Taylor Swift breaks records with the sale of two million tickets in one day peppered with controversy over resale, where tickets reach $ 95,000

This time, the problem has not been Taylor Swift, but the management of ticket sales for her long-awaited tour that starts in the United States. Such was the expectation to see the singer from Nashville, who returns to the stage after five years without acting, that ticket sales are currently canceled.

Tickets were available in two batches: presale and entry to the general public. However, the problem broke out in the pre-sale last Tuesday. That day more than 14 million people entered the web and they only got a ticket about two and a half million.

It is a record figuresince it is the most tickets sold by an artist in one day. At that moment, the discomfort among the users broke out, because some had a registration code and the purchase process seemed normal, but finally they could not buy the ticket.

The collapse on the web led the Ticketmaster company to explain in a statement that they cannot cope with the “extraordinary high demand”. What pissed off the artist’s fans the most is that more tickets had been sold than reserved only for pre-sale and there were not enough left for the next batch, the general one, scheduled for this Friday.

For its part, the web justifies it by talking about the “unprecedented” high traffic on its portal, and the number of bot attacks, some entries that on resale they reach $95,000, something that the singer did not like at all. “We asked them several times if they could handle this type of demand and they assured us that they could,” said the artist.

The controversy stars these days in the political and media debate in the United States, where several Democratic voices cry out against the monopoly in this sector. The US Department of Justice has already announced that she will investigate what happened and, meanwhile, Taylor Swift has stated that she hopes to be able to launch new dates for those who could not get the coveted ticket.