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As Madonna fans in the UK know to their cost, tickets for rock and pop concerts keep getting more expensive.
The price of a seat for the London gigs in the singer’s forthcoming Confessions On A Dancefloor tour ranges from £80 to £160, with an additional £13 booking fee.
Judging from e-mails received by the BBC News website, there are plenty of people who are prepared to pay. For every person denouncing the ticket costs as an “outrage”, there is a fan who feels the show is “worth every penny”.
Of course, veteran Madonna-watchers will be used to such high prices by now.
It’s been just two years since her Re-Invention tour, which saw UK tickets selling for up to £150 and grossed $125m (£71m) worldwide – more than any other star’s concerts that year.
In fact, Madonna is one of the key beneficiaries of some powerful economic forces that have re-shaped the world of live music – for better or for worse.
Since the start of the 1980s, the superstar effect has become more pronounced in rock and pop, with a small number of performers taking an ever larger share of the spoils.
Research into the market in the US, where the trend started, has found that in 1982, the top 1% of artists received 26% of concert revenue. By 2003, that figure had gone up to 56%.
source : bbc

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