Don't fret, L.A.: Taylor Swift ticket sales just delayed due to 'unprecedented demand'
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Ticketmaster has delayed the presale window for Taylor Swift's Los Angeles concerts at SoFi Stadium due to a "historically unprecedented demand" for tickets.
The ticket vendor announced Tuesday that the verified fan presale period for shows in L.A., Las Vegas, Santa Clara and Seattle has been pushed from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific time. The Capital One on-sale has also been postponed to Wednesday at 2 p.m. local time.
The "Midnights" artist is scheduled to play Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium on Aug. 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 as part of her highly anticipated Eras tour. Frequent Swift collaborator Haim will join the “Anti-Hero” singer for all five So-Fi shows, which will feature supporting acts Gracie Abrams (Aug. 3 and 8), Owenn (Aug. 4) and Gayle (Aug. 5 and 9).
The Grammy winner is slated to perform at Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium with Haim and Abrams on July 28 and 29; Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium with beabadoobee and Gayle on March 24 and 25; and Seattle’s Lumen Field with Haim and Abrams on July 22 and 23.
According to Ticketmaster, hundreds of thousands of tickets have already been sold to the “millions” who logged on for the verified fan presale. The company encouraged fans currently waiting in the online queue for tickets to “please hang tight” as it worked to push them through the line “as quickly as possible.”
The new queues for L.A., Santa Clara, Vegas and Seattle will open at 2:30 p.m. Pacific.
— Ticketmaster (@Ticketmaster) November 15, 2022
Ticketmaster thanked fans Tuesday for their "patience," which was wearing thin — to put it lightly — by the time the vendor addressed their concerns. The company's name was trending on social media all day as Swifties across Twitter complained about getting shut out of the presale, experiencing technical difficulties and/or waiting in the virtual queue for hours — sometimes to no avail.
"Count yo days @Ticketmaster," tweeted @EdgarBotello41 after the website appeared to crash.
"It’s called the 'Eras' tour because if you try to log in to Ticketmaster all you get are era messages," tweeted @genethelawyer.
"what is joe biden’s plan to unpause the ticketmaster queue for taylor swift’s eras tour," tweeted another user.
President Biden has yet to weigh in on the national crisis, but another politician, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), was fed up:
"Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it’s merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in," she tweeted. "Break them up."
Swift has described her forthcoming tour as "a journey through the musical eras of my career (past & present!)" — including her latest studio album, "Midnights," which came out last month.
See more reactions to the presale pandemonium below.
Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it’s merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in.
Break them up.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 15, 2022
what is joe biden’s plan to unpause the ticketmaster queue for taylor swift’s eras tour
— kay (@slutforfeelings) November 15, 2022
It’s called the “Eras” tour because if you try to log in to Ticketmaster all you get are era messages
— I Believe in Nashville (@genethelawyer) November 15, 2022
8 billion people in the world and every single one of them is ahead of me in the taylor swift ticketmaster queue apparently
— shawty lynn 🧣 (@HereComesShawty) November 15, 2022
Swifties being radicalized against monopolies and getting ready to do some anti-trust lobbying good luck ticketmaster
— Elamin Abdelmahmoud (@elamin88) November 15, 2022
no. ticketmaster crashed ticketmaster. all we did was show up when we were told. this was poor planning on ticketmasters part. get your facts straight. https://t.co/XMRXlWIpOc
— lexi - MIDNIGHT RAIN (@maroonmidnghts) November 15, 2022
NO WE JUST HATE TICKETMASTER https://t.co/CmKZ8IgrAd
— Zach Bryan (@zachlanebryan) November 15, 2022
cant get over ticketmaster saying this is unprecedented when they controlled how many presale codes went out
— best beLIZ im still bejeweled (@AstoundingSwift) November 15, 2022
when taylor said "you're gonna be here for the next 4 years" in fifteen she was really talking about the ticketmaster queue
— yolked (@Yolkedonetsy) November 15, 2022
taylor should start her own ticketing company to rival ticketmaster and the slogan should be “the swiftest way to get tickets” someone get me in that meeting room NOW
— Britt ~ fan acc (@taysrep89) November 15, 2022
like seriously i cannot stand ticketmaster pretending they’re surprised how many people are on the presale when thEY SENT OUT THE CODES!! they chose how many codes to send out!!! they knew the numbers!!! be so serious ticketmaster
— emma h8s ticketmaster (@joshspankindun) November 15, 2022
The only people this demand was unprecedented for was Ticketmaster. Literally. We all knew. We were all prepared. They weren’t.
— Meet Sav at Midnight 🌙🕰 (@SavLovesSwift) November 15, 2022
i’ll be 87 you’ll be 89 when we finally get out of the ticketmaster queue
— snotty rep tissue (@taylorsbedpost1) November 15, 2022
Keep your anger with Ticketmaster but DO NOT go after swifties who managed to get tickets no matter how many. They deserve them. Scalpers don’t but our timeline friends do. Personally happy for anyone who managed to navigate and succeed in this mess
— Alyssa Jane’s Midnights 🕰️💙✨ (@tswiftmeowqueen) November 15, 2022
ticketmaster quite literally had one job…
— The Eras Tour (@tswifterastour) November 15, 2022
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.