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Date added: 24 Jan 2010

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MUSIC fans are forking out a whopping $360 per ticket to some of this year
s biggest shows by international acts.

Simon and Garfunkel are leading the way with
a top ticket price of $360, with best seats for pop opera act Il Divo
and violinist Andre Rieu costing $303 and $249 respectively.

Floor tickets to Beyonce will cost about $165 with Pussycat Dolls charging about $140.

Even bigger money is being made in meet-and-greet packages.

After charging $1250 to meet fans after his concerts last year, Rieu is asking $1500 for A Day with Andre package for his October tour.

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The costly deal includes a photo with Rieu, one seat in the front two rows and merchandise.

Il Divo have set up a similar program, charging just under $750 to meet the band and sit on stage during the show.

Promoters
trying to lure Britney Spears to Australia are expected to follow the
star
s overseas initiative of a VIP package costing about $760.
The deal does not include meeting Spears, just preferential seating plus pre-show and post-show parties.

Simon and Garfunkel promoter Michael Chugg insists the prices for the act are in line with the rest of the world.

The concerts have a sliding scale of tickets from $358 to $285, $150 and $97.50.

We
re not seeing any resistance from the pre-sales this week, they
ve been fantastic, Chugg said yesterday.

If you go back two or three years the prices for artists of these calibre acts would be even more than they are now.

Chugg says the global financial crisis will affect mid-range acts touring Australia.

You
can
t afford to bring middle-level acts like John Fogarty with the
exchange rate, but on the younger level there
s plenty of acts coming
through, he said.

But the touring market is booming overseas
- acts like Michael Jackson, U2, Depeche Mode and Take That are doing
some of the best figures of their lives.

Chugg says the recession should not have a major effect on ticket sales.

Since 2000 the audience wanting to go to live music in Australia has almost doubled.

People
who might have gone to 10 concerts a year might go to three or four
less shows this year, but it
s still double the amount of audiences we
had in the last recession so you
re still doing OK.