Taylor Swift Proves Too Big for Ticketmaster, Again
Taylor Swift’s European fans could be set for a cruel summer. Ticketmaster halted sales for some dates of the European leg of the pop star’s “Eras Tour" after some fans were unable to access the site, in the latest high-profile ticket snafu for the company. The ticket seller stopped the sale of tickets for six shows at Paris’s La Défense Arena and Lyon’s Groupama Stadium on Tuesday after it appeared some fans were unable to access the site.
The reason behind the pause wasn’t immediately clear. Ticketmaster didn’t respond to requests for comment. “Some of you may be having issues with the site this morning – we are working on it and will let you know," the company wrote on Twitter shortly after tickets went on sale Tuesday morning.
About an hour later the company tweeted that sales of tickets for Paris and Lyon had been stopped. Swift is currently playing shows on the 52-date U.S. leg of a world tour that will include more than 100 shows across five continents.
She is booked to play four dates in Paris in May, and two dates in Lyon, a city in southeastern France, in June. Such is the hype around the tour that fans had been waiting online to snap up tickets for hours. There were more than 900,000 hopefuls in the queue at 5 a.m.
ET Tuesday. Ticketmaster, which is owned by Live Nation Entertainment, has been plagued by glitches in the past. Last year, Swift canceled the general sale for her U.S.
shows after the presale saw overwhelming demand and crashed Ticketmaster’s systems. Ticketmaster said the cancellation was due to high demand and “insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand." Swift called the debacle “excruciating." Ticketmaster later apologized for the situation. “We want to apologize to Taylor and
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