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Everything We Learned from Night One of Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour

Beyoncé Renaissance World Tour Opening Night - Stockholm

I t’s the moment everyone’s been waiting for: Beyoncé finally kicked off her Renaissance World Tour in Stockholm, Sweden , Wednesday night. This comes close to a year after the release of her seventh album, RENAISSANCE , a period during which she has rarely acknowledged the album with interviews or public performances of the new music, nor put out any music videos to accompany the songs. Nonetheless, the BeyHive was still buzzing with excitement on social media as they shared clips of the stage, the merchandise, the view from different VIP sections, and, most importantly, the artist performing the songs live for the first time.

Beyoncé is gearing up for a second night at the Friends Arena in Stockholm. As she gets ready to hit the stage, let’s take a look at what was revealed in the first show that might offer an indication of what could happen on the rest of the highly anticipated tour. A lot has already happened—from Bey herself addressing the lack of visuals to her celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, in keeping with the themes of the album.

Here’s everything we learned from night one of the Renaissance World Tour.

Beyoncé said not to rush a queen for music videos

omg not beyoncé addressing the visuals i’m crying 😭 #RenaissanceWorldTour pic.twitter.com/xQ9AkBCp3p — rasmus (@rasmusbravado) May 10, 2023

If we haven’t learned by now, Beyoncé releases things when she is good and ready . This is her first solo album since 2016’s Lemonade , so we can’t act surprised that she told her fans to be patient and stop asking about the music videos. Her last solo albums, Lemonade , Beyoncé , and The Gift (a concept album for The Lion King ), all had visual components that included music videos for each song. This built up the expectation that RENAISSANCE would get the same treatment.

Beyoncé is online and knows her fans have been hounding her, and she has finally responded. During a break on the first night, a disembodied voice addressed the crowd as the words it spoke were displayed on stage: “Aww, you mad? Well, there’s no remedy for that, bitches… I know you’ve asked for the visuals. You’ve called for the Queen. But a Queen moves at her own pace, bitch. Decides when she wants to give you a f-cking taste. So get your fork and your spoon if you got one.”

She is cutting out some of her biggest hits to make room for the new album and deep cuts

Attendees at the concert in Stockholm filmed every moment for the world to see on social media, and many of Beyoncé’s fans were quite surprised by some of the songs she decided to perform. She opened the show with “Dangerously In Love” from her debut album of the same name and ran through a string of popular songs, both mainstream hits and fan favorites. At the opening night show, she also performed songs like “Rather Die Young,” “Flaws and All,” and “Black Parade,” which have not gotten much attention from Beyoncé in recent memory.

Beyonce - Rather Die Young 🎤 SINGGGGGG!!!! #RenaissanceWorldTour pic.twitter.com/MEZwAVYNWk — ram (@oyyram) May 10, 2023

Some of Beyoncé’s most popular songs, many of which she has made a point to perform on past tours, are notably missing from the set list. “Run The World” fans, do not worry: she still performs the song. But those who are fans of “If I Were a Boy,” “Single Ladies,” and “Halo,” a notorious closer for Beyoncé—as evidenced by the Homecoming concert film and her Formation World Tour— may be disappointed.

Beyoncé did NOT perform her hit songs “Single Ladies”, ”If I Were a Boy” and “Halo” at the opening night of her #RENAISSANCEtour show in Sweden. pic.twitter.com/ejXi5b7fXf — Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) May 10, 2023

Beyoncé brought back the Les Twins, who have accompanied her on multiple tours and performances

The Les Twins, Laurent and Larry, were approached by Beyoncé years ago after a video of them dancing went viral and they appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show . They were invited to perform with Beyoncé at the Billboard Music Awards in 2011, and she took them on the road with her for the Mrs. Carter World Tour, her joint On The Run Tour with Jay-Z, and her Coachella performance in 2018 . Her fans were excited to see the Les Twins back on stage with her for this new tour.

Beyoncé performing Thique and Les Twins are officially back 😭 #RenaissanceWorldTour pic.twitter.com/zPKiGAPCjG — J (@wenttojarrett) May 10, 2023

It was gay as hell: An unabashed celebration of the LGBTQ+ community

In the lead-up to the album, Beyoncé dedicated the project to her Uncle Johnny, who battled HIV when she was young. He is referenced in the song “HEATED,” and in the outro of the song, Beyoncé takes on the role of MC at a ball (a queer dance party) where she starts “reading.” All of these influences took center stage at the Renaissance World Tour and will make a strong statement when it comes stateside in July, given the wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation being introduced across the country.

BEYONCÉ IS HEATED😭😭😭 #RENAISSANCEtour pic.twitter.com/ddL9s1ByUA — 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 (@beyoncegarden) May 10, 2023

One of the biggest displays of affection for her queer fans came even before the concert started. As concertgoers poured into the stadium, they were greeted with a fake TV error screen, but if you look closely, some of the colors are different. This error screen has the colors of the progress pride flag, which includes colors from the transgender pride flag, as well as brown and black to indicate the greater discrimination experienced by those members of the community. Twitter users joked, “Nashville is gonna be ready to arrest Beyoncé for this, lord Jesus,” referencing the state’s attempt to ban drag shows and broader attempts across the US to infringe on trans people’s rights.

Nashville is gonna be ready to arrest Beyoncé for this lord Jesus pic.twitter.com/jAz6ObNSEQ — 💫 (@heyjaeee) May 10, 2023

There is also a ball that happens in the show. Beyoncé makes space for her dancers to vogue and dance to her song, “PURE/HONEY.”

BEYONCÉ HOSTING A BALL IS SO WILD TO ME OMG pic.twitter.com/1JwnRMX8TR — Pocket (@islandthembo) May 10, 2023

Some people might recognize Honey Balenciaga from The House of Balenciaga, which appeared in season two of HBO Max’s Legendary . She was seen voguing on stage with the rest of Beyoncé’s dancers.

@legendaryvoguex HONEY BALENCIAGA @Honey. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE THE IT GIRL #RENAISSANCE ♬ original sound - Legendary Vogue X

As we’ve seen with other tours from major artists like Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, and the 1975, their fervent fan base will keep everyone up to date on all the song changes, new outfits, and surprises that these artists pull out of their bag of tricks on the road. As we’ve seen with Swift’s notoriously sold-out Eras Tour, her fans made sure to give people who couldn’t get tickets a chance to see the tour play out online. Based on how night one played out, it seems like Beyoncé’s fans will be doing the same for those of us stuck at home.

Correction, May 11: The original version of this story misgendered Honey Balenciaga. She uses she/her pronouns.

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Tickets for these dates of Beyoncé's tour are now on sale: What fans need to know

Tickets to the first of three groupings of Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour dates went on sale Monday and, not surprisingly, are doing brisk business for the Grammy legend.

In fact, her first show – May 10 in Stockholm, Sweden – sold out Tuesday, prompting the singer to add an additional Stockholm show on May 11.

Back in the U.S., staggering on-sale dates have prevented ticket sale meltdowns (so far anyway) as experienced when Taylor Swift put her tour tickets up for grabs last year .

Queen Bey, who Sunday night became the all-time Grammy champion , announced her tour last week and immediately saw fan demand exceed the number of tickets by 800%.

Group A tickets are now on sale. If you're in Groups B and C, there's still some time to get a seat to what promises to be one of the hottest tours in years.

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Here's our detailed look on how to get tickets . For the latest timing details, visit Ticketmaster and find the event info for your desired date and city.

Here's what else fans should know:

How much are Beyoncé tickets?

USA TODAY found face-value ticket prices that ranged from $62 and up. Club Renaissance tickets were closer to $1,000, and some floor seats were $300 and bowl seats were around $500. Ticket prices will vary according to city and venue.

Many artists have begun to give concert promoters the OK to make a portion of each show's best seats subject to Dynamic Pricing , which is an attempt to match demand with the supply of premium seats.

The end result can sometimes be prices that far exceed original face value, as some fans of Bruce Springsteen found when dynamically priced seats for his tour cost upwards of $4,000. Only about 12% of Springsteen tickets were sold this way, his management reported.

When are Group B and C ticket sales?

Beyoncé put tickets for her U.S. tour dates on sale in three groups: A, B and C. Here are the dates and deadlines for the next round of ticket sales.

The deadline to sign up for the various programs for Group B cities ends Feb. 9 at 11:59 p.m. local time. Group B cities are:

Minneapolis (Huntington Bank Stadium, July 20)
Boston (Gillette Stadium, Aug. 1)
Tampa (Raymond James Stadium, Aug. 16)
Miami (Hard Rock Stadium, Aug. 18)
San Francisco (Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., Aug. 30)
Seattle (Lumen Field, Sept. 13)
Dallas (AT&T Stadium, Sept. 21)

BeyHive Verified Fan Presale: Feb. 13. Citi Verified Fan Presale is between 10 a.m. Feb. 14 and 6 p.m. and Feb. 15 local time. Verizon Up Presale is between 10 a.m. Feb. 16 and 6 p.m. Feb. 17 local time. And Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale is Feb. 18.

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The deadline to sign up for the various programs for Group C cities ends Feb. 16 at 11:59 p.m. local time. Group C cities are:

Philadelphia (Lincoln Financial Field, July 12)
Nashville (Nissan Stadium, July 15)
Louisville (L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium, July 17)
Detroit (Ford Field, July 26)
Pittsburgh (Acrisure Stadium, Aug. 3)
Charlotte, N.C. (Bank of America Stadium, Aug. 9)
St. Louis (Dome at America's Center, Aug. 21)
Phoenix (State Farm Stadium, Aug. 24)
Kansas City (GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, Sept. 18)
New Orleans (Caesars Superdome, Sept. 27)

BeyHive Verified Fan Presale: Feb. 20. Citi Verified Fan Presale is between 10 a.m. Feb. 21 and 6 p.m. and Feb. 22, local time. Verizon Up Presale is between 10 a.m. Feb. 23 and 6 p.m. Feb. 24 local time. And Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale is Feb. 25.

