Drake Fans Outraged About High Ticket Prices for First Tour in 4 Years

• Grammy award-winning rapper Drake introduced his “It is All a Blur” excursion going down this summer time.
• Normal public tickets went on sale Friday afternoon, and fanatics are sharing their wins and losses on social media.
• Tickets have been reportedly on sale for as little as $69, however fanatics say they witnessed costs beginning at $200 for upper-level seating.

Tickets to Drake’s “It is All a Blur” excursion went on sale Friday, and fanatics say they are “preventing for his or her lives” after seeing how expensive it might be to wait

The Canadian rapper introduced his US excursion that includes rapper 21 Savage on Monday, his first since 2019 in spite of functioning at a handful of tune fairs and particular concert events during the last 4 years. By the point the tickets have been launched to most people on Friday, fanatics took to social media with proceedings, jokes, and pleas of desperation over problem securing seats and top costs. 

Whilst price tag costs have been marketed beginning at $69 on Ticketmaster, fanatics have been fast to proportion movies appearing upper-level seats on sale for $200. Others reported seeing tickets bought for as top as $1,000, in line with The Root, and price tag reselling web site SeatGeek has tickets on sale for as much as $5,000 in sure towns as of Saturday afternoon. 

—rachel (@rachelgeorgex) March 15, 2023

Some fanatics bought nosebleed seats and mentioned they are simply glad to be in the similar construction as their favourite artist, whilst others have in comparison the trouble in securing seats to getting tickets for Beyoncé’s Renaissance excursion — which may be slated for this summer time — as a comparability of their proceedings.

“i were given nosebleeds however (I do not care) i want to be in the similar construction respiring the similar air as drake,” one fan wrote, and every other mentioned they paid $300 for tickets in the similar space for a special town.

—maxine (@ItGirlMcK) March 15, 2023

Different tweets blamed Ticketmaster for the top costs in spite of Drake’s tickets being launched on no less than one different price tag outlet.

“$200+ for nosebleed drake tickets is legal…. TICKETMASTER YOU WILL CRUMBLE,” a tweet learn.

—Mr. Morale (@ToureDeTrap) March 16, 2023

And it is not the primary time in contemporary months that Ticketmaster has been within the sizzling seat with concertgoers. Like Drake and Beyoncé, fanatics of Taylor Swift have additionally expressed outrage at problem to acquire tickets and top costs to her 2023 Eras excursion. 

On Friday, the platform mentioned it might refund fanatics of rock band The Remedy after lead singer Robert Smith joined fanatics in calling out Ticketmaster out for its “unduly top charges.”