Madonna Wants Your Money - ALL Your Money, Bitches!!!
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We're not sure how we feel about this!
Not only does Madonna charge upwards of $300 for the best seats on her tour, but now she wants a piece of the ticket scalpers' pie.
Yup!
Ticket scalpers (or "brokers" as they like to be called) buy up the majority of concert tickets, leaving many die hard fans to turn to other venues to buy their tix.
Now, Madonna is going into bed with the enemy!
Her Madgesty is the first artist to make a deal with StubHub, which is owned by eBay and lets people legally scalp (or "resell") their concert tickets.
M will get a base fee PLUS a cut of all the ticket sales.
So, in theory, the higher U pay for your ticket on StubHub, the more money she makes.
Why would Madonna (or anyone) wanna encourage ticket scalping/reselling????
Money isn't everything in life!
Re: Greta Hotsnatch – Maho stopped being with us a long time ago, you deluded fool.
Boo. COME ON MADONNA - THINK OF YOUR FANS.
this is one fucked up bitch!!! talk about a fucking ingrate. fuck it!!! i'll never se this cunt live again!!
Sorry, nobody is worth $300. I saw her show last tour and it was AMAZING, but my tix were under $100. Sounds like she doesn't care about her true-fans that don't have $300 to flip at her. It's all about making money, not the fans who actually listen and buy her cds.
I've always been a Madonna fan, since I first heard Holiday in the earky 1980's. Even through the awkward hiccups of Madonna's career. But even though I academically understand the "If you can't beat them, join them" idea, I must say this does seem irrational and unnecesary. You're already rich, Madonna. Give a little something back to your fans. This is just a slap in the face.
Re: mrs jones –
Spare us your Marxist 'critique', dude.
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Madonna is a OLD HAG! Perez who really cares about her anyways? Stop promoting her.
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The brokers should be out of it anyways! They are selling their tickets for profit. This only stops them from making a profit off of her and she's the one doing all the work! Maybe that will help lower the price of the tickets, ever think of that?
Madonna does this because she uses everyone she touches — she does not care about her fans, she cares about herself. When are you going to stop promoting this inhuman creation? Madonna represents everything most materialistic and empty about society. She will use anyhting to promote herself and then move on.
I can't believe her!!!! I guess I will have to wait for the concert to be released on DVD. Boo to MADGE!!!
… even surprise you, Perez? Madonna has always been long on greed and a lust for power and short on talent and appreciation for the few remaining fans she has left. She's 50 years old now and her glory days are long gone so she's going to make damn sure she makes as much money as possible from the suckers who go to her concerts or buy her "music" before she is forced to quit the business entirely.
bitch!!!she love too much money!when she dies,shewill want to be buried with!
and 300$/ticket=only for rich!!!!
*HOW ABOUT A FREE SHOW OR GIVE THE MONEY TO CHARITY*
WHAT A CUNT!!!!!
That really pisses me off! Not cool Madonna!!
Fuck this nasty fucking cunt….she's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO overrated!!!!
makes perfect sense to me. i mean, it sucks when people can't get tickets because of scalpers, but why should they be able to keep all of the money they make when they sell tickets for a large amount? besides, did you ever think that she may have thought that this might be a way to keep StubHub for selling soooo many tickets? They might not snatch so many up away from fans now.
Well..She is the MATERIAL GIRL after all….
you are so full of shit. in this item u say that money isnt everything, but then, in the item below, you say that this movie thing didnt earn enough, right?
this so so american of you, such a shitty nation.
please stop posting that photo of an elderly cat woman on crack, it makes my eyes burn.
Probably the best buiseness move the music industry will ever know, The tickets WILL be sold and bought anyways by scalpers ,why can't the artist profit more?….Long live the queen!!
WHO CAN LOVE AN OLD (VERY OLD) Bitch !!
She makes me laugh … she looks stupid. Still movin' ass grandma …. it's flippy !!!!!!!!!
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That is total crap. Madonna is a sell out. So much for her giving a shit about her fans. Like she needs to money anyway….I have always disliked her as a person but now I really can't stand the bitch.
Fans should boycott all shows from entertainers who shared in the profit of scalpers..this will leave scalpers holding the bag for all the tix they bought and couldn't resell and send the entertainer a message not to encourage scalping.
