Pobody’s nerfect, that’s the Ticketmaster motto. Tickets for Olivia Dean’s tour went on sale to the general public November 21 and sold out in minutes, per Billboard. A few minutes after that, fans (and Dean herself) were decrying Ticketmaster for “vile” reselling practices. “@Ticketmaster @Livenation @AEGPresents you are providing a disgusting service,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories. “The prices at which you’re allowing tickets to be re-sold is vile and completely against our wishes. Live music should be affordable and accessible and we need to find a new way of making that possible. BE BETTER.”
Turns out the problems started even before resellers got involved. The legally embattled company apologized to Dean fans who spent $753 on nosebleed seats for the 2026 tour, when the actual price should have been $53. On November 19, a Deano tweeted the problem to Ticketmaster, who responded, “Appreciate you flagging this. 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.”
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Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation’s pricing and reselling practices have been under scrutiny in the U.S. and U.K. They’re currently being sued by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice in America. In the U.K., Parliament is working on a law to ban price gouging by resellers. Live Nation has come under criticism from such artists as The Cure, Neil Young, Taylor Swift, Pearl Jam, and now Best New Artist Grammy nominee Olivia Dean.