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Tickets for Beyonce's 1st concert of world tour sell out

Tickets for the first concert of Beyonce's upcoming "Renaissance" world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a second concert in Stockholm was added because of the high demand.

The tour starts in Sweden in May and is scheduled to include stops in London, Paris, Barcelona, Toronto and the United States. The last expected concert is set for Sept. 27 in New Orleans.

No details were given on how quickly the R&B superstar's fans snapped up all the tickets for her May 10 Stockholm show. Tickets are set to go on sale Wednesday for the second show in Sweden's capital on May 11. Beyonce will perform both concerts at the Friends Arena, a multi-purpose stadium with a retractable roof and a concert audience capacity of 65,000.

This year's performance's will be will be Beyonce's first solo world tour since her "Formation" tour in 2016. She last appeared in Stockholm in 2018 while touring with her husband, Jay Z.

"Renaissance," the album Beyonce released last year, is a celebration of dance music.

At Sunday's Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Beyonce won for best R&B song, best dance/electronic recording, best dance/electronic album and best traditional R&B performance. She has now won a total of 32 Grammys.

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Beyoncé Dazzles With a Sparkling Homage to Black Queer Culture at Levi's Stadium

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At her first world tour in 2007, a 26 year-old Beyoncé Knowles asked the audience, “Are you ready to be entertained?”

A decade and a half later, at the first California stop of her blockbuster Renaissance World Tour last night, Mrs. Knowles-Carter came ready not just to entertain but to claim her throne. In a two-and-a-half-hour tsunami of songs, Beyoncé commanded the sold-out audience of 50,000 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, leaning heavily into the Black queer music and culture from the metallic world of her latest album, Renaissance .

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Rising up out of the floor in a black Marc Jacobs miniskirt and platform boots, Beyoncé greeted a screaming stadium of silver-clad fans with five simple words: “Bay Area… I love you.”

Across an opening six-song block of mostly ballads, Queen Bey delivered a reminder that her vocals are still the foundation of her artistry, perching on a silver grand piano to serve an intimate “1+1.”

Beyoncé then plugged into the computerized world of Renaissance proper. Stepping out in a chrome bodysuit, the pop icon launched into “I’m That Girl,” “Cozy,” and “Alien Superstar,” the hyper-confident first tracks of her seventh studio album. She led her troupe of dancers and live band with the precision of a champion at the top of her game.

Dazzling projections on screen played with the concept of Beyoncé as a cyborg during the first hour, a tongue-in-cheek response to the criticisms that have followed the singer throughout her entire career: that she’s not “human” enough in her pursuit of perfection. As she deadpanned and pop-locked to the “Alien Superstar” lyrics, “I’m one of one / I’m number one / I’m the only one,” she challenged us to reconsider our expectations.

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Throughout the show, Beyoncé paid homage to Black queer music and culture that inspired her Renaissance era: the voice of ballroom icon Kevin JZ Prodigy was ever-present, and dancers vogued during the mini ball that unfolded for “Pure/Honey.” The tour marked another acknowledgement of the Ballroom community in mainstream American culture, following the success of shows like FX’s Pose and HBO’s Legendary .

Beyoncé sprinkled musical nods to this community throughout the night like little love letters. To many, the flairs of First Choice’s “ Let No Man Put Asunder ,” or the strains of Diana Ross’ “ Love Hangover ” (expertly delivered in four-part harmony by background vocalists Tiffany Ryan, Karyn Porter, Natalie Imani and Tayler Green), might have just seemed like mere interludes. But to those in the ballroom scene, these tracks feel just as warm and familiar as “Crazy in Love” or “Get Me Bodied.”

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Despite the stadium’s size, Beyoncé cultivated genuine moments of connection with the crowd: She invited attendees to sing the key changes in “Love On Top” a capella, and reveled in the sounds of paper and plastic shifting when the audience pulled out their fans for “Heated.” If she would have asked us to pick Levi’s Stadium up and move it six feet to the left, we would have found a way.

Such is the reward for an artist who has spent the past 25 years cultivating a fanbase that transcends the hard lines that the United States draws across race, class, gender and age. There was satisfaction in looking at a stranger and silently agreeing to take “Love on Top” up another half step, or noticing someone else also doing the iconic shoulder shuffle to “Diva.”

One of the night’s most electric moments came when Beyoncé introduced her 11-year-old daughter Blue Ivy Carter. Donning an orange and blue jersey with the Roman numerals “IV,” the protégé performed “My Power” and “Black Parade” alongside her mother under a Super Blue Moon, a rare celestial occurrence that won’t cross the sky again for another 14 years. Considering the rare skill required to lead an entire ensemble of trained dancers on a world tour before turning 12, it seemed fitting that Beyoncé would tell us to “give it up for Blue Ivy, a.k.a. Blue Moon.”

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From 16-year-olds experiencing their Beyoncé baptism to sisters who traveled from across the country, the Beyhive made the concert into a full experience — celebrating the opulent and the divine diva that lives in us all, and supporting those whose identities put us at risk for violence. These are not far from the tenets of ballroom culture, and it’s what makes the Renaissance World Tour an occasion far beyond a concert.

It was a defiant, joyful release of personal and collective trauma, giving us all the chance to feel like a chromed-out Cinderella for the night. At the end of the show, soaring above the crowd on silver chrome disco horse that fans have jokingly named “Reneigh,” Mrs. Knowles-Carter said that she’ll “never forget tonight.”

Rest assured her Bay Area audience won’t either.

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Please don’t be alarmed and try to remain calm — nearly six years since her last solo trek, Beyoncé is back and (hopefully) heading to a city near you before wrapping her tour this fall. The superstar announced her massive Renaissance world tour back in February, marking Beyoncé’s first global solo tour in support of her seventh album of the same name. With the tour winding down, there’s only a few weeks left to score Beyoncé tickets . Get Beyoncé Tickets on Vivid Seats

With the final month of the Renaissance tour approaching, Beyoncé shared a statement on Instagram that “Virgo Season is upon us.” She continued: “This tour has been such a joy and as we approach the last month, my birthday wish is to celebrate with you wearing your most fabulous silver fashions to the shows 8.23 – 9.22! We’ll surround ourselves in a shimmering human disco ball each night. Everybody mirroring each other’s joy. Virgo Season together in the house of chrome. See you there! Your B at RWT.”

Ticket registration and sales for Beyoncé’s tour were previously split into three different groups, and now Beyoncé tickets are on sale for all remaining dates, including on Ticketmaster and Vivid Seats .

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With just a few more weeks to go of Beyoncé’s tour, you can still find last-minute Beyoncé tickets online to sold-out shows. If you don’t find available seats on Ticketmaster , you can try checking ticket resellers like Vivid Seats . Rolling Stone readers can use the promo code RS2023 at checkout to save $20 on purchases $200 or more.

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Renaissance World Tour 2023 North America Dates

Wondering if Beyoncé is playing a show in your area? Below are the remaining cities the Grammy winner will visit for the 2023 North American leg of the Renaissance tour . Beyoncé previously also added an additional three shows to the tour, including Atlanta (8/14/23), Las Vegas, (8/27/23), and Inglewood, CA (9/4/23).

Not surprisingly, Ticketmaster said it saw a massive demand for the Renaissance tour in a blog on its website. “Fan demand already exceeds the number of tickets available by more than 800% based on the registration numbers in the Group A cities. It is expected that many interested fans may not be able to get tickets because demand drastically exceeds supply.”

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While we won’t give too much away about the Renaissance tour set list (though you’ve likely seen much of it on TikTok), you can hear more about the show in Rolling Stone Music Now ‘s podcast episode . It’s a deep-dive into what fans can expect during the concert. In short, you can likely plan to hear everything from deep cuts like opener “Dangerously in Love,” along with Renaissance tracks like “Alien Superstar,” “Cuff It,” and closer “Summer Renaissance.” Plus: “Love on Top,” “Crazy in Love,” “1+1,” and more.

When Are Beyoncé Renaissance World Tour Tickets On Sale?

According to Ticketmaster at the time, “Beyoncé is distributing tickets in three different Verified Fan sales: BeyHive Presale powered by Ticketmaster Verified Fan; Citi Presale powered by Verified Fan and the General Verified Fan Onsale. Additionally, there will be a Verizon Up Presale. Registration windows vary by city, so check the schedule below and be sure to note when the window closes for the show you’re interested in attending.”

In other words, if you tried to register for Verified Fan presale, you needed to see which group your city was a part of ahead of time. Group A registration was open until Feb. 2, with Group B registration previously scheduled until Feb. 9, and Group C until Feb. 16.

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European dates started in May, and Beyoncé embarked on the North American leg of the Renaissance tour over the summer, including stops in Toronto (read our Renaissance tour review ), Los Angeles, Houston, and New Orleans. Though Beyoncé headlined a show in Dubai — her first concert in four years at the time — she didn’t play any songs from Renaissance , Rolling Stone ‘s No. 1 album of 2022 (“the musical highlight of the year”) and a frontrunner at the 65th Grammys .

