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If Live Nation and Ticketmaster Are Broken Up, Will Things Get Better for Fans?
Even if Live Nation and Ticketmaster are split up, as the Department of Justice's lawsuit recommends, will it make ticket-buying less awful?
Considering the vast resources at Live Nation ’s disposal — their 2023 revenue was nearly $23 billion — this battle is likely to play out over months in court, and in reality, music fans’ concerns boil down to one question: Would breaking up the two companies make the ticket-acquisition process less of a soul-crushing nightmare? In the short term anyway, the answer is pretty much no — and experts say things could get worse before they get better, considering how deeply entrenched Ticketmaster is in the entire process and the chaos that would follow a breakup. In fact, the things that most enrage fans — cryptic “service” fees, long wait times, the predatory secondary market and its bots that buy up blocks of tickets before ordinary humans can get near them — are outside the purview of the lawsuit.
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