Thats terrible. Way to be nice to your fans Madonna!! Wutta BIATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES YES YES!
TALK ABOUT HER!!!!!!
GOOD OR BAD… IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!!!
WE HABE BEEN DOING IT FOR 25 YEARS!!
MADONNA IS THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!!!!
TALK ABOUT HER!!!!!!
GOOD OR BAD… IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!!!
WE HABE BEEN DOING IT FOR 25 YEARS!!
MADONNA IS THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!!!!
TALK ABOUT HER!!!!!!
GOOD OR BAD… IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!!!
WE HABE BEEN DOING IT FOR 25 YEARS!!
MADONNA IS THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!!!!
TALK ABOUT HER!!!!!!
GOOD OR BAD… IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!!!
WE HABE BEEN DOING IT FOR 25 YEARS!!
MADONNA IS THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!!!!
TALK ABOUT HER!!!!!!
GOOD OR BAD… IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!!!
WE HABE BEEN DOING IT FOR 25 YEARS!!
MADONNA IS THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!!!!
TALK ABOUT HER!!!!!!
GOOD OR BAD… IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!!!
WE HABE BEEN DOING IT FOR 25 YEARS!!
MADONNA IS THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!!!!
TALK ABOUT HER!!!!!!
GOOD OR BAD… IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!!!
WE HABE BEEN DOING IT FOR 25 YEARS!!
MADONNA IS THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!!!!
britneys album sold more albums the first week than madonna's and britney had noooooooooooo promotion….HAHAHA
bitch! just don't go see this shitty bitch!
MI DOVREBBE LECCARE IL CAZZO PER FARMI ANDARE AD UN SUO CONCERTO!
not to mention, her music sucks
Musicians can no longer be guaranteed any kind of money from record sales because of illegal file sharing and downloading, so they are going to make their money any which way they can, which will be through touring and merchandise. You'll see other artists following in her footsteps.
i think that the people who would pay out of their means (and let's face it - that what most people will do) to go see her deserve to be screwed. she SUCKS! and her fans are STUPID!!
Ummmm…and scalpers should get our money why?
Perez, thanks for bringing attention to this! I feel like concert ticket prices are already out of hand! I didn't think it could get much worse. I would love to see Madonna in concert but unfortunately, I'm not made of money…
The fact is she can't legally stop this type of reselling. Since she can't do anything to legally prevent it, why let a third party get any profit if she can't? As I see it, she should get as much as she can. She isn't in business to make money for some hack scalping her tickets.
Her Tickets cost in Europe 150 Euro. Thats a lot! I cant see her concert cause no one of my friends wants to pay this money and i dont wanna go alone
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Does she really needs the Mones? like duh
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This is really not fair. Shes full of money. Id rather go to an Linkin Park konzert for 60 Euro. Or Coldplay for 50 Euro.
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Money is not everything Madge!!!!!
Get it!
Madonna is a greedy bitch… She wants to make profit twice on the same ticket??? Why would StubHub make a deal like that with her? What benefit comes their way from such a crappy arrangement?
yes,we are not so rich, think of ours
Well they don't call this gash the "material girl" for nothing.
For Madge Ciccone, It's never been about art,. or songwriting,or singing. It's all about Money for her. It's gay money she's usurping. Wake Up Queenas!!!
Your Madgesty wants your money!!! Just like a true Kabbalist.
Re: Rufus –
Yeah thats right, but they make a lot of Money with other deals like own Perfume line, clothing lines and other commercial contracts! They get Millions for showing their face on the covers…..
If there is demand for her tickets, the price will go up, period. She should figure out how to auction all of her tickets and not let a single one wind up on stub hub. People who say she should offer tickets cheaper don't seem to understand this. The only thing unfair about madonna's arangement with stub hub is that she doesn't get ALL of the money from ticket sales, merely 10 percent.
Madonna is soooo over…I actually defended her when someone said that just a few months ago…that I heard that poor excuse for a song, 4 Minutes, and realized it's true…that song is shit…her voice is shit…and this $300 for tickets, etc. is craziness!
Yeah, technically its shady an a bit greedy, but I rather her get the money than some scalper. After all, she's the one up on stage working her ass off, not some fat man who's been profiting off of her and other artists for year by ripping off the fans.
