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Before every Night Ranger concert, singer/drummer Kelly Keagy—the voice behind the band’s biggest hit, “Sister Christian”—hears from fans who have waited decades to tell him their memories of the band. Turns out Keagy has been waiting just as long to hear their stories.

Night Ranger did not have an active fan club during its peak in the 1980s, when it had two top 10 singles, a top 10 album and headlined arenas around the world.  Full Story…

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The National Football League reportedly is looking at a decrease in attendance and ticket sales for the upcoming season, but you wouldn’t know it by talking to ticket brokers.

NFL primary ticket sales are expected to be off by 1 percent or 2 percent for the season, according to USA Today, and season ticket sales are slated to potentially drop 5 percent. Ticket brokers are seizing the opportunity this presents by acquiring more inventory and offering fans bargains and value-added items.  Full Story…

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One of R&B’s leading ladies will be hitting the U.S. tour circuit this fall, and she’ll be taking a couple up-and-coming acts with her.

Mary J. Blige has plans for a one-month outing that will set her on the road with an October 1 performance at the BayFest music festival in Mobile, AL, before her tour officially launches October 2 at Chastain Park Amphitheatre in Atlanta, GA.  Full Story…

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Almost 17 years to the day after he debuted with the Cleveland Indians, Manny Ramirez’ career is defined by four characteristics: He will hit the ball—often, hard and far. He will put fans into the seats. His “Manny Being Manny” act will drive his employers crazy. And he will exit on bad terms that leave his former team and its fans alike wondering if it was all worth it.

But at 38 and suffering through his worst season ever, Ramirez is no longer a sure thing to do anything but serve as a giant, dreadlocked annoyance.  Full Story…

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A New Jersey Superior Court judge recently dismissed a case filed by the state’s former Attorney General over the alleged sale of “phantom” Bruce Springsteen tickets in 2009.

TicketNetwork and Orbitz Worldwide’s Cheaptickets.com were accused of allegedly trying to sell Bruce Springsteen tickets before they were available to the public, and in some instances the tickets allegedly being sold were to seats that did not exist in the old Giants Stadium where the concerts were to take place last fall.  Full Story…

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Concert and ticketing giant Live Nation Entertainment is teaming up with technology leader Apple to sell concert tickets through Apple’s iTunes store.

Apple made the announcement today, September 1, during a press event where they debuted revamped iPod music players and other products.  Full Story…

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For brokers using StubHub, there is a new program on the market designed to make uploading ticket data to the marketplace easier and hassle free. Ticketposter.com, a New Jersey based company, has joined the ranks of ticket upload tools designed to allow for a single individual to upload multiple tickets to StubHub in one fell swoop.

Ticket Poster has developed “an automated StubHub program that adds all of your tickets in a .csv file and uploads them to StubHub.” Aimed at brokers who do not qualify for StubHub’s own uploader, the program will allow the upload of multiple tickets, putting an end to having to manually upload individual tickets one at a time.  Full Story…

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With more than a few theaters on Broadway empty and gearing up for a busy holiday season, tickets sales took a major hit last week. The box office totals from the 21 productions currently playing were down to $16,139,301, a considerable drop from the previous reporting period ending August 22 of $18,148,273.

Comparing ticket sales with the same week last year finds a total of only $16,940,465, a similar number to this year. Looking at the gross ticket sales from the same point in the season last year, ticket sales were $275,071,360 then, compared to $281,636,162 now, which is still 2.4 percent ahead.   Full Story…

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After slashing prices earlier this summer for thousands of personal seat licenses (PSLs), the New York Jets this week are releasing more tickets in an effort to fill their new shared stadium this season.

The single-game seats, about 2,000 of them, are in the upper decks and do not require a PSL to purchase. Unlike the stadium’s other tenants, the New York Giants, the Jets did not require PSLs for about 27,000 seats in the new stadium, and the 2,000 newly available seats are out of that allotment.  Full Story…

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With the start of tournament play at the U.S. Open Tennis Championship this week, the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Corona, NY took top honors in TicketNews’ exclusive venues rankings for the week ending Sunday, August 29. Holding at number four for the previous two weeks, the stadium finished strong this week on solid sales for the tournament, which began on August 30 and runs through September 12. The Arthur Ashe Stadium power scored a 3.06 this week.  Full Story…

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