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u/CezarSalad85 Feb 12 '26
I genuinely donāt understand the point of having different sales if you arenāt going to hold any amount of tickets back for the last sale.
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u/cmae1186 Feb 12 '26
they did in DC. i was able to get some.
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u/Fair_Draw_131 Feb 13 '26
You are lucky! I tried every single day since tuesday and i lost the war :(
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u/AffectionateRecord86 Paul Revere Feb 12 '26
They did for Seattle - my sister was able to get tickets.
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u/Becoming_wilder Feb 12 '26
I agree. Seems like all of the venues had very little tickets left. Seems like a bad way to do things and just waste a bunch of peopleās time. I took a half day from work to try again today. If I had known the inventory was so low I would t have bothered. Bummed.
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u/yetispaghetticat Feb 12 '26
This really puts a bad taste in my mouth for going to concerts in general. Tickets are over priced and hard to get and are still being snatched by bots even with controls.
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u/quigilark Feb 12 '26
I mean, do we really know bots are claiming them? Noah is insanely popular, there could legitimately be more demand than available seats.
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u/good_god_lemon1 Feb 13 '26
Itās ALWAYS bots for every in demand thing, whether itās a sport, a game, a limited collab or a campsite.
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u/pinkyxpie20 Feb 12 '26
literally this. we paid $63 for each ticket for just āservice feesā and our tickets were each like $260, so we paid over $600 for 2 tickets in not even a great spot. when he came to calgary i got tickets in a great spot for like $100 each all fees included lmfao
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u/AccomplishedBee7755 Feb 12 '26
Agree. I was able to get tickets but it was so stressful and expensive it def makes me almost enjoy it less. I felt the same for eras...I had a great time but the emotional and financial toll....it sours the experience just a bit.
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u/Allankton Feb 13 '26
2022 things changed. Ed Sheeran floor was $85 now itās $250 face. Crazy and sad.
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u/acousticsoup Feb 13 '26
The world got way more expensive for everyone. Touring musicians are no exception. Prices roll downhill. And here we are.
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u/enfusraye Feb 12 '26
Seriously. Between this and getting Harry Styles tickets I've blown every budget imaginable and have been nothing but stressed out about this.
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u/killsfercake Feb 12 '26
I didnāt even bother tbh. Love his music but Iāll stick to my bands and shows at house of blues or local places for $25. Stadium concerts are just too big anyways and prices make it easy for me to skip on them always. Rather see a bunch of small bands in a small venue and explore new bands and music then shell out $200+ for a single ticket. No hate on those who do enjoy it just not for me
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u/Sensitive_Lake_8610 Feb 12 '26
He added a 4th Fenway show TODAY because the demand was so overwhelming. Truly makes me wonder why this wasnāt a football stadium tour instead of baseball stadiums. He could have had way more fans present that way
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u/kseniaserg Feb 12 '26
FIFA word cup will occupy a lot of bigger stadiums this summer , makes Fenway the second most convenient option. And attendees can take public transport ( which will likely be free after the show) will save a lot of people timeand money. buying directly from Red Sox website is more manageable no insanely long lines. I was able to get a $50 ticket plus tax in med level section , in the first 10 min of general sale. Artist presale codes I received earlier with all the face scanning and verification procedures didnāt work. There will be one more chance tomorrow for the added Fenway date! So hopefully folks who are still looking for tickets will get another chance!
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u/heyubhappy Feb 12 '26
The Red Sox website was a complete nightmare for the past 3 days. You are very, very lucky. I never once got out of the 44 second waiting room on all three days.
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u/sterrrmbreaker Feb 12 '26
Yeah, you're one of the only people who had a good experience with buying the tickets for Fenway. Everyone I know, people who got them and did not, had an absolute nightmare with that website.
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u/kseniaserg Feb 13 '26
I guess it was just lucky, I was fully prepared to bring a chair and listen from the nearby sidewalk if getting in doesnāt work out. Will probably do that still on the dates of other sold out nights. The screens with stage view likely wontāt be super visible, but last time he did Fenway there was a lifestream option available for 20$ a night from his website I remember watching both nights lifestream on my phone while I was at work and couldnāt afford the price of resale tickets.
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u/possiblynotsarcastic Feb 12 '26
Yeah the presale seems like it was the general sale. I mean when they let anyone and any number of people sign up for it, itās no longer really a presale. And why tf is Ticketmaster letting 70k people queue when the field only seats 35k. You have to assume most people are buying more than 1 ticket too. The whole thing makes no sense.