When Beyoncé dropped Renaissance last summer, Rolling Stone ‘s Mankaprr Conteh wrote that “Beyoncé flung open the doors to a nightclub of her own making, a place where anyone can be the hottest person in the galaxy … the album traverses eras of dance music to conjure the superhuman confidence and deeply human connection of a night out. The thematic triumph of the auteur’s seventh album is this union of the extraordinary and the earthly across it, a duality that lives on the dancefloors Renaissance was inspired by — and in all of us.”

How to Get Beyoncé Tickets With BeyHive Verified Fan Registration

BeyHive Verified Fan Presale started Feb. 6 for those who registered in Group A, followed by Groups B and C.

The first round of the BeyHive presale arrived just one day after Beyoncé made Grammys history on Feb. 5. With 32 wins under her belt, Beyoncé broke the record for the most Grammy Awards in music history, winning the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album for Renaissance .

“I’d like to thank my beautiful husband, my beautiful three children who are at home watching,” Queen Bey said during her acceptance speech. “I’d like to thank the queer community, for your love, and for inventing this genre. God bless you. Thank you so much to the Grammys.”

While Renaissance didn’t win a trophy for Album of the Year , Beyoncé still took home a slew of other awards, including Best R&B Song for “Cuff It,” Best Dance/Electronic Record for “Break My Soul,” and Best Traditional R&B Performance for “Plastic Off the Sofa.”

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Tickets for Beyoncé’s 1st concert of world tour sell out

FILE - Beyonce accepts the award for best dance/electronic music album for “Renaissance” at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles. Tickets for Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” world tour which kicks off in Stockholm in May have been sold out “after a high ticket pressure.” A new second concert in the Swedish capital was announced Tuesday when the sale started. The concerts are part of her highly anticipated tour and it was her first single tour in five years. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Tickets for the first concert of Beyoncé’s upcoming “Renaissance” world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a second concert in Stockholm was added because of the high demand.

The tour starts in Sweden in May and is scheduled to include stops in London, Paris, Barcelona, Toronto and the United States. The last expected concert is set for Sept. 27 in New Orleans.

No details were given on how quickly the R&B superstar’s fans snapped up all the tickets for her May 10 Stockholm show. Tickets are set to go on sale Wednesday for the second show in Sweden’s capital on May 11. Beyoncé will perform both concerts at the Friends Arena, a multi-purpose stadium with a retractable roof and a concert audience capacity of 65,000.

This year’s performance’s will be will be Beyoncé's first solo world tour since her “Formation” tour in 2016. She last appeared in Stockholm in 2018 while touring with her husband, Jay Z.

“Renaissance,” the album Beyoncé released last year , is a celebration of dance music.

At Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles , Beyoncé won for best R&B song, best dance/electronic recording, best dance/electronic album and best traditional R&B performance. She has now won a total of 32 Grammys.

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Tickets for Beyoncé’s 1st concert of world tour sell out

The tour starts in Sweden in May and is scheduled to include stops in London, Paris, Barcelona, Toronto and the United States. The last expected concert is set for Sept. 27 in New Orleans.

This year’s performance’s will be will be Beyoncé’s first solo world tour since her “Formation” tour in 2016. She last appeared in Stockholm in 2018 while touring with her husband, Jay Z.

“Renaissance,” the album Beyoncé released last year, is a celebration of dance music.

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Tickets for the first concert of Beyoncé’s upcoming “Renaissance” world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a second concert in Stockholm was added because of the high demand.

The tour starts in Sweden in May and is scheduled to include stops in London, Paris, Barcelona, Toronto and the United States. The last expected concert is set for Sept. 27 in New Orleans.

This year’s performance’s will be will be Beyoncé’s first solo world tour since her “Formation” tour in 2016. She last appeared in Stockholm in 2018 while touring with her husband, Jay Z.

“Renaissance,” the album Beyoncé released last year , is a celebration of dance music.

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Tickets for Beyoncé’s 1st concert of world tour sell out

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Tickets for the first concert of Beyoncé’s upcoming "Renaissance” world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a second concert in Stockholm was added because of the high demand.

The tour starts in Sweden in May and is scheduled to include stops in London, Paris, Barcelona, Toronto and the United States. The last expected concert is set for Sept. 27 in New Orleans.

No details were given on how quickly the R&B superstar's fans snapped up all the tickets for her May 10 Stockholm show. Tickets are set to go on sale Wednesday for the second show in Sweden's capital on May 11. Beyoncé will perform both concerts at the Friends Arena, a multi-purpose stadium with a retractable roof and a concert audience capacity of 65,000.

This year's performance's will be will be Beyoncé's first solo world tour since her “Formation” tour in 2016. She last appeared in Stockholm in 2018 while touring with her husband, Jay Z.

“Renaissance,” the album Beyoncé released last year , is a celebration of dance music.

At Sunday's Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles , Beyoncé won for best R&B song, best dance/electronic recording, best dance/electronic album and best traditional R&B performance. She has now won a total of 32 Grammys.

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STOCKHOLM – Tickets for the first concert of Beyoncé’s upcoming "Renaissance” world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a second concert in Stockholm was added because of the high demand.

The tour starts in Sweden in May and is scheduled to include stops in London, Paris, Barcelona, Toronto and the United States. The last expected concert is set for Sept. 27 in New Orleans.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (KGO) -- Beyoncé brought her much-anticipated Renaissance World Tour show to Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara for one night.

It's the 32-time Grammy Award-winning singer's first solo trek in nearly seven years. That said, it was nothing short of an extravaganza for her summer renaissance.

VIDEO: Hot tips to help you get the most out of the Beyoncé Renaissance World Tour experience

Here's everything you need to know about the concert:

When and where is Beyoncé performing?

Queen Bey is performing at Levi's Stadium located at 4900 Marie P. DeBartolo Way in Santa Clara on Aug. 30.

6 p.m. - Gates open

8 p.m. - Beyoncé is the opener, main act and encore act

Fans heading to her concert may have a little more time to release their wiggle. According to the Mercury News , the show won't adhere to the regular 10 p.m. weeknight curfew at the venue, thanks to an extension granted by city officials.

Instead, Beyoncé can now plan on grooving right up until 11 p.m.

What can we expect?

This is Beyoncé's fifth visit to the South Bay venue. Previous shows include the 2018 On the Run II Tour alongside Jay-Z, the Formation Tour in 2016, and her debut performance at the stadium for the Super Bowl 50 halftime show in the same year.

Reports from the show's kickoff in May describe her Renaissance World Tour as a "sensory-immersive experience." It uses video projections, animations and digital displays to "blur the boundary between reality and the Bey-taverse," according to the SF Chronicle .

While the show focuses on her recent album "Renaissance," there will also be songs spanning her two decade-long career -- including hits like "Dangerously in Love" and "Run the World (Girls)".

There won't be any other supporting acts before Beyoncé's performance -- all we need is Queen Bey.

What do you wear?

Beyoncé has made a birthday Virgo season request for all her remaining shows: please, BeyHive, wear your silver fashions.

"My birthday wish is to celebrate with you wearing your most fabulous silver fashions to the shows 8.23-9.22," she posted on her Instagram story. "We'll surround ourselves in a shimmering human disco ball each night. Everybody mirroring each other's joy. Virgo season together in the house of chrome."

Can you still get tickets?

Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour stop in Santa Clara is sold out, but you can still get them through resellers. Ticketmaster's verified resale tickets start at $310, and StubHub for $292. Prices will change as the concert approaches.

What you can and cannot bring into Levi's Stadium

The biggest thing to know is that Levi's Stadium bag policy is that they only allow clear bags. Anything that is non-transparent is not allowed.

The only exception for a non-transparent bag is a clutch bag smaller than 4.5 inches by 6.5 inches.

Approved clear bags no larger than 12" x 6" x 12". These include the following clear bags:

Clear Backpacks
Clear Fanny Packs
Clear Purses
One-gallon clear plastic zip lock type bags
Small Clutch Bag (the size of an adult hand) (4.5" x 6.5")
Seat Cushion

Here are a few of the things you can bring:

Binoculars shorter than 6 inches (case prohibited)
Cameras with 3-inch lenses or shorter (no lights, tripods, selfie-sticks or monopods)
Diaper bags accompanying a child
Flags smaller than 2' x 3' (No Poles). They cannot be attached to the facility in any way.
Plastic water bottles (factory sealed, no-alcohol, less than 24 ounces)
Reusable transparent water bottles (no-alcohol, less than 24 ounces)
Plastic water bottles (sealed)
Seat cushions
Strollers (contact the nearest Playmaker if in need of storing)
Sunscreen & hand-powered misters
Umbrellas (no obstruction of other fans view)

What to know about parking, drop-offs at Levi's Stadium

According to the Levi's Stadium website , they recommend buying a pre-paid parking pass online and arriving early.

As for dropping off a group of people, Levi's has said there will be a special parent pick-up zone on both nights but those details have yet to be released. It appears the best place to make a drop-off is Great America Parkway, between Tasman Dr. and Old Glory Lane. This is the same location rideshares will drop off concertgoers.

The pick-up location at the end of the concert is in Red Lot 7.

To find out more details about parking and drop-offs see the stadium's policies here .

Can I tailgate at Levi's Stadium before or during concert?

The short answer is no. Levi's Stadium prohibited tailgating for the Taylor Swift's concerts and the same goes for Beyoncé's show.

"There will be no designated viewing area outside of Levi's Stadium. Fans without event tickets will not be permitted to congregate in parking areas or on the streets."

Also if you do not have a ticket to the concert and want to listen from outside Levi's Stadium, officials say that won't be possible. Only ticketed fans will be allowed into the parking lots.

