A few months ago, Springsteen got pissed at Ticketmaster for directing fans to their in-house TicketsNow scalper site during a NJ sale. Ticketmaster now says the Boss held back 2,300 tickets for the 5/21 Izod Center date. Springsteen manager Jon Landau’s written a response. See your service fees hard at work at Billboard.
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DISCLAIMER: I like Springsteen but am in no means some sort of super-fan boy. I call bullshit when it’s deserved.
However, I thought it was common practice that a certain amount of seats were held back for family/friends/contest winners, etc. It’s not like they are putting these seats on secondary sites and making all the profit (which is what Ticketmaster/TicketsNow is doing and, thus, the controversy). We still are unsure whether the artist gets a cut of the TicketsNow sales or not (many sources say the artist does, but it has not been confirmed). However, these seats held back (as reported) were never intended to be sold publicly anyways.