The Jay Z And Beyoncé “On The Run” Tour Expensive Ticket Presale Underway

Jay Z and Beyonce expensive

 ticket pre-sale, underway

The Jay Z and Beyonce tour went on Chase presale on (4/29) and got some fans pretty worked up at the prices and sparked a minor Twitter riot when prices and seating plans were finally revealed. VIP packages range from $491 for a seat in the first 20 rows to a whopping $1746 to be right up front row. A standard ticket will set you back anywhere between $36.50 and $222. Another presale for most cities on the tour began (4/30) at 10 AM. Ticket links for all dates except the NYC-area show happening on 7/11 at MetLife Stadium are at Beyonce's site.

Beyoncé and her husband Jay Z are about to have some folks missing car note payments and coming up short on the kid’s daycare bill for the couple’s first official joint concert tour, which will likely include them doing the same stuff they do at each and every show BUT… Looks like it will be another good year for Jay and Bey. Billboard reports that Bey's last tour recently "ended its yearlong run with overall revenue totaling $212 million from more than 1.8 million sold tickets at 126 concerts."Pre-sales for the long-awaited tour started yesterday, and according to Brooklyn Vegan, some of the dynamic money-making duo’s biggest stans are pretty miffed about the ridiculously high ticket prices, which are said to have some folks doling out $300 to an upwards of 1,000 a piece for decent seats. This must be the champagne wishes and caviar dreams tour.

And according to Forbes, this is one of the highest-priced tours either has ever taken part in. 

As the business magazine reports:

“In fact, when it comes to other high-profile co-headlining tours or individual solo tours by either Jay-Z or Beyoncé themselves, On the Run tickets are head and shoulders above the rest. With an average ticket price of $342.67 on the secondary market, tickets for Jay-Z & Beyoncé: On the Run are 90.16% higher than prices for Jay-Z’s solo Magna Carta tour last fall, when Jay-Z tickets were $180.20 on average. They are also 16.55% higher than tickets for Beyoncé’s Mrs. Carter Show world tour from last year, when Beyoncé tickets were priced at $294.01 on average.” And that’s without the service fee.

Okay, a Beyoncé show we can

somewhat understand  and one huge credit she gets is the amount of effort she puts into performing, which a is a good stage show. For 300 bucks, she would truly have to bring it. No replay of the same performances' prior. We're talking skydiving into the stadium with a black Baptist choir strapped to her back, and Blue Ivy on her hip while singing “Survivor!” or an aerial rope performance, some dancing bears, a parade through the audience by way of a horde of glitter-spraying unicorns, and don’t forget about a hologram duet with Michael Jackson, Tupac and Whitney Houston. Woah, for that amount of money, she better harness the power of their Illuminati affiliation …

However, and in our honest opinion, her husband Jay Z has never been a performer to warrant ticket prices that sky rocketing.  In fact, his stage shows have always benefited from having many famous guest appearances, as well as talented hype men to come on stage and kick a verse or two, including Beyoncé. Perhaps he’ll incorporate that bit into the show and bring big stars out, however, if it’s just him and Beyoncé, many may opt for watching old performances of them both on YouTube.

Like Detroit rocker Kid Rock said recently to Piers Morgan about Jay Z and his pal Justin Timberlake’s tour, where tickets with fees were around $250, “It’s garbage. It’s highway robbery.”

Those of the Carter clan are not the only ones demanding ridiculously high ticket prices. Prince does it. The Rolling Stones do it. And Michael Jackson was This Is It” farewell tour. Many didn’t like it then, and they still don’t like it now. But at the very least, you could argue that seeing Prince and The Rolling Stones is a rarity, whereas it does seem like both Jay Z and Beyoncé do some sort of concert or live performance several times per year. And it is likely that they will be performing next year too. With all the saturation, the price of admission doesn’t seem fair.

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The Carters can charge however much they believe they are worth. But honestly, the personal value of some artists, who charge these high ticket prices, seems to be dismissive of their fanbase, particularly the young and those hailing from low-income communities, whose loyal support helped to place them at the top of their genres to begin with. On a side but related note: one fan says least she has ever paid for a concert is $20. It was a Groupon ticket for the Mary J. Blige and D’Angelo performance. Her “seat” was located so far back in the venue that she was literally sitting on the lawn, but damn if those legends didn't put on a good show!

For those brave enough to pay the cost......

Beyonce & Jay Z -- 2014 Tour Dates


Wednesday, June 25 Miami, FL Sun Life Stadium

Saturday, June 28 Cincinnati, OH Great American Ballpark

Tuesday, July 1 Foxborough, MA Gillette Stadium

Saturday, July 5 Philadelphia, PA Citizen's Bank Park

Monday, July 7 Baltimore, MD M & T Bank Stadium

Wednesday, July 9 Toronto, ON Rogers Centre

Friday, July 11 East Rutherford, NJ MetLife Stadium

Tuesday, July 15 Atlanta, GA Georgia Dome

Friday, July 18 Houston, TX Minute Maid Park

Sunday, July 20 New Orleans, LA Mercedes-Benz Superdome

Tuesday, July 22 Dallas, TX AT&T Stadium

Thursday, July 24 Chicago, IL Soldier Field

Sunday, July 27 Winnipeg, MB Investor Group Field

Wednesday, July 30 Seattle, WA Safeco Field

Saturday, August 2 Los Angeles, CA Rose Bowl

Tuesday, August 5 San Francisco, CA AT&T Park