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New York Daily News — Hundreds of musicians including Billie Eilish, Dave Matthews, Duran Duran, Cyndi Lauper, the Pixies and Blue Oyster Cult petitioned Congress on Thursday to regulate concert ticket pricing.

Billboard Canada — Billie Eilish, Green Day and Cyndi Lauper, as well as Canadian artists Blue Rodeo, The Sadies and Le Ren, are amongst the signees of a new letter in support of the Fans First Act, which would ban fake tickets and mandate clearer ticket pricing.

Billboard — The open letter supports a bill advocating for ticket sale transparency and consumer protection against bots.

The Hollywood Reporter — Hundreds of musicians signed a letter in support of The Fans First Act, which aims to address flaws in the current live event ticketing system.

Rolling Stone — Billie Eilish, Lorde, Green Day, and Fall Out Boy are among the hundreds of artists to sign an open letter asking Congress to pass the Fans First Act, a bill that takes aim at “deceptive” and “predatory” ticket resellers.

NBC News — Over 250 popular musicians — including Billie Eilish, Green Day and Dave Matthews — signed a letter Thursday urging the Senate Commerce Committee to support a bill that aims to reform the live-event ticketing system.

Pollstar — More than 250 major artists signed on to a letter supporting the Fans First Act — a comprehensive piece of ticketing reform legislation — that was delivered to the Senate’s Commerce Committee Thursday by the Fix The Tix Coalition.

IQ Magazine — Billie Eilish, Green Day and Lorde are among 250+ artists to back a bill that aims to reform the live event ticketing system in the US. The Fans First Act, introduced by senators in December, is designed to help increase transparency in ticket sales, protect customers “from fake or dramatically overpriced tickets,” and hold “bad actors who engage in illegal ticket sale practices” to account.

Deadline — More than 250 recording artists have signed a letter to the Senate Committee on Commerce in support of a bill advocating for ticket sale transparency and consumer protections against bots.

Far Out Magazine — Duran Duran, Billie Eilish and Green Day have supported a new bill which plots to protect fans in the ticketing system. In recent years, bots have swept up tickets for major events which results in ordinary people being forced to pay more, if they wish to attend. The proposed bill hopes to make the ticketing system fairer and clamp down on illegal resellers, who are profiteering from both fans and artists.

Reuters — The Taylor Swift concert ticket debacle two years ago is leading state and federal lawmakers to take aim at sales practices that they say are deceptive or predatory to music fans. In Maryland, a new law will make speculative ticket sales illegal starting July 1.

Pollstar — The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) is preparing for its third annual conference, taking place June 3-5 in New Orleans, and is putting together a slate of panels and speakers from across the spectrum of live entertainment.

Hypebot — Hundreds of independent live music venues, promoters, festivals, and agents will gather in New Orleans from June 3 to 5 for NIVA ’24, the third annual convention of NIVA (The National Independent Venue Association), with programming at iconic independent venues Generations Hall, Tipitina’s, Republic NOLA, and dba.

Billboard — The third annual NIVA conference will take place in New Orleans from June 3-5.

Consequence of Sound — The National Independent Venue Association will host its annual conference this June in the Big Easy.

Billboard — SB2508/HB2712 — composed of identical companion bills carried by Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson and House Majority Whip Johnny Garrett — was introduced as a collaboration between the Music Venue Alliance Nashville, the National Independent Venue Association and the Broadway Entertainment Association.