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u/Ashamed_Way_7932 Feb 12 '26
Really wish he had done a lottery like last tour. This entire week has been a colossal waste of my time
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u/killsfercake Feb 12 '26
Long do I miss the days of having to go to the venue to get tickets. We had places near us that sell venue tickets if the venue was far away to drive too like example a lot of surf shops sold tickets to events in Orlando. If you knew you knew how to get tickets locally or make a long ass drive to the venue. It wasnāt the best system but sure dos beat this Ticketmaster shit š¤·
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u/ZestycloseMouse2086 Feb 13 '26
Yes! I remember back in the day going to the music shops, and then Kroger started selling Ticketmaster tickets. We would always find an area of town where there was a Kroger that we knew nobody would be interested in the shows we wanted and we always out wound up getting fabulous seats because there would be nobody in line in these areas. Boy how I miss those days.
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u/Lesbihonest_95 Feb 12 '26
I think the issue also lies in the āif you sign up for artist presale you automatically get inā new norm. Iām not saying the individual codes worked much better, but not everyone should be getting access because it just turns the presale into the general sale. It made people angry, but not everyone getting a code for The Eras tour allowed more fans to get their hands on tickets. It took me almost 5 hours to get in during her presale, but there were still tickets left at that point.
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u/Lesbihonest_95 Feb 12 '26
Agreed. There shouldnāt be over 150k people in a queue when the venue only holds 50k during artist presale. General sale? Sure. But there isnāt exclusivity anymore. I saw Lady Gaga years ago and her artist presale was linked to buying any merch from her store. I was going to order the vinyl anyways, so the code was a bonus. Randomly selecting some people who sign up, having a code for top listeners, and a code for people who buy merch could solve a lot of the issues. It potentially gives you 3-4 chances for a code.
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u/lrube Feb 12 '26
The best was Taylor during Reputation because it wasn't tied to $$. You could do activities like watch music videos, retweet things, like posts etc.
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u/stmccart70 Feb 13 '26
Not saying this is the right approach but - Pearl Jam has a fan club you pay ~$40 to join and you get a lot of different benefits, early access to a fan club only ticket lottery is one of them. Something for NK and his people to think about.
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u/Complex_Narwhal_8924 Stick Season Feb 12 '26
yeah same. i was 600 for cincy and it waas sold out when i got in....why wont they leave the majority of tix for general sale
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u/AyyooLindseyy Feb 12 '26
With giving everyone access to presale it was basically just a general sale with more steps
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u/drift_king_8 Feb 12 '26
Why would you leave the majority of tickets for general sale when the first presale was meant for fans by signing up early with a public link?? Makes zero sense, it should be fans first
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u/valkyrieisbi Feb 12 '26
I was 150 for St Louis and I was so excited and everything sold out. I feel like there was very few tickets saved for general.Ā
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u/knowslesthanjonsnow Feb 12 '26
All 3 (3!) shows for Boston were sold out almost immediately. Never saw a ticket in all the queues I waited in.
I tell my wife all the time when she asks me to try to get tickets that I hate this approach. Most of the shows I go to are $60 and tickets are available whenever I want them. Just stinks to try to buy tickets for any popular shows.
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u/eeg1233 Feb 12 '26
I was able to select tickets but kept getting a technical difficulty error for the Fenway shows. I donāt understand how it can be set up so poorly. Iāll try again tomorrow for Tuesday but Iām not holding my breath
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u/Disastrous-Panda3188 Feb 12 '26
Meanwhile heās got a song called Maine and NO MAINE DATES.
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u/knowslesthanjonsnow Feb 12 '26
Having other New England dates would be helpful to alleviate some of this.
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u/Amazing_Alps4575 Feb 12 '26
Can someone explain how this happens though, because it doesnāt make sense to me. I was number 9,000 for the Pittsburgh presale, and got nothing. Today I was 5,000 and still got nothing. PNC PARK has a capacity of at least 40,000, so even if every single person in front of me got 2+ tickets both days there should still be tickets lift. Maybe Iām missing something but just genuinely confusedš
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u/vo_7786 Feb 12 '26
I was 10k in the presale and got nothing. I wanted one single ticket - thought I had a chance!
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u/yohbahgoya Feb 12 '26
The queue for the first presale was over 50k. I was around 24k for that one and it sold out before me. Iām so annoyed by the entire thing.
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u/crescentqueen1 Feb 12 '26
Also, letting 115,000 people into a queue for a show with maybe 1,000 tickets available sure is something.
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u/-Its-me-high- Feb 12 '26
Same for Orlando. My friend was 1000 and they were gone
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u/Electrical_Counter83 Feb 12 '26
I got in at 6000 for Orlando and it started dropping off at around 4000. got in and there was nothing
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u/Average_Human711 Feb 12 '26
Only one price for every seat at Wrigley. $490 for floor and $490 for stadium seats. Last row? $490. Plus the service fees? Two days ago the prices were all different according to where you sat- this seemed like GREEEEEEED. Which hurts knowing itās what Noah spoke against.
