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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
August Brown

More bad news for Swifties: Ticketmaster cancels Friday on-sale for Taylor’s Eras tour

After 48 hours of outcry from frustrated fans, Ticketmaster preemptively cancelled Friday's public on-sale for Taylor Swift's Eras stadium tour.

"Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow's public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled," the ticketing giant wrote on social media.

Following a buggy release of Eras tickets on Tuesday to what's known as Verified Fans, the company — which became part of the Live Nation conglomerate in 2010, drawing antitrust scrutiny — acknowledged on Thursday that the measures it had in place to give fans equitable access to tickets didn't work.

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