The week and the close
A week runs Saturday to Friday. Each number compares an event at the close of one Friday, UTC, with the same event at the close of the Friday before. When an event has no Friday close, its Thursday close stands in. The latest issue covers Oct 31 to Nov 6, 2026.
The price
Every price on the site is the lowest all-in resale price for the event: the ticket price with the marketplace's fees included. That is the get-in, the cheapest way into the event. Every move on the site is a move in that all-in price. The report tracks the lowest price and never the median, because the get-in is the number a buyer meets first and the one that moves when sellers cut.
Which events count
- Upcoming events at US venues dated 1 to 180 days after the Friday close.
- Admission tickets only: parking passes and add-ons stay out.
- 100 or more resale listings at the close, and a price at both closes.
- Concerts, sports, theater and comedy, each counted in its own category.
An event is cheaper when its lowest price fell more than 2% on the week, and pricier when it rose more than 2%. The weekly series on the issues page holds 25 weeks of these counts.
How the lists are picked
Each issue names at most 100 events; this one names 94. The lists draw from popular events at least ten days out with 200 or more listings at both closes, a lowest all-in price of $25 or more last week and $15 or more this week. Popular means an act among the 600 most popular on Ticker, or an event with 600 or more listings. Each list takes one event per act and one per venue, and an act appears at most twice in an issue.
- Price drops and price rises: the biggest weekly moves in the lowest price, 10% or more.
- Supply swings: the biggest moves in listings, 25% or more, ten up and ten down.
- Most expensive tickets: the highest lowest price, one date per act, concerts and sports apart, multi-day passes left out.
- New on-sales: concert and comedy dates that reached Ticker during the week, grouped by act and ranked by resale listings. A tour plays three or more cities with no more than six dates per city, which keeps residencies off the list.
Event pages
Every event an issue names gets a page with its lowest price and listings at each Friday close. An event needs at least three weekly closes to get a page.
Primary seats
Primary seats on sale are the seats the primary seller offers at the close, at any price level. A seat not on sale on the primary counts as taken.