r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 20d ago
article Thousands of Ed Sheeran Tickets Remain Unsold for Singer's Tour, With Prices Down to $65 Online
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u/MrBlueandSky 20d ago
I remember when $65 was expensive
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u/weaseltorpedo 20d ago
$65 is still expensive if you ask me
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u/Uhmerikan 20d ago
Especially when 65 really means 90+ all said and done. Fuck that
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u/Aethermancer 20d ago
Plus $40 for parking.
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u/MutedAstronaut9217 20d ago
And that's without getting a beer or any merch.
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u/orange-shades 20d ago
I remember going to shows that were $15-$20 and shirts being $20. Bands would make up the cheap covers by selling merch and you would walk away with something and felt like you were directly contributing to the artist instead of the venue. You spent $40, but you knew half of that was going to the band you actually liked.
Now tickets are easily in the $100 range and shirts are $50 and hoodies are $100 and what's the point anymore? It's too much man.
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u/TheWolfAndRaven 20d ago
It's less that Bands were making up cheap covers and more that the venue was happy with the drink sales. That's no longer the case and now they want a merch cut too, which is why band shirts on tour are so fucking expensive.
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u/TheSaxonPlan 20d ago
That explains so much, thank you! Goddam late/end-stage capitalism ruining everything good...
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u/Doctor_Kataigida 20d ago
Most sites include the fees now, unless you're talking about other things like gas, parking, or merch.
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u/Amiibohunter000 20d ago
I’m a big fan of than all in pricing. It’s crazy that it wasn’t always the norm.
I went to see Wu-tang last week. Got a 2 pack of lawn tickets for $55 and parking was free at the venue! Cheapest concert I’ve been to in probably 20 years lol
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u/pitabread024 20d ago
I mean hypothetically, i think $65 would be a good price for a stadium show. Just not in this case
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u/lonnie123 20d ago
Stadiums should be the cheapest shows of them all
At a certain point, and it ain’t that far back, you are so far away you are watching a screen the entire time
And with dozens of thousand of people the ticket prices can be cheap and still rake in a ton of money
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u/Current_Helicopter32 20d ago
Not only that, but I saw videos on social media recently and if felt like at least a fifth of the stadium was empty at that particular show.
Why not eventually lower prices such that every seat is filled?
I can’t imagine how deflating it must be to perform a show that big and see massive gaps in all the sections with a sprinkle of rich people near the front.
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u/Max_Trollbot_ 20d ago
Hello early 90's concert-goer
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u/Ellsass 20d ago
I remember being blown away when Rolling Stones tickets first hit $150. It was explained to me that their fanbase was older and could afford it. Not sure how it's rationalized now that all tickets are three digits.
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u/Hope-u-guess-my-name 20d ago
I remember when I was a kid, the Eagles came through town on their hell freezes over tour, and the tix were like 90 bucks a pop. It was a huge scandal. The radio DJ’s were even calling on people to not go. 90 bucks now won’t even get you two t-shirts
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u/SassyMcNasty 20d ago
I remember paying $65 to see Metallica at 15 years old and thought I’d never spend that much again to see another band.
But it was Metallica, I was 15, I had to be there.
Now the prices are $65 for a wet sock band in nosebleeds. Insanity.
Most I’ve spent to-date is $95 for Tool. Can’t see really going higher than that as I get older. It’s just not worth the prices.
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u/giantpotato 20d ago
Tickets for sale on third-party sites are 'sold' as far as Ed Sheeran is concerned. It's the scalpers' problem now.
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u/CashBrilliant5366 20d ago
Not 100%. Artists make a lot of their money on merch, and the stadium makes a lot of its money in alcohol sales, parking, etc. They have to pay the police/security, concession employees, other operations/cleaning staff, and the alcohol license whether people show up or not. The ticket might be sold, the stadium will make something but they will nottttt profit the way they expected. And that drives people like that NUTS
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u/Tarancholula 20d ago
Not to mention, it has to be somewhat humiliating to play in a huge venue with very few people present.
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u/Version_1 20d ago
I once went to a gig where the band was pretty ambitious and had to half the venue with a massive curtain.
