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The price of concert tickets has been increasing for years, a reflection of both rising touring costs and ravenous demand for the top stars. Now music lovers face another potential financial hurdle: As some stars who used to trek from town to town choose to play multiple times in a smaller number of locations instead, many fans also have to drum up additional money for travel and lodging. Plenty are plunking down their cash. Diony Elias, 45, and his girlfriend spent around $7,000 to see Bad Bunny in Puerto Rico last summer. Well over 11 million people registered to score tickets for Harry Styles’s 30 shows in New York, according to Ticketmaster, a number far greater than the capacity of 30 Madison Square Gardens. Matej Sokcevic, a 28-year-old fan based in Munich, will travel to both London and Amsterdam to see Styles—“a dream,” he said. He expects to spend 765 euros on his London trip for a ticket, travel, food and a hotel, along with another 425 euros for Amsterdam and 225 euros on his outfit, which comes to 1,415 euros, or about $1,636 in total. Others were priced out. While Victoria Hupp, from near Cleveland, has been a fan of Styles since his boy band days, she didn’t have room in her budget for airfare on top of tickets. “The working class is already losing so much,” she said. Read more: 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4rYNQHD