Kid Rock testified before the Senate Commerce Committee on ticket price gouging, warning fans are pushed into expensive resale markets as legislation fall short.<\/b>
\nMusician Kid Rock testified before the Senate, arguing that ticket price gouging forces fans into expensive resale markets and that legislation falls short, telling Fox News pricing is \u00ab\u00a0out of control.\u00a0\u00bb
Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, has been a critic of unfair ticketing issues. He spoke at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday, which also included an executive from Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation.
\u00ab\u00a0We want to fix ticket pricing \u2014 ticket pricing that’s been out of control for well over 30 years now\u00a0\u00bb, Rock said Wednesday on \u00ab\u00a0America Reports.\u00a0\u00bb
He appeared alongside Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who chaired the hearing. Rock largely pinned the blame on Ticketmaster and Live Nation, saying their merger \u00ab\u00a0only made things worse\u00a0\u00bb for fans.
\u00ab\u00a0You just ask anybody these days about buying a ticket to a popular sporting event or concert, and they\u2019ll tell you that it’s a complete fiasco\u00a0\u00bb, he said, later adding that the merger \u00ab\u00a0frickin\u2019 failed.\u00a0\u00bb
Rock has previously worked with the Trump administration on efforts aimed at curbing ticket scalping. In March 2025, he appeared alongside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office when the president signed an order against ticket scalping.
The order directed the attorney general and Treasury secretary to enforce competition laws, improve price transparency and ensure ticket scalpers comply with existing regulations.
Rock has also pushed for stronger enforcement of the federal BOTS Act, which was designed to stop automated ticket-buying software.
In August 2025, the Federal Trade Commission sued ticket reseller Key Investment Group for allegedly getting around purchasing limits to buy thousands of tickets to live events, then selling them at a markup.
Rock said Trump\u2019s executive order got the ball rolling on the issues, but that it\u2019s not at the finish line.
\u00ab\u00a0We\u2019re also trying to get to the root of the problem and hopefully legislation can get drafted where, as an artist, we can get the ticket prices that we set into the hands of the fans for those prices and stop them from being gouged by these bad actors\u00a0\u00bb, he added.<\/p>\n