While that’s true, that’s usually a fee they throw on independent of what the artist is actually agreeing to with the venue. So if you go on and agree you get 75% of the boxoffice and the venue gets 25% and you both need X amount of dollars for a sold out show to profit, you set that as your desired pricing, then Ticketmaster says ‘‘OK cool $80 tickets, we agree to give you that’’ then they turn around and sell the tickets at $250 and keep the rest.
If she’s losing money touring she’s getting fucked hard, by a whole gang of dicks.
But also, typically musical acts make ALL the money from touring, I assume she has a terrible deal with whatever company signed her.
Or ticketmaster and whatever other cartels that control tickets are taking up all the profit that classically went to artists.
While that’s true, that’s usually a fee they throw on independent of what the artist is actually agreeing to with the venue. So if you go on and agree you get 75% of the boxoffice and the venue gets 25% and you both need X amount of dollars for a sold out show to profit, you set that as your desired pricing, then Ticketmaster says ‘‘OK cool $80 tickets, we agree to give you that’’ then they turn around and sell the tickets at $250 and keep the rest.