Taylor Swift can actually do this. But instead of one of the biggest acts in music playing before thousands of people every night, she would be playing too a few hundred maybe in bars and smaller venues.
Ticketmaster live Nation basically controls 95% plus of the big venues in America. If she wants to perform in America and earn the amount of ticket sales that she deserves then she has to go through this monopoly.
PunkThug t1_je3vij2 wrote
Reply to ELI5: Everyone knows that Ticketmaster is the biggest scumbucket enterprise on the planet yet no band seems able to avoid their grasp. What's to stop a really major act (e.g. Taylor Swift) from performing in venues that are not controlled by Ticketmaster, or just setting up a parallel company? by havereddit
Taylor Swift can actually do this. But instead of one of the biggest acts in music playing before thousands of people every night, she would be playing too a few hundred maybe in bars and smaller venues.
Ticketmaster live Nation basically controls 95% plus of the big venues in America. If she wants to perform in America and earn the amount of ticket sales that she deserves then she has to go through this monopoly.