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Taylor Swift and 'Tortured Poets' smash the Spotify album streaming record: On Friday — the day Swift released her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department — ...
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Taylor Swift and 'Tortured Poets' smash the Spotify album streaming record
Quick Glance: Patti Smith Applauds Taylor Swift in 'Tortured Poets Department'
  • Taylor Swift mentions Patti Smith in her new album 'The Tortured Poets Department'.

  • Smith responded positively by posting photos of herself with a book by Dylan Thomas.

  • Despite seeming different, Smith expressed understanding for Swift and praised her for potentially influencing fans positively.

  • HuffPost calls for support for high-quality journalism that is freely accessible to all.
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DOJ to sue Ticketmaster parent Live Nation for antitrust violations: The company has tried to counter the narrative that it's responsible for inflated ...
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DOJ to sue Ticketmaster parent Live Nation for antitrust violations
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Live Nation expected to be hit with antitrust suit: report: The Justice Department is investigating the concert giant Live Nation over its handling of ticket and ...
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Live Nation expected to be hit with antitrust suit: report
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Singapore’s economy misses forecasts with 2.7 percent growth: City-state’s performance is closely watched as a barometer of global economic conditions.
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Singapore’s economy misses forecasts with 2.7 percent growth
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SZ Weekender: Europe's future and a natural paradise in Mexico: The Truth About Kant. A Double Message from Taylor Swift. The mystery of dark matter ...
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SZ Weekender: Europe's future and a natural paradise in Mexico
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Taylor Swift’s concerts expected to boost Singapore’s GDP as economists upgrade growth forecast: Report
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Taylor Swift’s concerts expected to boost Singapore’s GDP as economists ...
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Taylor Swift performs 'Story' mashup for Singapore's secret songs on Eras Tour: Taylor Swift will perform at National Stadium in Singapore for six nights on her ...
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Taylor Swift performs 'Story' mashup for Singapore's secret songs on Eras ...
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Indonesia keen to work with Singapore to stage big concerts after city state’s Taylor Swift success
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Indonesia keen to work with Singapore to stage big concerts after city ...
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Check with the ministry before publishing 'hearsay', Hannah tells columnists: Youth and sports minister Hannah Yeoh claimed there had been many columnists who ...
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Check with the ministry before publishing 'hearsay', Hannah tells ...
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Kudos, Sasha, hopefully there are more women like you: From Ibrahim M Ahmad Two women startled me with their comments over the past week. Interestingly ...
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Kudos, Sasha, hopefully there are more women like you
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Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift Celebrate Super Bowl LVIII Win With a Kiss: The singer was spotted planting a passionate kiss on the three-time Super Bowl winner ...
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Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift Celebrate Super Bowl LVIII Win With a Kiss
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Be consistent and stop protesting concerts, Hannah tells Faizal: The youth and sports minister says this after the Bersatu deputy president describes Malaysia's ...
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Be consistent and stop protesting concerts, Hannah tells Faizal
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Travis Kelce Says It's Costing Him A Fortune To Have Friends And Family Attend The Super Bowl
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Travis Kelce Says It's Costing Him A Fortune To Have Friends And Family ...
Quick Glance: NFL Power Rankings: Chiefs Continue Dominance
  • Kansas City Chiefs have definitively answered questions about their dominance as the newest NFL dynasty.

  • San Francisco 49ers will return almost intact in 2024 with an easier path to Super Bowl than Chiefs.

  • Buffalo narrowly missed overtime against Kansas City in the playoffs.