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Music + concerts, music + concerts | beyoncé’s renaissance tour dazzles diehard fans at sofi stadium, the r&b superstar brought her renaissance world tour to sofi stadium on friday, sept. 1 for her first of three sold out shows in inglewood. she’ll be back sept. 2 and 4..

SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Friday, Sept. 1 — her first of three sold out shows as she returns Saturday, Sept. 2 and Monday, Sept. 4 — was filled with an enthusiastic crowd that were decked out in shimmery outfits and they were eager to dance, sing and even shed a few tears.

“Los Angeles, I love you,” Beyoncé sang as she made her grand entrance, elevated from a platform in the middle of the stage. The sentiment was mutual, as fans dedicated a full minute to shower her with applause as she took a moment to bask in it while taking in this massive audience of more than 70,000.

ALSO SEE: Photos: Beyoncé celebrates her 42nd birthday with fans at SoFi Stadium

Throughout the night, this mutual sense of adoration continued, with Queen Bey loving on the crowd and them loving her right back.

The R&B superstar, Beyoncé, brought the Renaissance World Tour to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Friday, Sept. 1. The tour will be back for two more sold-out shows on Sept. 2 and 4. (Photo courtesy of Mason Poole)

Despite the fact that the global superstar was already an hour behind schedule, the audience didn’t show signs of impatience. DJ Khaled made sure to kickstart the party as he made his way on stage about 20 minutes before the main event commenced. A Khaled set wouldn’t be complete without his signature shouts of “We the best!” and the addition of surprise guest appearances. He brought out 2 Chainz, Offset from Migos, Coi Leray and Lil Wayne to hype the fans.

“Not going to lie, when the queen and Jay-Z called me to come and open this up, I actually shed a tear, this is a big moment for us all,” Khaled shared.

“We’ve been looking forward to this all year, this is our vacation,” Breanna Nayala, a fan from Mexico City who took a flight the previous night with three friends, who were all now decked out in silver dresses, shared. “This just feels like we’re witnessing history.”

These three evenings at SoFi Stadium are a part of the tour’s final weeks. It broke global ticket sales records and is now the highest-grossing tour by any female artist or Black artist in history. Beyoncé will also be celebrating her 42nd birthday at the stadium during her final sold out show on Sept. 4 and she asked her fans to party alongside her and to wear glittery, silver attire to mark the occasion.

“My favorite part of playing these shows is looking at y’all and seeing these beautiful outfits,” she said with a big smile, scanning the crowd. “I know I made my request and you delivered, let’s celebrate that.”

Of course fans honored Bey’s wishes and were sporting anything and everything silver including platinum cowboy hats, wings, corsets, glitter, sequins, feathers and every glam item in between.

The tour follows the momentum of Beyoncé’s latest 2022 record, “Renaissance,” an ode to the Black LGBTQ+ community with a house-style sound noted from ballroom culture. Additionally, the record is dedicated to her uncle Johnny, a queer man who died when she was just 17, someone she’s noted as a prominent figure while growing up.

By paying dues to the album’s story, Beyoncé and her squad of backup dancers made sure to deliver plenty of voguing, death drops and ballroom culture moments that felt like a love letter for all of her LGBTQ+ fans.

The nearly three-hour performance mainly centered around tracks from “Renaissance” rather than relying on past hits. As she kicked off with “I’m That Girl,” the opening track from the album, Beyoncé appeared on stage in a bedazzled silver bodysuit and matching thigh-high silver boots. While flipping through songs like “Cuff It” “Cozy,” “Alien Superstar” and “Break My Soul,” she gave fans an up-close view as she made her way to a circular stage that nestled among the Club Renaissance seats, transforming the moment into a full-on dance party.

Between playing a few songs, Mrs. Carter would seamlessly transition to introduce a new act by leaving the stage and arriving with a new look that ranged from silver and black outfits to a vibrant pink dress adorned with flashy silver jewelry. The fashion choices were among some the highlights of the night as she exuded high fashion and fans responded to every single piece.

There were a few blasts from the past moments with hits like “Dangerously in Love,” “Diva,” “Crazy In Love,” “Naughty Girl” and “1+1,” which saw her sitting on top of a silver piano for the love ballad. For “Love on Top,” she made sure to cut off the track and let the crowd sing a capella as she bopped to the beat with the mic while fans sang every line.

One of the biggest moments came during “My Power,” when Bey introduced her daughter and brought Blue Ivy Carter to the stage. At just 11, Blue Ivy was grooving to the smash front and center with a row of backup dancers behind her. Rocking silver slacks and a silver-lettered Los Angeles T-shirt, she was in style just like her mother. As the song closed, the mother and daughter power duo stood there to enjoy the piercing applause with Blue Ivy throwing up peace signs and smiling from ear to ear. It was a touching moment, as Beyoncé looked over her daughter proudly.

“The fact that I get to come onto this stage and do what I love each night is a blessing,” Beyoncé shared as the night closed. “It’s because of you that I get to live out my dream. I’m here because of you.”

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Where : SoFi Stadium, 1001 Stadium Drive, Inglewood

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The tour starts in Sweden in May and is scheduled to include stops in London, Paris, Barcelona, Toronto and the United States. The last expected concert is set for Sept. 27 in New Orleans.

This year’s performance’s will be will be Beyoncé’s first solo world tour since her “Formation” tour in 2016. She last appeared in Stockholm in 2018 while touring with her husband, Jay Z.

“Renaissance,” the album Beyoncé released last year , is a celebration of dance music.

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The tour starts in Sweden in May and is scheduled to include stops in London, Paris, Barcelona, Toronto and the United States. The last expected concert is set for Sept. 27 in New Orleans.

This year’s performance’s will be will be Beyoncé’s first solo world tour since her “Formation” tour in 2016. She last appeared in Stockholm in 2018 while touring with her husband, Jay Z.

“Renaissance,” the album Beyoncé released last year , is a celebration of dance music.

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Beyonce accepts the award for best dance/electronic music album for “Renaissance” at the 65th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

STOCKHOLM >> Tickets for the first concert of Beyonce’s upcoming “Renaissance” world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a second concert in Stockholm was added because of the high demand.

The tour starts in Sweden in May and is scheduled to include stops in London, Paris, Barcelona, Toronto and the United States. The last expected concert is set for Sept. 27 in New Orleans.

No details were given on how quickly the R&B superstar’s fans snapped up all the tickets for her May 10 Stockholm show. Tickets are set to go on sale Wednesday for the second show in Sweden’s capital on May 11. Beyonce will perform both concerts at the Friends Arena, a multi-purpose stadium with a retractable roof and a concert audience capacity of 65,000.

This year’s performances will be Beyonce’s first solo world tour since her “Formation” tour in 2016. She last appeared in Stockholm in 2018 while touring with her husband, Jay Z.

“Renaissance,” the album Beyonce released last year, is a celebration of dance music.

At Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Beyonce won for best R&B song, best dance/electronic recording, best dance/electronic album and best traditional R&B performance. She has now won a total of 32 Grammys.

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Big musical acts are canceling tours. Are Taylor Swift and Beyoncé the only artists who can sell out shows?

It's probably really great to be Jennifer Lopez . Of my running mental list of people whose lives seem absolutely awesome, she easily falls within the top 10. But just because she lives a charmed life doesn't mean things go great all of the time, and, lately, things have been a little less than ideal for the actor/singer/dancer from the Bronx. Her relationship with Ben Affleck is said to be on the rocks, and beyond any personal woes, she's got professional pains, too. Namely, JLo is apparently having a hard time selling tickets.

Lopez announced a tour to support her new album ( and truly wild accompanying movie ), "This Is Me … Now," earlier this year, but she wound up canceling a bunch of dates amid weak sales. She then rebranded the tour as a greatest-hits show, but fans still weren't tripping over themselves to see her. At the end of May, JLo decided to cancel her tour , saying she was "heartsick" but needed to spend time with her family and friends.

In JLo's defense, she's not the only one having trouble packing venues. The rock duo The Black Keys scrapped a planned arena tour and are expected to announce a "revised" set of dates at smaller venues. On social media, fans have noted that some shows from the pop artists Troye Sivan and Charli XCX as well as the band Wallows appear to be undersold. The Latin trap artist Bad Bunny recently pulled out of a show in Minneapolis, reportedly amid weak sales. Coachella lagged this year, and there's been chatter about a variety of acts not hitting home runs sales-wise in some instances and locations, including Cardi B, Justin Timberlake, and Pink.

This doesn't mean the entire concert industry is in disarray. Taylor Swift is unstoppable . As is Beyoncé whenever she is on the road. Acts such as Luke Combs, Zach Bryan, and Olivia Rodrigo are selling a ton. Dead & Company, the successor band to the Grateful Dead, is adding dates at the Las Vegas Sphere. Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster and rules the roost in the live-events space, had a huge 2023, estimating that 145 million fans attended more than 50,000 events, a 20% increase in fans over the year before. However, not everything is going smoothly for everyone. For some artists, conditions aren't so favorable, and they're struggling to pull in the crowds they anticipated, at least right out of the gate.

"Concert promotion is a betting business. You don't always win. And sometimes, you can be humbled," said Jarred Arfa, the head of global music at Independent Artist Group, whose client roster includes Billy Joel, 50 Cent, and Metallica.

Ticket prices are just astronomical right now.

There are a combination of factors that are dragging down some artists' ticket sales. For one thing, a lot of acts are on tour at the moment. In the wake of the pandemic, artists have been eager to get back out there and recoup lost time and money. Even if the return hasn't been smooth , basically anyone who can be touring is, meaning the space is crowded and oversaturated.

