Ticketmaster and LiveNation’s Concert Week Leads To Crashed Websites & Angry Fans

Ticketmaster and LiveNation’s Concert Week has been turned upside down as the website quickly crashed as customers rushed to grab discounted tickets. 

Concert Week, which consists of $25 event tickets, kicked off on May 8th, though most fans were unable to secure their ticket due to the website crashing.  This has long been an issue with both websites, leading to frustrations among concert attendees. Many took to social media to share screenshots of the many error messages they’d received while trying to purchase various show passes.

Hey @LiveNation @Ticketmaster, word of advice. If you wanna keep your image of "yucky monopolistic corporation" alive, you should probably make sure your fucking servers work so you can scam people. pic.twitter.com/LQXY889fEE

— 🦊✨Sherlock Despacito✨🦊 (@thedevon27) May 8, 2024

Of course @Ticketmaster and @LiveNation sites aren't working on day 1 of 25 dollar concert week. Congress worried about TikTok NO defund these 2 FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

— Chili's baby big back ribs (@SomeLikeItN3rdy) May 8, 2024

Can Ticketmaster ever do anything right?! I’m trying to get $25 tickets for p!nk and this keeps happening pic.twitter.com/BPdeOfpAR2

— Brittany (@victoriousinner) May 8, 2024

Ticketmaster, with all the fees you all charge, you couldn't upgrade servers to handle the crush of traffic for concert week?? pic.twitter.com/mugmm5oDpk

— EB (@SableSteel) May 8, 2024

Ticketmaster and Live Nation fixing their servers like:@Ticketmaster @LiveNation pic.twitter.com/vNhc4bZvC1

— Jordan (@jdezutter) May 8, 2024

Ticketmaster been hyping up this $25 dollar ticket day and the pages don't even work. 🙄

— Devon💕💫 (@ssstarburst) May 8, 2024

stayed up for 3 hours after work this morning to get tickets for my mom on $25 concert day, was told i was being redirected and then ticketmaster crashed the next loading screen… the amount of emotional damage from that god forsaken website … pic.twitter.com/dooliQWPQ2

— Shane (@enahs1885) May 8, 2024

While the slow start to Concert Week is disheartening, it’s certainly not the first time in recent months that the event giant has been criticized.  Live Nation and Ticketmaster have been accused of violating antitrust laws.  The joint agency has rolled out new measures to make their pricing more transparent, though issues remain.