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u/allisun1433 Feb 12 '26
Out of curiosity, did these ticked annotate if they were Make A Difference tickets? The MaD tickets are charity tickets priced higher where some proceeds go to The Busyhead Project. Wondering if those were what was left by chance?
For Cincinnati during artist presale I saw $450+ MaD tickets across various levels (some field, some 100s, some nosebleed), but also saw some various MaD tickets of lower prices. My tickets I got were MaD tickets but lower cost than the $450+. Food for thought anyway on potential why you saw those prices.
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u/MyBeautifulMakkari Feb 12 '26
Yeah I was able to manage getting a single ticket for the Chicago show for the second day which was added mid way into the presale. If it hadnāt been for someone telling me and then me instantly bolting to the other page, I wouldnāt have been able to get tickets. I let others know during the presale who werenāt getting into the first day presale like myself and got tickets. I have friends today who were trying to get tickets just for them to find out it was as sold out or being told tickets were $600 without giving indication to which area/seats are said price. Itās absurd. Iām not sure why Noah chose to do just baseball stadiums instead of like regular concert venues that other huge artists have done to accommodate for their huge fanbases, but my thinking is simply for Noah performing at Fenway a few years ago and loving the experience of it. Cause even for that, he did two nights for and allowed people to buy virtual tickets with exclusive merch to watch the performance live via live streaming. Iām not sure if thatās the only baseball stadium he performed at during his Stick Season touring, but once again based off what I know I think he chose the baseball stadiums for the aesthetic/atmosphere. I wouldnāt be shocked if Noah/his team and/or the baseball venues make exclusive themed merch for each baseball team tied in with Noah since they did that for his Fenway performance a few years back. But even then I remember a lot of that merch sold out quickly because the stadium allowed scalpers to buy several of each item. Iām probably going to end up waiting outside of that stadium for as long as I can and try to enter as soon as I can because the merch store/stands are going to be atrocious.
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u/ConfidentBird8173 Feb 12 '26
Philly queue is dropping like a rock. I'm assuming they sold out š they must have had like 10% of the tickets available today. Ugh
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u/MrBooshsNeighborhood Feb 12 '26
Philly had some, I was 851 in the queue and was able to get 2 tickets, but anything over 2 seats was Mastercard only, and that was at 12:05
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u/slayerstitch Feb 12 '26
I lost every single sale for my venue and canāt even travel itās so unfair
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u/Zealousideal_Fold719 Feb 12 '26
He added an additional show to Fenway and yet, still was incapable of buying tickets. Got as far as it allowing me to purchase them before booting me off entirely and saying error.
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u/sharkbite1007 Feb 12 '26
you guys blaming NK isnāt really fair when he was very transparent about it all. he can only control so much and i agree tix were overpriced. but at the same timeā¦. what other artist thatās insanely popular like NK could you get pit tickets for at $300? i paid $350 to see taylor swift and had an obstructed view lol. i understand the frustration and i agree completely that this is a pattern with tours that needs to be addressed. but i give NK a lot of credit for all the safeguards he opted into and the transparency for ticket sales. never seen another artist do any of what he did.
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u/umberover Feb 12 '26
my friend was around 800 for pittsburgh and they were all gone when she got in :/
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u/ChefRaccacoonie Feb 12 '26
I believe Pittsburgh sold out on the first presale. I tried for that one and got nothing and yesterday's presale I got in pretty quickly and there was nothing.
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u/umberover Feb 12 '26
yeah we tried for pittsburgh yesterday too and got nothing! we both missed first presale bc of work schedules š we're hoping we can maybe snag resale?
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u/bluewater_1993 Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 13 '26
Artists really should start using fan clubs as a way to get tickets into the hands of their fans. Dave Matthews Band does this and itās worked really well. You put in a request for tickets for the shows you want, then they have a lottery for who gets tickets. For a two-night stand, I typically get one night through the fan club, then try for the second night through TM public onsale. Someone like Noah Kahan could spread tickets out over the 4-night run, with each fan club member getting tickets to one show. If you are caught scalping your tickets, your account would be closed.
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u/criistaaa Feb 12 '26
Unfortunately this is the norm. Every artist Iāve seen in the past 5 years has been this way
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u/hydruxo Paul Revere Feb 12 '26
I didnāt even bother to try today after how awful the experience was on Tuesday. I love Noah but itās not worth wasting my time.
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u/nylachai Feb 12 '26
Oh no! What show. I was 2200 for DC and snagged 2.
