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July 9, 2012
Jay-Z Tickets at Barclays Center on Sale Friday
The concert will officially open the arena to the public.
Park Slope Patch
by Jamie Schuh
Tickets for Jay-Z’s opening night concerts at the Barclays Center will go on sale this Friday, July 13, officials confirmed.
The hip-hop mogul—and part owner of the Brooklyn Nets—will perform at the arena on its opening night, Sept. 28, as well as two additional concerts on Sept, 29 and 30.
According to the arena, more than 7,000 tickets per show will be priced at under $30.
“Jay-Z is Brooklyn and is the definitive artist to open Barclays Center,” Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark said in a statement.
Related coverage...
Atlantic Yards Report, Jay-Z tickets go on sale July 13... for suckers (though there may be two more shows)
Tickets for Jay-Z's three shows (one date had been announced, but arena CEO Brett Yormark in May predicted five shows) at the Barclays Center (Sept. 28-30) go on sale on Friday, July 13, right?
But there are ways of jumping the line. There's an AmEx presale on Wednesday, July 11, according to Brooklyn Vegan, though it's unclear whether it applies to all three dates.
And, as indicated at right, subscribers to the Barclays Center Behind the Scenes list will have access to a presale on Thursday, July 12, for the third show.
More than 7,000 tickets per show will be priced at under $30, or $37.20 with fees. That's less than the market would bear, so credit Jay-Z with not milking it any more than he could.
There will also be a bunch of seats for $254.50.
While the arena capacity has been announced at 19,000 for concerts, the maximum, according to arena GM John Sparks, would be 17,500. In this case, there will be 14,586 seats, which likely means a significant stage set-up.
NoLandGrab: Or, it could be that they'll only have installed 14,586 seats by September 28th.
The Brooklyn Blog [NYPost.com], Jay-Z offers price break for Barclays Center opening concerts
“The artist dictates the pricing, and Jay-Z has said from the start that these concerts are all about celebrating Brooklyn, and he wanted everyone who wants to come to be able to attend,” Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark told The Post. “This shows how committed he is to Brooklyn.”
...However, pricing for these seats dwarf in comparison to what Barclays Center is charging for other top acts later this year.
For example, stage area seats for Barbra Streisand’s Oct. 11 and Oct. 13 shows run as high as $716.65 – and on secondary markets like StubHub people were asking as much as $34,000.
Meadowlands Matters [NorthJersey.com], Jay-Z concert tickets in Brooklyn: many quite cheap
Will be interesting to see how the ticket scenario plays out on the secondary market. Ticket agents know they can get a LOT more than $29.50 plus fees for a show like this, so demand for those should be off the charts.
NY Observer, All Jay-Z Everything: Barclays Center to Open with Three Jay-Z Concerts
What they didn’t say is how much those $30 tickets will go for after a bunch of awful scalping robots vacuum them up and resell them on StubHub or Craigslist for over 7,000 times their original face value.
If anything, however, this presents a wonderful out, so you don’t have to choose between wearing your Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn shirt, your Occupy All Streets shirt, and your I’m Still Calling It Pacific-Atlantic shirt to Jay-Z’s Barclays Center opening.
Now, you can wear all three.
Posted by eric at July 9, 2012 11:23 PM