Why do concert tickets now cost as much as a games console?

Not everyone thinks that way. He was compelled to take action after noticing unsold seats on his US arena tour last year. "Five hundred seats would be completely empty because they were 200 a ticket," he told Music Week. "I'd have 1,000 kids outside the venue who couldn't afford to come in and I was like, 'Something's got to change here.'" But the festival didn't go completely to plan.