“From $50 to $500”: Chris Rock's tour ticket sales skyrocketed after Oscars slapping altercation

ABC

While Chris Rock may be keeping his silence on the infamous Oscars slapping incident, his fans are loudly speaking up for him. 

After Sunday night’s unexpected altercation, online ticket marketplace TickPick, saw a huge increase of sales for Rock’s Ego Death World Tour.

The marketplace, which prides itself on its no-hidden fees strategy, said in a tweet on Monday, “We sold more tickets to see Chris Rock overnight than we did in the past month combined.”

Co-CEO Brett Goldberg confirmed the news to ABC Audio, detailing the company’s Monday morning marketing meeting that revealed the shocking data. 

“When we went to go look at the sales data, it showed that in the last