MexicanPresident Andrés Manuel López Obrador has asked popular reggaeton vocaliser Bad Bunny , whose legal name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio , to execute a liberal concert in Mexico City after C offans reportedly purchase fake ticketsonTicketmaster .
fan were told their tickets were not legitimate when they tried to attend his concert last week and were deny entry at the concert gate of the Aztec Stadium .
Obrador plead with the Puerto Rican rapper to perform another show in a press statement , adding that while he could not offer any money , he could pay for the operation space and lighting at Zócalo , Mexico City ’s cardinal plaza .
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“ It made us excited to see pitiful young people who could not enter because their tickets were twin , because they were gyp , some crying , because they saved for a tenacious time to corrupt their tickets , ” Obrador say in Spanish during a intelligence conference Wednesday , theWall Street Journalreported .
Ticketmaster said in a statement viaTwitteron Monday that its system was overwhelmed when a surge of faux tickets were uploaded to the internet site , and the Aztec Stadium ’s security guards reportedly could n’t discern material tickets from simulated I , stimulate some people holding legitimate ticket to be turned aside , according to theWSJ .
An investigation by Mexico ’s Federal Consumer Attorney ’s Office is work to determine what happened and Ticketmaster has said it is collaborating with the attorney ’s billet , adding that the fake just the ticket were “ purchased outside our prescribed channel . ”
Ticketmaster did not immediately respond to Gizmodo ’s petition for comment .
Bad Bunny was pour more than 18.5 billion time onSpotifythis yr , making him the most - streamed artist for the third year in a row .
The company said the sale for Bad Bunny ’s concert were the high in need in Mexico ’s history and “ more than 4.5 million mass ” registered for one of the 120,000 keister that were available .
Ticketmaster wrote , “ This situation , aside from confuse people do work the entrances , temporarily overwhelmed the ticket reading system which unfortunately break the system from also recognizing lawful tickets . It is significant to underline that there was no quota or overselling of tickets . ”
Mexico ’s Office of the Federal Prosecutor for the Consumer enunciate those who buy logical tickets would be refund , and Ticketmaster said it “ will soon announce novel beat of the in vogue technical generation that will well shut the space for the sale of false and twinned ticket . ”
Ticketmaster has beenunder fervour plenty , recently . The room it manage , or rather , mishandled presale ticket for Taylor Swift ’s widely democratic , The Eras Tour even hasthe Department of Justiceand U.S. lawmakerslooking intoTicketmaster ’s monopoly on live issue .
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