Sexyy Red quietly cancels tour dates after low ticket sales

nme.com:

Sexyy Red has cancelled dates on her upcoming tour following reported low ticket sales.In July, the rapper announced that she would be going on her own ‘Sexyy Red 4 President’ headline tour later this year.

However, rumours soon emerged claiming that Red’s second headline tour wasn’t selling as quickly as planned. According to The Art Of Dialogue and Touring Data, only 37.11 per cent of the 85,217 tickets had been sold.Red disputed the claims shortly after, quote-tweeting the blog site’s post to set the record straight: “My fans are buying tickets [and] we’re doin’ just fine.

We not cancelling no tour. Dis cancelling shit all cap [hat emojis].”Now though, a handful of shows of the tour have been cancelled without explanation.

Billboard have reported that the tour’s first date in Seattle last night (August 22) was called off, and planned dates in Portland and Oakland have been quietly removed from the itinerary.Red is yet to issue any explanation for the cancelled dates and the tour will now start on Saturday (August 24) at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta.The news follows a growing trend of acts forced to cancel tours this year as a result of low sales.Earlier this summer, it was reported that The Black Keys‘ entire ‘International Players Tour’ had been abruptly scrapped, with no explanation provided.