Fans Frustrated as Beyonce's Tour Ticket Prices Plummet After Purchase

Ms Tanaka Paschal was thrilled to be taking her son to Beyonce's final Southern California show on her Cowboy Carter Tour in May.

- Matt Stevens

INGLEWOOD - Ms Tanaka Paschal was thrilled to be taking her son to Beyonce's final Southern California show on her Cowboy Carter Tour in May. They had missed the Renaissance World Tour in 2023 - tickets had sold out so fast, some fans ventured overseas to catch a gig.

"I thought I was not going to be able to see her, so I jumped on it," she said.

Ms Paschal, 43, bought a pair of floor seats for about US$900 (S$1,170) total, but like many others, she soon had a bit of buyer's remorse. In the weeks that followed, she saw the price for similar seats drop by hundreds of dollars, then increase, then drop again.

"It's frustrating," she said. "The next time, I'm going to wait until the day of."

When tickets for big summer tours by acts like Lady Gaga, the Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar and SZA go on sale, the prevailing wisdom is to move fast during one of the presales offered by artistes and credit card companies or risk getting shut out.

Most, if not all, tickets are usually snatched up immediately, with prime seats popping up on resale platforms like StubHub or Ticketmaster's own secondary market at inflated prices. (Fans hoping to see American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour famously did not even get a shot at the general on-sale: All the tickets were long gone.)