These days, fans often have to choose between paying bills or seeing musician live. We talked to experts to find out why concert tickets have become so expensive.

Concert ticket prices have been on the incline for the past five years. In 2019, the average cost of a ticket in one of the top 100 highest-grossing tours in North America was about $92, ...

Ticket-flation and growing demand for live music. Live Nation reported that 151 million people attended one of its shows in 2024 - a 50% increase in concert attendance compared to 2019. Post ...

Gen Z is willing to put themselves into further debt to secure concert tickets to see their favorite artists. They're willing to do whatever it takes to see their favorite artists live.

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It cost $1.50 in advance to see Elvis Presley in 1956; $5.90 to see the Beatles in 1964; $17 to see Nirvana in 1993 (and Kurt Cobain was shocked that artists would charge $50 at the time). Even ...

In 1976, not only were ticket prices cheap, but you paid the same price no matter where you sat, said Dean Budnick, the co-author of “Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the ...

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The average cost of a concert ticket to one of the tours on Billboard’s Year-End top 100 tours chart last year was $132.30, marking an increase of 9.1% from 2023 and a 20.6% increase from 2022.

The average resale ticket sold for the concert at the time of publications is $1,619, according to SeatGeek. By comparison, the average resale concert ticket this year is about $245.