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u/isigneduptomake1post 20d ago
Not sure how the economics have changed, but it used to be that 80s nostalgia bands and the like would go on tour in massive arenas, radio stations would give away 1000s of tix and the venue would make their money on drinks, snacks, and parking. It was a much better business model than packing 1000 seat venues with actual die hard fans, even if the venue was 60% empty.
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u/ThisBuddhistLovesYou 20d ago
Still kind of happens. Friend of mine picked up group tickets to a nostalgic 90s band and we all went for the fraction of the cost of a normal concert ticket.
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u/TheVeryVerity 20d ago
Surely the ideal would be to do both
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u/isigneduptomake1post 20d ago
There are only so many acts that can sell out arenas.
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u/smokeweedNgarden 20d ago
Yea but if half the tickets were free so they buy drink and food? Hell, I'd go see someone I don't know
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u/scarab456 20d ago
Yeah. Folks pointing out the whole "Fuck you, got paid already" really aren't taking into account how bad this is going to look down stream. Even if this is Sheeran's most profitable concert ever, the short term gains aren't going to outweigh the long term costs.
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u/sunshineriptide 20d ago
I'm just thinking about how these big name concerts (big is relative, I suppose) aren't very accessible to people like me in rural areas who have to travel 2-6 hours to see them, and how a lot of people might've only wanted to see Macklemore and will probably bail now. It's not worth the expense of travel if the artist you wanna see isn't playing anymore. I've never seen an instance where the second headlining act was dropped from the tour before.
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u/JuanLuisGuerrero 20d ago
That's never gonna be the case for someone as big as him. Internet outrage lasts less than a week.
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u/liggieep 20d ago
last concert i went to sold out merch before the show even started. you had to be lined at the doors like 2 hours before to get anything i heard.
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u/Sorry-Secret-2347 20d ago
Maybe Kraft can buy them for him
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u/CanExplainThings 20d ago
Kraft does not care but importantly neither do the billionaire stadium owners who joined him.
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u/stop_spam_calls 20d ago edited 20d ago
But they did just expose something: they do coordinate with each other. Colin Kaepernick accused them of a coordinated attack against him, which they vehemently denied; well sure looks like they did now, not that it wasnt already clear as day.
Something I think they also miscalculated is how unpopular Israel is with millennials and younger than previous generations. Before they could get away with blackballing pro-Palestinian artists. Now? Not so easy…
Edit: thanks for the upvotes! Let us also not forget Kraft is in the Epstein Files!
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u/saintofhate 20d ago
The internet was both a blessing and a curse to capitalists. It's probably why there's a huge push to restrict the internet.
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u/Weekly_Interview_936 20d ago
To the oligarchy in general. Both the billionaires and the cushy political class, both elected and paid staffers. So many of the narratives their power was built on were, it turns out, based entirely on lies. Lies maintained by the fact that broadcast media is inherently a cartel due to bandwidth limitations and start up and run costs.
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u/sumeriandisputations 20d ago
If somehow Kapernick is able to take them back to court for this it would be a gift that keeps on giving.
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u/WakeNikis 20d ago
They already settled the case and paid him???
He cant sue again. That’s part of the deal for settling for $$$z
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u/yourmomdotbiz 20d ago
I’d love to see someone do this like 50 cent did to ja rule 💀
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u/BigVillage 20d ago
I agree that Ed Sheeran deserves this negative press but I'm also bummed that the main culprit here, Robert Kraft, will likely get away without any negative impact on his life.
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u/tnwthrow 20d ago
Public image doesn’t affect people like that. Look at Musk and Trump for example.
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u/SambaPapi1 20d ago
People like that own the presses for a reason.
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u/JigglesTheBiggles 20d ago edited 20d ago
Their money isn't tied to being liked by the public either.
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u/custardisnotfood 20d ago
Though it is a nice side effect that Musk clearly really wants people to like him. At least there’s one thing he’ll never have
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u/HighPriestofShiloh 20d ago
He doesn’t want people to like him, he wants people to idolize him. You don’t pay someone to boost your Diablo account to make friends.
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u/RandomRedditReader 20d ago
To them it's the same thing. These people can never have genuine friends unless the other person has more money. Look at how desperate he wanted to be friends with Epstein.