Does this surprise anyone??? Her deal with LiveNation has already proved what a greedy, money-grubbing cow she is. Hey, someone's gotta' keep the Kabbalah Center in business….
Prince just called. He says that he saw this bitch's picture up in heeeeeere and he wants to tittie fuk the hell out of her. He says that her fan screwing tactics turn him on.
Wow Madonna is selling out?? (No pun intended)
Re: anabanana – I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT A STUPID TWAT YOU ARE!!!! USING ALL CAPS TO GET YOUR DUMB POINT ACROSS!!!!!
"Good business woman"? Puh-leeze. This is just GREED, plain and simple. Oh, and C-O-N-T-R-O-L, from the world's most narcissistic, under-talented control freak.
You people are all suckers if you buy tickets to this bitch's concerts.
Madonna is a twat.
Meanwhile Prince the little midget is walking around with a boner the size of Manhattan.
MADGE IS KING. Shes just getting what shes due.its her name all over the place, alot of ppl will make money from hard candy, shes just getting her cut.It should all be hers.
I thought it's all about the fans (isn't this gonna be her last album?), making them happy giving back for all the support and love for her, not so god damn expensive tickets. Double dipping is fucked up!!!!
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Being "Madonna" takes lots of money! Face work, and concerts that are like Ringling Brothers — millions of $ of distractions so maybe folks won't notice how lame(r) she has become.
Behind all the "magic" curtain, she's as patheic as the old Wizard of Oz.
Kooky "fierce", masochistic friends of dorothy have their whole lives invested in Madonna's wretched fantasy. She knows they'll keep chasing good money after bad. Wake up, drama queens! Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
What the FUCK. I am a licensed ticket broker and we are NOT scalpers. HOWEVER I do NOT agree whatsoever about this dumb cunt making a deal with StubHub. Dosnt she have enough MONEY and NOT to mention her team is the one who set the price of the tickets in the first place. 350 dollars a ticket COME ON. NO ONE is worth seeming that. That just SUCKS
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I love the argument some people are making that she SHOULD profit from scalpers' ticket sales. Hey, sure, let's just compound greed with more greed!!! What a way to thank her gullible fans, who have been responsible for her lengthy success. If Madonna really cared about her fans, she would be using her "good business" sense to set up a system where scalpers cannot gain majority control of the ticket sales.
She keeps this crap up and she'll forgo any sales at all. She's nothing to me anyway; never has been. I've never seen the attraction to her.
I WILL NOT SUPPORT ANY STAR THAT DOES THIS. There has to be a way to control scalpers however. People need to quit buying up the tickets at ridiculous rates. Assinine.
It makes me laugh how some people (prolly moomoo fans pretending to be M's fans) say oh 300 bucks.. last concert was 100 bucks..blah blah blah.
Her previous concerts have ALWAYS been around that price range.
If u dont wanna pay 300 bucks but still wanna go, dont sit on the front rows and pay 60 bucks then!
You try to make it sound like regardless where u sit the ticket price is still 300 bucks.
Oh and buy your own tickets so u dont have to buy them from scalpers. Problem solved!
LOL
MADONNA IS HERE TO STAY!!!
She's a money hungry bitch, that's why. I'm over this idiot since she moved to England and started talking in an accent. She's from Detroit, Michigan for god sakes!!
Re: Wendy Porter – If you pay that much you're an idiot and contributing to the problem. It should be open for everyone to afford. God knows, they make enough money anyway. They don't NEED MORE. Idiot. Re: Wendy Porter –
Re: redsongia – The idea that it's "demand" that's going to cost the average concert goer 250.00- 500.00 a ticket is RIDICULOUS! Sure, concert goers are paying for much higher priced tickets than they did 10 years ago but THEY didn't drive the prices up - the artists did when they started to selling their tickets at extortionist prices. For many people, they'll limit the number of concerts they go to now just so they can meet the price demand to see their one favorite artist. The whole thing is despicable and we can thank those old farts, The Eagles, for setting this trend.
