On Nov. 14, the British crooner announced her 2026 tour across the United States and Canada on Instagram, and shared that tickets would be available for pre-sale starting Nov. 18. But when her many passionate fans attempted to purchase tickets after waiting in a lengthy queue, they found that the prices had skyrocketed. Many voiced their frustrations with price gouging on social media. One fan on X posted a screenshot of pricing for a balcony level seat at Dean’s TD Garden show in Boston that appeared to cost $753. 45 on Ticketmaster’s website. Others posted videos revealing that some seats were immediately being resold for prices as high as $992. 16 after originally ranging from $140 to $180.” In response to the first tweet, Ticketmaster said that the high price was due to a “typo.” “Appreciate you flagging this,” the company replied to the X user. “The price was a typo, but has since been updated to the correct $53. 45 all in price. Refunds for the difference have been automatically issued.” The company also posted similar replies to other fans who shared screenshots of the pricing error. TODAY. com reached out to Ticketmaster for additional comment. When the general sale for the “Art of Loving” tour began on Friday, Nov. 21, Dean posted a statement on her Instagram story addressing the ticketing controversy. “Hello world! I’m sorry that there seems to be an issue with ticket re-selling and pricing,” she wrote. “My team are currently looking into it.” The “Man I Need” singer continued, “It is extremely frustrating as the last thing i want is for anyone to be scammed or overcharged for our show.” She added a sad face emoticon and cautioned her fans to look out for scammers trying to sell them tickets. In another Instagram story, she voiced her disapproval of how Ticketmaster, Live Nation and AEG Presents handled her concert sales. “@ticketmaster @livenation @aegpresents you are providing a disgusting service,” she said. “The prices at which you’re allowing tickets to be re-sold is vile and completely against our wishes.” Dean said that live music should be “affordable and accessible” to fans and that the everyone should be working to make that happen. “BE BETTER,” she wrote at the end of her post. TODAY. com has reached out to Live Nation and AEG Presents for a comment. Fans applauded Dean for sticking up for them on X. “What a woman!” one complimented the Grammy nominee. Another agreed, writing, “No one’s doing it like her.”.
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Olivia Dean Calls Out Ticketmaster, Live Nation for Ticket Pricing Controversy