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The ‘funflation’ economy is dying as a consumer attitude of ‘hard pass’ takes over and major artists cancel concert tours

Concert ticket prices are falling from their epic highs last summer.

For the past few years, live music has enjoyed an explosive post-pandemic revival, as “revenge spending” fans itching to get back into concert venues post-pandemic paid top dollar for massive stadium tours such as Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour and Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour.

But a recent spate of tour cancellations and changes by well-known artists indicate that consumers’ appetite for live music may be slowing.

On Friday, Live Nation announced that Jennifer Lopez was canceling her “This Is Me…Live” tour to spend more time with her family , a week after the Black Keys said they were scrapping an arena tour scheduled for this fall in favor of smaller venues , even after the single from their new album topped Billboard ’s Alternative Airplay chart in March.

The announcements are the most recent signs that at least one facet of the “funflation” or economy that emerged in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic —when consumers eager to make up for lost experiences boosted demand for things like flights and concert tickets—isn’t as strong as it was last year.

Jarred Arfa, head of global music at the touring agency Independent Artist Group, said he believes the current concert environment is less of a slowdown than a return to a pre-pandemic atmosphere, where “there’s a lot of winners, but not everything is winning.”

“The traffic is catching up to itself a little bit, where you still have so many artists on the road, and people have seen them already,” Arfa told Fortune . “Some of that novelty factor post-COVID is no longer there.”

One obvious factor is consumer fatigue with inflated costs. Since the world emerged from pandemic lockdowns, the price of concert tickets has soared. According to the music trade publication Pollstar , the average ticket price of a top 100 music tour between 2019 and 2023 increased at a rate that well outpaced inflation, jumping from $91.18 to $122.84.

“The days where there was enough demand to sell out arenas at top dollar just isn’t there in this live events economy,” Dave Clark, editor of the entertainment-industry tracker Ticket News, said in an interview with NBC News .

“People are seeing some of the prices they’re asking and just saying, ‘Hard pass.’”

Arfa also said there are more artists touring now than in the past—and not just because of time off during lockdown. A big part factor is the streaming era, in which touring generates much better returns for artists than what they make from streams. But since fans’ time—and wallets—are finite, that ultimately translates to a smaller slice of the pie for some performers.

“You have people who normally might have spaced out their tours…who are now jumping back in,” Arfa said. “Maybe they would have taken a couple years off, but they got those COVID years off.”

“The traffic is still probably a little bit higher than it normally would be,” he added.

It isn’t just tours that are settling down. The first weekend for Coachella, the highest-grossing festival in North America, didn’t sell out for almost a month . That’s far longer than in 2023 or 2022, when both weekends sold out in around 40 minutes following a two-year pandemic hiatus. On the day the 2024 festival opened, Billboard reported that approximately 80% of the 250,000 tickets had been sold .

Ticketmaster was among the biggest beneficiaries of the “revenge spending” phenomenon. Its parent, Live Nation , reported its biggest year ever in 2023 before the DOJ sued the company in May, alleging it had violated antitrust laws . Following last year’s Taylor Swift and Beyoncé megatours, the ticketing giant reported a $10 billion increase in total revenue , while concert attendance was up 20%.

But there are early signs that growth might slow down in 2024. Last week, Axios reported that resale prices for summer concert tickets are down about 17% (or an average of $45 per ticket) from last year, citing data from SeatGeek. In May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported that April prices for movie and concert tickets climbed 3.4% from last year , the lowest increase since 2021.

What’s more, in addition to the DOJ lawsuit, concert cancellations, and popular discontent, Ticketmaster is also dealing with a data breach affecting millions of customers.

In a statement, Live Nation Entertainment, the parent company of Ticketmaster, said “overall market data shows demand is strong – sales are up from last year with over 100 million tickets sold, even with fewer large stadium shows touring in 2024.” The company added that cancellation rates for concerts this year were around 4%, on par with last year.

For the biggest artists on tour this summer—Olivia Rodrigo, Morgan Wallen, and Zach Bryan—there’s still plenty of demand. The average resale price on SeatGeek for Rodgrigo’s “Guts” tour is $571, according to Axios. But even that is a far cry from the astronomical resale prices posted for the Eras Tour last summer , which reached into the thousands.

“On the megatour level, I think there may be a few less of them this year,” Arfa said. “Some artists just automatically go out every couple of years and think they’re bulletproof. And that’s not the case. Not everyone can be Taylor and Beyoncé.”

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High-profile cancellations from Jennifer Lopez and the Black Keys have armchair analysts talking. But industry insiders say live music is still thriving.

A band performs on a large stage; the kick drum reads Black Keys.

By Ben Sisario and Joe Coscarelli

For the concert business, 2023 was a champagne-popping year. The worst of the pandemic comfortably in the rearview, shows big and small were selling out, with mega-tours by Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Drake and Bruce Springsteen pushing the industry to record ticket sales.

This year, as with much of the economy, success on the road seems more fragile. A string of high-profile cancellations, and slow sales for some major events, have raised questions about an overcrowded market and whether ticket prices have simply gotten too expensive.

Most conspicuously, Jennifer Lopez and the Black Keys have canceled entire arena tours. In the case of the Black Keys — a standby of rock radio and a popular touring draw for nearly two decades — the fallout has been severe enough that the band has parted ways with its two managers, the industry giant Irving Azoff and Steve Moir. Through a representative, Azoff and Moir said they had “amicably parted” with the band.

At Coachella, usually so buzzy that it sells out well before any performers are announced, tickets for the second of the California festival’s two weekends were still available by the time it opened in April.

Those issues have stoked headlines about a concert business that may be in trouble. But the reality, many insiders say, is more complex, with no simple explanation for problems on a range of tours, and a business that may be leveling out after a couple of extraordinary years when fans rushed to shows after Covid-19 shutdowns.

“I think it’s normalized back to the pre-Covid era,” said Rich Schaefer, the president of global touring at AEG, the company behind tours by Swift and the Rolling Stones. “Hot acts are going to sell tickets. Middle acts are going to sell, but take longer. And acts that don’t have a lot of heat on them are going to struggle.”

In a statement, Live Nation said that so far this year, sales are up from the same point in 2023, with over 100 million tickets sold. “Every year,” the company said, “some events naturally fall off for various reasons, and in 2024 across all venue types we’ve seen a 4 percent cancellation rate — which is flat to last year.”

In addition to Swift’s Eras Tour, which continues to be a phenomenon in Europe, hot events this year include tours by Olivia Rodrigo, Coldplay, Morgan Wallen and Zach Bryan. Other festivals, like Lollapalooza in Chicago, have had notably strong sales.

Still, prominent cancellations of high-priced shows is another possible P.R. headache for Live Nation, the owner of Ticketmaster, which last month was sued by the Justice Department over accusations that it operates an illegal monopoly that stifles competition and results in high prices and fees. Live Nation has denied those allegations.

The key worry throughout the business is that ticket prices, which have been rising steadily for years , may now be so high that they are deterring fans from all but their once-in-a-lifetime, bucket-list shows. Tickets, even for many major tours, no longer vanish instantly.

When Billie Eilish put her latest arena tour on sale in April, for example, upper-deck seats at some venues were going for over $200, and took weeks to sell.

A joint tour by the rapper Future and the producer Metro Boomin, who shared a pair of No. 1 albums and a chart-topping hit single earlier this year, has also lagged. Even with tickets as low as $44.50, the opening-night concert in Kansas City, Mo., in July, still has thousands of seats for sale at all levels. To the chagrin of underperforming acts, the strength or weakness of sales is now evident in real time on Ticketmaster, which displays blue dots for every unsold seat (and pink dots for ones being offered for resale).

Last year, the average ticket price for one of the top 100 tours around the world was $131, up 23 percent from the year before, according to Pollstar, a trade publication that tracks concert tickets.

Steve Martin of Paladin Artists, a booking agent for classic rock acts like David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, said that below the level of pop superstars like Swift, artists have become acutely aware of the economic pressures facing their fans.

“The meat of the business is made up of things like classic rock packages,” Martin said. “Those people are much more price sensitive. Working-class people are concerned about groceries and the price of gas.”

No single explanation can cover the range of problems in the live market this year. Some tours, like the Black Keys’, may simply be a matter of the band overestimating demand.

In 2021, the Black Keys left their longtime manager for a new partnership with Azoff and Moir , who also work with John Mayer and the Grateful Dead spinoff Dead & Co., and the band later praised Azoff’s “focus on touring and selling our tickets.” But even after a new album — the band’s 12th — was released in April, concert sales lagged, leading to the cancellations and a housecleaning behind the scenes.

In a social media post after the tour was abandoned, the group said it would “make some changes” to its touring plan to offer a more “intimate experience.” A representative for the band’s label did not respond to a request for comment on the management changes.

Nostalgia alone may not be enough to easily pack venues across the country. Lopez, though still a movie star and a tabloid feature, has not had a hit song in a decade . Tickets to see the ongoing arena tour from Justin Timberlake have been available on both the primary and secondary markets, with prices on StubHub sometimes falling well below face value.

Fans outside of high-demand markets like New York and Los Angeles do not always need to rush the digital queue the moment tickets go on sale. Some genres, like hip-hop, tend to move tickets more slowly than others, but can still sell out before showtime. The latest leg of Nicki Minaj’s tour, for example, is a sea of blue dots.

