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  "description": "There are few artists where the Presale Breakdown writes itself. Olivia Rodrigo is one of them. Two tours, two instant sellouts, and a resale market that has never once let up for her. She had a clear runway for the jump to stadiums but chose to stay in arenas.\n\nShe's back at Scotiabank Arena on October 26th and 27th behind her upcoming third album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love (out June 12th), with Wolf Alice opening. We're looking at two nights, but the writing is on the wall for ",
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  "textContent": "There are few artists where the Presale Breakdown writes itself. **Olivia Rodrigo** is one of them. Two tours, two instant sellouts, and a resale market that has never once let up for her. She had a clear runway for the jump to stadiums but chose to stay in arenas.\n\nShe's back at Scotiabank Arena on October 26th and 27th behind her upcoming third album, _you seem pretty sad for a girl so in lov_ e (out June 12th), with Wolf Alice opening. We're looking at two nights, but the writing is on the wall for more to be added.\n\nWhat makes this one worth breaking down anyway is the noise around it: there's no artist presale (just Amex), Ontario's brand-new resale law is still finding its footing, and the routing pattern is openly inviting added dates. Let's dive in and see whether Olivia Rodrigo in Toronto will be a **Buy** or a **Wait** (you can probably guess).\n\n_**Presale Results Added** : May 15th, 2026_\n\nHow did the sale actually play out?\n\n## I write breakdowns for the biggest tour announcements\n\nHelping you get the best prices on tickets\n\nSubscribe\n\nEmail sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup.\n\nNo spam. Unsubscribe anytime.\n\n## The facts\n\n  * **Who** : **Olivia Rodrigo** | Support: Wolf Alice\n  * **When** : Monday + Tuesday, October 26th + 27th, 2026 | 7:00PM\n  * **Where** : Scotiabank Arena | 13,994 Capacity\n  * **Why** : Touring behind her album, _you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love_ , due out June 12th, 2026\n  * **Last Toronto show** : Scotiabank Arena (03/29-30/24)\n  * **Nearest stops** : Montreal (10/21-22)\n\n\n\n### Presale Dates\n\n  * **Amex** : May 5 @ 12PM\n  * **General Public** : May 7 @ 12PM\n\n\n\n(No artist presale? Oh she _hates_ us...)\n\n💡\n\n****Amex Presale**** : You will need an Amex card to be able to buy tickets during the Amex Presale. Most Amex cards have an annual fee, but you can get the free Amex Green Card using my referral link here.\n\n#### Ticket Links\n\nMonday, October 26: Ticketmaster | Stubhub\n\nTuesday, October 27: Ticketmaster | Stubhub\n\n_****Note****_ __:__ Any listings before May 5th are speculative. Do not buy.\n\n### Venue Benchmarks\n\nThe ticket prices for Olivia Rodrigo aren't available yet. But for Scotiabank Arena, here are the **average prices** for each section in 2026:\n\n  * **General Admission Floor** : $283\n  * **100s** : $171 - $625\n  * **100s Side** : $206 - $366\n  * **300s** : $103 - $216\n  * **300s Side** : $107 - $131\n  * **VIP** : $528 - $1063\n\n\n\nPrices for Olivia Rodrigo in Toronto will be added following the presale at the bottom of the blog in a section called **Presale Results**.\n\nPresale Results\n\n### Community Chatter\n\nCurious how fans are feeling about the tour? Here are the best places to gauge sentiment:\n\n  * Instagram Announcement\n  * Facebook Announcement\n  * /r/OliviaRodrigo Tour Discussion Thread\n\n\n\n### Seating Map\n\nLooks like a fully standing GA pit! Good news for possible last minute ticket drops\n\n### 💡**How I rate shows**\n\n  * Various factors are considered, including community sentiment, time since the last show, pricing, proximity to nearby dates, and more\n  * Each factor is given a positive or negative score. Positive scores swing in the direction of **Buy** , and negative scores swing towards **Wait**\n  * Factors sum up to one score, which becomes the FaceValue Verdict: **Buy or Wait**\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## The factors\n\nHere's everything pushing this presale up or down the FaceValue scale.\n\n### She's as close to a guaranteed sellout as arenas get +++\n\nOlivia Rodrigo's last two tours instantly sold out and stayed that way. Her March 2024 SBA shows were **borderline impossible** to get into, with resale prices never dropping below $400 CAD (at least triple the price of face value).\n\nThe \"let's see how the demand shakes out\" part of the sale is already out of the question. Her demand is real, persistent, and battle-tested for the exact venues she's booking.\n\n### She's underplaying on purpose ++\n\nHer co-manager at the time, Zack Morgenroth, told Billboard following the _GUTS_ Tour:\n\n__\"Live Nation said to us that arenas now felt like an underplay — we probably could have done stadiums everywhere.\"__\n\nShe knew that and did arenas anyway. Booking 14K-cap rooms when you could fill 50K is an artist-led decision to protect the fan experience. But the side effect for ticket buyers is **brutal scarcity**. The Unraveled Tour is following the exact same playbook, and there is absolutely no scenario where two SBA nights satisfies the actual Toronto demand.\n\nThat is, if it stays at two nights...\n\n### The routing is openly inviting added dates -\n\nA quick scan of the tour itinerary will look familiar if you read my Bruno Mars Presale Breakdown. Every major market is already locked in for a minimum of 2 nights, with comfortable gaps between cities. London already had 4 nights at the O2, LA has 4 at the Intuit Dome, and Brooklyn has 4.