Olivia Dean took a couple minutesout of her day on Friday (Nov. 21) to put Ticketmaster, Live Nation and AEG Presents on blast for the resale ticket prices to her 2026 North American tour.
Tickets to Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving Tour went on sale to the general public on Friday and quickly sold out in minutes.
With some resale prices climbing into the thousands of dollars, the “Man I Need” singer voiced her disgust with Ticketmaster, Live Nation and AEG Presents in an Instagram Story.
“@Ticketmaster @Livenation @AEGPresents you are providing a disgusting service,” she wrote. “The prices at which you’re allowing tickets to be re-sold is vile and completely against our wishes. Live music should be affordable and accessible and we need to find a new way of making that possible. BE BETTER.”
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Dean added in a separate IG Story that her team was looking into the matter. “I’m sorry that there seems to be an issue with ticket re-selling and pricing. My team are currently looking into it,” she continued. “It is extremely frustrating as the last thing I want is for anyone to be scammed or overcharged for our show. Please be wary buying tickets in the comment sections as it is most likely a scam.”
Ticketmaster later reshared the singer’s Instagram Story that called out the company, writing on its own account: “We support artists’ ability to set the terms of how their tickets are sold and resold. @oliviadeano, we will cap resale prices on our site at face value and hope other resale sites will follow.”
The ticket company explained in a July blog post how its Face Value Exchange works, and how it tries to give fans the “best chance to buy tickets at the original price set by artists.”
Billboard has reached out to Ticketmaster, Live Nation and AEG Presents for comment.
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Olivia Dean’s 2026 tour kicks off in the U.K. and Europe, beginning with Glasgow, Scotland, in April, and wraps June 20 in Dublin. Her U.S. summer trek is slated to kick off in San Francisco on July 10, and she’ll be making stops in Los Angeles, New York City, Atlanta, Toronto, Las Vegas, Boston, Houston and finish up in Austin on Aug. 28. The Art of Loving Tour’s NYC dates include four shows at Madison Square Garden.
Dean had been opening for Sabrina Carpenter on the final leg of the singer’s Short n’ Sweet Tour, and announced her own North American headlining trek earlier in November.
The British pop star has gained significant momentum in recent months, following her Saturday Night Live debut Nov. 15, and her subsequent trip to Australia, where she performed a show in Sydney and at the 2025 ARIA Awards.
Dean currently has four tracks on the Billboard Hot 100, including “Man I Need” sitting at No. 5. The 26-year-old’s The Art of Loving album is also slotted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 dated Nov. 22.
North of the border, Dean notches six tracks on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100, including “Man I Need," at No. 5. The Art of Loving album is slotted at No. 4 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart dated Nov. 22. - Billboard Canada
