Originally Posted by kane

She sold out the Staples center in Los Angeles in about 2 minutes last year.

Unless you get lucky, have a connection or are willing to pay a lot more than face value, good luck getting tickets. Right now she is one of the hottest acts in the world. I tried to buy tickets for my two nieces last year. Tickets went on sale at 10am. Like you I tried the website while also trying the phone. On the phone I got through to a person at about 10:07 and they were sold out by then. Pretty crazy.

As for her writing, my understanding is that she co-wrote all or most of the songs on her first two albums, but on her newest album she wrote all the songs on it herself without the help of a co-writer.