers, the brand uses security checks to ensure that transactions go smoothly and tickets being sold are legit.
Groupon
$Starting at $20
Groupon won’t just give you a discount on restaurants or a promo on a manicure, the site also offers deals on concerts, festivals and live performances in your area or places you plan on traveling to. You can narrow down your search by the type of performance or search for specific shows.
Seat Geek
$Starting at $25
Seat Geek categorizes everything based on trending shows, genre and what’s going on in your area. Once you click on your desired show, the brand breaks seat choice down by using a scale of 1-10 of how great a deal it is. You can also search for seats using the venue map to make sure you get exactly what you’re looking for.
For more product recommendations, check out our roundups of the best concert earplugs, venue-approved bags and portable chargers.
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Don’t pack you bags yet rock fans! We’re getting an extended stay in the “Hotel California” as the Eagles have officially added new dates to their farewell tour, “The Long Goodbye.”
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Wednesday (July 19) marked the second time since first announcing their tour that the band has added new dates to their lineup. Now, fans will have additional opportunities to purchase tickets to go and see the rockstars live in concert. The new dates include: Sept. 17 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. and Oct. 15 at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh.
The group took to Instagram to make an official announcement stating high demand for tickets as the reason.
“Due to overwhelming demand for tickets, a second show has been added to the Eagles’ The Long Goodbye tour at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, on Sunday, Sept. 17th, and a new date has been added in Pittsburgh, PA, at the PPG Paints Arena on Sunday, Oct. 15th,” the caption read.
If you’re looking to score tickets to the newly added dates, mark your calendar for Wednesday (July 26) at 10 a.m. ET, which is when presale tickets go on sale. You can also try to get regular sale tickets on Friday (July 28) at 10 a.m. ET.
Tickets for the rest of the dates are currently on sale, which you can purchase through Ticketmaster and resale sites including Vivid Seats, Seat Geek and Stub Hub. Price range from around $175 and up depending on the date.
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Don’t wait too long though, as the demand for tickets are high and supply won’t be available for long.
See the band’s tour update below.
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Live Nation is treating concertgoers to the ultimate summer promo: four tickets for $80. The Summer’s Live sale starts Wednesday (July 19) and will go until Aug. 1 or until tickets sell out. This year includes a stacked lineup of artists with upcoming tours and concerts.
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Yes, you read that right. You can really get four tickets to any qualifying concerts for only $80 total.
Some of the musicians you can get tickets for are the Jonas Brothers, Jelly Roll, 5 Seconds of Summer, Keith Urban, Maroon 5, Snoop Dog, Big Time Rush, Dominic Fike, Neon Trees, Chelsea Handler, Sam Hunt, Young the Giant, Counting Crows, Rod Stewart and many, many more. The promo isn’t live yet, but you can add it to your calendar here to ensure you get $80 concert tickets the second the deal starts. The last thing you want is to see the dreaded “sold out” message.
Want tickets earlier? Rakuten is offering members the ability to skip the line and purchase tickets during an exclusive presale on Tuesday (July 18). Click here to sign up and learn more or click the buy button below.
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In order to get early access to the deal, you’ll need to sign up for Rakuten, then you’ll be able to take advantage of the four for $80 concert tickets deal.
Live Nation is home to events from concerts, tours and festivals to livestreams as well providing a one-stop destination to all things entertainment.
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Garth Brooks will be spending more time in Sin City! Due to high demand, the county star added more than a dozen additional dates to his Garth Brooks/Plus One Las Vegas residency, which kicks off at Caesars Palace on Thursday (May 18).
The newly added shows won’t take place until next year, but tickets go on sale May 31. Fans can register for passes at Ticketmaster.com/GarthBrooks from now until May 25 at 5 p.m. PT.
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“I plan on being here ’til they throw me out,” Brooks joked during an interview with Good Morning America. “We’ll see how long that lasts.”
“I’m hoping [fans] get something here that they can’t get anywhere else,” Brooks noted while comparing the residency to a music laboratory. “I think it’s like a laboratory because [there’s a] no phone, no video policy, which makes me go ‘here’s a song I was working on today.’”
He continued, “One of the greatest reviews I ever got was somebody that walked out and says ‘I’m not sure what I just saw, but it was fantastic!’ I think I’m the best at having fun, I really do.”
This isn’t the first time that Brooks has extended his sold-out concerts. The 61-year-old singer added additional dates to his successful stadium tour last year.
