Is Jay-Z Hurting Ticket Sales?
Tuesday April 15, 2008
You'd think that any music event with Jay-Z in the headliner's column would have no problem selling out, right? Well, maybe not in England, venue of the annual Glastonbury. Ticket sales for the showcase has been weak this year, and haters say Jay-Z is to blame. Ever since organizers announced that Jay-Z would be headlining Glastonbury, a first for any hip-hop artist, criticisms have poured in from all over the planet. Now, Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher was the latest to condemn the move in an interview with the BBC.
Gallagher told BBC, "If it ain't broke don't fix it. If you start to break it then people aren't going to go. I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance."
It's common knowledge that Jay has sold out several concerts in his 12-year career. In fact, I had a chance to witness Jiggaman's crowd-pulling power at the Houston leg of Heart of the City last week. Gallagher begs to differ though, "I don't know about it. But I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong."
Glasto organizer Emily Eavis countered the anti-Jay-Z sentiment in an Independent newspaper column, saying, "There is no reason why we should not have the greatest living hip-hop artist on at Glastonbury; in fact, he is exactly the sort of act we should have performing."Photo © Def Jam
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“Ms Collins said she believed the Oasis songwriter had ‘probably never seen Jay-Z live or heard any of his tunes’.”
Probably the problem. Dude needs to chill out and give hip-hop a chance instead of just immediately dismissing it.
When was the last time Oasis was even popular…1997?
oasis will always be popular and i luv hphop but glastonbury isnt really a hiphop festival so obviously the crowd wont be interseted in going.
Oasis Is Garbage, I’ve Heard Some Of Their Stuff And, Nah, Not For Me.
This is a dumb move on Glastonbury’s part. It is the equivalent of having Radiohead or Oasis be the headlining performance at Summer Jam. I love Jay-Z…but come on…having a rap act headline a mainly alternative rock festival, its just stupid. Oh, and Oasis is definatly not garbage, but Radiohead does kill them.
unfortunately most english people have not moved on from sugarbabes and all that when a true great comes gets shown no respect by people from oasis lmao and i am from england
jay is top 5 no doubt but this event is not hip hop and most of the dudes there dont care about hip hop and it shouldnt be forced on them
Glastonbury is a MUSIC festival. Just because it is historically rock music doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be any variations.
Spot on AZ.
Chemical Brothers, Shirley Bassy and Kylie have all headlined there and they don’t seem to play a guitar.
I don’t think you can argument that hip hop can’t headline at the festival because I’m sure Eminem or the Beastie Boys would be welcomed.
I would have preferred to have seen The Roots or NERD headlining.
This article and its title are weighted to make skimming readers think Jay is unpopular or doing something wrong. Jay-Z is still the sh**. Of course die hard classic rock fans don’t want to hear him; its not their style.
I see what your sayin AZ but you (im just guessing here) wouldnt pay good money to see Green Day headline at Summer Jam. Summer Jams all about jay and this other thing is for whoever the people that go to this listen to (that was hella ignorant, i know)