To think pop/rock concert tickets are way too pricey nowadays...

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To think pop/rock concert tickets are way too pricey nowadays...

@PlanetNormal

YABU.

Artists charge what the market will bear. If Adele’s concerts are selling out in minutes at an average price of £100 a ticket, why should she charge any less?

Well it depends if you see concerts a our you or your fans. If your aim as an artist is to make as much money as you can or to try and be there to entertain as wide a selection of your fans you can. - If you're constantly cutting our a huge swathe of your target market by selling tickets at £100 + booking fee + venue donation + insurance + postage etc then it wouldn't be a suprise if some fans got weary of following you

David Crosby on not liking spotify:

www.stereogum.com/2176699/david-crosby-spotify-joe-rogan-new-album/interviews/qa/

I agree. My DS loves bowling for soup, I can’t quite believe they’re still going but they are. All middle aged now and I don’t know if they were ever massively popular, certainly never been mainstream. I saw they were playing live in a city about 40 mins from us so decided to look into tickets for his birthday. £28 a ticket . I’d expect that for a bigger more popular band but I suspect many won’t even know who BFS are.

@SartresSoul

I agree. My DS loves bowling for soup, I can’t quite believe they’re still going but they are. All middle aged now and I don’t know if they were ever massively popular, certainly never been mainstream. I saw they were playing live in a city about 40 mins from us so decided to look into tickets for his birthday. £28 a ticket . I’d expect that for a bigger more popular band but I suspect many won’t even know who BFS are.

My D's is 26 and got me into BFS years ago. He has seen them several times and DH and I went to see them at Camden Round House we are 60 . It was good fun.

@SartresSoul

I agree. My DS loves bowling for soup, I can’t quite believe they’re still going but they are. All middle aged now and I don’t know if they were ever massively popular, certainly never been mainstream. I saw they were playing live in a city about 40 mins from us so decided to look into tickets for his birthday. £28 a ticket . I’d expect that for a bigger more popular band but I suspect many won’t even know who BFS are.

No I'd say that's good for a well established band who maybe more niche than mainstream. I think we paid about £15 back in the day and they were supported by All American Rejects 😂. I'd be thrilled if you could see a bigger band for under £30

Peaky Blinders the Dance has just come out, over £60 just for reasonable tickets. Not just gigs that are extortionate

Shouldn't it be that youtube only shows videos which the copyright owner has approved of their use first - being as it makes money from the ads...

And then artists with some sense could maybe just show snippets of songs rather than whole lps...

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Why don't artists use the internet to just stream clips of songs - not the the whole tune? Thus the demand may be there to buy the whole song - together with traditional methods of media reviews, word of mouth, radio play, mtv play...

"I think the real problem with the streaming situation is that the way people consume music has changed so dramatically. For many people, buying physical albums simply isn't a consideration, so if an artist isn't on streaming services, then they will never get heard by a whole swathe of music consumers that will only ever listen to music in that way.

Without record company backing and promotion, it's hard to compete with content that is available for free online, especially if you aren't 'mainstream' - you need to get your music in front of potential consumers and people aren't listening to the radio, going to record shops etc"

You're not wrong, but when did you last buy an album OP?