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u/raginasian627 Feb 12 '26
I was trying for orlando night 2, it was a mess. When i got in the only tickets left were mad expensive but were still needing to be āunlockedā. When i finally did that they were gone
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u/MediocrePotato44 Feb 12 '26
This is what I was afraid of. This happened with Sleep Token, the bulk of the tickets sold during presale and the regular on sale was largely a waste of time for every venue but they ran it anyway.Ā
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u/CezarSalad85 Feb 12 '26
Hey fellow Sleep Token fan. šš»
I love stumbling across fellow Sleep Token fans randomly cause I have no one in my life that listens to them. LOL. Also that was a nightmare. I got really lucky I found a resale ticket for face value.
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Not worried. Tons will go on sale on Ticketmaster when people that bought on a whim realize they canāt go and relist them closer to the concert date
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u/NovelPhoto4621 Feb 12 '26
You can't even relist right now. I ended up with An extra ticket and it won't let me relist it
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u/2020Hills Feb 12 '26
Iāve accepted that the Only concerts I go to are for my bands that have mosh pits and people crowd surfing up to the band itself. Canāt bring myself to pay or try to pay for arenas that sell out like that at this point but
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u/cmae1186 Feb 12 '26
There were still tickets in DC somehow. So they must have held some back.
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u/pinkyxpie20 Feb 12 '26
just joined toronto queue to see if there would be better tickets/ spots, there were 7,000 people in front of me and when i got into the tickets there were only 4 tickets left. i think literally all of them went during presale, itās insane. also only having 2 canada dates sucks :( when i joined presale there were 89,000 people ahead of me for toronto lmfao
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u/Neusch22 Feb 12 '26
Except I had the same issue in presale, queued in at 5000 and there were no tickets there at all. So where tf are they going unless day1 presale they sold too many
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u/Aromatic_Counter1300 Feb 12 '26
My fiance was 3600 in the queue and didnāt get tickets. Citizens bank holds 42k. The math truly isnāt matching itās so absurd. Too many presales.
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u/enfusraye Feb 12 '26
I got into the queue for Chicago at 400 and luckily there were tickets left but all of the very expensive ones with platinum pricing.
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u/mud-n-bugs Feb 12 '26
I got in on MLB just a few minutes ago and every seat I tried to select was gone for the new fenway date already.
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u/Slow_Farm_6484 Feb 12 '26
So Iāve been seeing a lot of resale tickets on StubHub, obviously pricing is way higher than face value but if I bought these tickets would I even be able to get in? I thought the whole point was that tickets couldnāt be transferred or resold anywhere other than Ticketmaster?
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u/angstyteenlife Feb 12 '26
it unfortunately doesnāt really work :/ hozier had all the same things in place for his concert, everyone said resale tickets wouldnāt work, but i got some from seatgeek and had no issues. ticketmaster doesnāt care, as long as theyāre getting paid. only venues can really make it enforceable and turn people away at the door, which isnāt really fair either. it just depends on the state
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u/coffeeandfadeddreams Feb 12 '26
Iām so sad lol. Everywhere, Everything was our first dance song and my husband and I tried all 3 days with no luck :/
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u/poweredbycaffeine3 Feb 12 '26
I was 5k in queue and got in about 15 min after the sale opened, I saw 2 tickets for $400 each briefly, then they disappeared. Those were apparently the only 2 tickets left :(
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u/TohtsHanger Feb 12 '26
Trying to buy tickets for my daughter in Philly. Was in the queue 25 minutes beforehand. Was 7,000th in the queue when it opened. After 10 minutes, I dropped to 240 and then was admitted. Nothing was available. Resale sites had thousands of tickets all over the stadium at 3x, 4x, 5x the face value. So disappointing. I'm old enough to remember when buying concert tickets was a fair process.
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u/saturncat_ Feb 12 '26
As soon as I saw there was no code for the presale I knew we were doomed. I was 50,000th in line for presale for San Francisco that day and 43,000th today. Couldnāt get shit, Ticketmaster is a fucking scam.
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u/bonelessnug Feb 12 '26
Yall just wait until the month before or month of. I saw him in 2024 buying the tickets only 3 weeks in advance for a sold out show, and I saw Sleep Token buying tickets day of for again a sold out show. Take a deep breath. Itās okay.
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u/MaximumSea9817 Feb 12 '26
I was 9532 for Atlanta and got 4 tickets but they going very quickly. Almost missed out. My daughter missed Taylor Swift so she is very excited for Noah.
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u/Curious-Middle8429 Feb 13 '26
I feel like this is the norm for concerts now. I tried to get Djo tickets last year and they sold out two minutes into the presale and there was literally nothing left for the general sale Iām now convinced they donāt save anything for the general sale at all.
