Off the back of her chart-topping album Mayhem, Lady Gaga is heading to Australia for the first time in 11 years, with Live Nation.
The Just Dance hitmaker will bring 'The MAYHEM Ball Tour' to Melbourne's Marvel Stadium on December 5, Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium on December 9, and Sydney's Accor Stadium on December 12.
The last time Gaga toured Down Under was on the 2014 ArtRave: The Artpop Ball jaunt.
It will mark her debut stadium shows in the country. However, fans were left gobsmacked by the hefty prices when tickets went on sale last week, with one fan remarking on X: "Lady Gaga needs to be arrested for her tour prices that are criminal." Responding to the disappointment from fans, a Ticketmaster spokesperson told LADbible: "Ticketmaster does not use any form of algorithmic or surge pricing, which changes prices automatically in response to consumer demand.
“Ticketmaster also does not use any form of differential pricing by which the price of a ticket will depend on the characteristics or behaviour of the purchaser." Ticketmaster, which is owned by Live Nation, is responsible for the ticket sales in Melbourne and Brisbane. Ticketek is separately handling the Sydney show because of its affiliation with the Sydney venue, Accor Stadium. Melbourne fans have attacked Ticketmaster online and cursed out dynamic ticket pricing, which adjusts ticket prices in real time based on demand; some single seats cost as much as $5,000. Ticketek, the official ticket agent for Lady Gaga’s Sydney show, told Guardian Australia on Wednesday that pre-sale tickets for Sydney were not dynamically priced.
But Ticketek’s page for Lady Gaga’s concert includes the warning that “the price of a ticket offered for sale for this event may increase or decrease anytime prior to the event, based on demand.”
A Ticketmaster spokesperson told Guardian Australia: “Ticketmaster does not have surge pricing or dynamic algorithms to adjust ticket prices. Tickets were priced in advance of the sale and set at the individual seat level.”
