{"id":38374,"date":"2026-10-26T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=38374"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:48:59","slug":"garth-brooks-shuts-down-ticket-sales-due-to-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/10\/garth-brooks-shuts-down-ticket-sales-due-to-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks Shuts Down Ticket Sales Due To Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Garth Brooks<\/strong> is fighting against Ticketmaster bots.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His team shut down ticket sales on Friday for his third show in Kansas City due to &#8220;excessive bot activity.&#8221;&nbsp;Garth said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The bot situation is out of hand. It&#8217;s been progressively getting worse on this tour. &nbsp;With that said, my concern is for the people who managed to buy tickets today before the bots crashed the on sale. &nbsp;I will personally look into what can be done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>There hasn&#8217;t been an update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The bot situation is out of hand. It&#39;s been progressively getting worse on this tour. With that said, my concern is for the people who managed to buy tickets today for the third show in Kansas City before the bots crashed the on sale. I will personally look into what can be done.\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Garth Brooks (@garthbrooks) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/garthbrooks\/status\/2113658998167585188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks is fighting against Ticketmaster bots.&nbsp; His team shut down ticket sales on Friday for his third show in Kansas City due to &#8220;excessive bot activity.&#8221;&nbsp;Garth said, &#8220;The bot situation is out of hand. It&#8217;s been progressively getting worse on this tour. &nbsp;With that said, my concern is for the people who managed to","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":21782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[11379,3511,9942,11380,8024,11381],"class_list":["post-38374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-bots","tag-garth-brooks","tag-kansas-city","tag-ticket-sales","tag-ticketmaster","tag-ticketmaster-bots"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-03 04:46:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/10\/garth-brooks-shuts-down-ticket-sales-due-to-bots\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38386,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38374\/revisions\/38386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}