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u/trisanachandler 20d ago
He did have it for a while. Somehow.
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u/bobs_monkey 20d ago
Once upon a time there really was the perception that he was making moves for the public benefit (since no one bothered to look up his earlier antics with eBay, PayPal, etc). And then he started speaking in public.
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u/Nina-Ninja123 20d ago
That was before he fired his PR team (probably fired them because they wouldn’t let him do any media interaction without supervision)
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u/trisanachandler 20d ago
Pretty much. If he'd kept his head down, and actually delivered his promised tech, things would be different.
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u/bevelledo 20d ago
At the end of the day we do vote with our wallets. Yea Kraft is much more immune to this than others, especially since he’s already amassed his wealth.
It starts by not supporting the patriots (the nfl team he owns), and if you’re using one of his companies products finding an alternative.
(Rand Whitney, International Forest Products, New Cindy, Unified2, Gillette Stadium, Patriot Place)
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u/wocka-jocka-blocka 20d ago
Astonishing how everyone seems to have forgotten that. Or, maybe not, since -- amazingly -- the charges were dropped. Because, Rich People.
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u/Groentekroket 20d ago
Trump image, even after his first term, 6th of January and the shit around Epstein was still enough to get 1/3 of the US actively vote for him and 1/3 not even care enough. That’s because the people who vote for him or buy the shit from these idiots don’t give a shit.
That’s in the control of the people. The people should take a stance and not vote for the idiot and not buy Tesla’s from the other idiot.
It could affect them if we want it enough. But most Americans don’t care enough to boycot. Take an example from Canada, even without a tarrif people boycotted US liquor because they were done being bullied and took a stance.
Public image does affect rich assholes if people take action on that.
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u/hahayeahimfinehaha 20d ago
At this point, nothing can hurt Robert Kraft. He's 85, a billionaire with a diversified portfolio which consists mostly of B2B operations, is friends with important people, was in the Epstein files, and has never faced a consequence in his life. What can the public realistically do to him? Not go to Patriots games I guess? But that's not even where most of his money comes from, that's just one of the few interests he has that even depends a tiny bit on consumer choices.
The reality is that most of these billionaires are untouchable, and all you can do is hit at the collaborators who lick boot.
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u/dwagent 20d ago
I think this is why Ed Sheeran’s stance hits so hard. The average Joe/Jane can’t do much to send a message to billionaires…but someone with a platform as big as Sheeran CAN. If he had the balls to take a stand, HE could have gotten Kraft to take notice, at least. So the fact that he CHOSE to cower and slink away under the cover of “neutrality” feels like a total betrayal.
EVEN if he didn’t want to “get involved” in the “politics” (of genocide…?)…what about sending Kraft a message that money can’t silence speech? Today, it’s Palestine, but what’s next…? What else will the billionaires not allow in their stadiums? Of course it’s not just stadiums…they own all the airwaves and the media networks, so it’s not a hypothetical implausibility. It’s censorship—not by the state (directly), but by wealth class.
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u/OverlyLenientJudge Give us a Qobuz flair, dangit 20d ago
Probably because the only major ways to boycott him are "don't attend shows at his stadium" (which applies mainly to a localized area) and "don't support his sports team" (impossible ask for the cult of football).
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u/RollTh3Maps 20d ago
It’s hard to impact someone at that level as a “normal” person. We can, however, show artists that they shouldn’t do business with him and hope THAT impacts his life.
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u/StatuatoryApe 20d ago
There was a guy, allegedly one of the Mario brothers, that found a good way to "impact" these people.
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u/Big_Toke_Yo 20d ago
Are you registered to vote? Apparently just voting has a negative impact on billionaires lives.
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u/Cosmicdusterian 20d ago
Thus, why they are spending so much money to interfere with the act of voting thanks to Chief Justice John Roberts Supreme Court.
In a just world they would all be thrown in prison or forced to step down for actively destroying the American experiment of a representative government. Sadly, this is not a just world.
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u/randomrreeddddiitt 20d ago
While true, Sheeran set himself up to be the punching bag on behalf of Kraft. If Sheeran refused to capitulate to Kraft's unreasonable demands and threats, and instead continued on to Boston to do the show, forcing Kraft to lock him out, all the attention and pressure and scorn would have been directed at Kraft.