  • Detroit Lions were undoubtedly the franchise's best team of the Super Bowl era, but could be surpassed in 2024.
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Bad blood unlikely, but Singapore’s Taylor Swift deal set to accelerate neighbours’ tourism plans
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Bad blood unlikely, but Singapore’s Taylor Swift deal set to accelerate ...
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Taylor Swift Watch Necklace: What's the Story Behind Grammy Bling?: The timepiece, attached to a choker strap worn snug around her neck ...
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Taylor Swift Watch Necklace: What's the Story Behind Grammy Bling?
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A Complete Timeline of the Far Right’s Tumultuous Relationship With Taylor Swift: How Taylor Swift, once appropriated by the white supremacist alt-right ...
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A Complete Timeline of the Far Right’s Tumultuous Relationship With Taylor ...
Quick Glance: Charles Barkley criticizes NFL fans over Taylor Swift and football
  • Clear message from Charles Barkley to Taylor Swift’s NFL haters

  • Criticism of T-Swift for alleged ruining of football

  • Speculation on Swift's potential influence on Super Bowl 2024

  • Heavy criticism of Swift since her start at Travis Kelce's games in September 2023
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Where Taylor Swift Will Be Seated at the 2024 Super Bowl to Watch Travis Kelce: A source opened up about Taylor Swift's tentative seating plans for the Super ...
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Where Taylor Swift Will Be Seated at the 2024 Super Bowl to Watch Travis ...
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Taylor Swift Donates $100,000 After Super Bowl Parade Shooting: 'My Deepest Sympathies'
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Taylor Swift Donates $100,000 After Super Bowl Parade Shooting: 'My ...
Quick Glance: Kansas City Shooting: Dispute Escalates During Super Bowl Parade
  • Police: Injured victims aged 8 to 47, at least half under 16

  • Three suspects in custody after shootings

  • No link to terrorism confirmed by police

  • Police seek witnesses and information on shooting incident
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Taylor Swift fans in Tokyo warned as heavy snow causes travel chaos in Japan: The Tokyo area has been hit by heavy snow ahead of Taylor Swift’s four shows and ...
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Taylor Swift fans in Tokyo warned as heavy snow causes travel chaos in ...
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Agent conspiracy surrounding Taylor Swift: What everyone supposedly knows: The Trump people fear Taylor Swift. The megastar is said to be on a secret mission for ...
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Agent conspiracy surrounding Taylor Swift: What everyone supposedly knows
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Pentagon to MAGA world: You need to calm down over Taylor Swift: “The absurdity of it all boggles the mind,” said one senior administration official,
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Pentagon to MAGA world: You need to calm down over Taylor Swift
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Are Taylor Swift and her boyfriend Travis Kelce secret Pentagon agents? That's what the conservative media in the USA whispers ... Show more   #taylorswift   #usa   #conspiracy   #politik
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DOD Confirms: Taylor Swift Is Not A Pentagon Asset (And Travis Kelce Probably Isn’t, Either)
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DOD Confirms: Taylor Swift Is Not A Pentagon Asset (And Travis Kelce ...
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Asbestos crisis hits Swift’s concert venue: The location of Taylor Swift’s highly-anticipated Sydney concert will be tested for asbestos ...
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Asbestos crisis hits Swift’s concert venue
Quick Glance: Asbestos Contamination in Sydney: New Discoveries
  • Asbestos found in multiple locations in Sydney, including housing estates.

  • 32 city sites tested positive for asbestos contamination.

  • New contaminations at public school, park, and residential estates.

  • Dedicated asbestos task force established to support EPA investigations.
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EU Wants Taylor Swift to Get Young People to Vote in the 2024 Election: European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schina asked Taylor Swift to encourage ...
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EU Wants Taylor Swift to Get Young People to Vote in the 2024 Election
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Taylor Swift attends the 81st annual #GoldenGlobes in Beverly Hills, California, on Monday, January 8 (Manila time). The pop superstar's 'Eras Tour' concert film is ... Show more   rplr.co/entertainment
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Taylor Swift Hits the Music Studio in NYC Solo: Taylor Swift hit the recording studio in NYC Thursday night -- and considering her eventful past several months . ...
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Taylor Swift Hits the Music Studio in NYC Solo
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Taylor Swift an “agent” of the US government? - This is how the Pentagon reacts: Taylor Swift a Pentagon agent? This conspiracy theory was put forward by a ...
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Taylor Swift an “agent” of the US government? - This is how the Pentagon ...
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Improvements to FAFSA will make life easier for families: Improvements to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid — or FAFSA — will make life easier for ...
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Improvements to FAFSA will make life easier for families
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Ministry disputes Jaw’s claim about Taylor Swift gig: Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
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Ministry disputes Jaw’s claim about Taylor Swift gig
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Watch Taylor Swift Debut ‘Bigger Than the Whole Sky’ in Rio de Janeiro: Taylor Swift live debuted ‘Bigger Than the Whole Sky’ at her Eras Tour concert in Rio de ...
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Watch Taylor Swift Debut ‘Bigger Than the Whole Sky’ in Rio de Janeiro
Quick Glance: Taylor Swift's Emotional Return to the Stage in Rio
  • Swift returned to the stage after the death of a fan and live debuted an ambient ballad about grief and heartache.

