Yea my lower bowl ticket came out to less than $100 and that’s with fees, taxes, etc. pretty reasonable relatively speaking! Especially considering how high demand he is right now
@@wyattcrapo8655Where did you see tickets at? If you didn’t sign up for his lottery system, you didn’t see legit tickets. His ticket system won’t allow tickets to be sold for more than $130.
This isn’t correct. This is what artists have convinced you is the case. The truth Ticketmaster has utilized dynamic pricing to maximize pain point for consumers having nothing to do with resale market. They keep prices as high as humanly possible for initial purchase because they know if it falls apart they can lower them to a level they need to to address the market or if it sustains keep them high. This flexibility makes it so they don’t have to estimate what is actually affordable. Instead they can concentrate on target numbers. The truth is the resale market usually fixes these things. Often at prices lower than tm itself. But it also does several other important things. It makes ur favorite artist viable. As much as u love to believe most artists crush box offices, it’s just not true. The majority of concerts would fail miserably without some of the resale market driving enthusiasm and ticket sales. Secondly ur favorite artist signs contracts that make seats premium to make money. They need them bought to keep touring as the most profitable aspect of musicianship currently. Bigger artists are of course fine but you’d be surprised how small a number bigger artists comprises. The market heat resale generates and the scarcity factor created makes a show a hot ticket. The fact is all components of the free market work in tandem to give the best experience. Ur 500 is charged whether the resale exists or not if fans will pay 500. Stop falling for artists nonsense about the market being driven up by such. It begins and ends with the manipulations of contracts and the ticket company itself.
The fix is relatively simple. Kill dynamic pricing. Force Ticketmaster to accurately assess an artists value and don’t give them the loophole of adjusting on the fly. They will set more reasonable pricing and that will filter through the entire ticketing market. If they choose to set it to high that concert will fail and hurt their bottom line. If they have to assess with profitability in mind we will get cleaner more respectable prices across the board. Relegate to the primary ticket companies only and the resale market will become equally more reasonable as a result.
The guys music is Awesome as fuck I love the heart in his songs he deserves a decent price for tickets he grew up in oologah there ain't a fucking thing in oologah but a few stores and a lake.....live it up man happy for you
that’s resale prices, most of the tickets are 400 for floor seats, but the resellers hike up the price tenfold. that’s mainly the problem with the concert scene rn.
Musicians aren't getting their money from record sales this day and age. Their greatest source of income is touring now. Bands back then could afford to do $20 concerts because they were selling millions of albums. Truth is streaming music is nowhere near as profitable as a record being sold or touring now. Can't blame the artist.
Also the dollar hadn’t lost all of its worth due to inflation yet back then. Hey, if we want to be specific it’s the government’s fault as usual for making our money worthless through inflation (money printing backed by nothing).
@@austinstone7912 see great shows at smaller venues. Blackberry Smoke, Blackstone Cherry, Steel Woods, Cody Canada and the Departed. None of them are cost over $45 a ticket.
@@davidtoney8399 yeah because not a single one of those artists or bands are big I literally know none of the people you listed. Just face the facts of people are popular The tickets are going to be a little more pricey You can't complain about tickets being over $50 that's literally cheap as hell.
@@austinstone7912 why would it matter that you don't know who these bands are? Why I or anyone else give two shits about your opinion on the bands I like?
yeah except when people don’t buy the ticket the artist suffers, so no, that’s not the problem. The problem is the fact that Ticketmaster has a stranglehold on the industry.
@@GaugeMe43 Good luck on getting people to feel sorry for the Artist/performer, in actuality if these performers had any compassion for their “fans” they have the power to end Ticketmaster immediately
I’ve seen Zach live twice. He is absolutely worth 10 percent of my monthly income for a show: Dude is fucking phenomenal. People also don’t realize a fraction of that money goes to him.
Exactly! People tremendously underestimate the huge talent this kid is. He’s not your typical showman, but he and his boys put on a helluva show. I think it’s just the authenticity of it. No other show feels as raw as his does. It’s really just a bunch of best buddies having the time of their lives!
He also did say 150 to 300 so that’s only five percent if it’s on the low end. Feasible to do it every month? Not at all but concerts are not supposed to be monthly events in your budget either lol
I agree. 150-300 I’d still feel like I got my monies worth. Obviously going to a concert isn’t a once in a lifetime thing, but I don’t think it should be an every weekend thing either. It would lose its intimacy. Guy in video mentions you should be able to mow a few yards and be able to cover ticket price. Even at 300 for a ticket, with the price of landscaping these days that’s still pretty easily obtained.
