Taylor Swift Tickets Near NYC Reach Past $76K on StubHub

Taylor Swift fans were whipped into a frenzy earlier this week as they scrambled to purchase tickets to her upcoming tour. Many were left disappointed.

The good news for those who missed out is that there are still tickets available for purchase on the ticket resale site StubHub. The bad news is that the good seats could cost you upward of tens of thousands of dollars.

Case in point: The price for two tickets in Section 103, Row 48 at the May 27 show at MetLife Stadium, in the New York-New Jersey Metro Area, were listed at $76,221 each as of press time.

Some tickets for T-Swift's June 4 Chicago show were listed on the site at $45,000 each. And for one particular spot on March 17 in Glendale, Arizona, a lucky fan would have to cough up $16,200.

Swifties were frustrated on Tuesday after waiting for hours on end for presale tickets to her 2023 Eras Tour to go live. The tour is slated to begin in March in Arizona before snaking across the U.S. and ending in August at Los Angeles' SoFi Stadium.

Other artists who will join Swift on tour include the likes of Phoebe Bridgers, Paramore and GAYLE.

Shortly after the sales went live, Ticketmaster started to experience technical difficulties. Fans reported enduring freezes and witnessing website crashes because of the site's "historically unprecedented demand with millions showing up to buy tickets for the TaylorSwiftTix Presale."

Upset social media users took out their angst on Ticketmaster, and soon, the site's name was one of Twitter's trending topics. Even Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned Ticketmaster in a tweet.

"Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it's [sic] merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in," she wrote on Tuesday. "Break them up."

MSNBC's Chris Hayes has also weighed in on the T-Swift ticket fiasco, tweeting on Tuesday: "Given how many Taylor Swift tickets are already on StubHub, seems like a LOT of the tranche of 'fans' tickets went to resellers. (Am I salty because we were unable to get past the queue. Yes, yes I am)."

And YouTuber Lauren Lipman tweeted a screenshot of one show in California.

"There's a special place in hell for people who successfully get verified fan tickets and then immediately go to StubHub and put them up for $14,000?!?! Like WHAT ROYAL FAMILY IS GOING TO PAY THAT FOR 1 TICKET?!?" she wrote in a Tuesday tweet.

In the U.S., Swift will play 52 different dates and touch down in some 20 different cities, per Insider. The show will also reportedly touch on each distinct era of the superstar's career.

Newsweek reached out to a representative for Swift for comment.

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