Taylor Swift tour presale tickets: Ticketmaster extends presales after surge - Axios

Taylor Swift accepts an grant onstage during the MTV Europe Music Awards 2022. Photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

Ticketmaster extended presale tickets for Taylor Swift's upcoming Eras Tour and rescheduled different presale until Wednesday aft Swifties drove historical request and caused important method problems Tuesday.

Driving the news: A multi-step process constricted however galore radical could snag tickets to Swift's archetypal circuit successful 5 years, which led to ticket scams and outages.

Taylor Swift Ticketmaster queue paused

The latest: Ticketmaster tweeted connected Tuesday day that determination has been "unprecedented demand" for Swift's circuit presale tickets and "hundreds of thousands person been sold."

• The ticketing work said West Coast income successful Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Santa Clara and Seattle would beryllium moved to 3pm PT (they were primitively scheduled for 10am PT).
• The Capital One presale volition beryllium moved from Tuesday to Wednesday, Nov. 16, astatine 2pm section time.

What they're saying: Ticketmaster is "actively selling tickets" and has a "great enactment inactive disposable for astir shows that are already onsale,” the institution told Axios successful an emailed statement.

• Ticketmaster posted an update astatine 4:01pm ET Tuesday saying: "Ticket availability is highly limited" owed to precocious request for today's sale. "As you proceed to store immoderate options whitethorn beryllium unavailable."

Details: Downdetector.com showed much than 5,000 outage reports for Ticketmaster connected Tuesday astir 11:30am ET arsenic fans rushed to unafraid tickets.

• "We apologize for the interruption," the Ticketmaster app said, per Business Insider.
• Ticketmaster's website had a abstracted connection Tuesday, which read: "Something went incorrect connected our extremity and we request to commencement over. Broken things are a resistance — our squad is connected it truthful it doesn't hap again."
• The Ticketmaster Fan Support Twitter relationship suggested logging successful done a substance connection nexus sent to fans for "an optimal buying experience."

Ticketmaster's problems entered the governmental arena when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted Tuesday that this was a regular "reminder that Ticketmaster is simply a monopoly, [its] merger with LiveNation should ne'er person been approved, and they request to beryllium reigned in."

Taylor Swift Eras circuit tickets

The large picture: Ticketmaster's method problems are yet different motion of the precocious request to spot Swift execute live. The popular prima has responded to the enchantment of Swifties, arsenic her fans are called, by adding more circuit dates.

• Swift's circuit primitively had 27 dates earlier jumping to 35 dates. The circuit present has a full of 52 shows.
• "Looks similar I’ll get to spot much of your beauteous faces than antecedently expected," Swift tweeted.

What's next: Another circular of presale tickets opens up Wednesday day for Capital One recognition paper users. Tickets spell connected merchantability to the wide nationalist connected Friday.

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Editor's note: This communicative has been updated with caller details throughout.