PIGREZ-PLEASE STOP GIVING THIS OLD DRIED UP SKANK COVERAGE, SHE IS ANNOYING AND WHO CARES ABOUT HER NEW ALBUM WHERE SHE IS DESPERATLEY TRYING TO STAY RELEVANT, EXCEPT FOR GAYS!?!
deal with it, ppl. with her it has ALWAYS been about the $. she doesn't care to help out fans during these hard times we are ALL having. i can watch her lip-synch on TV if i want to see her. the seats will be better, the sound will be better, and i can turn her off when she starts to suck…um, i mean when they turn her actual vocal mic up to see if she's singing in tune. britney, madonna, these ppl can't sing. it's all hype!! smoke and mirrors, the emporess has no clothes…
why is anyone even surprised by this? She has always been a money-driven shrew!
Perez Quote: "Money isn't everything in this life."
It apparently is for this Bitch, Madonna.
omg, all these comments are so funny! Madonna is a bitch for doing that. But what Celebrity isn't a bitch? Kimora Lee Simmons is a bitch for the way she treat her employees or whatever.
I love Madonna and I don't care how much of a bitch she is! She's the Queen of Pop, the Queen Bitch, so she can do whatever she pleases. And it's her damn concert. She has the right to charge people how ever much she wants to charge them. Though, that's gonna be tough on the wallet.
This Sh@t makes me crazy!! I live in Hawaii and we are one of the only states left that allow legal concert "scalping." Which means any concert, big or small, gets sold out usually in less than ten minutes online!!! What is frustrating is that when you go to these shows, half the stands are empty 'cuz nobody wants to spend $200 on a $30 ticket!! And now big names (Madge) are buying into this "legal" loop hole ploy? I've always been a die hard fan…but this is a deal breaker…. fans or money? I guess "rappers" are all about the dollah dollah bill ya'll; guess I wish I could just be there to witness it.
Its called capitalism. Why shouldn"t Madonna get a cut of $ earned of her art?
pretty smart….it does not matter , she will sell out every show and probably break her own record….she really is the queen.
and it is wrong for brokers to sell tickets for so much more……they can't be stopped and every artist not only M deserves their money….why should she sell tickets for 100 bucks and brokers get 500 for them, and she or any other artist gets zilch.
It's all wrong…..but she is smart and sexy
You are so uneducated, you poor fatty.
It makes business sense. StubHub would have sold them anways, as they always do, everytime she goes on tour.
Why shouldn't she get a percentage of the ticket sales? Its her show.
Ebay does the SAME thing on their own site, for fucks sake, and you don't hear anyone complaining!
Perez, you really can't stand Madonna and are just making shit up to cause trouble.
I think it's divine!!!! She is brilliant!!! Why should some random scalper (who is gonna make a profit off of her anyway) get the money that is rightfully hers? She is shrewd and also a great philanthropist….She will use the money smartly….
Are they gays really going to keep funding this unappreciative cunt??
I would assume it's not actually Madonna… Since she signed on with that company that is going to handle all her cd releases, concert touring and what not, they're probably the ones that are controlling everything…
As I've said for years: Madonna is a hyprocrite. Holier than thow, but don't hold her to the standards she feels YOU must live up to… she's far to good for that. She feels the "rich" get to many tax breaks, but I don't see her giving her hard earned (scalped) cash to Aids or Cancer research, or schools, or for the poor - just a few K for cabalah. Put her next to Jonny Depp and George Clooney, and Jeanne Garafalow. Oh yeah, Lets not forget Michael Moore.
she looks like a old drag queen so mabe she needs the money
madonna is a money hungry greedy stupid bitch with a fake english accent, i fucking hate her…i dont know who she thinks she is…i hope she goes bankrupt one day…fuck her concerts i wouldnt pay a cent to see her fake ass
I'm tired of seeing these GROSS promo shots of Madonna in a fucking boxing bathing suit, or whatever it is. These pictures make me wanna throw up - SHE LOOKS PALE, AND OLD. RETIRE RETIRE RETIRE RETIRE
Typical fucking greed. Like charging $300 isn't a slap in the face to many people anyway. If you hard up enough to go through a broker you're going to pay a bazillion times that because since they pay local taxes, maintain an office and pay associated business fees to their county of residence they can legally charge 80 bazillion times the face value or give a forum in which those that managed to grab some tickets that weren't bought up can offer theirs at the same ridiculous prices. Pretty fucking balsy nowadays when a lot of people are cutting back and having a hard time financially. It's super when some rich cunt wants more of the action. It's never enough money. It's making it nearly impossible to afford going to see a band these days. Especially at a smaller venue. So instead of going Pearl Jam on it she wants to get more of that money. She can go fuck herself. I say folks should boycott this bitch and the others that will surely follow suit. But then again if you pay through the nose to see her dumb ass you should be charged a stupid tax anyway. Stop buying over priced tickets and maybe the money whores will get the message.
