Ticketmaster has cancelled tout tickets to Olivia Rodrigo‘s upcoming ‘The Unraveled Tour’. Find all the details below.
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Rodrigo’s huge world tour kicks off next month, starting in North America and arriving at The O2 in London next April. See the full list of dates here and find any remaining tickets here.
Now, Ticketmaster has revealed that it has recovered tickets for the US and Canada leg of the tour purchased by touts and will now make them available to fans at face value.
Fans can request these tickets via Ticketmaster (here) now, and requests will close today at 11:59am ET/tomorrow at 4:59am BST.
Fans who haven’t yet secured tickets to the tour will be prioritised. There are also $25 “Silver Star” tickets available for request starting September 1 at 3pm EST/8pm BST.
The ticketing platform made the announcement yesterday (Thursday August 20), saying they are “are ticket purchases that broke the rules of the sales and are being released directly back to fans, at the original prices set by the tour.”
Rodrigo’s hero and collaborator, The Cure‘s Robert Smith, made a similar move in 2023 when he confirmed the band had cancelled 7,000 tickets found on secondary resale websites in a bid to tackle touts.
The same year, Smith also persuaded Ticketmaster to issue small refunds to verified ticket buyers over the “unduly high” service fees.
Ticket touts are an increasingly hot topic in the music industry. In the UK, the government announced plans last November to ban the resale of live event tickets above their original cost, as well as limits of platform fees and potential fines of up to 10 per cent of a company’s global turnover.
However, the plans have not yet become law. Ahead of May’s King’s Speech, artists and music industry groups warned against a U-turn, and the measure ultimately appeared only as a draft bill, prompting disappointment from the music industry.
Elsewhere, an investigation in July found that 72 per cent of StubHub UK’s arena listings came from just three bulk sellers, while a month earlier, the Competition and Markets Authority ordered StubHub UK to pay a £900,000 fine and refund more than 50,000 customers after finding that mandatory fees had not been displayed upfront.
Earlier this month, it emerged that StubHub has reportedly spent millions of dollars in an effort to stop a bill that would cap ticket resale prices.
In other Rodrigo news, the singer is launching her new all-female Daisy Chain Fields festival, with sets from Chappell Roan, Bikini Kill, Doechii, Garbage and more – which takes place on August 29.
NME gave her latest album, ‘You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love’ four-and-a-half stars, writing: “Here is a major popstar who is not afraid to get weirder and more wonderful, to give even more of themselves over in their art. ‘You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love’ is undeniable evidence of Rodrigo’s growth: as a songwriter, composer, and as a human being.”
Elsewhere, a fan recently revealed that Rodrigo showed “kindness to a stranger” by quietly paying for her final semester of college.