Many factors go into the price of the ticket, from the costs of gas and crew salaries — which have risen since the pandemic — to bigger-picture economics amortized over the course of an entire tour. Global promoters like Live Nation and AEG often offer artists a guaranteed payment covering all their shows; a bigger guarantee means that prices must be higher to recoup that investment.

Dan Wall, Live Nation’s executive vice president of corporate and regulatory affairs, said that while promoters may suggest pricing based on a deal guarantee, “it’s the artist’s team that ultimately decides ticket prices.”

Armchair analysis of ticket sales has become yet another element of modern fandom to be memed and weaponized, upping the stakes. As industry watchers on social media race to demonstrate the dominance of their favorites, screen grabs of available seats for upcoming concerts have gone viral, leading to media coverage.

“I feel like people online just sort of realized that you can look at seat maps and see how shows are doing,” said Sam Hunt, an executive at the touring agency Wasserman Music. “So I think part of it is that maybe not a ton has changed in the touring business — not every swing is a home run — but people are paying more attention to it and having a typically internet-y response.”

Still, the perception among some music fans is that large-scale concerts are more of a luxury than they once were.

Cliff Russell, 39, said in an interview that his two teenage daughters were interested in seeing blockbuster tours this year from acts like Rodrigo, Drake, Eilish and Swift.

But after the family, living outside Toronto, spent big for tickets to see Swift’s Eras Tour in November — with costs totaling near $3,000 for four tickets, “not counting transportation, parking, souvenirs” — spending another $300 per ticket for upper-deck seats to see another pop star just wasn’t in the cards.

“What was once a holy grail ticket price is now the average,” Russell said. “You’ve got to be really picky and choosy.”

Ben Sisario covers the music industry. He has been writing for The Times since 1998. More about Ben Sisario

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Drake’s ‘Members Only’ Tour Merch Violated Trademarks of Iconic ’80s Brand, Lawsuit Claims

The company behind the trendy 1980s jackets says Drake's tour t-shirts — which make reference to his song of the same name — infringe its trademark rights.

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Drake ’s production company is facing a lawsuit from the apparel brand Members Only for allegedly selling tour merch that infringed the company’s trademarks.

The case, filed Tuesday (June 12) in New York federal court, claims that Drake’s company (Away From Home Touring Inc.) has been selling t-shirts, including on his recently-wrapped It’s All a Blur Tour, that are emblazoned with the words “Members Only.”

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To be clear, the lawsuit doesn’t claim Drake is selling counterfeit Members Only jackets — the iconic 1980s fad the company made famous. Drake’s shirts feature that phrase (written in large script across the front) simply because it’s the name of a track on his 2023 album For All the Dogs .

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“The fact that ‘Members Only’ is a song on Drake’s album ‘For All the Dogs’ does not obviate the likelihood of confusion or give [him] a license to use our client’s ‘Members Only’ marks in such a confusing manner, particularly on or in connection with apparel items,” the company’s lawyers write.

Calling “Members Only” a “famous household name,” the lawsuit claims that Drake’s shirts are going to confuse fans into thinking the real Members Only brand is somehow involved: “Away From Home’s use of ‘Members Only’ … is likely to cause confusion, mistake, and deception among consumers as to the origin of Away From Home’s infringing T-shirts.”

Under U.S. trademark law, the context of how a brand name is used is crucial. Two companies can use the exact same name for different products and peacefully co-exist — think Delta Airlines and Delta Faucet, or Dove soap and Dove chocolate. But when used on the same types of products, a similar name can become trademark infringement.

In Drake’s case, his use of the “Members Only” name as a song title almost certainly would not have infringed JR Apparel World rights — both because they’re different products and because the First Amendment gives added protection to use trademarks in creative works like songs. But by using that same name on apparel, the lawsuit says, the legal calculus has changed.

“Away From Home sold … goods bearing the mark ‘Members Only’ that are identical, overlapping, and/or highly similar to the goods that JR Apparel sells bearing its MEMBERS ONLY Marks,” the company’s attorneys write.

A rep for Drake did not immediately return a request for comment.

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Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Justin Timberlake are struggling to sell concert tickets: Here’s why

Jennifer Lopez can’t sell concert tickets.

Nor can artists like Bad Bunny, The Black Keys, Justin Timberlake and Pink, according to reports.

Even Coachella was reportedly more lackluster than in previous years.

Yet, Taylor Swift is holding the most profitable concert tour in music history.

And Beyoncé kills it whenever she’s on the road.

While not all artists’ issues are the same, there do seem to be some universal themes impacting the music business.

There are a lot of concerts going on in a post-pandemic world, ticket prices are climbing and it’s not easy to obtain tickets.

The average ticket price for the top 100 tours in the first quarter was a record $123.25 , according to data from concert ticket tracker Pollstar, cited by Business Insider.

Plus, artists may be overestimating their appeal by booking massive venues after delivering one hit.

Last week, Live Nation announced J.Lo’s tour was canceled and the singer/actor was taking time to be with her family and friends.

There was speculation the issue was the pop diva’s crumbling marriage to Ben Affleck.

But sales of her latest album have been weak and the companion film on Amazon Prime Video got panned. J.Lo’s planned Las Vegas residency is also in jeopardy .

Rock duo The Black Keys also scrapped a planned arena tour, while fans flagged that some shows for Troye Sivan, Charli XCX and Wallows appear to be undersold, according to reports.

Reggaeton star Bad Bunny reportedly canceled his Minneapolis show due to poor sales, though a source close to the tour told The Post he canceled one date and that was only because of “extenuating circumstances.”

There have been murmurs that headliners Justin Timberlake and Pink also have been slow to sell tickets, BI reported.

Live Nation, the owner of Ticket Master, clapped back, with a spokeswoman telling The Post Timberlake and Pink “are doing extremely well.”

She also emailed, “Charli XCX and Troye Sivan’s SWEAT tour has multiple sold out dates and is over 70% sold across the board with 4 months left until it kicks off in September,” and the Wallows tour “is selling well.”

Live Nation said it has sold 100 million tickets so far this year, up from the same point last year. In addition, the company said, “Every year some events naturally fall off for various reasons, and in 2024 across all venue types we’ve seen a 4% cancellation rate — which is flat to last year.”

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How To Get Zach Bryan Tickets In 2024

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As a Zach Bryan fan, looking for Zach Bryan tickets might feel a little awkward. After all, Bryan famously recorded an album called All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster , and he has tweeted about his dissatisfaction with AXS. But last year he announced that he was launching a tour using all the usual ticket sites, while acknowledging that ticket costs tend to be high. As Bryan says, “one guy can’t change the whole system,” so we’re here to bring you everything we know about getting Zach Bryan tickets from all those sources.

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Since Zach Bryan has been on the road for a few months already, it’s no surprise that a lot of the multiple Billboard Music Award winner’s appearances are sold out. Even so, you can still find seats on Ticketmaster and elsewhere. Here are your best options:

Many tour dates still have tickets available through Ticketmaster . Prices vary by show but, when we checked, the lowest price we found was $95 for one ticket, going all the way up to a max of $999, depending on which location and how far the seats are from the stage.
There are some deals on Zach Bryan tickets at SeatGeek . When we checked, the lowest price for a Zach Bryan ticket was $76. The prices for the Canadian shows are reasonable as well, with some Edmonton tickets going for as little as $137USD.
When you check VividSeats for Zach Bryan tickets, pay attention to the helpful “Selling Fast” and “Deal Available” callouts on some of the dates. The cheapest option on VividSeats right now is $62 for the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia on August 11.
StubHub , probably the most well-known ticket resale marketplace, has listings for all of Zach Bryan’s tour dates, including the festivals.
TicketNetwork helpfully calls out which shows tickets are selling fast. When we checked on the Vancouver show, the site warned “Inventory Is Limited,” but we found tickets for $237USD, all the way up to $2,475 for one front-row seat.
According to TicketLiquidator , which notes how many tickets are available for each show, you shouldn’t have a problem getting Zach Bryan tickets. While some concerts only have around 200 tickets left, others have thousands available.
GameTime has some great deals right now, with tickets as low as $70 in Portland, Oregon on November 27. The site shows you what the view is from your seat, so you know what viewing situation you’re paying for.
ScoreBig is another reseller to check. With a random sampling of dates, we found a low price of $112, with most options coming in around the $160 mark.
TickPick is a great site to quickly scan, as it lists the cheapest option for each date without having to click. It also uses a slightly different color for the festival dates, so they stand out as you browse. The cheapest available Zach Bryan ticket when we looked was $100 for the New Orleans Caesar’s Superdome on July 25.

When Do Zach Bryan Tickets Go On Sale?

Zach Bryan tickets went on sale to the general public on September 8, 2023. They’re still available now, though selling out pretty quickly. It’s a good idea to buy now, since the prices will only go up as availability goes down.

How Much Are Zach Bryan Tickets?

How much it costs to buy Zach Bryan tickets can vary wildly depending on what city the show is in, where the seat is in the venue, and whether the appearance is at a festival or not.

The least expensive ticket we found is $62 for the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia on August 11, though VividSeats. Overall, the lowest options for most shows hover around $150 per ticket. Prices are usually higher for festival appearances and with any add-ons like box seats or a VIP bar.

It’s also worth noting that Canadian concerts tend to be pricey, with the most affordable Ticketmaster seats for Rogers Place in Edmonton costing about $478USD. For the Vancouver concert, the lowest price is $618USD with the best seats costing $869USD.

