{"id":161378,"date":"2026-02-12T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161378\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:53:11","slug":"ticketmaster-opens-requests-for-ariana-grande-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161378\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticketmaster opens requests for Ariana Grande in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ticketmaster and the Moody Center are dealing with a grande problem after releasing tickets too early for Ariana Grande&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/austin.culturemap.com\/news\/entertainment\/ariana-grande-eternal-sunshine-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eternal Sunshine Tour<\/a> dates in Austin. Shows are scheduled for June 24, 26, and 27 \u2014 the latter date was added after the first two.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to a technical error, there was an inadvertent early release of Ariana Grande tickets yesterday ahead of the scheduled request window opening,&#8221; wrote the Moody Center in a February 10 announcement on X. &#8220;All tickets purchased during this period are being cancelled and fully refunded. These tickets are only available through Ticketmaster Request. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new request period is active new through Thursday, February 12, at 11 am. Buyers will still have to go through <a href=\"https:\/\/arianagrande.request.ticketmaster.com\/Splash.aspx?_gl=1*1m37vrs*_ga*NjM2MDY5MzA2LjE3NjUzODY2MTg.*_ga_C1T806G4DF*czE3NzA4Mzc5NDgkbzE0JGcxJHQxNzcwODM5NTYwJGo2MCRsMCRoMA..\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ticketmaster<\/a>. A request does not guarantee a ticket.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/austin.culturemap.com\/news\/entertainment\/ariana-grande-moody-center-tickets\/canceled%20in%20October\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">planned ticket release<\/a> in question was already a response to a selling error: the company and Grande&#8217;s team had repossessed tickets that were purchased via resellers in violation of the platform&#8217;s terms. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUlcx0wlHFu\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, Ticketmaster explained that &#8220;Fans whose resale tickets were due to a seller\u2019s violation of our terms will be prioritized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some commenters worried that Ticketmaster&#8217;s public announcements in response to the early release would simply alert scammers that tickets are available again.<\/p>\n<p>Ticketmaster has been under fire before for botching megastar tour sales, most notably Taylor Swift&#8217;s Eras Tour, when fans waited for hours and never got to purchase tickets. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ticketmaster-entertainment-inc-amy-klobuchar-minnesota-business-fd6bd24fbe88a259aa83496a898a05f9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lawmakers<\/a> questioned Live Nation and Ticketmaster and accused the system of being &#8220;monopolistic.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In 2025, the legal troubles continued as the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/key-investment-group-ftc-ticker-resellers-swift-eras-tour-3eba108c09f1e6ec59978648273b1567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sued<\/a> a ticket reseller, Key Investment Group, for inflating the price of Eras and other tour&#8217;s tickets by buying them via fake Ticketmaster accounts.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ticketmaster and the Moody Center are dealing with a grande problem after releasing tickets too early for Ariana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,575,574,30698,13527],"class_list":{"0":"post-161378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-concerts","12":"tag-live-music","13":"tag-ticketmaster","14":"tag-tours"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}