Fuck people, if you don't like it then dont pay. Don't go. And don't enjoy. If i want to see someone i like i will pay the fee. If zach bryan came to Australia, i would gladly pay whatever he wanted to charge... because i genuinely love not only his music but him as a person and performer. The only people that have an issue is those who are jealous of him. ... if you like him and can't afford to see him live, then just appreciate him on Spotify or RU-vid and get your shit together to see him live if that's what you want. Only jealous people are going to be negative towards this man. He is a living legend and will be remembered.
@@frankiethefrog1752 not through his songs but through interviews and podcasts. How he speaks is genuine and honest. You can absolutely get a sense of who he is as a person.
The problem is a huge percentage of the money you pay won’t even go to Zach Bryan. A lot of it goes to distributors like Ticketmaster. Most artists are reasonable and won’t charge tickets their fans couldn’t afford but with the middle man, they don’t really have control over that. The fact that a Taylor Swift concert costs a couple thousand dollars is absurd. In the 90s, a Madonna ticket costs $70 and a Nirvana ticket costs $25. Even with inflation, that doesn’t make sense regardless.
Here's one musician/songwriter's perspective: Generally, there's more revenue for an established act through touring (and tour merch) than via record sales. My understanding is that the complexity in digital streaming has widened this gap, but there are probably thresholds where it changes somewhat--like for huge artists like Beyonce and Taylor Swift. If someone prefers to spend more time with their family and less on the road, that's their prerogative. As long as they can afford to survive on the revenue from streaming residuals and limited touring, that should be their choice. A popular artist should not need to apologize for being in demand and having strong bargaining leverage for (a) higher ticket prices, (b) fewer show dates, or (c) not even touring in support of an album. HOWEVER, every artist must remain cognizant of what a malleable industry this can be, and they must accept the end result of bypassing the chance to embark on a lucrative tour--because to paraphrase Cody Johnson: _If you've got a fan take it_ _cause tomorrow they may not show_
Ticketmaster and others add a lot of BS fees but I am annoyed when friends complain about a larger show being over $100. All the staff, travel, lighting, sound that goes into it and getting 2+ hours of entertainment. Plus 99% of musicians are making very little off record sales from streaming. So they rely on the concert sales.
I tried to get tickets to Zach’s show near me and they’re expensiveeeee. This is the corporations greed though. There was an interview with the main dude and he said he feels concerts should be treated the same as vacations. Once a year experience. Insanity. I saw more shows as a teen and young adult than I do an an actual adult
It’s not the artists fault, it’s the middle man. Ticketmaster is a legitimate distributor but golly do they operate like resellers. The fact that people are paying thousands for a Swift concert is mind boggling. That’s a whole ass vacation.
Ticketmaster made nearly $23 Billion in Revenue in 2023 up from $12 Billion in 2022 and $6 Billion in 2021. They are supposedly already up 36% Percent this Year, with Revenue sitting in the $31-$32 Billion Range.
This problem is much deeper than just ticket prices and stadium/venue size. If musicians could make more money from THEIR music via sales then their ticket prices could theoretically go down. Im not saying charge more for said albums but simply letting them get more % vs the corporate overlords taking it all for "publishing".
Back in the day you could only go see a concert if you wanted to camp in line at the venue's ticket window and that's only if it was in your city. If it was out of town you had to take time off work or away from school to drive there, camp out for 1-2 days, hope by the time you get up there there's still some decent tickets left, then drive back. I don't like the ticket prices, either, but I'm thankful I can get online and buy tickets to see anyone anywhere. I grew up in the era of the greatest bands of all time and didn't get to see any of them because they didn't come where I lived. These days I go to concerts all over the country.
It broke my heart as we won’t be able to attend this. i already got 4 tickets all because i had a knee injury that got worse and i have to take a surgery please buy my tickets
Luke combs does this too, apparently his ticket prices are like $25-$30, I’m not fully sure since I’ve never actually been to one of his shows but I remember him saying that was what he charged because he didn’t think it was fair to charge a massive amount of money because that wasn’t his ultimate goal when becoming a country artist, his goal was to make music people would love to listen to and that he enjoys making
The problem is bots and scalpers. They buy up everything and then resell. I just took my daughter to see him. It was $1000 for us. I have never paid that much ever. But what is messed up is his merch prices. $50-60 tshirts, his hoodies were $100-120, his f’ing hats were $40. People need to get on him about that.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s Ticketmaster was huge. We used to go to tower to get our tickets for whatever we were going to go see I think this day and age either Ticketmaster needs to get with the program or the venues need to cut out middlemen like Ticketmaster and put it more in the hands of the artist. Come up with a way to cut out a lot of this extra where people have their hands in the bag. Bring the prices down.