Zach Bryan’s 2024 Tour Dates

Zach Bryan started his Quittin Time tour back in March at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Now, months later, the tour is well underway, but there are still a ton of dates left. Once he’s done “Heading South,” Bryan heads West in June for three nights in Los Angeles. For the final two dates of the tour, December 18 and 19, Bryan circles back to where it all started: Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

June 7 (with Sierra Ferrell and Levi Turner): Las Vegas, Nevada at the T-Mobile Arena
June 8 (with Sierra Ferrell and Levi Turner): Las Vegas, Nevada at the T-Mobile Arena
June 14 (with Sierra Ferrell and Levi Turner): Denver, Colorado at Empower Field at Mile High
June 15 (with Sierra Ferrell and Levi Turner): Denver, Colorado at Empower Field at Mile High
June 20 (with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Tickets and Levi Turner): Detroit, Michigan at Ford Field
June 22 (with Billy Strings, Turnpike Troubadours, Levi Turner and more): Columbus, Ohio at the Buckeye Country Superfest
June 23 (with Billy Strings, Turnpike Troubadours, Levi Turner and more): Columbus, Ohio at the Buckeye Country Superfest
June 26 (with The War and Treaty and Levi Turner): Foxborough, Massachusetts at the Gillette Stadium
June 29 (with the Turnpike Troubadours and Levi Turner): Nashville, Tennessee at the Nissan Stadium
July 17 (with The War and Treaty and Levi Turner): Foxborough, Massachusetts at the Gillette Stadium
July 21 (with The War and Treaty and Levi Turner): Orlando, Florida at the Kia Center
July 22 (with The War and Treaty and Levi Turner): Sunrise, Florida at the Amerant Bank Arena
July 25 (with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Tickets and Levi Turner): New Orleans, Louisiana at the Caesars Superdome
July 27 (with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Tickets and Levi Turner): Houston, Texas at NRG Stadium
July 30 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): San Antonio, Texas at the Frost Bank Center
July 31 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): San Antonio, Texas at the Frost Bank Center
August 3 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Greensboro, North Carolina at the Greensboro Coliseum
August 4 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Greensboro, North Carolina at the Greensboro Coliseum
August 6 (with the Turnpike Troubadours and Levi Turner): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Lincoln Financial Field
August 7 (with the Turnpike Troubadours and Levi Turner): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Lincoln Financial Field
August 10 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Atlanta, Georgia at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium
August 11 (with Sheryl Crow and Levi Turner): Atlanta, Georgia at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium
August 14 (with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Tickets and Levi Turner): Tampa, Florida at the Raymond James Stadium
August 17 (with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Tickets and Levi Turner): Arlington, Texas at the AT&T Stadium
August 20 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Kansas City, Missouri at the T-Mobile Center
August 21 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Kansas City, Missouri at the T-Mobile Center
August 24 (with the Turnpike Troubadours and SunDown47): Minneapolis, Minnesota at the U.S. Bank Stadium
August 25 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Grand Forks, North Dakota at the Alerus Center
August 26 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Grand Forks, North Dakota at the Alerus Center
September 21 (with Whiskey Meyers, Cody Jinks, Young the Giant, Teddy Swims and more): Louisville, Kentucky at the Bourbon and Beyond festival
November 17 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Edmonton, Alberta at Rogers Place
November 18 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Edmonton, Alberta at Rogers Place
November 20 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Vancouver, British Columbia at Rogers Arena
November 22 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Tacoma, Washington at the Tacoma Dome
November 23 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Tacoma, Washington at the Tacoma Dome
November 26 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Portland, Oregon at the Moda Center
November 27 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Portland, Oregon at the Moda Center
November 29 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Sacramento, California at the Golden 1 Center
November 30 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Sacramento, California at the Golden 1 Center
December 3 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Glendale, Arizona at the Desert Diamond Arena
December 4 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Glendale, Arizona at the Desert Diamond Arena
December 6 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Salt Lake City, Utah at the Delta Center
December 7 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Salt Lake City, Utah at the Delta Center
December 12 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Tulsa, Oklahoma at the BOK Center
December 13 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Tulsa, Oklahoma at the BOK Center
December 14 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Tulsa, Oklahoma at the BOK Center
December 18 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Brooklyn, NY at Barclays Center
December 19 (with Matt Maeson and Levi Turner): Brooklyn, NY at Barclays Center

How Is Zach Bryan Selling His Tickets?

Zach Bryan tickets are available at every major ticket outlet, including ticket brokers. If a show is sold out, you can sign up to join a waitlist, and also check the reseller sites.

Why Are Zach Bryan Tickets So Expensive?

It’s not only Zach Bryan Tickets that can be expensive. Often, the policies of the major, mainstream ticket brokers mean that concert tickets can be priced dynamically—meaning the price can change with demand. Bryan is a Grammy-winning mega country star whose fans can’t seem to get enough of, so some shows sell out fast. Then, anyone reselling their tickets on a broker site can also raise their prices due to demand.

The pop star is scheduled to kick off the 18-city Europe leg of her record-setting Eras Tour in Paris on Thursday, and planeloads of Swifties plan to follow Miss Americana across the pond in the coming weeks. The arena where Swift is appearing said Americans bought 20% of the tickets for her four sold-out shows. Stockholm, the tour’s next stop, expects about 10,000 concertgoers from the US.

A concert might sound like an odd raison d’etre for visiting a foreign country, especially when fans can watch the Eras Tour from home via the documentary now streaming on Disney+ . Yet online travel company Expedia says continent-hopping by Swift’s devotees is part of a larger trend it dubbed “tour tourism” while observing a pattern that emerged during Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” world tour .

Some North American fans who plan to fly overseas for the Eras Tour said they justified the expense after noticing that tighter restrictions on ticket fees and resales in Europe made seeing Swift perform abroad no more costly — and potentially cheaper — than catching her closer to home.

“They said, ’Wait a minute, I can either spend $1,500 to go see my favorite artist in Miami, or I can take that $1,500 and buy a concert ticket, a round-trip plane ticket, and three nights in a hotel room,” Melanie Fish, an Expedia spokesperson and travel expert, said.

That was the experience of Jennifer Warren, 43, who lives in St. Catharines, a city in the Niagara region of Ontario. She and her 11-year-old son love Swift but had no luck scoring what she considered as decently priced tickets in the US. Undeterred, Warren and her husband decided to plan a European vacation around wherever she managed to get seats. It turned out to be Hamburg, Germany.

“You get out, you get to see the world, and you get to see your favorite artist or performer at the same time, so there are a lot of wins to it,” said Warren, who works as the director of research and innovation for a mutual insurance company.

The three VIP tickets she secured close to the stage — “I would call it brute-force dumb luck” — cost 600 euros ($646) each. Swift subsequently announced six November tour dates in Toronto, within driving distance of Warren’s home. “Absolute nose-bleed seats” already are going for 3,000 Canadian dollars ($2,194) on secondary resale sites like Viagogo, Warren said.

Tour tourism: Is it really a thing?

Hard-core fans trailing their favorite singer or band on tour is not a new phenomenon. “Groupie” emerged in the late 1960s as a somewhat derogatory word for the ardent followers of rock bands. Deadheads took to the road in the 1970s to pursue the Grateful Dead from city to city.

More recently, music festivals like California’s Coachella and England’s Glastonbury, and concert residencies in Las Vegas by the likes of Elton John, Lady Gaga and Adele, have attracted travelers to places they wouldn’t otherwise visit, Fish noted.

Travel and entertainment analysts have also spoken of a pent-up consumer demand for “experiences” over material objects since the coronavirus pandemic. Some think the willingness of music lovers to broaden their fandom horizons is part of the same mass cultural correction.

“It does seem like it’s more than a structural shift, maybe a personality transformation we all went through,” said Natalia Lechmanova, the chief Europe economist for the Mastercard Economics Institute.

As Swift hopscotches across Europe, Lechmanova expects restaurants and hotels to see the same boost that Mastercard observed within a 2.5-mile (4-kilometer) radius of concert venues in the US cities she visited in 2023. The US dollar’s strong value against the euro may also increase retail spending on apparel, memorabilia, beauty products and supplies for the friendship bracelets fans exchange as part of the Eras Tour experience, the economist said.

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Former college roommates Lizzy Hale, 34, who lives in Los Angeles, and Mitch Goulding, 33, who lives in Austin, Texas, already had tickets to see the Eras Tour in LA last summer when they decided to try to get ones for Paris, London or Edinburgh, Scotland, too. They saw a Europe concert trip as a makeup for travel plans they had in May 2020 to celebrate Goulding’s birthday but had to cancel due to the pandemic.

Goulding managed to secure VIP tickets for one of Swift’s three Stockholm shows. He, Hale and two other friends scheduled a 10-day trip that also includes time in Amsterdam and Copenhagen.

“As people who enjoy traveling and enjoy music, if you can find an opportunity to combine the two, it’s really special,” said Hale, who is pregnant with her first child.

For Stockholm, 120,000 Swifties can’t be wrong

The local economic impact of what the zeitgeist has termed “Swiftonomics” and the “Swift lift” can be considerable. It’s no wonder the exclusive arrangement Singapore’s government made with Swift to make the city-state her only tour stop in Southeast Asia earlier this year aroused regional jealousy.

No European governments have complained of their countries not being among the dozen selected for the Europe leg of the Eras Tour, although some fans have expressed surprise that Gelsenkirchen, a city with a population of about 264,000 is one of the three cities in Germany that made the cut.

Airbnb reported Tuesday that searches on its platform for the U.K. cities where Swift is performing in June and August — Edinburgh, Liverpool, Cardiff and London — increased an average of 337% when tickets went on sale last summer.

