Country Music star Eric Church took a stand against ticket scalpers by cancelling thousands of tickets, including some to his Nashville shows.
Church canceled a total of 25,000 tickets to shows in his upcoming "Holdin' My Own Tour" because they were sold to scalpers. More than 2,000 of those tickets were for his shows at Bridgestone Arena in May.
Eric Church has been battling ticket scalpers for years, but he's never gone to this extent to protect his fans.
All of the 25,000 tickets that went to scalpers will be put back up online at face value for his fans to buy.
Church said he's doing it so that his fans, who got him to where he is today, can see him for a reasonable price, which is refreshing for many fans who think other artists should join in on the fight against scalpers.
However, scalping is a big business, and this is only one small dent in a larger fight.
In a report last year, investigators in the New York Attorney General's office found a single ticket broker who bought more than 1,000 tickets for a show in a single minute. Tickets for shows on third-party sites like StubHub and TicketsNow average 49 percent above face value, and can sometimes exceed ten times the face value.
"Every time we buy tickets we end up way, way up in the top. Every single time," said Tracey Kimbro.
In a statement about ticket Scalpers Eric Church said, "They buy thousands of tickets across the U.S., not just mine, and they end up making a fortune."
He continued to say, "They use fake credit cards, fake IDs. All of this is fraud."
The canceled tickets will go back up for sale Tuesday at noon local time with the hope that fans can get ahold of them instead of scalpers.