Honestly, promo sale discounts doesn’t give the venue the same amount of time when artist have to play and pay their own fees so to speak about their work it’s also not understand the process of making a purchase to sell flip tickets.
After paying 20-40 dollars a ticket to see some great bands play 20 years ago, I wouldn't pay anywhere near 150 dollars for a ticket... Maybe 80. Maybe.. but probably not.
20 years ago? That was 20 years ago bud. There's Normal Inflation, plus covid inflation. $40 then is around $75 now. Not to mention he had a huge band.
I was so excited to attend my first concert show and listen Morgan Wallen for the first time in Canada. However, $400 (+Taxes) CAD for a ticket was just to damm high for a college student like me. Infact, majority of the audience was college students who attended his show with poor services.
That’s why you gotta suffer through ticket drops from independent venues. I paid 150 dollars total to see tame Impala and turnpike troubadours play for 2 hours each (separate occasions, same venue). The worst part was navigating the ticket drop
I’m still paying $20-$25 for the shows I go to because I’m a metalhead and most of the bands play small clubs and I can meet them. That’s what sucks when a band gets big, you have to pay more and then pay for parking and $8 water. Even the times I went to see a bigger band like Tool or Metallica it would be $75. ANYTHING over that is a rip off imo.
I saw him live about a year ago for only $70 in a cornfield in Iowa. It depends on the venue and city, and he's only getting exponentially more popular... his shows are still way more affordable and enjoyable than all these corny pop/rap artists.
And I just paid 750 bucks for my 7 year old son and I to see ZB in St Louis. Best 750 I ever spent to see him sing along with ZB and everyone else at enterprise. Probably the only guy/band I’d ever pay close to that to see. It was weird though being the last time I saw ZB was in a small venue with about 100 people…
How much is a fair ticket? Whatever the market will bear. That's how it works. One person doesn't like the price, but a large of chunk of ppl do. That's why the price is the price.
Sounds like he wants to make people happy, but at the same time getting defensive about his ticket prices. I know he could do these shows cheaper because I’ve been to these megastar concerts before where they get liquor sponsorships and other brands to help sponsor to offset ticket prices to $20-$100(depending on the seat). These companies then get to put branding and advertising everywhere and sell their products there. It’s not hard to get that to happen when you’re as big as he is. It just requires a little extra work not related to music specifically. ZB could definitely have his team figure it out if he wanted to.
I was excited Zach Bryan was coming to town until i looked at ticket prices, $400-$500 plus ticketmaster costs for me and my girl to go ses him was around $1200 and thsts not even one of the front rows, to me thats disgusting
I remember back in the mid 90's when you could get concert tickets for $40-$80, how ticketmaster has existed this long without being absolutely mogged for being disgusting opportunists, I'll never know.
In the 90's I saw Metallica and GnrmR together at Reunion Arena in Dallas. I paid $55. I still have the stub. And my father thought I was crazy for spending that much of his money on a ticket. In the early 00's my wife and I saw Billy Joel & Elton John Back2Back show for $88 a ticket for platinum tickets at American Airlines. Granted online wasn't a thing yet for tickets to become a scalper's paradise. Recently I wanted to take my son to a Metallica concert at AT&T stadium, but the best deal I could get was $2,000 with fees for two tickets in nosebleeds, and I refused to do it. That didn't include parking which would've started at $150. Many say music streaming is to blame for this. But I bet if we solely relied on physical media like we used to, prices would still be outrageous. It's sad, because I would've loved to have had that moment with my son at a Metallica concert. My first concert was in the early 80s - my sister took me to a Joan Jett show. A week later I was seeing Pink Floyd with flying pigs in the arena. Her boyfriend sold drugs in the early 80s and he had access to incredible tickets: Ozzy Osbourne, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Iron Maiden. I can't even begin to remember all the concerts I've been to and the crazy beautiful memories that accompany each one. And I can't get one with my son. I mean I could, I'm not complaining like that, but $2,000 for Metallica is insane! I do love the band with all my heart tho.
It went and saw some of the best bands in Detroit for like less than $50 for years. I get the prices have gone up because of the economy. I miss the old days.
I just watched dude get arrested and let go on celebrity arrests. They let him go with just a ticket. He kept saying how famous he was and was super argumentative. So annoying. I had to google him cause I’d never heard of him….. still don’t recognize nor know him.
Here is oklahoma, WHERE HE IS FROM concert tickets not in the massive venues only run about $30-$75 so the fact he says he'd rather play small shows for $150 is fucking wild because I've seen Panic at the Disco, Foster the People, Twenty One Pilots, Weezer and Modest Mouse, Vampire Weekend, and so many more for under $100 that are way bigger names than him here in Tulsa.