Taylor Swift tickets are listed in the thousands after dumping millions on Ticketmaster

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CNN Business
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Taylor Swift The fans were seeing red Tuesday when Ticket Master He was overwhelmed with demand as pre-sales of the singer’s new online tour began. The delays have many fans thinking they’ll never get tickets (…as ever). But tickets to a pop star “Eras Tour” They were available on Wednesday via the resale market – with some priced in the tens of thousands of dollars.

Tickets for Swift’s show at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on May 26 are listed for $21,600 each on ticket resale site StubHub.

This price will make the fans a place on the floor in front of the stage. As for just getting into the stadium – that would cost at least $350 on Stubhub.

These high prices aren’t just for performances at MetLife, which is located just outside New York City. The other dates on Swift’s 52 show tour required insane amounts of money, too.

Floor seats for the tour’s opening night on March 17 in Glendale, Arizona are listed for $17,010 while floor tickets for Swift’s show in Atlanta on April 28 are listed for $35,438.

To put those numbers in context, last season’s Super Bowl tickets between the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles They averaged $10,427, with the cheapest seats costing around $7,000.

A StubHub representative told CNN Business Wednesday that the resale site has several Swift tickets selling for around “$150 with an average of about $600.” However, they do note that it is pre-sale only at the moment “so demand is at its highest levels and those prices will stabilize.”

The company also noted that “listing prices are not an indication of demand or what the market can handle.”

As for Ticketmaster, the company released a statement on Tuesday via Twitter saying “there has been historically unprecedented demand with millions showing up” for tickets for Swift’s tour. The company told customers still waiting in the virtual queue that it was moving on and “wait a bit.”

Although demand for and pricing for Swift’s tour, which ends Aug. 9 in Los Angeles, is astronomical, it speaks to just how popular it is.

Swift has achieved countless successes over the course of her career, has built up a loyal fan following – known as the “Swifties” – and recently became the first female artist ever to simultaneously claim all 10 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 following the release of her latest album and “midnight” which was released last month.

— CNN’s Jordan Valensky contributed to this report.