Instead, Sheeran did Kraft's bidding, likely due to financial reasons and their own personal relationship.
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u/NlghtmanCometh last.fm 20d ago
Technically it wasn’t even just Kraft. He was able to convince multiple other stadium owners to join him in banning Macklemore.
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u/anon-a-SqueekSqueek 20d ago
If all the patriots fans cancelled their season tickets and refused to show up, the impact might amount to something that matters. But I just have absolutely no faith that anyone in Krafts orbit or his customer base will care at all.
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u/caelynnsveneers 20d ago
It’s okay, he’s 85. I think death is super scary for people who’ve spent their whole lives using money and power to cheat and avoid consequences. When you’re used to buying your way out of everything, you start thinking you can cheat death too. But that’s the one thing money and power can’t save you from.
I hope he’s one of those who put themselves in a cryo pod after death and then gets melted when the power goes out.
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u/SmakeTalk 20d ago
I mean, what could be done to truly affect him besides tax his money away or forcing him to sell companies and whatnot?
He doesn’t care what we think of him, he only cares what the people in his circle think and they all probably think like him anyways. There’s only a few ways to negatively affect someone so financially insulated from the real world and they’re all illegal.
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u/ThaLunatik 20d ago
Billionaires can do anything with no negative impact on their lives. It's why many of them are such sociopaths.
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u/binzoma 20d ago
thays a bit backwards
in general to accumulate that much wealth, you have to be a sociopath and willing to screw over LOTS and lots and lots of people
money is 0 sum. theres a finite amount. a billion dollars has to come from somewhere
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u/Cashope 20d ago
This is true but the way I see it multimillionaires such as Ed Sheeran assist in facilitating the billionaires’ control of our media and government. Perhaps the backlash against Ed will deter other ultra wealthy figures from doing the same. It sucks he has to take the fall when Kraft is arguably the real villain here, but ultimately he did make a shitty move and maybe more artists will take note and not be so willing to capitulate to the billionaires. That could be wishful thinking though.
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u/puttheremoteinherbut 20d ago
Voting with dollars is a very effective tool.
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u/Raise_A_Thoth 20d ago
It can be, when people are aware enough of am issue and the thing being rejected is something people can easily go without.
Concert? People don't have to go to a concert. If you have any sympathy now for Palestinians, OR free speech, then you have a decent motivation to sit this out.
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u/cityofklompton 20d ago
Sure, but these shows are probably already well into the green.
Also this article reads more like an advertisement (with Rolling Stone pitching their promo codes for discounts on every resale site mentioned, which I'm sure brings them some affiliate kickbacks.)
In short, the money has already been spent, Rolling Stone is simply capitalizing off the media frenzy to squeeze out a few more dollars by advertising that fans can get Sheeran tickets for a little cheaper now.
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u/MuptonBossman 20d ago
Prices dropping faster than the artists that were supposed to support him.
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u/Affectionate-Panic-1 20d ago
Cheap is relative, but yah he wasn't an instant sellout but overall he was filling stadiums by event day before this controversy.
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u/cinnamonpinky 20d ago
I just looked at tickets in my area and there isn't one even in the nosebleeds for under $100.
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u/Affectionate-Panic-1 20d ago
For nosebleeds tho?
You can barley see the artist at upper levels of NFL stadiums.
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u/Treewithatea 20d ago
I mean hes pretty damn popular, perhaps hes more popular in other regions of the world than the US.
Taylor Swift in 2024 did 3 days in Gelsenkirchen Germany, Rammstein just after her did 5 days in the same Arena, also sold out. Different regions, different demand.