  • Fan footage shows the entire arena joining Swift in her emotional performance.

  • Prior to the performance, Swift expressed being 'overwhelmed by grief' after a fan died before her Eras Tour show in Brazil on Friday.
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After woman’s death at Taylor Swift concert, a search for accountability: The Brazilian government and police are investigating in the wake of Taylor Swift’s Nov ...
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After woman’s death at Taylor Swift concert, a search for accountability
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A fan died of heat at a Taylor Swift concert. It's a rising risk with climate change
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A fan died of heat at a Taylor Swift concert. It's a rising risk with ...
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DepEd: Philippine education system 5 to 6 years behind | The wRap: The wRap highlights: Philippine education, walking pneumonia, Taylor Swift
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DepEd: Philippine education system 5 to 6 years behind | The wRap
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Must the show go on? Taylor Swift fan death highlights danger of live shows as Earth cooks
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 Must the show go on? Taylor Swift fan death highlights danger of live ...
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House to reallocate Sara Duterte’s confi funds | The wRap: The wRap highlights: Sara's confi funds, Maggie Wilson, and Taylor Swift
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House to reallocate Sara Duterte’s confi funds | The wRap
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Taylor Swift Outfits Eras Tour: Her Best Eras Tour Looks: Canada's #1 Fashion and Beauty Magazine
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Taylor Swift Outfits Eras Tour: Her Best Eras Tour Looks
Quick Glance: Taylor Swift rewards staff with bonuses and supports truckers
  • Taylor Swift rewards staff of her Eras Tour with generous bonuses.

  • Nearly 50 truckers receive six-figure bonuses.

  • Taylor Swift has become her own economy.

  • Taylor Swift's Eras Tour generates enough money to impact the GDP and inflation of countries.
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Feds home in on Ticketmaster antitrust case: Rivals, lawmakers and music fans are calling for the DOJ to break up the company.
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Feds home in on Ticketmaster antitrust case
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Swift retribution: Eye-watering prices do hospitality businesses no favours: Business groups should look at the high prices they charge before asking for an ...
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Swift retribution: Eye-watering prices do hospitality businesses no ...
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Marcos gets $600-M loan from World Bank | The wRap: The wRap's highlights: PH World Bank loan, Maynilad water interruption, Taylor Swift
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Marcos gets $600-M loan from World Bank | The wRap
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Taylor Swift Steps Out in Bejeweled Jeans For an Intimate Dinner with Friends: It's her first public outing since her reported split from Joe Alwyn.
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Taylor Swift Steps Out in Bejeweled Jeans For an Intimate Dinner with ...
Quick Glance: Taylor Swift is single again: a brief portrait of her ex-husbands thus far
  • Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, British actor Joe Alwyn, have reportedly ended their six-year relationship amicably.

  • Swift and Alwyn have kept their relationship private in recent years, making no red carpet appearances together.

  • Alwyn was two years Swift's junior and wrote songs for her albums "Evermore," "Folklore," and "Midnights" under the pen name William Bowery.

  • An overview of Swift's relationships prior to Joe Alwyn.
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Trump news - live: Trump back on Facebook as Stormy Daniels hush money indictment looms
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Trump news - live: Trump back on Facebook as Stormy Daniels hush money ...
Quick Glance: Officials Prepare for MAGA Protests
  • Preparations for potential mass protests have been made between city, state, and federal agencies.

