Billie Eilish, Green Day and other artists back bill that would reform live-event ticketing system

Over 250 fashionable musicians — together with Billie Eilish, Inexperienced Day and Dave Matthews — signed a letter Thursday urging the Senate Commerce Committee to help a invoice that goals to reform the live-event ticketing system.

The Followers First Act, which was launched and referred to the Commerce Committee in December, hopes to treatment three main points within the ticketing business: ticket transparency, client safety and stopping dangerous actors from charging exorbitant resale costs. It’s one in all a number of payments launched in recent times geared toward combating unfair ticketing practices, together with the BOSS and SWIFT Act and the TICKET Act.

Repair the Tix, a coalition of stay occasion business organizations spearheaded by the Nationwide Unbiased Venue Affiliation and Eventbrite, organized the letter, which was addressed to Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, the rating member.

Different artists who signed embrace: Cyndi Lauper, Jason Mraz, Lorde, Sia, Prepare, Fall Out Boy, Graham Nash, Becky G and Chappell Roan.

Discontent towards the ticketing business, particularly Ticketmaster, reached a fever pitch in recent times. Followers sued Ticketmaster in 2022 after the corporate struggled to maintain up with the demand for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. The Eras Tour debacle led to a Senate Judiciary Committee listening to to look at Ticketmaster’s outsize position within the business. (Swift was not among the many artists who signed the letter.)

“We’re becoming a member of collectively to say that the present system is damaged: predatory resellers and secondary platforms interact in misleading ticketing practices to inflate ticket costs and deprive followers of the prospect to see their favourite artists at a good value,” the letter, a duplicate of which NBC Information seen, states.

Stephen Parker, government director of the Nationwide Unbiased Venue Affiliation, stated in a press release that “the time for complete ticketing reform is now.”