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Paul McCartney tickets for $5,000? Insiders reveal why going to a concert costs so much

Artists’ business managers say that after the pandemic touring became a lot more expensive.  For Paul McCartney’s recent performance at Hamilton’s TD Coliseum, it wasn’t unusual seeing tickets go for $5000. By Nick Krewen Special to the Star It’s no secret that concert ticket prices have reached unprecedented heights, bolstered in part by the secondary resale market, dynamic pricing and ticketing fees that rise accordingly with each transaction. In fact,…

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Professional Adjustment July 14, 2005

The Career Commencement Challenge

  Nick Krewen GRAMMY.COM July 2005   Billy Gilman is back from recess. Professionally derailed by the trials of puberty for the past three years, the Rhode Island country singing sensation is hoping for a new lease on life with his recently released album Everything And More. But Gilman, who stormed onto the Billboard country charts at the age of 11 as the genre’s youngest recording artist with the double…