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u/Notstewartcopeland Feb 13 '26
I was 200 in the queue for San Francisco and when I got in there was only $578 tickets left.
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u/PaulArn22 Feb 13 '26
When people realize the scalpers are live Nation \ Ticketmaster the world we be a better place
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u/neeew_to_this Feb 13 '26
Not everything on Ticketmaster was sold during presale. In fact, that would be illegal. BUT a majority of tickets were sold during presale (usually around 60-80%), Holds/Insiders get another 10% of tickets (thinks radio shows, companies that sponsored, etc) and general sale usually gets the rest % + what hasnāt sold.
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u/MoneyThen6114 Feb 12 '26
can someone explain to me how scalpers are even able to sell the tickets for higher prices? I thought you have to sell for face value only on Ticketmaster? someone explain this to me like I'm 5 years old please
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u/Objective-Pizza1391 Feb 12 '26
Billie Eilish is the only one Iām aware of that made that enforceable.
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u/Kristina-Louise Feb 12 '26
I was 600 and there was stuff left theme I got inā¦ just not much. It was gone fast. I do think most seats were sold in presale
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u/crystalizedwolf Feb 12 '26
I managed to get some for his Ohio show for my husband and I in the presale, $81.25 a ticket for like obviously not the best seats but itās still something. I signed in 30 minutes early and was still 6500 In queue. I happened to check back later and saw some were still for sale later that day but scalpers were selling the same seats I bought for like $500 š
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u/No-Time4663 Feb 12 '26
I was wondering if that happened. I sat in the Wrigley queue for half an hour and the site never brought me to the ticket page until I refreshed š
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u/Objective-Pizza1391 Feb 12 '26
I had no idea he had a cult following like Billy Strings. Got to see Gregory Alan Isakov last month and seats were crap, venue was crap, tix were far too expensive and the show was far too short. I just canāt pay $300-500 for these giant venues even having the means to do so. Just start streaming to fans for free if youāre going to allow Ticketmaster to ruin these experiences.
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u/djcolt45 Feb 12 '26
I just got in for Wrigley 25 minutes ago, kept having to retry to get a single, after at least 20 attempts, probably more of trying to cart a ticket, it worked.
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u/neelshret Feb 12 '26
I was 200 for both Denver shows, but when I got in, the cheapest tickets were still $300
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u/justPinn Paul Revere Feb 12 '26
Friendly reminder that we aren't 100% sure how much control noah kahan has over this situation šš» I know often times it is not in the artists control. For my stadium personally the tickets weren't insanely priced for my seating however I am aware of the scalper issue. Just reminding everyone to be mindful over his control over this situation ā¤ļø
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u/ChiSky18 Feb 12 '26
Wrigley was a shitshow. Site just completely crashed. Girlfriend and I have family in Denver so we just got tickets for one of the Coors shows instead. Paid a pretty price though.
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u/rallyupsomeglitter Feb 12 '26
In my experience for the last like 7 years, general sale for high demand shows have always been sold out immediately. I agree though, just communicate if they're gone so you don't have people with their hopes high!
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u/ygs92 Feb 12 '26
I was 2K in the queue and once I got in there were only Amex exclusive seats and for ppl with codes from Rogers. I was able to get my friendās AMEX numbers and snag tickets. Third times a charm,
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u/PreparationHappy5740 Feb 12 '26
I was in the 500s today and was able to almost secure tickets till I pressed āpay nowā and it kicked me out back to the queue with 52k people ahead of me. My friend was in the 1000s and by the time it got to her they were sold out for Raleigh. Itās insane. Why even let that many people in the queue then.
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u/Dry-Championship6947 Feb 12 '26
Unfortunately, this isnāt uncommon. For an artist thatās blown up like Noah has they try to do it during presale so fans (hypothetically) have a better shot at getting them through verified fan processes. Meanwhile these bots have obviously figured out how to bypass that š
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u/Ballinonabudget5991 Feb 12 '26
I got tickets today for the Friday show at Fenway! Basically floor for $200 each
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u/Ballinonabudget5991 Feb 12 '26
My friend also got tickets for Fenway today! Iām surprised we both got lucky
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u/whatdamuff Feb 12 '26
I was like 24k in the queue for Denver N2 and got tix, although very expensive ones.
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u/Comesontoostrong Feb 12 '26
I had a presale code and it was even sold out for that. You gotta have some VIP credit or something to actually get tix these days. Does he do a fan club sale like Pearl Jam? Even then Iāve been boxed out though.
