Taylor Swift made a shock look on the 2022 American Music Awards in LA on Sunday to just accept the  Favourite Pop Album award – amid her tour ticket fiasco with Ticketmaster.

Accepting the gong for 2021’s Purple (Taylor’s Model), the star, 32, who skipped the pink carpet stated: ‘Wow. This album is a re-recorded album, and I can’t let you know how a lot my rerecorded albums imply to me, however I by no means anticipated or assumed that they’d imply something to you. 

‘So I can’t thanks sufficient for caring about this album that I’m so pleased with. I’ve some individuals who made this occur who I actually need to thank.    

Purple (Taylor’s Model) was considered one of six albums Taylor re-recorded after Scooter Braun bought her complete music catalog out from beneath her after which bought it with out her data for $300million to Shamrock Holdings. 

She added: ‘Chris Row who co-produced this album with me, hours and hours and hours within the studio recreating Purple, an album I really like a lot. I need to thank all of the artists who featured on the vault tracks, 

Wow: Taylor Swift made a shock look on the 2022 American Music Awards in LA on Sunday to just accept the Favourite Pop Album award – amid her tour ticket fiasco with Ticketmaster.

‘Chris Stapleton, Phoebe Bridgers. I need to thank my dwell touring band who performed on this album, and I need to take a second — there was a music video that I did that I used to be very joyful about, so I need to say thanks to Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brian, and my sensible director Blake Energetic, and Mike Teller and Kelly Teller for being within the music video. 

‘I need to thanks guys for making this a chance for To the followers, I can’t thanks sufficient. That is so particular. Thanks.’

Taylor, who final week revealed she was ‘p****d off’ following Ticketmaster’s botched dealing with of gross sales for her The Eras Tour, appeared radiant in a glittering gold backless jumpsuit.

The Bejeweled hitmaker confirmed of a touch of her cleavage within the Hollywood glamor quantity, together with her tresses styled in tender waves.

What fiasco? Taylor, who final week revealed she was ‘p****d off’ following Ticketmaster’s botched dealing with of gross sales for her The Eras Tour, appeared radiant in a glittering gold backless jumpsuit

Feud: Purple (Taylor’s Model) was considered one of six albums Taylor re-recorded after Scooter Braun bought her complete music catalog out from beneath her after which bought it with out her data for $300million to Shamrock Holdings (Braun pictured 2019)

Launch: The star launched Purple (Taylor’s model) in 2021 and the album achieved renewed success

Delight: Taylor appeared emotional as she accepted the award for her re-recorded album

Again in 2019, Taylor known as Scooter out over the sale in a social media put up and claimed that he deliberately saved her in the dead of night whereas he turned a hefty revenue on her arduous work. 

Previous to that, in 2019 Braun had bought Nashville-based impartial document label Massive Machine, first taking the rights to Taylor’s physique of labor and on the time, she voiced public outrage at being minimize out of the deal.

Swift stated the information made her ‘unhappy and grossed out’ as a result of, partially, she claims Braun perpetuated ‘incessant, manipulative bullying’ towards her for years.

Gorgeous: The Bejeweled hitmaker confirmed of a touch of her cleavage within the Hollywood glamor quantity, together with her tresses styled in tender waves

Glitz: The star appeared unbelievable in her gold bejewelled quantity as she accepted the award

This comes as Ticketmaster blamed a ‘staggering variety of bot assaults’ for inflicting a tidal wave of issues for Taylor followers searching for to buy tickets for her Eras Tour.

On November 1, Swift introduced a 27-date tour throughout 20 U.S. cities, operating from March to August subsequent yr – sparking fan chaos.

Tickets went on sale on Tuesday, however what Ticketmaster termed a ‘historically unprecedented demand’ from hundreds of thousands of followers noticed the positioning crash repeatedly and the method descend right into a fiasco, together with her supporters livid on the hovering costs and spending hours ready in line.

Final week Swift has blasted Ticketmaster for the mayhem surrounding her latest ticket sale, claiming that she was ‘assured’ the corporate might deal with the excessive demand ‘a number of instances’

Ticketmaster canceled her public sale as a result of ‘inadequate remaining tickets’

Taylor blasted Ticketmaster for the mayhem surrounding her latest ticket sale, claiming that she was ‘assured’ the corporate might deal with the excessive demand ‘a number of instances’ and calling it ‘excruciating’ to ‘watch errors occur with no recourse.’ 

Ticketmaster has cancelled the scheduled public sale of tickets for Taylor Swift’s Eras tour on Friday, citing ‘excessive calls for on ticketing programs and inadequate remaining ticket stock.’

In a tweet, Ticketmaster stated ‘On account of terribly excessive calls for on ticketing programs and inadequate remaining ticket stock to fulfill that demand, tomorrow’s public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled.’

