Does Ticketmaster have a stranglehold on concert ticketing — or is it just ‘bringing joy’?0

• Antitrust, Entertainment, Policy, Report
• March 4, 2026

In a downtown Manhattan courtroom on Monday, lawyers for the US Justice Department and 40 state and district attorneys general warned a jury that the concert industry was being squeezed by a monopolist: Live Nation-Tickemaster. After amassing dominance over ticketing and artists’ use of large amphitheaters, lead DOJ counsel David Dahlquist alleged, Live Nation constructed