Kid Rock Offers $5K First-Class Seats After Show

Kid Rock Offers $5K First-Class Seats After Show

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Kid Rock is charging his most devoted fans thousands of dollars more than the rest of his concertgoers for choice tickets to his upcoming Freedom 250 Tour.

The 55-year-old rapper-turned-country music star is charging fans an eye-popping $5,000 to sit in the front row of the center section at his upcoming shows, which kick off on May 1 in Dallas, .

Fans in the next few rows will get a discount, but still pay well above what attendees throughout the rest of his venues will pay.

Prices on Ticketmaster for second-row seats are set at $4,000, while the third row of the center sections cost $3,000 per seat, and fourth-row tickets run for a still-pricey $2,000.

The Daily Mail has reached out to Kid Rock's representative for comment on the pricing. 

Kid Rock (born Robert James Ritchie) will be embarking on his tour — which references the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence — following his for the right-wing advocacy nonprofit Turning Point USA on February 8.

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Kid Rock is charging up to $5k for seats in the first four rows to concerts on his upcoming Freedom 250 Tour; pictured in 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky

According to Ticketmaster, front row seats will cost $5k, with the next three rows being discounted by an additional thousand dollars each. Regular seats cost anywhere from $50–500; pictured at his TPUSA halftime show on February 8

The concert, which also featured lower-profile country performers, streamed online as an alternative to , which featured guest spots from Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin.

Notably, the first four rows seem to have been inspired by the over-the-top prices airlines charge for first-class tickets, as the pricey seats in the first four rows are labeled 'first-class seats' on Ticketmaster.

But unlike a first-class seat on a flight, which might include complimentary champagne and higher-quality meals — as well as roomier seats — there's no indication from the ticketing giant that people who buy seats in the first four rows will get any extra perks.

for allegedly creating a monopoly in the live concert industry.

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However, legal analysts now fear that the administration may have signaled that it plans to drop the lawsuit or go easy on Live Nation and Ticketmaster after Abigail Slater, the head of the Department of Justice's antitrust division, was pushed out earlier this month.

Kid Rock's sky-high prices for the first four rows may serve as a deterrent to some scalpers who aren't willing to spend thousands up front in hopes of further marking up the 'first-class' tickets on the secondary market.

, though in doing so he admitted that the show was pretaped, as he said he was able to view an edit of it before it streamed for fans. 

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