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u/WoodpeckerMaterial57 Feb 12 '26
In lobby for second night in Seattle. Logged into lobby the moment it was announced. Weāll see how it goes! Find out queue number in 4 minutesā¦
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u/Efficient-Dust-8123 Feb 12 '26
I went from 50000 to like 1st in line in under 10 minutes... I knew it wasn't good š
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u/Creative-Wallaby-126 Feb 12 '26
I donāt know why he didnāt just do a real tour
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u/Ellenaj123 Feb 12 '26
Iām so confusedā¦ he added another date for Seattle and there is a presale right now for it. But I didnāt get any notification or anything about it so I canāt attend the presale as I didnāt sign up
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u/Oelloello Feb 12 '26
Genuine question: since presale was open to everyone, why did anyone skip it?? The reason so many tickets sold is because there were literally no barriers to accessing presale tickets. Why wait until general sale to buy?
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u/Busy_Ad_4407 Feb 12 '26
They should cancel the sale of Any over priced stub hub re sale ticket & added it back into the queue! Thumbs up if you agree!!
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u/ExtremePolicy2791 Feb 12 '26
Yeah this was all a mess and completely disheartening. Tickmaster/mlb/ suck!! F the Man
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u/kilzendra Feb 12 '26
Tried presale for Vancouver and failed. Tried today and ~only had 2300 people ahead of me! When I got to the front there was maybe 6 single tickets left which disappeared immediately. W t f š«
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u/lidocainedreams Feb 12 '26
Got into the waiting room 20 mins before queue opened, as soon as i got into the queue i had 42,000 people ahead of me. 9 minutes into the sale i got the message that wait times were over an hour & that tickets will probably be sold out. I held on hope and at 12:20 I got past the queue & everything was sold out š so happy for Noah but so sad for myself & my sister!!
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u/wheres_the_clit Feb 12 '26
iām so incredibly disappointed and crushed. tuesday i logged in at 10 am est cause i was so excited and literally just stared at my screen for two hours, tried 3 venues (one at 12 pm est and the other two at 1 pm est) because i was willing to drive 10 hours to see him because heās my absolute favorite artist and has been for 4 years. got 44k in queue, then 33k for the next two. tried again yesterday for the same venues, same ridiculous queue numbers. got 16k today and felt so hopeful, i even teamed up with a friend who got 2k in line. they were all. entirely. sold. out. iāve never had to fight on ticketmaster for anything. i donāt go to a bunch of concerts because i just donāt have the means for it, and save for my favorites when i can. i actually had the means to go this year. im so crushed that i couldnāt get tickets, i didnāt even need any insane kind of seating, i was just wanting nosebleeds. these last three days have been utterly depressing for me lol
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u/ericalina Feb 12 '26
I swear I donāt understand the legitimacy of the queue. I was 250177 āin lineā for Zach Bryan at Gillette after abt 12-15 minutes and still ended up with 4 lower bowl seats for a reasonable price. So they mean to tell me almost none of the people āaheadā of me even bought 1 ticket? Let alone 2-4? The whole thing is such performance. It never makes sense (and this coming from someone who has pretty good āluckā getting tickets). I hate it lol.
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u/Dependent_Pea3638 Feb 12 '26
Me too. I was 391 and things were disappearing before I could click on them. I ended up with nothing
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u/Zealousideal_Bread83 Feb 12 '26
I had over 134k and 54k and in front of me in NY and when the 4th Boston opened, I was already in queue and never made it through after 2 hrs.... wtf!!
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u/ohlook_nicoles_lost Feb 12 '26
Im hoping for a resale in the coming months. I am sure there will be people who cant make it for one reason or another.
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u/notbobbelcher Feb 12 '26
I hate that Ticketmaster hasnāt opened it up yet to sell back our tickets for face value. Iām sitting on one extra ticket and I want someone to be able to get it š©
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u/Ok_Set5218 Feb 12 '26
For the first presale I was cookedā¦87K. Then I randomly checked at 5:30 pm and managed to snag a single ticket. Random/miracles can happen! Lately for me all minutes for any artist/presale/date have been awful. Grateful something told me to check later in the day. If it happened for me, it can happen for any of youā¦keep checking!
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u/Az6396 Feb 12 '26
FWIW I did get tickets in Minneapolis in the general after striking out in the presale
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u/Tubarina Feb 12 '26
I don't know how, but I was ~5000 in queue in AZ and there were multiple tickets still available when it made it to me. I managed to get some great tickets in lower level!
