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Can You Game Your Way Into Concert Tickets Now
A new system promises reserved concert tickets to a band's biggest fans, and on paper it sounds like a fix for years of ticket buying frustration. Then you start asking how "biggest fan" actually gets measured, and the whole thing gets a lot more interesting.
There's no clear number attached to what counts as top tier status, just streams and shares, which raises the obvious question of whether leaving a song on repeat for a week could be enough to qualify. Lifetime listening history versus this year's obsession becomes a real sticking point too, with no clarity on which one actually matters…
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