Across 1,608 US concerts on newly listed tours in autumn 2026, the lowest listed resale price two weeks after TourTicketCompare first recorded it was lower at 49% of shows and higher at 24%. Prices fell about twice as often as they rose, but there was no fall at half the shows.
By TourTicketCompare · Reviewed by Ollie Taylor · Published Nov 3, 2026
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Each date board links to the ticket sites with a checked page for that exact show.
Rushing to buy resale tickets for a new tour rarely paid off. TourTicketCompare keeps a daily record of the lowest listed price on Vivid Seats, TicketNetwork and StubHub International for the shows it tracks. For 1,608 US concerts by 100 artists whose first recorded price fell between 9 August and 19 October 2026, the lowest listed price two weeks later was lower than on that first day at 788 of them (49%). It was higher at 390 (24%) and about the same at 430. The typical change was a fall of 1.8%, about $1.40.
So prices fell about twice as often as they rose. That is a record of what happened on these tours, not a forecast, and at a quarter of the shows the price went up.
Each row compares one site with itself, for the same show, on the first day TourTicketCompare recorded a price and 14 days later. "About the same" means within 2% either way.
| Site | Shows | Lower | Higher | About the same |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vivid Seats | 1,081 | 518 | 326 | 237 |
| TicketNetwork | 1,215 | 616 | 265 | 334 |
| StubHub International | 283 | 117 | 88 | 78 |
On every site, falls outnumbered rises. Sites list different seats with different fees, so this does not compare one site with another.
Most changes were small. At 13% of shows (208) the lowest listing fell by a quarter or more in the first fortnight, and at 5% (74) it rose by a quarter or more. A big drop was more common than a big rise, but neither was the norm. After one week the picture was similar: lower at 696 shows, higher at 330.
Each figure is the lowest listed price on that site at its last check of the day (days in UTC).
To see which tours' prices have fallen or risen lately, with sample sizes, use Is it worth waiting?. For the current listed price of any show, with the time it was checked, open the artist's page. For the other end of the buying window, see what happened to prices in the final week before a show. The guide to when to buy concert tickets covers the trade-offs beyond price: seat choice, group seating and delivery time.
Across more than 100 US tours tracked in autumn 2026, the lowest listed resale price in Pittsburgh, Nashville and Miami was below the tour's typical price on both Vivid Seats and TicketNetwork in both September and October. New York and San Francisco were above it every time.
Across about 1,200 US concerts tracked daily from September to early November 2026, the lowest listed resale price was unchanged on most days, but at 47% to 68% of shows (depending on the site) it moved by a fifth or more overnight at least once. At 18% to 28% of shows the highest daily low was at least double the lowest.
TourTicketCompare compared the lowest listed resale price for 1,072 upcoming US concert dates in early October and early November 2026, each site against itself. Falls outnumbered rises 1,201 to 621. Greta Van Fleet and Gracie Abrams dates fell most; John Summit and Don Omar dates rose.
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