Tickets for the snake pit should be $800 minus the amount of times you watched Taylor eat cookie dough #TaylorSwiftTix
About one hour after presale tickets went on sale Tuesday (Dec. 5) for Taylor Swift’s Reputation tour, Ticketmaster sent out a tweet telling fans the company was “experiencing a delay” and had “purposely slowed code distribution to ensure the best purchasing experience for everyone.”
The cause of the delay: Ticketmaster is only allowing three people on average per concert (there are 33 total shows in North America) into the purchase queue at a time to buy tickets.
“We can slow down the experience if people are taking longer to shop,” Ticketmaster’s head of music David Marcus told Billboard a few hours before Tuesday's ticket presale for Swift's "most engaged fans in the program."
The company has spent the last few weeks sorting through and organizing ticket buyers, scheduling their one-hour shopping window to buy tickets starting at 1 p.m. PT and lasting until Friday evening, texting fans in waves, about 180 people per hour for each concert.
Fans who qualified to buy tickets early have a crack at “basically every available ticket in the stadium,” says Marcus. Only about 5 percent of those who signed up to be a Verified Fan got to participate in Tuesday’s sale. The remainder who qualified for the Verified Fan presale -- by preordering Swift's album, buying merchandise or sharing her tweets and watching her videos -- will get a chance to buy tickets over the next few days. Tickets will go on sale to the public Dec. 13, Swift's 28th birthday.
Afters fans complete their purchase, new fans are brought it, and Marcus said all fans scheduled for Tuesday will be able to buy tickets, which range from $49.50 for upper-level seats to $249.50 for floor-level seats, as well as pit tickets and some VIP tickets, priced between $800 to $1,500.
The sticker price of the top-tier tickets did draw some fan criticism on Twitter, while others complained about the delays in receiving their codes.
Still, others seemed pretty happy
I got my ticket and this is sooo me right now !! SO READY FOR#reputationStadiumTour !!!!
@taylorswift13 see you in LA!
Thaanks @taylornation13 @Ticketmaster !!
I got floor middle section I AM CRYING IN PANERA !!! @taylorswift13 @taylornation13 @Ticketmaster #TaylorSwiftTix
And this person even got the code early:
um so i got my code 45 minutes early and it was so easy and the website wasn’t slow at all and I HAVE TAYLOR SWIFT TICKETS???? this is the best feeling ever thank you @Ticketmaster !!! #reputationstadiumtour #taylorswifttix
Watch the trailer for Swedish House Mafia’s highly anticipated residency at Ushuaïa in Ibiza below.
After breaking up in 2013 and reuniting for a special set at Ultra Miami in 2018, Swedish House Mafia officially announced their return in 2021. The trio would go on to release their highly anticipated debut album, ‘Paradise Again’ in April 2022 after headlining Coachella with The Weeknd. The record scored a four-star review from Ali Shutler for NME.
Shutler wrote:
“Rather than sounding like a vintage group struggling to find their identity, Swedish House Mafia’s debut album sees the trio flexing their musical and emotional muscles across 17 brilliant, fearless and often surprising tracks. The kings of dance music are very much back.â€-->
