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Ticketmaster tweeted later in the day that the sale of tickets to the general public Friday had been canceled due to "extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory date for tickets."

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00:00If I'm still bejeweled, when I walk in the room, I can still make the whole place shimmer.

00:05Taylor Swift just set a Ticketmaster record.

00:08The Bejeweled singer sold the most tickets any artist has in one day ever earlier this week during the pre-sale for her Eras tour.

00:15But with the crazy high demand came some technical issues and now the CEO of Live Nation is commenting on them.

00:21While speaking at the Liberty Media Investor Day Thursday, Michael Rapinoe, the CEO of Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster,

00:28said the company saw more than 3.5 million people try to register as verified fans, all to buy tickets to the pop star's upcoming U.S. tour.

00:36Those that received codes to buy tickets then overwhelmed the site on Tuesday, causing a few hours of, quote,

00:42slowdowns as the company worked to stabilize the system.

00:45Rapinoe said,

00:46We invited a million and a half on that day to come and buy those tickets.

00:50But it's kind of like having a party.

00:52Everybody crashed that door at the same time with 3.5 billion requests.

00:56The executive added,

00:57We sold 2 million tickets, the most we've ever sold in one day in history, and another million tickets of other artists on that same day.

01:05So although we regret it was a slowdown in some cues and some error codes for a short period for some fans, we did manage to recover.

01:11Still, the long waits for buying tickets and error messages on the site sparked backlash among many of Swift's fans,

01:17who took to social media to decry the ticket-buying process.

01:20Ticketmaster tweeted on Thursday that the sale of tickets to the general public Friday had been canceled due to, quote,

01:26extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand.

01:33For more on this story, go to THR.com.

01:36For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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