Senators Quoted Taylor Swift During Ticketmaster’s Hearing

Taylor Swift can add antitrust activist to her already impressive resume. The musician unintentionally spawned a long overdue reckoning of the ticketing industry — and more specifically, Live Nation’s monopoly of it — when tickets for her 2023 Eras tour proved historically difficult to get last year, crashing Ticketmaster and ending public sale of tickets early. On January 24, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the live entertainment ticketing industry, hearing from industry leaders and antitrust experts. We all know Swifties range far and wide, as evident by her billions of streams. But during the hearing, several U.S…. Read Full Article