Taylor Swift sues Ticketmaster after faltering in selling millions of tickets

American singer Taylor Swift is highly critical of ticket seller Ticketmaster after the company ran into major technical problems with pre-sales of more than two million tickets for her concerts.

“We had asked them (Ticketmaster, ed) several times if they could handle this question and they assured us that they could,” writes the singer on Instagram. Swift thinks it’s “great that 2.4 million people were able to get tickets, but I’m pissed to hear that many of them thought they had to survive multiple bear attacks to get them.”

Tickets for Swift’s concerts went on sale in the US on Tuesday, but many fans have complained that they’ve seen error messages, stood in line for hours, or been kicked out of line. According to the ticket sales company, the system was unable to cope with the high demand for tickets. Yesterday Ticketmaster also decided to cancel the sale of the remaining tickets because “it expected enormous pressure on the ticketing systems and there are not enough tickets left to meet that demand”.

Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation has been under fire for some time since it took over Ticketmaster in 2010. Critics say the takeover would give the company too much leverage over the music industry. According to the New York Times, the US Department of Justice is investigating a possible abuse of power. Also thanks to the news of the problems with ticket sales and the possible investigation, today the shares of Live Nation collapsed sharply (7.8 percent) on the American stock market.

Swift is extremely popular both in her home country and many other places in the world. The singer released her tenth album at the end of October Midnight from. Especially the number Anti hero is highly ranked in international charts, but other songs are also doing well. Swift became the first artist he once had ten songs in the top ten of the main US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Swift does it for her Midnighttoured the United States in twenty cities. It is not yet known when the singer will return to Europe. However, last week he was present in Düsseldorf at the presentation of the MTV Europe Music Awards, where he won four awards.