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During 2009, Ticketmaster announced they have used the new option for more than one million of its customers, at the North American Wonder World Tour of Miley Cyrus as well as the Metallica concert at the O2 Arena in London in September. The paperless ticket appeals were also used by (in order of number of "paperless tickets sold) The Black Ice tour of AC / DC, The Working On A Dream tour Bruce Springsteen, The Glitter and Doom by Tom Waits and the Wave Goddbye tour by Nine Inch Nails. Related Articles: Live Nation Unloads U.K. Theatre Division for Approximately U.S. $160 Million Live Nation
, the world's largest live music company, recently announced that it has
closed the sale of its remaining U.K. theatrical venues and operations
to The Ambassador Theatre Group, an owner and operator of regional
theatres in the United Kingdom. In addition, on October 23, 2009,... Beyonce Big Winner at the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards Beyonce was the big winner at the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs), held at the O2 World in Berlin, Germany tonight. The global music icon walked away with three of the night's biggest awards -- Best Female, Best Song, ("Halo") and Best Video, ("Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)").
Mojo Concerts and 'Black Market' Secondary Tickets - Hypocrisy Rules the Day
by Richard Kastelein
OP/ED - "The seller defines the price at Ticket Trade, not Mojo Concerts," states the site. I guess that's why two tickets to Rammstein cost over €600 euro on Mojo Concerts aka Live Nation's 'Black Market', secondary ticketing site at Tickettrade. The hypocrisy of a... One Million World Cup Soccer Tickets Go on Sale Another one million 2010 World Cup tickets are available and Africans are encouraged to buy. This was the message at the launch of the third ticketing phase in Johannesburg yesterday.
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football club, recording a loss of 92.6 million pounds - to
May 31 2009
The figure, recently announced on the club's website (www.mcfc.co.uk)
does not include last summer's 117 million pounds
spending spree on Emmanuel... Beyoncé paid $2 million performing for Colonel Gaddafi’s son? He can certainly afford the ticket and “Hannibal” Gaddafi was sure to have a ringside seat when Beyonce Knowles gave her raunchiest best at a private performance this New Year’s Eve on the Caribbean island of St. Barts.
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Access to concerts without a paper ticket (if presented just outside the entrance with an ID, credit card and a printed proof of purchase from the PC) is already a reality in the United States, where promoters are beginning to