Jack Antonoff calls on ticketing industry to let artists "opt out of dynamic pricing”

Yesterday (5 February) Jack Antonoff picked up the Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical Grammy for the second consecutive year, and while speaking to the press after his win, he spoke about ticket pricing for music events, and how artists shouldn't be blamed for the ridiculous prices on tickets for shows by acts including Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, Beyoncé and more.

Stereogum reports that Antonoff said: "The whole thing is incredibly tough. There’s no reason why - if I can go online and buy a car and have it delivered to my house, why can’t a buy a fucking ticket at the price that the artist wants it to be? So it’s that simple. And you know the reason why. It’s not ’cause of artists. So the one thing that I would say while holding a microphone is everybody’s got to chill on the artists. Because everyone’s trying to figure it out. We know who’s making it impossible.

"Look, I’ve asked very simple things of the industry. Let artists opt out of dynamic pricing. Stop taxing merch, and let artists sell tickets at a price that they actually believe. Don’t turn a live show into a free market. That’s really dirty. Charge what you think is fair. But if one person $50 is nothing, and one person $50 is more than they could ever spend, you’re creating a situation where a different group can come together at one price. The second everything fluctuates is the second that everything goes K-shaped and turns into a weird free market. That’s not what we do."