  • Ideas from far-right forums include creating a 'Patriot moat' around Mar-a-Lago.

  • Police in Palm Beach, Florida, did not respond to questions about the threats.

  • Meetings between senior staff members of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and security officers have reportedly taken place.
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Merrick Garland Is a Huge Taylor Swift Fan: The Attorney General routinely works her lyrics into conversations and legal arguments. ‘My favorite song is “Shake ...
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Merrick Garland Is a Huge Taylor Swift Fan
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Live Nation Proposes Concert Reforms After Taylor Swift Fiasco: Live Nation Entertainment Inc., accused of anti-competitive practices by politicians ...
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Live Nation Proposes Concert Reforms After Taylor Swift Fiasco
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Senators who held Taylor Swift Ticketmaster hearing want DOJ to examine practices
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Senators who held Taylor Swift Ticketmaster hearing want DOJ to examine ...
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Senate holding first hearing on ticketing industry: Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) announced Tuesday that the Senate Judiciary Committee ...
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Senate holding first hearing on ticketing industry
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How Beyoncé Fans Are Preparing For ‘Renaissance’ Tickets: “[I] like that everyone else also really enjoys Beyoncé’s music, [but] I wish they didn't enjoy it that ...
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How Beyoncé Fans Are Preparing For ‘Renaissance’ Tickets
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Hating Ticketmaster long predates the Taylor Swift fiasco: Fans, politicians and even artists were complaining about Ticketmaster long before Taylor Swift filled ...
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Hating Ticketmaster long predates the Taylor Swift fiasco
Quick Glance: Senators' pathetic attempts to burn Taylor Swift lyrics Ticketmaster
  • The Senate committee later agreed to investigate whether the merger had created a monopoly for Ticketmaster.

  • Lee also joked that he tried to reclaim the gavel from Klobuchar during the hearing, but "once again, she's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers," referring to one of Swift's most famous songs, "You Belong With Me."

  • The president of LiveNation stated on Tuesday that ticketing markets are extremely competitive, refuting claims that Ticketmaster and LiveNation have a monopoly.

  • "We hear that ticketing markets are less competitive today than they were when Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged."
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Antitrust target Ticketmaster spends big on lobbying amid woeful 2022: Ticketing debacles involving Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny have led to calls for parent ...
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Antitrust target Ticketmaster spends big on lobbying amid woeful 2022
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Taylor Swift Fans Were Surprised With A Second Chance To Buy Eras Tickets: Fans who weren't able to buy tickets during the Ticketmaster mess will now get a ...
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Taylor Swift Fans Were Surprised With A Second Chance To Buy Eras Tickets
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Ticketmaster gives Taylor Swift fans 2nd chance at Eras Tour tickets: Ticketmaster said they were "asked by Taylor's team to create this additional opportunity ...
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Ticketmaster gives Taylor Swift fans 2nd chance at Eras Tour tickets
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Taylor Swift debacle could lead to DOJ investigation of Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger
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Taylor Swift debacle could lead to DOJ investigation of Ticketmaster/Live ...
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Better Than Revenge: Swifties Helped Expose Ticketmaster’s Monopoly: Music industry behemoth price-gouged fans for decades; it now faces reckoning
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Better Than Revenge: Swifties Helped Expose Ticketmaster’s Monopoly
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Taylor Swift Concert-Ticket Mess Draws Scrutiny for Live Nation and Ticketmaster: Legal experts question whether unwinding the 2010 megamerger would address ...
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Taylor Swift Concert-Ticket Mess Draws Scrutiny for Live Nation and ...
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What Would Breaking Up Ticketmaster and Live Nation Actually Do?: After Ticketmaster’s issues with Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour presale and news of a Justice ...
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What Would Breaking Up Ticketmaster and Live Nation Actually Do?
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Taylor Swift Says Ticketmaster ‘Assured’ Her It Could Meet Demands: "There are a multitude of reasons why people had such a hard time trying to get tickets and ...
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Taylor Swift Says Ticketmaster ‘Assured’ Her It Could Meet Demands
Quick Glance: "Sobbing" Swifties grieve halted tour sale and demand Taylor's answer.
  • After two days of presale turmoil, Ticketmaster confirmed Thursday that the Friday general sale for Taylor Swift's Era Tour would be canceled.