Although the first portion of Brooks’ residency has already sold out, fans can find resale tickets at Vivid Seats, Seat Geek and Stub Hub. Prices for tonight’s show range from around $251 up to approximately $700. Tickets for later dates are priced at $225 and up.
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Need something to wear to the show? Shop merch at GarthBrooks.com and on the singer’s Amazonstorefront located in the Amazon Merch Shop.
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Blame It All On My Roots
$40.00
“Blame it all on my roots.” Celebrate the Las Vegas residency in this long sleeve shirt named after Brooks’ 2013 compilation album. This design available as a long sleeve shirt, short sleeve shirt or a hoodie.
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I Am The Friend In Low Places T-Shirt
$16.99
A play on Brooks’ 1990 single, “Friends in Low Places,” this casual tee will definitely getting people talking (and maybe even laughing).
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Garth Brooks Official Stadium 3/4 Raglan Unisex 2X-Large Heather Grey
$40.00
Still thinking about the Stadium Tour? Commemorate the historic, three-year tour in a baseball shirt.
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I Heart Garth V-Neck T-Shirt $21.99
Garth lovers can show their devotion in this cute tee (available in 10 different colors).
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’90s Garth Brooks T-Shirt $20
Turn back the clock with this ’90s-style graphic tee. The shirt pictured above is available in a sizes ranging from small to 5XL; and a handful of colors including black, grey, green, blue and brown.
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Ticketmaster is once again suffering the wrath of Twitter much as they did at the tail end of 2022 over Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny ticket issues. This time, fans of SZA are taking to Twitter to complain that the automated queue system Ticketmaster uses prevented some from obtaining pre-sale tickets for the TDE vocalist’s upcoming European leg of her “SOS” tour.
Ticketmaster was trending on Twitter Thursday morning (April 13) with fans sharing similar tales of waiting in long queue lines via the web and subsequently being booted out. One user said that they were next in line to buy but was sent to the back of the line. Others have been waiting overnight to get SZA tickets to no avail.
As it stands, this has put Ticketmaster back in the hot seat after the Taylor Swift pre-sale ticket debacle, and the cloned tickets from Bad Bunny in November and December of last year respectively. Drake also filed a lawsuit against the ticket-selling company alleging that Ticketmaster misled buyers regarding the Canadian superstar’s It’s A Blur tour dates alongside 21 Savage.
Further, the company was investigated at the top of the year by the U.S. Senate judiciary committee in a hearing titled “That’s the Ticket: Promoting Competition and Protecting Consumers in Live Entertainment.”
On Twitter, Ticketmaster is getting grilled and fried for making fans miss out on SZA tickets. Check out those reactions below.
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If you’ve been trying to figure out the best strategy to score some tickets to Beyoncé‘s upcoming North American tour, don’t believe the hype. Specifically, don’t buy into the rampant rumors on Twitter from fans claiming that you can nab presale codes by buying a “Cuff It” remix from Bey’s official website.
“This is categorically false,” the singer’s longtime spokesperson, Yvette Noel-Schure tells Billboard.
“I JUST BOUGHT BOTH VERSIONS OF CUFF IT WETTER REMIX ON [link] AND I GOT THE PRESALE CODE TO THE RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR. BUY TO GET YOURS TOO!,” tweeted one fan, while another claimed they uncovered a similar cheat code in a tweet that read, “People who buy the cuff it remix are most likely to get a presale code and get chosen for lottery at the Renaissance tour. Go hive!!”
At press time it was unclear where the rumor came from or who started it, but it makes sense that the singer’s superfans would be searching high and low for any angle on tickets to the Renaissance Tour.
The first 40 dates of the tour were announced last week, followed by an additional seven shows in Toronto; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Houston; Los Angeles; and East Rutherford, N.J. If you want to be in the building for one of the most anticipated tours of 2023 the first step is to register for Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan, though registering doesn’t automatically secure you a spot.
According to Ticketmaster, a “lottery-style” process will be used to determine which Verified Fans will receive access codes to purchase tickets while others will be waitlisted. Citi cardmembers can get exclusive access to presale tickets upon registering here until Thursday (Feb. 9.); the first group of Verified Fan presale tickets went on sale on Monday.
Because of the new dates announced last week, the Verified Fan registration for Group A ended at noon last Friday. Registration for Group B will be open until Thursday at 11:59 p.m. ET. Group B registration includes shows in Boston, Dallas, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis and Tampa. Group C registration ends Feb. 16 at 11:59 p.m. ET and includes shows in Charlotte, Detroit, Phoenix, St. Louis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Nashville and Kansas City, Mo. Tickets to the Renaissance Tour are also available on Vivid Seats.
