How Taylor Swift exposed the crisis in live music

When Taylor Swift announced her first tour in five years, fans went wild. But when tickets eventually went on sale the tour was plunged into chaos, with millions of fans locked out of the system.

Ticketmaster, the company managing the sale, blamed unprecedented demand, but everyone from progressive congresswoman AOC to the US Department of Justice and even Swift herself think there’s something much bigger going on, and her fans are demanding answers.

The controversy around this tour has highlighted the amount of uncertainty in the live music industry right now, including here in Australia, and put the focus on the giant corporations that control most of the market.

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