Bruce Springsteen’s manager defends $4K ticket costs: ‘Fair price’

Bruce Springsteen’s supervisor, Jon Landau, is talking up about record-high ticket costs for the musician’s 2023 tour. 

“In pricing tickets for this tour, we regarded fastidiously at what our friends have been doing. We selected costs which can be decrease than some and on par with others,” Landau mentioned in an announcement to The New York Occasions.

“Whatever the commentary a few modest variety of tickets costing $1,000 or extra, our true common ticket value has been within the mid-$200 vary. I imagine that in in the present day’s setting, that could be a truthful value to see somebody universally considered among the many very biggest artists of his technology.”

His supervisor’s feedback come on the heels of followers getting sticker shock final week when making an attempt to buy live performance tickets to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Avenue Band’s extremely anticipated 2023 tour. 

Followers had been surprised by Springsteen’s tour prices, as seats skyrocketed to $4,000 on account of Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing program,” which raises costs primarily based on demand.

Bruce Springsteen performs onstage.
Tickets to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Avenue Band’s 2023 tour went on sale on July 20.
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Ticketmaster addressed the pricing backlash to Fox Information Digital. 

“Promoters and artist representatives set pricing technique and value vary parameters on all tickets, together with dynamic and glued value factors. Ticketmaster has created analytical instruments that use historic and actual time information to assist quantify provide and demand to find out costs,” a spokesperson from Ticketmaster defined. 

“Whereas individuals could have had a really totally different impression, general 18% of Springsteen’s U.S. tour tickets bought for below $99, and just one% of tickets bought for greater than $1,000.”

Springsteen himself has not responded to the backlash from followers concerning the expensive live performance tickets. Nonetheless, Steven Van Zandt, the E Avenue Band guitarist and “Sopranos” alum, took to Twitter to touch upon the pricing. 

“I've nothing in any way to do with the value of tickets,” Zandt tweeted final week. “Nothing. Nada. Niente. Bubkis…”

Springsteen and the E Avenue Band are scheduled to go on tour in 2023, and tickets went on sale July 20.

The Boss’ U.S. tour begins Feb. 1 in Tampa, Florida, and ends on the Prudential Middle in Newark, New Jersey, on April 14. Springsteen is slated to carry out in different main cities alongside the way in which, together with Detroit, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. 

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