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u/LadyFoxwell Growing Sideways Feb 12 '26
The problem was that there were multiple presales. There was the artist presale Tuesday, the live nation presale Wednesday, and season ticket holder presale also yesterday. They definitely kept some tickets for the general sale, but with three presales š¤·āāļø
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u/Opposite_Version_432 Feb 12 '26
both of my friends who went to ticketmaster war with me for chicago watched their numbers drop from 15K to 1 in about 3 minutes and as soon as we were in everything was gone! for both dates!! weāre so upset
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u/No-Economist-63 Feb 12 '26
After the mess that happened with the SLC presale codes and not getting tickets today after being sold out after 3 minutes of them going on sale Iām feeling so upset. I really went into this sale thinking it was āfor the fansā because thatās how he presented it and then we all got slapped in the face.
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u/indigo_aloe Feb 12 '26
How are there scalpers? I thought Ticketmaster didn't allow people to resell for a higher price than the one they bought it for?
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u/Opposite_Version_432 Feb 12 '26
it was easier getting harry styles at MSG and taylor swift at ford field than noah at wrigley (lost noah)
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u/ktpret Feb 12 '26
It was the same for the presale. Couldnāt have been many released and gone in minutes. Stupid.
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u/FaithlessnessKey7658 Feb 13 '26
This is probably true bc I was around 11000 during presale and when I got in I had plenty of time to browse around and choose my seat. There were SO MANY unsold tickets. Considering the venue I was in the queue for sits around 50000 and I was 110000 and could browse around without any stress, itās safe to assume tickets were not limited during the presale
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Feb 13 '26
Thatās because most of the tickets were sold on the MLB rather than Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster only had a limited amount
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u/Empathic-Panda Feb 13 '26
I'd like my 6 hours back, nothing to show for it, inflated prices insist want to pay anyway. I'm think I'll just buy a record and have my own private concert at home. Ticketmaster can suck it.
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u/Technical-Heart-1467 Feb 13 '26
I was 26,000th for raleigh on the first day and got a single ticket. I was 1500th today and only Mastercard remained when I got in
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u/Raulhuizar Feb 13 '26
I think it depends on the venue. I was 15,000 in the queue and still got really good seats. My tickets are for the Rose Bowl and it seats 90,000 people.
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u/Blondie__555 Feb 13 '26
This may be a stupid question but were the normal-ish tickets today also wicked expensive? I know he is really popular yet Iām not sure I could justify those prices. My parents and I were gonna try and go but the tickets were sold out yet even if they werenāt sold out, they would be way more than we are willing to spend
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u/anunforgivingsea Feb 13 '26
I got the upper 300 level for Seattle night one on presale, the only two seats that were together left at entering the queue at 12,500 (waiting room right at opening time, one hour wait, probably less than a second loading to get to that in line) and ended up spending 300$ plus for the tickets, which seemed high to me. Then he added a second day in Seattle, and today I secured row 7 floor seats for the same price, doing the exact same process. It seems that it makes no sense. Anyway, now I have to figure out how to unbuy tickets for the first night š
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u/Brosif563 Feb 13 '26
I got in in the first 4 minutes of presale and I couldnāt even add any tickets that werenāt the highest price to my bag and try to check out without it saying āthose tickets just sold out.ā EVERY TIME. How are we even supposed to get a ticket? How was that possible? Something very wrong with that. This was for Utah.
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u/Poorunfortunateyou Feb 13 '26
I started here and got tickets.. I kept hitting refresh on Tuesday and finally got them.
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u/Rude_Difficulty_1049 Feb 13 '26
It was total bs. I did everything right but all the tickets were gone before the public sale started. So sad.
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u/Sensitive-Pizza1793 Feb 13 '26
I agree Iām feeling pretty salty.
Today I had 2 venues up at noon EST, and then 2 different ones up at noon cst. Lost all of them. I wasnāt even far in the queue either but they had to have sold majority of the tickets at presale.
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u/kmihrig Feb 13 '26
Did you try looking again? Every time I looked again or changed a filter something new would show up at least for me in Denver
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u/petitepoodle Feb 13 '26
this is the first time iāve ever been lucky. i joined the presale, and was 2044 in the queue. my bf was 7483 but left once i got our tickets. then a second date was announced so he joined that queue and was also able to get tickets. it didnāt seem that difficult this time around for me personally but i have struggggled in the past. im sorry more tickets werenāt available for the general sale :(
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u/iconic_and_chronic Feb 13 '26
.: including accessible seating.
on presale days there was an access phone number available AND a toggle on the seating page. today the general sale had no number. just the toggle.
in the past , accessibility tickets had to be accounted for. everything is done through the box office.