Now the bad news.
“Fan demand already exceeds the number of tickets available by more than 800 percent based on the registration numbers in the Group A cities,” read a statement from Ticketmaster after the initial presale. “It is expected that many interested fans may not be able to get tickets because demand drastically exceeds supply.”
President Biden urged Congress to “crack down on excessive online concert, sporting event, and other entertainment ticket fees” on Wednesday (Feb. 1), according to a statement from the White House. Biden’s call for action came roughly a week after Live Nation Entertainment faced scathing critiques from both Democratic and Republic senators during a Senate Judiciary hearing.
Speaking with his competition council, Biden said that Congress “should lower the huge service fees that companies like Ticketmaster slap onto tickets for concerts or sporting events that can easily add hundreds of bucks to a family’s night out,” according to The New York Times. “It’s a basic question of fairness,” he added.
President Biden’s interest in curbing ticket fees is part of the Junk Fee Prevention Act, which he discussed with his competition council Wednesday. The act takes aim at four types of excessive fees that cumulatively “cost American consumers billions of dollars a year.”
“Many online ticket sellers impose massive service fees at check-out that are not disclosed when consumers are choosing their tickets,” the White House noted in a statement. These fees make attending live events prohibitively expensive in some cases: “A family of four attending a show could end up paying far more than $100 in fees above and beyond the cost of the tickets.”
As a result, “the President is calling on Congress to prohibit excessive fees, require the fees to be disclosed in the ticket price, and mandate disclosure of any ticket holdbacks that diminish available supply.”
In addition to limiting ticket fees, the Junk Fee Prevention Act also aims to eliminate “airline fees for family members to sit with young children,” “exorbitant early termination fees for TV, phone, and internet service” and “surprise resort and destination fees.”
Ticket fees were just one of several topics that came up during the Senate Judiciary hearing last month, which also explored the Taylor Swift ticket sale fiasco, whether Live Nation bullies its competitors and the extent to which the company acts as a monopoly. Joe Berchtold, Live Nation’s president and chief financial officer, told lawmakers that his company wasn’t as powerful as critics were making out and argued that “ticketing has never been more competitive.”
The hearing almost immediately caused ripples in the live music industry. The following day, Ineffable Music Group announced that it would no longer collect 20% of touring artists’ merchandise sales at the 10 venues it owns or operates. “Any action we can take to help to insure a healthy, vibrant concert ecosystem is important,” Ineffable Music Group CEO Thomas Cussins told Billboard at the time.
Taylor Swift is heading out on her first tour in five years, as the superstar announced her The Eras Tour on Tuesday (Nov. 1).
The tour will be a celebration of all 10 of the studio albums Swift has released since 2006.The singer also shared a poster advertising the tour’s 27-date U.S. leg on Instagram featuring a collage of photos of herself through the years, from the time of her self-titled debut to Midnights, which dropped less than two weeks prior to the tour news.
“I wanted to tell you something that I’ve been so excited about for a really long time. I’ve been planning for ages and I finally get to tell you: I’m going back on tour,” Swift said on GMA, announcing the news. “The tour is called the Eras tour and it’s a journey through all of the musical eras of my career.”
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As can be expected, The Eras tour tickets will be one of the hottest on the market, so we’re breaking down everything you need to know so you can secure a seat at your local stadium. See below for presale information, Verified Fan signup, key ticket sale dates and more. Check out the full list of The Eras tour dates here.
When Do The Eras Tour Tickets Go On Sale?
Tickets for Taylor Swift’s The Eras tour will be available to purchase for the general public starting on Nov. 18 at 10 a.m. local venue time here.
When Does Taylor Swift’s Ticket Presale Start?
There are a number of ways to buy The Eras tour tickets before they go on sale to the general public. One of the easiest ways is by registering with Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program here staring now through Wednesday (Nov. 9) at 11:59 p.m. ET. Registered fans who receive a code will have exclusive access to purchase tickets on November 15 starting at 10 a.m. local venue time.
Only fans that have received their unique code will have the chance to purchase tickets starting at $49 up to $449. VIP packages will start at $199 up to $899 on a first come, first served basis.
Additionally, those who purchased tickets to the cancelled Lover Fest through Verified Fan will also receive preferred access to participate in the presale, if you register with the same Ticketmaster account as your Lover Fest purchase.
Lastly, Swift is partnering again with Capital One a number of exclusive tickets are available for Capital One cardholders, who will have priority access to purchase tickets on November 15 at 2 p.m. local venue time through November 17 at 10 p.m. local venue time.