The Ticketmaster platform has interrupted the sale of tickets for Taylor Swift’s concerts in Paris and Lyon, due to a bug. Already in 2022, the sale of tickets in the United States had turned into chaos.
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Fans will have to wait. The sale of tickets for the Parisian concerts of the American star Taylor Swift was put on hold this Tuesday shortly after its launch on the Ticketmaster platform, which had already experienced hitches for this artist last year. The sale “for Paris La Défense Arena has been put on hiatus”writes Ticketmaster on its French social networks. “We will update you with a new on-sale time as soon as possible,” continues the platform. A previous message mentioned “problems with the site this (Tuesday) morning”.
Rebelote with the sale, scheduled for early afternoon this Tuesday “for Lyon – Groupama Stadium” also “pausing”. While the problem for Paris was still there.
Four concerts in Paris
Taylor Swift, pop figure with 267 million subscribers on Instagram, had added an additional date for Paris La Défense Arena, the largest indoor hall in Europe, which must therefore receive it on May 9, 10, 11 and 12. 2024. These four Parisian concerts will mark the start of the European tour of the interpreter of Cruel Summer. The sale of tickets for the four dates at Paris La Défense Arena was scheduled for this Tuesday morning. Registration for this sale had been closed since June 23. The Lyon-Groupama Stadium enclosure must, for its part, welcome the artist on June 2 and 3, 2024.
This is not the first mishap of its kind for the platform. On the grill of the American Senate, Ticketmaster had admitted at the beginning of the year to have a “responsibility” in the cacophony around the sale of tickets in the United States for the American star Taylor Swift’s tour in November 2022. The giant of the sale of tickets for shows was however quick to point the finger at the shared responsibility of“bot attacks” which would have significantly slowed down platform operations during ticket sales in mid-November.
This chaotic situation had revived criticism of the dominant position of the giant in the ticket sales sector, which merged in 2010 with the entertainment giant Live Nation. Without naming her directly, the singer had criticized the platform in an Instagram post, claiming to be “out of it” after seeing so many of his fans “live a nightmare”.