Blue Dot Fever

[Michael Jacks0n]

What is Blue Dot Fever? It's a recent phenomenon where popular mainstream artists are cancelling concerts and entire tours at large venues due to lack of sales for this summer. Empty seats on the ticket websites are marked as blue dots, and thus the term Blue Dot Fever was coined to describe this growing problem of huge musicians being unable to sell enough tickets.

This is due to a variety of factors including economic woes of the American consumer, as well as the fact that concert ticket prices are insanely overpriced. Some naysayers are denying the existence of Blue Dot Fever and claiming it's merely an overblown coincidence and a dumb meme, and that in fact this concert season is actually better than previous years (allegedly). The contrarians are also claiming the concert cancellations are unrelated to lack of sales; they claim it's for other factors such as family emergencies from the musicians.

So what do you think? Is Blue Dot Fever real or a coincidence? Are you going to any concerts this summer? Have any of your favorite normieslop pop artists cancelled their tours because of lack of sales? Let's have a discussion.

 

[Robbyretard]

Get ready for a market crash around the ides of September. How bad of a of a market crash? If we are lucky it will be 2008 again. If we are unlucky it could be worse then 1933. We should have had a market crash in 2023 or even last year, but fraud on a massive scale kept it from happening.

What is the cost of the lies and frauds the banks and governments have done, since 2008?

 

[Angry Shoes]

Arena ticket pricing is always absurdly expensive compared to mid sized venues. Plus who is big enough to tour arenas that you would actually want to see?

 

[Beelzebub's Lawyer]

What you need to do is make music for the correct demographic.
That's what Taylor Swift does, she panders to middle/upper-middle class white women who have a lot of disposable income so they actually buy the albums, the concert tickets and the merch.

If you make music for the poors, you need to lower your prices.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

 

[singlele]

I've been looking at shows I'm interested in going to in the future and here's some data points. All tickets are GA and shows are in and around Chicago.

Likely will buy:
6/2 - Kevin Morby @ $31
7/24 - Metric, Broken Social Scene, Stars @ $76.50
8/28 - Magnolia and Johnson Electric Co. @ $33.25
9/22 - Weezer, The Shins, Silversun Pickups @ $46.80
11/19 - Slow Pulp @ $45.50

Undecided, lean yes:
6/17 - The Strokes, Thundercat, Hamilton Leithauser @ $78.20
10/11 - Interpol and DIIV @ $90.95
10/17 - Suki Waterhouse @ $63.75

Undecided, lean no:
6/19 to 6/20 - Winnetka Music Festival (mainly there for Father John Misty and Ben Kweller) @ $139.50 for 2-day GA, $94.50 for 1-day GA (which is when FJM and Ben play)
7/8 - Bob Dylan @ $54.50
9/12 to 9/13 - Evanston Folk Festival (mainly there for Mdou Moctor and Folk Bitch Trio) @ $154.37
9/17 - Liz Phair & Sleater-Kinney @ $71.05
9/25 - Sun Ra Arkestra @ $46.63

Likely will not buy:
8/8 - Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Mannequin Pussy @ $88.40
10/31 - Geese @ $172.50

 

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