Now, Taylor has spoken out concerning the state of affairs in a press release posted to her Instagram Tales, and she or he stated she is simply as ‘pissed off’ as everybody else is.

‘It goes with out saying that I’m extraordinarily protecting of my followers,’ she started within the prolonged put up. 

‘We’ve been doing this for many years collectively and over time, I’ve introduced so many components of my profession in home.’

Taylor went on to clarify – with out mentioning the corporate by title – that she selected to make use of Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan system as a result of she thought it could ‘enhance the standard of her followers’ expertise,’ regardless of it being ‘actually troublesome’ for her to ‘belief an outdoor entity.’

Swift completed the record-breaking feat of getting all 10 of the Billboard Prime 100 singles directly, with 10 songs from her new album Midnights

Response: The positioning has issued a prolonged response blaming bots and followers with out invite codes for inflicting ‘unprecedented site visitors’ of three.5billion customers – 4 instances the conventional quantity.

‘I’ve achieved this SPECIFICALLY to enhance the standard of my followers’ expertise by doing it myself with my group, who care as a lot about my followers as I do,’ she continued. 

‘It’s actually troublesome for me to belief an outdoor entity with these relationships and loyalties, and excruciating for me to simply watch errors occur with no recourse.’ 

The Cardigan songstress added that there have been ‘a number of the reason why individuals had such a tough time attempting to get tickets’ and that she’s at present ‘attempting to determine how the state of affairs might be improved shifting ahead.’

‘I’m not going to make excuses for anybody as a result of we requested them, a number of instances, if they may deal with this type of demand and we have been assured they may,’ she stated. 

‘It’s really superb that 2.4 million individuals acquired tickets, nevertheless it actually pisses me off that plenty of them really feel like they went via a number of bear assaults to get them.’

She concluded her message with a be aware to those that weren’t in a position to get their palms on a ticket, writing, ‘All I can say is that my hope is to supply extra alternatives for us all to get collectively and sing these songs.

‘Thanks for desirous to be there. You don’t have any thought how a lot meaning.’   

Now, after Tennessee’s legal professional normal Jonathan Skrmetti revealed he was launching an investigation into Ticketmaster, the positioning has issued a prolonged response blaming bots and followers with out invite codes for inflicting ‘unprecedented site visitors’ of three.5billion customers – 4 instances the conventional quantity.

A press release learn: ‘The Eras on sale made one factor clear: Taylor Swift is an unstoppable drive and continues to set data. We attempt to make ticket shopping for as simple as attainable for followers, however that hasn’t been the case for many individuals attempting to purchase tickets for the Eras Tour. We need to share some data to assist clarify what occurred.

Ticketmaster defined that followers wanted to register with their system Verified Fan earlier than the sale started, which is designed to ‘assist handle excessive demand reveals – figuring out actual people and removing bots.’   

The assertion continued: ‘Based mostly on fan curiosity at registration we knew this is able to be large. Over 3.5 million individuals pre-registered for Taylor’s Verified Fan, which is the biggest registration in historical past.  

‘The massive demand for Taylor’s tour knowledgeable the artist group’s resolution so as to add further dates – doubling the tour and variety of tickets out there so extra followers might make it to reveals.

‘Traditionally, round 40% of invited followers really present up and purchase tickets, and most buy a median of three tickets. So working with the artist group, round 1.5 million individuals have been invited to take part within the on sale for all 52 present dates, together with the 47 bought by Ticketmaster.

‘The remaining 2 million Verified Followers have been placed on the ready listing.’

Including the demand for Taylor ‘broke data and elements of our web site’, the assertion continued: ‘Traditionally, working with Verified Fan invite codes has labored as we’ve been in a position to handle the quantity coming into the positioning to buy tickets. 

‘Nonetheless, this time the staggering variety of bot assaults in addition to followers who didn’t have invite codes drove unprecedented site visitors on our web site, leading to 3.5 billion whole system requests – 4x our earlier peak.

‘By no means earlier than has a Verified Fan on sale sparked a lot consideration – or uninvited quantity. This disrupted the predictability and reliability that’s the hallmark of our Verified Fan platform.  

‘It normally takes us about an hour to promote via a stadium present, however we slowed down some gross sales and pushed again others to stabilize the programs. The commerce off was longer wait instances in queue for some followers.

‘Total, we estimate about 15% of interactions throughout the positioning skilled points, and that’s 15% too many, together with passcode validation errors that induced followers to lose tickets that they had carted.’

They added: ‘The largest venues and artists flip to us as a result of we’ve got the main ticketing expertise on this planet – that doesn’t imply it’s excellent, and clearly for Taylor’s on sale it wasn’t. However we’re all the time working to enhance the ticket shopping for expertise. Particularly for prime demand on gross sales, which proceed to check new limits.