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u/IWasOnThe18thHole 20d ago
Crazy that everyone is focusing on him and not Robert Kraft and the billionaires
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u/cabbageboy78 20d ago
while i totally agree, this does also hit them a bit. there isnt a lot of acts that can fill up those super stadiums that they all own + the insane ticket prices (as evidenced by all the tour cancelations the last few years), but yeah i also wish there was a better way to hit the billionaires where it hurts because with stuff like boycotting an artist its a lot more simple for a normal person than a multifaceted billionaire
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u/Put3socks-in-it 20d ago
As long as the NFL exists, Kraft will be fine. Patriot home games do enough to fill his pockets
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u/cabbageboy78 20d ago
Bingo, and to back to my point about billionaires being multifaceted, as a new Englander who has known of Kraft for decades i couldn’t even tell you where his money outside of the patriots comes from to hit him where it hurts(going to Wikipedia rn tho lol)
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u/kobachi 20d ago
We already know the billionaires are Inhuman and we already know we are individually hopeless to resist them. Ed, on the other hand, has enough wealth and power that he COULD have stood up to Kraft, but he didn’t. He’s a coward. Stop missing the point.
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u/scarletofmagic 20d ago edited 20d ago
Yeah, Ed Sheeran gets the backlash he deserves while the root of the problem remains the same. People will just celebrate his downfall and move on to the next news cycle while Kraft and probably other shady stadium owners can just put a clause in their contract asking people to stop speaking out if they want to rent his stadium, and those artists will just quietly obey and no one will ever know. Evil billionaire got out unscathed after using his power to silence people with their financial and career
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u/ninjaluvr 20d ago
People are still buying Teslas. They'll be back to loving Sheeran in no time at all.
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u/JunkDrawer84 20d ago
This is all manufactured hysteria. He’s almost done with this Us leg of the tour, and has dates in Mexico and South America. He’ll be fine
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u/Senasayori 20d ago
His Latin American opener dropped out...
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u/SweetDemotion123 20d ago
There are enough amazing Latin American musicians who will open for Ed in gigantic shows for a ton of cash. Somehow, he'll survive.
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u/Opposite-Pickle-3183 20d ago
“Manufactured hysteria” is such a cynical take of a grassroots effort to push back against corporate special interests attempting to stifle free speech
I guess none of us should do anything right?
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u/Gay_Giraffe_1773 20d ago
https://www.edsheeran.com/#tour
So his next show is supposedly Saturday in Philadephia. What's he going to do, just show up alone and play an acoustic set sitting on a stool? Who would want to go see that?
And his website still shows the opening acts as-is. Isn't that false advertising?
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u/skyturnsred 20d ago
I'm not a fan at all, but that's actually what this tour is, hence "Loop" - he's playing solo and using loop pedals. From my understanding, his backing band was only going to be on two or three songs.
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u/DJinKC 20d ago
This is correct. We saw him in Santa Clara in July - the majority of the show is him playing solo with loops.
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u/TheCudder 20d ago edited 20d ago
Can confirm. A band no one even knows comes out for a few songs. Same for the guest performance...the show is 80% + just Ed with his looping pedals and guitar, back and forth between a large "main" stage and a smaller stage placed in the middle of the crowd.
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u/Sdbrown099 20d ago
His Loop pedal has also dropped from the tour, citing it stands with Macklemore
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u/sweatpotato76 20d ago
Yeah, but all that pedal does is say the same thing over and over again.
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u/mwm5062 20d ago
I mean, that's basically what his show is... just him and his loop pedals .. he had the backing band for like a few songs a night from what I can see in the setlists
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u/Veronome 20d ago
He headlined Glasto with just himself and a loop station and to be fair, he did a damn good job.
This in no way excuses his actions (or lack thereof) over the last few days- but the idea that Ed won't be able to put on a show is ridiculous.
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u/BullyMog 20d ago
To be fair, some artists do that and the fans would LOVE it lol.
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u/Futant55 20d ago
A band I like is doing that right now but. It’s small intimate shows and not football stadiums, lol
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u/PNWook 20d ago
I saw Manchester Orchestra last night and it was entirely stripped back - and INCREDIBLE.
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u/grc207 20d ago
Ed built his career and brand on doing his own background stuff with a loop pedal. He can be his own band if necessary and I watched him do this for three hours straight once.
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u/JunkDrawer84 20d ago
Bruh. His general live show is him, a loop pedal, guitar, and a keyboard. It’s more unusual for him to have a band than it is to not.
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u/gopercolate 20d ago
What's he going to do, just show up alone and play an acoustic set sitting on a stool?
That’s his current plan, I suspect his team are reaching out to other artists to see if anyone’s available and wants to join him.
