In Vancouver, Canada, the PNE (Pacific National Exhibition), owned by the City of Vancouver, got fed up with Ticketmaster and created its own ticket-vending outfit called Ticketleader.

https://ticketleader.ca

This might have been around 2011?

This PDF document from 2010 (don't let the 2018 in the URL fool you) still mentions TicketMaster. It is an announcement in connection with the 100 year anniversary (1910 - 2010):

https://www.pne.ca/files/uploads/2018/01/entertainment.pdf

Rick Beato thinks that AutoTune and whatnot killed music.

Maybe it was just Ticketmaster.

Ticketmaster is the obvious reason why fewer people go to live shows in North America, whether rock and roll or not.