Ariana Grande announced her mini tour Aug. 28, and 10 million people signed up for pre-sale.

The pre-sale opened Sept. 9. With limited showings and seats, the Ticketmaster pre-sale truly felt like a war.

Ticketmaster has gone under fire a lot in the last few years, specifically with the success of Taylor Swift’s “Era’s Tour.”

With the site glitching, queue lines of over 60,000 people and tickets being unimaginable prices, Ticketmaster is not everyone’s favorite site.

So Grande’s fans were less than excited to see the amount of people signing up for the pre-sale.

TikToks and memes began to circulate with fans promising they would be at that concert one way or another.

But alas, the day had come and thousands of fans did not receive tickets. Queue lines were unimaginable with people not even making it to the sale while others got 6-10 tickets.

After the tickets were sold out, re-sellers quickly began selling for increased prices. The cheapest tickets in the nosebleed section were up to $700.

Again, frustrated fans ran to social media sharing their concerns and angry feelings towards Ticketmaster and re-sellers.

The question came to everyone’s mind: How do true fans get tickets, and how do we fight back against re-seller prices?

One of the better solutions suggested by fans was having exclusive access to the pre-sale tickets for top listeners on streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. This way true fans have a better chance of getting tickets.

Since the concert world has become a cutthroat environment with pre-sales and queues, these ways of rewarding fans for listening and supporting seems enticing.

A fan who is one of Grande’s top 1% of listeners deserves to be at a concert for their favorite artist or at least the chance to choose if they want to go to that concert.

The overpricing of thousands of dollars on Ticketmaster even caught Grande’s attention. In this economy, some people cannot even afford rent, and it is not fair that everyday people cannot enjoy a concert.

Grande wrote, “I’ve been on the phone every second of my free time fighting for a solution. I hear you and hopefully, we will be able to get more of these tickets into your hands instead of theirs. It’s not right.”

While Grande’s words are comforting, it is not enough to find a solution.

There needs to be action on improving rules and regulations against reseller prices. Many fans talk about a 20% cap for reselling concert tickets, but there needs to be a stronger push for this to happen.

Hopefully, with the absurdity of Grande’s Ticketmaster war, fans of artists can see tangible change. Fandoms ride for their artists, and they deserve to see their beloved musicians in person.