‘Even when a excessive demand on sale goes flawlessly from a tech perspective, many followers are left empty handed. For instance: primarily based on the quantity of site visitors to our web site, Taylor would wish to carry out over 900 stadium reveals (nearly 20x the variety of reveals she is doing)…that’s a stadium present each single night time for the following 2.5 years.

‘Whereas it’s inconceivable for everybody to get tickets to those reveals, we all know we will do extra to enhance the expertise and that’s what we’re centered on.’

The Eras Tour would promote a staggering and record-breaking 2 million tickets in simply sooner or later. 

The state of affairs additionally launched an investigation into Ticketmaster from the the Justice Division, in line with the New York Times.

‘The Justice Division has opened an antitrust investigation into the proprietor of Ticketmaster, whose sale of Taylor Swift live performance tickets descended into chaos this week, stated two individuals with data of the matter,’ the outlet reported.

‘The investigation is targeted on whether or not Reside Nation Leisure has abused its energy over the multibillion-dollar dwell music business.’                   

Followers of Swift had been vocal Tuesday about issues buying tickets for her The Eras Tour with a pre-sale code via Ticketmaster 

Puerto Rican rapper and singer Dangerous Bunny landed essentially the most nominations at this yr’s American Music Awards.

He leads fellow rapper Drake and pop superstars Beyonce and Taylor Swift on the listing of contenders.

Dangerous Bunny obtained a complete of eight AMA nominations and can compete for artist of the yr towards British singers Adele and Harry Types and Canadian musician The Weeknd.

Drake, Beyonce and Swift are also within the operating for artist of the yr and obtained six nominations every.

The nominations are primarily based on performances on the Billboard music charts, streaming and album gross sales, radio play and social media engagement. 

Winners will probably be decided by fan votes and introduced on the ceremony at Microsoft Theater at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles.

Dangerous Bunny’s different nods included favourite male pop artist, favourite music video and favourite touring artist.

The singer set a document this yr for the highest-grossing tour by a Latin artist in historical past. His album ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ simply topped the Billboard charts for a thirteenth week.

If Dangerous Bunny wins all eight awards he’s eligible for, he would tie Eighties superstars Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston for essentially the most AMA wins in a single yr.

Organizers added a class this yr for favourite Okay-pop artist. Contenders are BTS, BLACKPINK, SEVENTEEN, Tomorrow X Collectively and Twice.  

First-time AMA nominees included rapper Jack Harlow, Okay-pop band BLACKPINK and Scandinavian DJ group Swedish Home Mafia.

In nation music classes, Chris Stapleton, Luke Combs and Morgan Wallen are among the many nominees for favourite male nation artist.

Carrie Underwood, Maren Morris and Miranda Lambert will compete for favourite feminine nation artist. 

 Coming quickly: Swift will kick off the American leg of her tour March 18 at Glendale, Arizona’s State Farm Stadium, and can proceed via an August 5 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles (pictured final week)

Pink is ready to honor the late Olivia Newton–John with a musical efficiency on the present.

The efficiency in Newton–John’s reminiscence follows her demise at age 73 in August from a years-long battle with breast most cancers.   

The beloved British–Australian singer and actress had a prolonged affiliation with the award present.

She co-hosted the ceremony with Aretha Franklin and Glen Campbell in 1976, two years earlier than her success in movies unfold to the US together with her function in 1978’s Grease.   

Newton–John was additionally introduced with 10 AMAs throughout her prolonged profession.

Pink (actual title: Alecia Moore) was beforehand introduced as a performer on the AMAs, and her tribute quantity will probably be her second efficiency of the night.

The hitmaker can also be scheduled to provide her new single By no means Gonna Not Dance Once more its dwell efficiency debut. 

Lionel Richie will even be honored on the ceremony, the place he’s set to obtain the Icon Award.

Stevie Surprise will probably be main the efficiency for his modern, whereas Charlie Puth and Ari Lennox will probably be becoming a member of the keyboard virtuoso for a medley of Richie’s hottest materials.

The ceremony, which is being hosted by Wayne Brady, was beforehand introduced to have performances from Carrie Underwood, Think about Dragons, JID, and Yola, amongst others. 

Bebe Rexha and David Guetta will probably be performing their hit I’m Good (Blue), whereas Dove Cameron will make her debut on the present with a efficiency of her music Boyfriend.

The rapper GloRilla and Anitta will even be making their efficiency debuts on the present. 

The 2021 ceremony noticed Okay-Pop icons BTS earn essentially the most wins with three together with prime honor artist of the yr as essentially the most nominated singer Olivia Rodrigo earned new artist of the yr.

The seven member South Korean pop boyband – who additionally earned favourite pop group or duo and favourite pop music  – was given essentially the most coveted crystal pyramid trophy of the night time as they beat out heavy hitters together with Ariana Grande, Drake, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, and The Weeknd.

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