Olivia Dean has her first Top 5 hit in the US with “Man I Need.” She nabbed her first Grammy nomination, for Best New Artist. She performed on Saturday Night Live and at the ARIA Awards in the past week. Now the rising British pop star has reached the career milestone of publicly feuding with Ticketmaster.
Dean’s The Art Of Loving Tour kicks off in April, and it includes six sold out nights at The O2 in London. When the summer North American leg also sold out upon its general onsale today, fans were quick to point out that heavily marked up tickets were immediately available for resale, some for thousands of dollars.
Dean took to her Instagram Stories to address the situation, writing:
i’m sorry that there seems to be an issue with ticket re-selling and pricing. My team are currently looking into it.
it is extremely frustrating as the last thing I want is for anyone to be scammed or overcharged for our show 🙁
please be wary of buying tickets in the comment sections as it is most likely a scam
She followed up:
@ticketmaster @livenation @aegpresents
you are providing a disgusting servicethe prices at which you’re allowing tickets to be re-sold is vile and completely against our wishes
live music should be affordable and accessible and we need to find a new way of making that possible
BE BETTER
Artists can limit resale by utilizing Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange and AEG’s Fair AXS for eligible shows — Hayley Williams recently did this for her sold-out 2026 tour — but apparently that didn’t go into effect for Dean, at least at first.
After the singer’s posts, Live Nation and AEG responded by both disabling resale for profit, with Ticketmaster sharing a screengrab of Dean’s call-out alongside a message:
We support artists’ ability to set the terms of how their tickets are sold and resold. We’re capping Olivia Dean resale prices on our site at face value and hope other resale sites will follow.
Incidentally, during the presale, Ticketmaster said at least one X user’s complaint about exorbitantly priced resale tickets was the result of a “typo.”
Last year the US Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, and in September the FTC accused the company of colluding with scalpers to mark up prices. Earlier this week the UK announced it would ban resale of tickets above face value.
You can find Olivia Dean’s 2026 tour dates here. After today’s sellouts, she added additional shows so now there are four at NYC’s Madison Square Garden.
