Live Nation Entertainment says that 3.5 billion ticket requests from fans, bots, and scalpers overwhelmed the website with record demand.
had already set the entertainment industry abuzz. In the “presale” round on Tuesday, over two million tickets were sold, the most ever for an artist in a single day, Ticketmaster said.Even so, the experience left many fans frustrated with long wait times and site outages, and many unable to obtain tickets.
“The staggering number of bot attacks as well as fans who didn’t have invite codes drove unprecedented traffic on our site, resulting in 3.5 billion total system requests – 4x our previous peak,” Ticketmaster said. “Never before has a Verified Fan on sale sparked so much attention – or uninvited volume.”
“I’ve long urged DOJ to investigate the state of competition in the ticketing industry,” U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal said on Twitter on Thursday.
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