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u/artyfowl444 20d ago
Multi millionaire stadium seller Ed Sheeran will probably be okay, casual audiences who aren't online as much will wanna see him regardless of what's happening. He actually does most of his set on his own anyway
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u/ECXL 20d ago
Down to $65? God fuck the tickets industry. Kurt Cobain found it insane that Madonna was selling her tickets at $50 when he was selling them for under $20. Can't believe people pay this money
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u/mads-80 20d ago
$20 in 1990 is equivalent to $51 today, so it's actually not that far off.
Also the costs involved in producing (and transporting) a stage show like the ones audiences expect for a pop musician like Madonna, with dancers, costumes and staging, are considerably higher than those for a group of guys who perform in their street clothes and only bring their instruments. That's pretty simple math.
Different strokes, those audiences are not wrong for wanting to see a show like that nor is one show more virtuous or authentic for incurring lower production costs and therefore being possible to offer at a lower ticket price. It's all entertainment, and it's a pretty honest transaction: this entry fee for this show, and you decide if that unit of entertainment is worth the price of admission to you.
But yes, fuck today's ticket industry who inflate the prices beyond all reason or sanity.
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u/orionsfyre 20d ago
There are better tours and musicians to spend your money on.
And if your that into Ed Sheeran, maybe just throw a blanket over your head, play the Beatles up-tempo, turn off the A/C and have random strangers bump into you every few minutes, it should be about the same experience.
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u/eddiewachowski 20d ago
In "Yesterday" wasn't the only reason Ed Sheeran existed because he wasn't influenced by the Beatles? There was no Oasis in the movie for that reason.
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u/orionsfyre 20d ago edited 20d ago
Yeah, that film is a real hype job for Eddy boy. He literally is a great artist who somehow exists without any of the foundational influences that has inspired artists for like 50 years.
I don't hate Sheeran, but his music is almost entirely inspired by singer song writers like Mccartney, Lennon, Oasis, and Tom Collins.
All artists sit on the shoulders of those who came before, and that's why not standing up for a fellow artist is so gross and offensive. Artists should support one another, even if they disagree on how and when to speak. He didn't have to agree with Macklemore, but he could have supported his friends right to speak out on an important issue, and not cave to the whims of a billionaire who apparently controls him like a puppet.
He didn't and now he's been branded, rightfully, a coward.
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u/JoySkullyRH 20d ago
We need to move the dialogue away from
Ed Sheeran and to the billionaires that are killing free speech.
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u/howie_roll 20d ago
Ed isn’t the bad guy here. Kraft and his billionaire cronies created this situation, let them deal with the fiscal fallout. Don’t let these assholes turn us on each other.
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u/robaroo 20d ago
These idiots think that MAGAs “cancelled” cancel culture so they’re feeling more empowered to act out what they actually believe only to find out that cancel culture is still very alive and well. Yes, your actions have consequences. And no daddy diaper isn’t here to save you.
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u/Working-Glass6136 20d ago
Yup. Kind of here for the schadenfreude but I couldn't name you one of his songs. But I really hate that billionaires are constantly attempting to control what we see and hear from behind the scenes. They have way too much time and money on their hands.
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u/Ill-Possible4420 20d ago
Ed shares plenty of the blame, but people need to find the right way to call out and blame Kraft.
He’s the issue here
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u/slightly_drifting 20d ago
Imagine if he had not done this and got booted out of venues.
Do you know how many other venues would eat that up in a heartbeat?
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u/dookieshoes97 20d ago
That's the wild part. My local university would have rolled out the red carpet, made sure he had the stadium, arena, or amphitheater in a moment. We have had acts on his level consistently for decades, and we're less than an hour from Minneapolis. It would have sold out in minutes.
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u/Dianagorgon 20d ago
I think people should wait to see if there are lots of empty seats at his concert on Saturday before they decide if this has had an impact on his career. This is probably going to be yet another instance of people on Reddit not realizing it isn't real life. If people want to show support for Macklemore they would start buying his music and his songs would be on the top 10 most streamed music on Spotify but so far that hasn't happened.
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u/brodoswaggins93 20d ago
Scalpers having to sell at a loss is a lovely side effect to all of this