# AI bots disrupt live ticket sales for Raye, Sam Fender, Garth Brooks

> AI bots target ticket sales for Raye, Sam Fender, and Garth Brooks, forcing changes in live event ticketing.
- Title: AI bots disrupt live ticket sales for Raye, Sam Fender, Garth…
- Summary: AI bots target ticket sales for Raye, Sam Fender, and Garth Brooks, forcing changes in live event ticketing. AI bots overwhelmed ticket presales for Raye…
- Keywords: raye, sam fender, garth brooks, ticketmaster, live nation, bots, ticketing, presale, bot attacks, ftc, music, disrupt
- Source: Music Business Worldwide — https://musicbusinessworldwide.com/raye-sam-fender-garth-brooks-and-the-bots-five-things-to-know-about-the-ai-arms-race-in-live-ticketing
- Published: 2026-11-02T14:26:22+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: raye, sam fender, garth brooks, ticketmaster, live nation, bots, ai, ticketing, presale, bot attacks, ftc, music
## Bots hit every ticket sale stage
Raye’s presale was targeted before any tickets went on sale, drawing 1.8 million registrations for 5,000 seats.

> Sadly our sign-up process was overwhelmed by scalpers, using AI bots to create hundreds of thousands of fake registrations
## Garth Brooks’ show canceled due to bots
Brooks canceled a Kansas City matinee after 90,000 people in the queue were mostly bots.

> When tickets went on sale that morning, more than 90,000 people were in the queue
## Sam Fender postpones presale
Fender moved Newcastle pre-sale to 9:30am Thursday after bot attacks impacted the site.

> Being told by the promoters that there’s been a sophisticated bot attack to the gigantic ticket site
## Ticketmaster blocks 260 million bot attempts daily
Ticketmaster blocked nearly 260 million bot attempts daily in 2025, per a court filing.

> In 2025, Ticketmaster detected and blocked nearly 260 million attempts daily by bots to access its services
## Bots use fake accounts and spoofed IPs
Key Investment Group created 13,000 Ticketmaster accounts using credit cards and spoofed IP addresses.

> Key Investment Group created or obtained more than 13,000 Ticketmaster accounts
## CAPTCHAs no longer reliable
Researchers solved 100% of Google reCAPTCHA challenges using AI, showing bots bypass human checks.

> In 2024, researchers at ETH Zurich used a modified version of the YOLO image-recognition model to solve 100% of the image challenges set by Google’s reCAPTCHA v2
## Lawmakers push for ticketing reforms
UK plans to ban ticket resale above face value and limit resales per person to combat bots.

> The UK government announced plans to ban the resale of tickets above face value, and to bar individuals from reselling more tickets than they were allowed to buy
## US lawmakers target bot activity
The MAIN Event Ticketing Act requires ticket issuers to enforce purchase limits and report bot circumventions to the FTC.

> The MAIN Event Ticketing Act would require ticket issuers to keep technical controls in place to enforce purchase limits and to report known circumventions to the FTC within 30 days
## Brooks calls for bot activity bans
Brooks urged lawmakers to make bot activity during on-sales illegal, saying it’s unfair for real fans.

> If the powers that be are not going to make scalping illegal, can you please make bot activity during on sales illegal?
## Raye questions ticketing future
Raye admitted AI bots have opened her eyes to the need for new ticketing solutions.

> I’m not sure what the future holds for ticketing, I do know this experience has really opened my eyes
## Key takeaway

AI bots overwhelmed ticket presales for Raye, Sam Fender, and Garth Brooks, prompting new security measures and legal actions to combat bot attacks.