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Monopolistic ticket selling and a lack of reseller regulation is pushing up ticket prices
Published: 27 November 2025
Concertgoers are increasingly facing聽a seemingly impossible聽battle for tickets, often losing out to resellers who quickly inflate prices.聽Marketing and analytics聽professor Vivek Astvansh argues this stems from a structural failure making live entertainment unaffordable for the average fan.聽Astvansh attributes the sharp price increase to three factors: demand significantly outpacing supply; the ticketing market being a near-monopoly, with Ticketmaster (owned by Live Nation) controlling 70% of sales; and the absence of laws regulating the resale market.聽These dynamic forces聽push聽legitimate fans to either pay exorbitant fees or miss out entirely on the live experience.聽