Not to be outdone when it comes to trend-spotting, the property rentals company cited the demand as an example of “passion tourism,” or travel “driven by concerts, sports and other cultural events.”

In Stockholm, 120,000 out-of-towners from 130 countries — among them 10,000 from the US — are expected to swarm Sweden’s capital this month, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Chief Economist Carl Bergqvist said. Stockholm is the only Scandinavian city on Swift’s tour, and airlines added extra flights from nearby Denmark, Finland and Norway to bring people to the May 17-19 shows, he said.

The city’s 40,000 hotel rooms are sold out even though prices skyrocketed for the tour dates, Bergqvist said. Concert visitors are expected to pump around 500 million Swedish kroner, or over $46 million, into the local economy over the course of their stays, an estimate that does not include what they paid for Swift tickets or to get to Sweden, he said.

“So this is going to be huge for the tourism sector in Sweden and Stockholm in particular,” Bergqvist said.

Nightclubs, restaurants and bars are seizing the opportunity to cater to fans with Taylor Swift-themed events, such as karaoke, quizzes and after-concert dance parties.

Houston resident Caroline Matlock, 29, saw Swift more than a year ago when the Eras Tour came to the Texas city. Now she’s making more friendship bracelets and trying to learn a few words of Swedish as she prepares to see the 3 1/2-hour show in Stockholm. The idea of seeing Swift in Europe was her friend’s, and Matlock needed some persuading at first.

“I was like, ‘I only want to go if it’s a country I haven’t been to. I’ve seen Taylor Swift,’” she said.

Visiting the Scandinavian cities of Oslo and Gothenburg is on their itinerary. The concert is the last night of the trip and Matlock looks forward to interacting with Swifties from other countries: “Americans tend to have a very obsessive culture, especially Taylor Swift-related, so I’m curious if the crowd will be more toned-down.”

Will tour tourism endure after Eras?

It remains to be seen if the music tourism trend has legs as long and strong as Swift’s and Beyoncé’s, and if it will carry over to Billie Eilish, Usher and other artists with world tours scheduled next year. Expedia’s Fish thinks other big-name artists in Europe this summer will prove that booking a foreign trip around a concert is catching on.

Kat Morga, a travel consultant based in Nashville, isn’t so sure. Morga saw Swift perform in Nashville last year and helped two clients with school-aged children book European family vacations this summer that include seeing Swift in concert. But she thinks the difficulty of navigating ticket purchases through language barriers, currency conversions, international banking regulations and the risk of cancellations will limit the appeal of regular gig getaways.

“I think this is an anomaly,” Morga said. “People aren’t typically going to build their $20,000 huge family vacation only because Taylor Swift is there. She’s the one-off. She’s special.”

Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel, whose company operates Booking.com, priceline.com, agoda.com, Kayak and OpenTable, is even less enthusiastic about concert tours as a tourism instigator. The Swift Effect causes a “little blip” when the superstar goes to smaller destinations, but for the worldwide travel industry, “one star touring around does not make a difference,” he said.

“It may just shift it a little bit. A person was going to go to the Caribbean for a week vacation. Instead that person (says), ‘Let’s travel to the Taylor Swift thing,’” Fogel said. “It doesn’t increase it. It just moves it from here to there.”

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The Renaissance World Tour was the ninth concert tour by American singer and songwriter Beyoncé.Her highest-grossing tour to date, it was staged in support of her seventh studio album, Renaissance (2022). The tour comprised 56 shows, beginning on May 10, 2023, in Stockholm, Sweden, and concluding on October 1, 2023, in Kansas City, Missouri.It was Beyoncé's first tour since the On the Run II ...
Review: Beyoncé Dazzles at Levi's Stadium With a Sparkling ...
In a two-and-a-half-hour tsunami of songs, Beyoncé commanded the sold-out audience of 50,000 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, leaning heavily into the Black queer music and culture from the metallic world of her latest album, Renaissance. Beyoncé performs at Levi's Stadium on Aug. 30, 2023, as part of the Renaissance World Tour.
Beyoncé Tour 2023: How to Get Tickets for Renaissance Tour, Promo Code
With just a few more weeks to go of Beyoncé's tour, you can still find last-minute Beyoncé tickets online to sold-out shows. If you don't find available seats on Ticketmaster, you can try ...
Tickets for Beyoncé's 1st concert of world tour sell out
FILE - Beyonce accepts the award for best dance/electronic music album for "Renaissance" at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles. Tickets for Beyoncé's "Renaissance" world tour which kicks off in Stockholm in May have been sold out "after a high ticket pressure."
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Tickets for Beyoncé's 1st concert of world tour sell out
The Associated Press. STOCKHOLM (AP) — Tickets for the first concert of Beyoncé's upcoming "Renaissance" world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a ...
Tickets for Beyoncé's 1st concert of world tour sell out
Feb. 7, 2023 8:48 AM PT. STOCKHOLM —. Tickets for the first concert of Beyoncé's upcoming "Renaissance" world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a second ...
Tickets for Beyoncé's 1st concert of world tour sell out
FILE - Beyonce accepts the award for best dance/electronic music album for "Renaissance" at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles.
Tickets for Beyoncé's 1st concert of world tour sell out
Tickets for the first concert of Beyoncé's upcoming "Renaissance" world tour have sold out. 76 ... Beyonce accepts the award for best dance/electronic music album for "Renaissance" at the ...
Tickets for Beyonce's first concert of Renaissance tour sold out
The Associated Press. Published Tuesday, February 7, 2023 12:45PM EST. STOCKHOLM (AP) — Tickets for the first concert of Beyoncé's upcoming "Renaissance" world tour sold out Tuesday, and ...
Beyoncé Tickets, 2024 Concert Tour Dates
Her iconic world tours, including two co-headlining tours with Jay-Z (On the Run Tour I and II), have grossed $767.3 million and sold 8.9 million tickets. In 2018, she became the first Black woman to headline Coachella, and her performance (dubbed "Beychella") is considered one of the festival's most memorable and record-breaking moments.
Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour makes stop in Santa Clara at Levi's
Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour stop in Santa Clara is sold out, but you can still get them through resellers. Ticketmaster's verified resale tickets start at $310, and StubHub for $292. Prices ...
Beyoncé kicks off 2-night run of Renaissance Tour shows in Houston
Beyoncé is home and took the stage for night 1 of the Renaissance World Tour in Houston, Sept. 23, 2023. Houston, she's home. Beyoncé kicked off a two-night run of sold-out shows Saturday at ...
Beyoncé's Renaissance Tour dazzles diehard fans at SoFi Stadium
The R&B superstar brought her Renaissance World Tour to SoFi Stadium on Friday, Sept. 1 for her first of three sold out shows in Inglewood. She'll be back Sept. 2 and 4.
Tickets for Beyoncé's 1st concert of world tour sell out
Beyonce accepts the award for best dance/electronic music album for "Renaissance" at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles. Tickets for Beyoncé's "Renaissance" world tour which kicks off in Stockholm in May have been sold out "after a high ticket pressure."
Tickets for Beyoncé's 1st concert of world tour sell out
Posted February 7, 2023 12:02 pm. STOCKHOLM (AP) — Tickets for the first concert of Beyoncé's upcoming "Renaissance" world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a second concert in Stockholm was added because of the high demand. The tour starts in Sweden in May and is scheduled to include stops in London ...
Beyoncé Wraps Five Incredible Sold-Out Nights on RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR
Mon 05 June 2023, 10:00 | Tottenham Hotspur. On Sunday night, global cultural icon Beyoncé wrapped five incredible sold-out nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on her monumental RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR. With a staggering 238,000 fans in attendance across all shows, each nearly three-hour long performance encompassed six breathtaking acts ...
Tickets sold out for Beyonce's 1st concert world tour
STOCKHOLM >> Tickets for the first concert of Beyonce's upcoming "Renaissance" world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a second concert in Stockholm was ...
Why Concert Ticket Sales for Artists Like JLo, Black Keys Are Tanking
Pollstar calculated that the average ticket price for the top 100 tours in the first quarter of this year was $123.25, an all-time. Its data indicates that the average ticket price for a Bad Bunny ...
Demand for summer concerts cools after last year's Taylor Swift and
Following last year's Taylor Swift and Beyoncé megatours, the ticketing giant reported a $10 billion increase in total revenue, while concert attendance was up 20%. But there are early signs ...
Jennifer Lopez and Black Keys Tour Cancellations Raise Questions for
For the concert business, 2023 was a champagne-popping year. The worst of the pandemic comfortably in the rearview, shows big and small were selling out, with mega-tours by Taylor Swift, Beyoncé ...
Drake's 'Members Only' Tour Merch Violates Trademarks ...
D Drake 's production company is facing a lawsuit from the apparel brand Members Only for allegedly selling tour merch that infringed the company's trademarks. The case, filed Tuesday (June 12 ...
Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Justin Timberlake are struggling to sell
Live Nation said it has sold 100 million tickets so far this year, up from the same point last year. Jennifer Lopez can't sell concert tickets. Nor can artists like Bad Bunny, The Black Keys ...
How To Get Zach Bryan Tickets In 2024
Prices vary by show but, when we checked, the lowest price we found was $95 for one ticket, going all the way up to a max of $999, depending on which location and how far the seats are from the ...
Taylor Swift fans fly to Europe for cheaper Eras Tour tickets
Published May 9, 2024, 9:53 a.m. ET. Taylor Swift's US fans are flying to Europe to see the Eras Tour. Getty Images. LONDON (AP) — Thousands of ride-or-die Taylor Swift fans who missed out on ...

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