Music moguls, unlike the normally warm and generous musicians, sometimes seem to be cold and mercenary. They make exacting plans to get the highest profits, and then often present the plans to the artists in a seemingly palatable way. A little less greed on the one hand and a little more discrimination on the other hand might help to lift the music industry out of the degradation it seems to be falling into.
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I agree with you mad08
She sucks anyway…her voice…he attitude…she thinks she is so hot…she needs a mirror…Ugly, money grabbing, bitch! She was a slut back when she started…she still is…look at that pose on her new CD…I bet her kids are proud!! Some Mom! NOW THIS!! Sure shows her true colors! I can't believe her husband is till with her!
But then again, brokers do need the money. So it's understandable. Not everyone has $300 or more for a Madonna concert, or any concert. But that is a msart buisness move. But she is a bitch for doing that. I still love her though!
You're WAY off base here, Perez. Why should SCALPERS make all the money on tickets that they buy and then charge up to THOUSANDS of dollars for?
If a fan wants to spent money on a ticket, I would rather see it go to Madonna,
then a low-life scalper!! All you've done (yet again) is invite Whoria's precious
little sacraficial lambs to trash 'M'. Why don't you just keep reporting on Whoria's tired (publicity stunt) wedding, to fuel sales for her rapidly failing
2nd single (which isn't helping, by the way).
Madonna's not greedy, she's smart. That extra money is going to Malawi,
or some other place that she wants to help out. So f*ck off all you haters,
and shame on you, Perez, for fueling this stupid 'so called' fued between
Madonna and Whoria.
Anybody who would pay to see this withered old hag lipsynch "Material girl" for more than $5.95 is a frigging moron anyway,so I think she might as well take advantage of their retarded asses anyway.
Anyone who would pay more than 20 bucks for that mediocre voice ho's concert is out of their minds.
Oh god, Prince says that he is going to really have a squirt over this .
I think its fabulous!!! If they are going to be making money off of her, she should get a cut. Its only fair!!! And Perez come on!!! You have built a business by tearing other people down. I read somewhere that you make 20 MILLION dollars a year. "Money isn't everything in life"….stop being such a HYPOCRIT.
She's a self-centered, indignant, morally superior bitch…double-dipping now allowed, my dear. Maybe they allow that elsewhere, but in the U.S. that's not how we do it…or did you forget what its like to live here???
WHAT A BITCH-SLAP TO HER FANS. YOU SUCK. YOU JUST LOST A FAN.
Who cares? Her stupid fans are still going to pay throught the nose to se this twat in stupid costume doing idiotic movements.
"Money isn't everything in life"…..Stop being such a hypocrit Perez!!! You make 20 MILLION dollars a year to TEAR PEOPLE DOWN!!! You have some nerve!!! I think this arrangement is only fair. If they are making money off Madonna, then she has EVERY RIGHT to want a piece of the pie!!!!
Oh Madonna, why? I won't be going to her concert if she tours here.
She does all the work!! She should get all the reward!!
it's just business. they're gonna 'scalp' no matter what and they are making a profit off brand madonna- why shouldn't she get her cut? in some ways it may even deter scalping as it will either a) raise the ticket prices so high no one will buy or b) piss the scalpers off and make them turn to some other form of making money.
Vagonna is washed up. Look at her: her thighs look like pencils, her hips have no meat, her face is over botoxed, her lips are collegeened up. She looks like a old granny trying to hold on to her faded youth. Wait, she is old enough to be a granny. This is her last hoorah. Vagonna needs to retire and raise that brood she is aquiring like an Angelina Jolie wanna be. If she was serious about trying to charity, she would give up some of tha 100's of millions to help poor and starving in impoverishe countries instead of being a poser.
Re: Prince called again….. –
Yeah, Prince must be loving the fact that all attention is not on him and his money pinching old ass!