\n\nToronto has open routing space for up to 3 days before the announced dates and a clear day after Oct 27th before Columbus. Predicting how many dates she adds is tricky, however. In the very next line from that same interview with Billboard, her former manager adds:\n\n__\"That being said, there was so much preparation for an arena tour: choosing each venue, making sure we had a good cadence for her. We tended to do only four shows in a week and never three shows in a row.\"__\n\nTo be fair, Olivia cut ties with Zack back in 2025. Maybe her new manager will have no issues pushing her to her limits with uninterrupted multi-night runs... Regardless, even with **_four_** nights at SBA, **Olivia will still have no issue selling them all out**. It would just lower the panic slightly during the presale.\n\n### A new album dropping four months before showtime +\n\n_\"you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love\"_ (a title that's already living rent-free in my head), is out June 12th, which puts the Toronto dates in the sweet spot of an album cycle. It's long enough for the singles to stick and the album to settle into fans' playlists, but close enough that the tour can catch the cycle at peak.\n\n_SOUR_ and GUTS were both critical and commercial home runs, so the bar is high, but there's nothing in her trajectory suggesting this one could break the pattern.\n\n### Amex only presale?! -\n\nThis one's curious... There's no artist presale for the Unraveled Tour, just an Amex presale on May 5th, followed straight by the general sale on May 7th. The conversation across her fanbase has rapidly shifted from \"how do I get tickets\" to \"should I get an Amex just for this presale,\" and the discourse around it has been fascinating to watch.\n\nFor ticket buyers, the takeaway is dead simple: **if you have an Amex, use it**. If you don't, treat the May 7th GP sale like it's your only chance, because it functionally is (until new dates are added). Fewer entry points mean more pressure on every single one of them, and a general public sale is going to be one of the most chaotic of the year.\n\n### Some quick-fire factors:\n\n  * **Peak fall concert season +**\n  * **Monday/Tuesday weeknight booking - (won't matter at all for her fanbase, let's be honest)**\n  * **Montreal dates are close by -**\n  * **Wolf Alice is a sick opener with a devoted fanbase +**\n\n\n\n### Resale is still running rampant +\n\nWe're just a week removed from the new bill in Ontario taking effect, banning resale tickets from being priced above face value. While we've started to see the effect on Ticketmaster, tickets on secondary markets like StubHub are still being priced above face value, with **no signs of enforcement** taking place.\n\nYayyy!!!\n\nUnless anything changes in the coming days, it looks like Olivia's sale will be subject to the same scalping that we've already been dealing with in Ontario... It's disappointing because Olivia's team had the ability to disable ticket transfers or enable Face Value Exchange on Ticketmaster, but it doesn't look like either will be the case.\n\n* * *\n\n## The verdict\n\nThis is one of the easiest calls I've ever had to make. Olivia Rodrigo in Toronto is the closest thing arenas have to a **guaranteed sellout**. She's intentionally underplaying a market that would have easily sold out Rogers Centre for her. Even with added dates, even with the Amex-only presale chaos, this is a sale where the only real risk is _not getting_ tickets at face value.\n\nIf you want in, the move is to do everything you can to secure tickets during the May 5th Amex presale or the May 7th General Public sale. Trust that resale will be brutal and Doug Ford won't be coming to save you.\n\nYou may also have a chance with the limited $20 **Silver Star** tickets when those go on sale. She has confirmed that she will be running that program again for this tour!\n\nNervous about the impending Ticketmaster War? I made a guide to help you have the **best chances at securing tickets for the toughest presales**. Check it out before heading into the queue.\n\nHow to Win the Ticketmaster War | FaceValueTicketmaster isn’t random — it’s a skill ladder. The definitive guide to beating the queue and getting tickets to Toronto’s hottest shows.FaceValue TorontoDima\n\n**Want updates for Olivia Rodrigo in Toronto?** You can receive email notifications for any ticket deals or updates on the FaceValue Concert Tracker. Just click **Keep Me Posted** for the concert you want to track.\n\n  * Olivia Rodrigo Concert Tracker: Oct 26, 2026, Oct 27, 2026\n\n\n\n## Presale Results\n\n _**Added** : May 15th, 2026_\n\nHere's how prices shaped up for Olivia Rodrigo in Toronto and how they compare to the average prices for each section for all other Scotiabank Arena concerts in 2026.\n\n  * **General Admission** : $304.25\n  * **100s** : $235.50 – $739.03 (+38%)\n  * **300s** : $116.25 – $302.79 (+15%)\n  * **VIP** : $789.25 (+49%)\n\n\n\nNow that the dust has settled following the presale and general sale, this is how ticket inventory is shaping up for **Olivia Rodrigo** in Toronto.\n\nAs expected, ticket inventory was instantly vaporized within hours of the presale starting, with no mercy for the general sale that followed.\n\nThe real knife twist was the fact that she actually didn't end up adding even a single Toronto date, and instead opted for turning her Brooklyn, LA, and London shows as mini-residencies with each of those cities getting 9-10 dates in total. All instantly sold out too.\n\n## Join the FaceValue community\n\nHelping you save money on Toronto's biggest concerts\n\nSubscribe\n\nEmail sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup.\n\nNo spam. Unsubscribe anytime.",
  "title": "Olivia Rodrigo - The Unraveled Tour (2026)",
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