Kid Rock releases statement about $5,000 tickets for his upcoming tour
Author Benedetta Baldin - 22.2.2026
Kid Rock has been involved in recent U.S. government initiatives to pass laws intended to stop excessive scalping and gouging for ticket prices, as per theprp. “Deceptive pricing tactics and earned hundreds of millions selling tickets acquired illegally by brokers, costing consumers billions of dollars in inflated prices and additional fees,” the FTC claimed in a September 2025 lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
Although Rock later testified before a Senate Commerce Committee about the issue earlier this year, he has subsequently joined forces with Ticketmaster for this forthcoming journey. He provided the following bullet points outlining the new agreement he made with that company for this expedition.
Kid Rock‘s Freedom 250 Tour is using Ticketmaster‘s Face Value Exchange to keep tickets in the hands of real fans — not scalpers.
Tickets can only be resold for the original price paid, including fees and taxes. No markups.
If you cant make the show, the only place to resell is on Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster does not charge any fees to resell or to purchase resold tickets.
Ticket transfer is turned off in most places — that’s how we stop tickets from being flipped on other sites for profit.
If you’re bringing friends, you’ll enter the show together with your group.
Face Value Exchange makes sure every resale ticket is 100% legit and gets fans through the door.
If you buy on any other site, there is no guarantee you’ll get in the door – and most likely you won’t.
Some states, like Illinois, don’t allow artists like me to restrict resale, so transfer has to stay on — but Ticketmaster will still keep prices at face value on its site.
This isn’t perfect, but it’s a real step to shut down scalpers and protect fans. No extra cost to fans — same tickets, same prices, just fairer access.
Bottom line: buy tickets, go to the show, and if plans change, sell them the right way so another fan gets in.
However, Rock was criticized by the media and social media for his choice to offer a variety of ticket price options for thousands of dollars each when the trek’s ticket prices were revealed. Limited $5,000 “first class” seats in the front row, $4,000 seats in the second row, and other possibilities are among them. Rock responded to his critics on social media yesterday, February 21st, by saying this.
Here we go again.
The fake liberal media says I’m charging $5,000 for front-row tickets.
They know damn well that’s not the full story.
Those are extremely limited First Class seats like I explained — FOUR tickets per row, first five rows only (5k per seat row 1, 4k row 2, 3k row 3, 2k row 4, 1k row 5) — Again ONLY 4 seats in rows 1 through 5 (20 “first class” seats in venues that hold 15k to 25k people)
But instead of reporting facts or that lawn seats are only 50 bucks or how we are cutting out the scalpers, they twist it for headlines / clicks and to attack me – nothing new here.
I WILL pray for them but I know that sooner or later God will cut ‘em down.
