Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Ticketmaster Accused Of ‘Misleading Consumers For Financial Gain’ In New Lawsuit Over Drake Tickets
etcanada.comTicketmaster is now facing another lawsuit. A Canadian law firm, LPC Avocat Inc., has filed a class action lawsuit against the mega ticketing service for allegedly price gauging tickets to an upcoming stop on Drake’s “It’s All A Blur” tour, as per the Toronto Star.
The firm, based in Montreal, claims that Ticketmaster “intentionally misleads consumers for [its] own financial gain.” The complaint, obtained by the Toronto Star, states that a Montreal man purchased two “Official Platinum” seats, priced at $789.54 each, for Drake’s July 14 concert at Montreal’s Bell Centre.
However, a day after the tickets went on sale (July 15), Ticketmaster allegedly added a second show in the city with the exact same seats priced around $350 less. READ MORE: Drake Announces ‘It’s All A Blur’ North American Tour With 21 Savage, No Toronto Details Yet LPC Avocat Inc.’s lawsuit argues that Ticketmaster knew about Drake’s July 15 concert prior to the initial date tickets went on sale, but purposely withheld the information.
Additionally, the suit claims that the “Official Platinum” seats were actually regular seats sold “at an artificially inflated premium in bad faith.” According to the complaint, prosecutors are also seeking “compensatory damages in the aggregate amount of the difference between the prices charged for ‘Official Platinum’ tickets and what their regular price ought to have been.” Plus, they are seeking $300 per customer in punitive damages. READ MORE: U.S.
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