Taylor Swift tour tickets listed for as much as $22,000 as Ticketmaster crashes

Millions of fans try to snap up presale tickets to singer's 2023 Eras tour in the US, with Ticketmaster's website facing historically unprecedented demand'

Millions of Taylor Swift fans swarmed Live Nation's Ticketmaster website on Tuesday to try to score seats for her first tour in five years, causing periodic outages and long online waits as some tickets were quickly posted for resale for thousands of dollars.

The ticket-selling site said in a statement that historically unprecedented demand" for Swift's 52-date United States tour had seen millions of people attempt to buy presale tickets, which had caused intermittent issues" that the company was urgently" working to resolve.