Zach Bryan Sets Concert Record

Zach Bryan

Zach Bryan made history this weekend by performing for the largest ticketed concert audience in US history.

The sold-out show packed about 112,000 fans inside Michigan Stadium for headliner Zach Bryan and openers John Mayer and Ryan Bingham and the Texas Gentlemen and Joshua Slone.

Public tickets for the concert sold out over the course of just two hours back in February. The 112,000 ticket sales set Saturday’s concert up to be the most-attended non-festival concert in North American history.

The Starting Line Talk With Rolling Stone

The Starting Line

The Starting Line caught up with Rolling Stone to talk about their new album:

I had held the first three records on some sort of pedestal because we were playing them so much and people obviously had an attachment to those songs. And so when I was telling [Tim] that I don’t know if people are gonna care, he just said, ‘I think that’s just insecurity talking.’ And he explained that if we did want to make a record, it would just be a higher likelihood of people getting to hear it in general. He said that even putting our efforts on a seven inch, you’re just minimising the chances of people being exposed to it. And that sounded very sensical to me. So, and as soon as he said the insecurity thing, it really was a perfect reverse psychology on me where I was like, ‘I’m not insecure. I’m better at songwriting now than I’ve ever been.’ And I do feel that in my heart of hearts.

Jack Antonoff Responds to Live Nation Head

Jack Antonoff

Jack Antonoff responded to the head of Live Nation, Michael Rapino, who said on a recent earnings call that concert ticket prices were too cheap:

I always joke: Sports – it’s like a badge of honor to spend 70 grand for a Knicks courtside [seat]. They beat me up if we charge $800 for Beyonce, right? We have a lot of runway left. So when you read about the ticket prices going up, it’s still – average concert price is $72. Try going to a Laker game for that, and there’s 80 of them, or whatever the hell. So the concert is underpriced, has been for a long time.

Antonoff responded on Xitter:

answer is simple: selling a ticket for more than its face value should be illegal. then there is no chaos and you give us back the control instead of creating a bizarre free market of confusion amongst the audience who we love and care for.