Noah Kahan's Great Divide tour is no longer only the active-tour example in the paper's Friday-album typology. It is the ticketing counterexample. Ticketmaster says the tour uses Face Value Exchange so tickets can be resold at original price on its platform, with state-law exceptions handled inside the same face-value terms where possible. [1]

The paper's Sunday brief on Kahan as the other side of the touring typology said the tour was the release. Monday adds the access mechanism.

MusicRow and Pollstar both reported the 23-stop stadium and arena run, produced by Live Nation, with Gigi Perez supporting and stops including Fenway Park and Wrigley Field. [2][3] Those are ordinary touring facts. The resale rule is the business fact.

X treats ticketing as moral weather: artists either care or they do not. The Kahan model is more useful than that. It supplies a mechanism against the scarcity market without pretending demand disappears. In a week of secondary-market pressure, the face-value exchange is the countertype worth counting.

-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles