Through its official social networks, on November 17, Ticketmaster made a statement official in which it informed that the public sale of tickets for the tour The Eras Tour by singer Taylor Swift would be cancelled, as fans of the artist saturated her website, achieving a record demand for tickets and achieving the most tickets sold for an artist in a single day.
This news was released after the fans of the interpreter of You Belong With Me They will sweep the pre-sale of tickets for their upcoming tour that begins next year and break the ticket acquisition record by buying around two million tickets on November 15.
The epic number of users buying Taylor Swift concert tickets caused a massive slowdown in the ticket distribution company’s platform, which ended up collapsing its mechanism designed to remove the tickets. bots that provide pre-sale codes to people who purchase a ticket.
Given the demand and the traffic that the massive sale caused on the site, the fans did not receive their invitation code to the concert, as usually happens in a pre-sale of tickets, an act that generated mistrust but above all indignation in the millions of followers of the singer who were just looking for an opportunity to buy a ticket.
Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow’s public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled.
—Ticketmaster (@Ticketmaster) November 17, 2022
Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow’s public sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled.
It had never happened before that a few minutes after the pre-sale of tickets for an artist’s concert began, the tickets were about to run out, so to avoid a shortage, the company decided to cancel the general ticket sale that was being held. scheduled for November 18.
For now, all that remains is to wait for Ticketmaster to report what will happen to this ticket sale, since many people say they are willing to wait as long as necessary in order not to miss out on a show by their beloved Taylor Swift.