Antonoff slams Live Nation CEO’s ‘underpriced’ concert claim
Jack Antonoff is talking to Jack Antonoff “Up Close & Personal” on 11 August 2025 at the Village Recording studio in Los Angeles, California.
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Famous music producer Jack Antonoff rejects the allegations Live Nation Entertainment CEO Michael Rapino concert tickets are still “low -priced”.
CEO’s comments came at the CNBC Sport and Boardroom Game Plan Conference last week, “I am joking in sports. [$70,000] For Knicks Courtide. … when you read the ticket prices, still an average concert price [of] $ 72. Try to go to a Lakeer game for this and have 80 of them [in a season]. “
Antonoff is one of these comments Send it to x Thursday, “This really breaks my heart and is a sick way to look.”
“The answer is simple: selling a ticket, more than nominal value must be illegal” written. “Then there is no chaos and you give us control instead of creating a strange free turmoil market among the audience we love and care about.”
Working with Superstar Taylor Swift, Antonoff, famous, also pointed to ticket sellers allegedly a price walk on the live nation site. His team said that he was trying to find “new ideas” to overcome things like dynamic pricing to make concerts more affordable for fans.
Antonoff, “If people did not see the audience as an unknown group,” Antonoff written.
Rapino’s comments at the Game Plan Conference came just a few days before the Federal Trade Commission’s “illegal” ticket re -sales tactics to Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster. In the file, FTC announced that they have “working implicitly” with Scalpers, which enables companies to “buy illegally” to increase profits.
″[Ticketmaster and Live Nation’s] Illegal behaviors disappointed the desire to protect the affordable ticket prices for ordinary fans, which meet the needs of ordinary American families, cost millions of dollars each year. “
Live Nation did not respond immediately to the request for comments on Thursday.
Live Nation is also sued by the US Department of Justice to dismantle the company on the allegation of an antitröst violation.
“We argue that the Live Nation is based on illegal, competitive behaviors to use the monopolist control in the United States at the US Industry at the expense of fans, artists, smaller supporters and space operators,” Live Ulus said in a statement explaining the case. He said.
