Spotify’s latest feature is ready to help you avoid concert ticket resellers

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TL;DRSpotify is rolling out Reserved, which lets some users buy tickets to concerts before general availability begins.Eligible users are chosen based on signals like streams and shares.The feature is being offered in partnership with Ticketmaster and Live Nation.An under-regulated live entertainment market has made getting tickets to pretty much any large show a nightmare, with a significant share of face-value tickets instantly snapped up by resellers who go on to flip them at grossly inflated prices. It’s an institutional problem that’ll require institutional change to solve — but in the meantime, Spotify’s got a new feature that might help you nab tickets you otherwise would’ve missed out on.Spotify announced this morning that it’s rolling out a new feature called Reserved, which holds tickets for “an artist’s most dedicated fans,” giving users picked by Spotify a chance to buy seats at concerts before general availability starts.