My Chemical Romance Sell Out Entire Tour

Am I the only one that didn't realize the demand was this big for them? I saw them on tour supporting Black Parade at what I thought was the height of their career and the stadium was half-empty after Muse played.

 

They're bigger now. Thanks in part to some smart marketing. And probably because their last two albums hold up well.

 

I completely underestimated their popularity too. I didn't think they'd be able to fill these arenas and apparently I was VERY wrong.

 

I am so annoyed they announced additional LA dates when I got tickets for the Tuesday night show. Friday would've been a thousand times easier on me with work

 

I mean there also thousands of scalped tickets available.

 

I feel like they really took advantage of their fans’ loyalty with those ticket prices. Not even blink’s reunion tour cost that much (not GA at least), and that tour even featured MCR if I remember correctly.

 

Blink's reunion tour was 2009, and the tour with MCR was 2011.

 

Thank you for clarifying.

 

blink didn't grow in popularity though

 

I will say there were many verified resale tickets up within twenty minutes of them going live (at least on Ticketmaster in Denver) which to my understanding under the terms of my ticket when I got it should’ve been impossible. I’m not saying they’re reselling themselves but....

 

Good for them but it’s a bummer I missed out on tickets. They were quadruple the price within a half hour of going on sale.

 

Don't understand the huge appeal for this band. I feel like their contemporaries (Senses Fail, SOTY, Silverstein, etc.) put out much better music. I guess that's just me

 

I'll admit I don't know enough about these systems, but a lot of these arenas offer first choice to season ticket holders, so there are a lot of ways in which tickets unfortunately can hit the resale market.

 

The prices were insane... but I think just over all ticket prices in the last two years have jumped dramatically... especially at arenas, to where these are too far off the mark

 

I also understand how for super high-demand artists, you can price low and then scalpers make all the profit, or you price at what the market will bear and close that gap. Is it fair? I don't know, but I sympathize with the predicament. I really don't spring for arena shows no matter what, so I don't really have to face the difference between $80-150.

 

Ticketmaster Has Secretly Been Cheating You With Its Own Scalpers

Ticketmaster Has Its Own Secret 'Scalping Program,' Canadian Journalists Report

 

MCR is reselling their own tickets via Ticketmaster Verified/Stubhub at inflated prices. A lot of artists are doing this now, it’s a shady business practice but it is what it is.

They hold back 500-750 tickets per show and put them directly onto Stubhub (owned by Ticketmaster) at 2-3x face value and the band/management collect that additional revenue.

The amount of tickets on Stubhub is hilarious, MCR did nothing to protect their fans from this and that’s on them. Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Taylor Swift, Springsteen, NIN, etc have all enacted policies where IDs must match the name on the order for admittance or used Ticketmaster Verified (not a great solution but better than nothing), thus eliminating the resale market.

Look at the amount of tickets on Stubhub for the following shows:

St Paul - 2238
Brooklyn - 1654
Dallas - 2189
Oakland - 2658
Vegas - 3622
LA - 6000 (between all three shows)

With an end stage set up and a partial GA floor they’ll be playing to roughly 10-13K attendees each night, depending on the venue. In some cases just under 1/5th of the available tickets for onsale are now on secondary sites. Yikes!

 

Yeah, this makes me think way less of their comeback and I’m glad didn’t give them my money.

 

I mean, are these bands truly their contemporaries? MCR has the same fans as Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco (aka "the emo trilogy" as the kids are calling them lol), and both FOB and Panic! are gaining more young fans every year and filling arenas. There's no reason to believe that MCR wouldn't be able to do the same, especially considering their long absence... like we've been waiting years for this!

 

That's all taxed when you sell tickets like that (third party, even if it's on TM's site)... but I'm sure they'll get away with it.

 

I mean they all came up in the scene around the same time and all had a hand in popularizing the early 2000s era post-hardcore, so I'd consider them contemporaries.