  • Harrington, a lifetime "Swiftie," had previously attended every previous Taylor Swift tour and was eager about continuing her streak.

  • She, too, was unsuccessful in the Capital One presale and, like Harrington, had hoped to purchase tickets in the Friday regular sale."I will do anything I can to get tickets," she told Insider.
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The 50 best-selling music artists of all time: list: Taylor Swift, whose upcoming Eras tour crashed Ticketmaster, is now among the top 25 biggest music artists ...
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The 50 best-selling music artists of all time: list
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Better Than Revenge: Swifties Help Expose Ticketmaster’s Monopoly: Music industry behemoth price-gouged fans for decades; it now faces reckoning
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Better Than Revenge: Swifties Help Expose Ticketmaster’s Monopoly
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What Would Breaking Up Ticketmaster and Live Nation Actually Do?: After Ticketmaster’s issues with Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour presale and news of a Justice ...
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What Would Breaking Up Ticketmaster and Live Nation Actually Do?
Quick Glance: Taylor Swift's tour promoter claims it had no choice but to collaborate with Ticketmaster.
  • Taylor Swift's tour promoter is blaming Ticketmaster for the botched "Eras" ticket sale, perhaps raising even more concerns about the Live Nation-owned ticket seller's dominance in the industry.

  • Swift's tour organiser, AEG Presents, has refuted assertions made by Ticketmaster and Live Nation's major shareholder, Liberty Media, that the promoter decided to partner with the ticketing site.

  • "Ticketmaster's exclusive deals with the vast majority of venues on the 'Eras' tour required us to ticket through their system," AEG said to CNBC in a statement.
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Perhaps—but the legal bar to an antitrust case against the company is high
Is Ticketmaster a monopoly?: Perhaps—but the legal bar to an antitrust case against the company is high
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Is Ticketmaster a monopoly?
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Taylor Swift Finally Addresses the Eras Tour Tickemaster Mess: The pop star says watching fans scramble in the mud for tickets was ‘excruciating.’
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Taylor Swift Finally Addresses the Eras Tour Tickemaster Mess
Quick Glance: Taylor Swift fan purchased six $500 tickets and intends to purchase more
  • Kasey Reiter said she took two days off work and spent more than 13 hours on Ticketmaster trying to get the coveted seats.Given the immense amount of Swift's musical catalog and her ever-increasing fame, Reiter predicted that purchasing tickets for the next Eras Tour would be a nightmare.However, as the less costly tickets were quickly snapped up, Reiter said she took extraordinary measures, requesting that Ticketmaster filter for just "top seats," which include tickets valued at $499 and above.

  • "It was so infuriating," Reiter said of his ordeal.
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This Taylor Swift fan is 'embarrassed' about spending $5,500 on tickets: Paige, a Swiftie for 15 years, was excited about seeing Taylor Swift live for the first ...
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This Taylor Swift fan is 'embarrassed' about spending $5,500 on tickets
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Attorney General Garland Will Appoint Special Counsel To Determine If Trump Faces Charges, Reports Say
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Attorney General Garland Will Appoint Special Counsel To Determine If ...
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Fans Think Taylor Swift Revealed Name Of Blake Lively And Ryan Reynolds' Next Child
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Fans Think Taylor Swift Revealed Name Of Blake Lively And Ryan Reynolds' ...
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PBA: Gian Mamuyac sparks Rain or Shine win over Terrafirma: MANILA, Philippines—Rain or Shine got a timely spark from rookie Gian Mamuyac to pull off a 106-94 ...
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PBA: Gian Mamuyac sparks Rain or Shine win over Terrafirma