Resale ticket prices for Ed Sheeran’s tour plummet
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Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour faces secondary-market turmoil as resale ticket prices have fallen sharply following the removal of opening act Macklemore.
The controversy erupted after Macklemore was dropped from the remaining North American dates over onstage “Free Palestine” remarks.
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Sheeran stated the decision came from the tour promoter rather than himself.
In the aftermath, the other scheduled openers withdrew, leaving the stadium shows without supporting acts.
Ticketdata, which tracks secondary-market pricing, reported that nine of Sheeran's next 10 North American dates saw immediate price drops after the news broke.
Across the board, resale prices dipped about 11% in the days following the announcement.
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For the Philadelphia show at Lincoln Financial Field on September 19, get-in prices fell roughly 24% from $126 to $96 since Monday, with some tracking showing declines of 25–29% over a week; listings on StubHub reached as low as $65 for upper-level seats.
Similar softening hit other stops.
At Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts (September 25–26), prices “fallen way off,” according to local ticket brokers, with front-section seats listed as low as $190 and upper-level options starting around $78 on some platforms.
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Seats remained widely available on the primary market through Ticketmaster, and some cities even saw rare “buy one, get one free” promotions.
Fans trying to offload unwanted tickets have struggled.
On a Facebook group dedicated to Loop Tour resales, one commenter wrote: “I don’t wanna go anymore but it doesn’t look like anyone actually buys the tickets posted here.”
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Another complained about limited official resale options even at cost.
A Ticketdata representative observed that some pre-show softening is typical for this tour—prices often drop about 22% in the two weeks before a date—but acknowledged the Philadelphia decline “is clearly pushing the edge of what you’d normally expect.”