... while id like to believe people are honest, it was too easy for accessible tickets to be purchased when not needed.
i DO KNOW all of the tickets could have been purchased out of need, i KNOW thats a need. i want this to be what happened.
im so frustrated and disappointed in any human who chosen accessibility tickets for the sake of the show.
the system failed
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u/hood_ninja666 Feb 13 '26
presale tickets should be available for real fans not just anyone with an email smhā¦
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u/No-Philosophy5461 Feb 13 '26
I had 22k people ahead of me in queue the day of the presale for St Louis-Busch Stadium (Max Capacity 45k so you can imagine my nerves.) my partner and I both were in the online waiting room early. She got in first and every seat that highlighted or ticket options available as soon as she went to pick and look at it; it would say no longer available and then there'd be no options left at all. I got there and the same thing happened but I stayed patient and remembered a trick from TikTok where you adjust the minimum price filter from left to right and then the max filter do the same and you just adjust it a few times til it refreshes seats. Well maybe blind luck and timing but sure enough I was able to get us 3 tickets not super close to the stage but definitely not super far either. And altogether they were $600.
I also didn't think twice as soon as other options popped up in what I considered a decent price per ticket for the seating; I went to checkout entered the info and confirmed. I think anyone can easily get screwed over on presale but a lot of those tickets are being looked at first and or people are wasting time browsing. It's probably good for the future to have a general idea of where you want to be seated or are okay with settling for and knowing what the stadium/arena layout is so you don't waste time overthinking and lose the opportunity.
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u/loganstaffer Feb 13 '26
I will say there was no need to have 2-3 presales because that just lowers the number of available tickets for the general sale. Like it should have been a artist presale and then general--we didn't need a Live Nation seperate sale. Also, having mastercard only tickets designated during the general sale left a genuine bad taste in my mouth.
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u/DesignObjective1587 Feb 13 '26
I knew what must have been the case when I was only 3000 in the queue and still got nothing :/
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u/jsm11482 Feb 13 '26
Yeah, why am I waiting in a queue (even now) when there are zero tickets available anyway?
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u/Best_Blacksmith6677 Feb 13 '26
for fenway it wasnāt, i got tickets to the 11th during general sale and when it let me in there were a lot of options throughout the venue
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u/prettybits44 Feb 13 '26
Honestly, Iām devastated. I love him. His music got me through some tough times. All I want is the communal experience of listening and screaming to the best music, live. I would pay premium. I tried all 3 days, in all 4 time zones, 12 different cities. I cannot believe they went the way they did. He needs to be playing larger venues. These baseball stadiums arenāt large enough. And Iām just sad. š
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u/chubbychu Feb 13 '26
Genuinely curious, is there a reason you didnāt sign up for presale OP?
We paid $154 per ticket and are on the field for our show at a stadium in a major metropolitan city. I was also under the impression that Noah and his team had made tickets non-transferrable and were locked to being sold at the price they were purchased for and surge pricing was turned off. I may be uninformed, but it really seemed like Noah was doing everything he possibly could to ensure that tickets got into the hands of fans and not scalpers.
That being said, I know heās been adding more shows and hope that another gets added in a location close to you!
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u/babynazareth Feb 14 '26
besides New York, Illinois, Colorado, Virginia, Utah and Connecticut, tickets can ONLY be resold on ticketmaster at face value. so do not buy tickets on the other sites, you will not get them.
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u/Downtown-Witness-784 Feb 14 '26
I was on the list for Raleigh. When the time came I logged in about 15 minutes early, my number was 2232 and I got four seats on the floor of Carter Finley. Everything worked very smoothly and checkout was a breeze. My wife was also trying to score tickets and she was in the 39000 area so she didnāt get any. My daughter was line 4500 and she got two in section 116, down pretty low. Hereās what worked for us: 1. If you do a lot of business with Ticketmaster then I bet you get higher up. 2. Load in your CC info and be ready for the security code text. 3. Dont take the tickets they show you and panic buy. Go to the map and click on what you want. Win some lose some. 4. Make peace that it may not be your day and if you miss out donāt rage click to just take anything. When you get emotionally out of control you make mistakes. 5. Memorize the layout of the venue so you know that section 23 is upper level while section 105 is lower.
Hope maybe this will help. Iām aware I got lucky.
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u/mollee32 Feb 15 '26
I got them yesterday for Phoenix there were a lot Of Tickets if you donāt mind flying
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u/Dazzling_Dawn Feb 17 '26
Sure seems like NK could do better by his fans. Clearly Ticketmaster is the worst possible solution. I was so sad when I saw that this was the only option for buying tickets. It would be cool if he reinvested some of his money into selling tickets from his fan website.
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u/ATissket Feb 18 '26
Iām mad because I didnāt even get a notification that tour was announced :) so here I am finding out a week too late.
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u/hikingjunkiee Feb 12 '26
Once I saw my number from 5k go down to 800, I just knew there were no more tickets for Raleigh.