Beyonce Latest Tour To Not Be Selling Out

[BuffaloKyle]

Beyoncé ticket prices are dropping because it hasn’t sold out — and fans are mad

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EXCLUSIVE: The Independent crunched the numbers and found thousands of unsold tickets to the superstar’s 2025 Cowboy Carter tour — with over 3,200 unsold...

 

[Ali Gator]

Cancellation announcement in 4, 3, 2,...

 

 

[EZEtoGRU]

AFAIK, Beyoncé’s upcoming tour is a stadium tour. Most stadiums hold 40,000 to 80,000 seats for a concert. Having a few shows where3-5k seats have gone unsold isn’t the end of the world.  Maybe there’s a little Beyoncé fatigue at this point. Or maybe the post Covid concert boom is over. Or maybe everyone blew their wad on the Swift’s Eras Tour and Beyoncé ticket sales are suffering as a result. Maybe the slowdown of the global economy is taking hold and people are cutting back. Pick the explanation of your choice. 
 

If the numbers we read are true, I see the tour forging ahead with few problems. If, on the other hand, ticket sales are worse than they are currently revealing, ok there might be a problem. 
 

I’m not a huge fan so I won’t be going to any of the shows. 

Edited April 19 by EZEtoGRU

[samhexum]

Jeez... how strange that in times of economic insecurity people are not choosing to throw exorbitant amounts of money at wealthy celebs.  What a concept!   And not one, of course, that any of those celebrities would ever even (have the capacity to) consider.

 

Edited April 20 by samhexum
because it was 3AM and he was winding down after preparing his Easter chicken soup and matzo balls

[Ali Gator]

17 hours ago, EZEtoGRU said:

AFAIK, Beyoncé’s upcoming tour is a stadium tour. Most stadiums hold 40,000 to 80,000 seats for a concert. Having a few shows where3-5k seats have gone unsold isn’t the end of the world.   

When you are a singer in the 'superstar stratosphere' like Beyonce (and Swift) is marketed as being these days, then yes - not selling out an arena is indeed 'the end of the world' for the singer and her team. As a matter of fact, it's rather embarrassing and humiliating.  A singer of her magnitude should be adding more dates to the stadium, not struggling to sell the remaining 3,000 - 5,000 seats. 

Heads will roll when all is said and done. I have a feeling Beyonce's waning popularity will not be blamed for this failure, but her 'marketing team' sure as hell will be (even if it's not their fault). 

[Ali Gator]

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Jeez... how strange that in times of economic insecurity people are not choosing to throw exorbitant amounts of money at wealthy celebs.  What a concept!   And not one, of course, that any of those celebrities would ever even (have the capacity to) consider.

I know many friends - both married and single parents (40s - 60s) - who complained incessantly from 2021 -2024 about 'the price of eggs!', 'the price of rent!', 'the price of a new or used car!'  and their paltry paychecks which barely covered their expenses each month.  Yet these same people had absolutely NO problem shelling out thousands of dollars for Taylor Swift concert tickets for the family (including their twin adult daughters' boyfriends), in addition to hundreds of dollars in travel expenses / food / lodging to get to the concert 300 miles away. No problem at all.

Same people had no problem renewing their seasonal subscriptions to the Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics, and Boston Bruins - because, you know, 'it's sports' and they have been season subscribers for years. Ka-ching! 

Same families who still take a week's summer vacation to Orlando, Florida for sentimental reasons because they've been doing it every year since 'the girls were little'. Now the girls are in their late 20s have boyfriends, and they still love doing 'the family vacation' to Disney which sets them back for the price of a new car. 

But the price of eggs is a whole other story which drove them to financial ruin. Poor families are still driving around in their 2022 Subaru Outback because - you know - the price of cars these days ! 

I'll be honest - I leave these conversations with them absolutely dumbfounded. 

[EZEtoGRU]

On 4/20/2025 at 1:23 PM, Ali Gator said:

When you are a singer in the 'superstar stratosphere' like Beyonce (and Swift) is marketed as being these days, then yes - not selling out an arena is indeed 'the end of the world' for the singer and her team. As a matter of fact, it's rather embarrassing and humiliating.  A singer of her magnitude should be adding more dates to the stadium, not struggling to sell the remaining 3,000 - 5,000 seats. 

Two points:

1.  These are not arena shows they are in stadiums.

2.  She indeed added multiple shows after the original tour announcement.

Beyoncé adds five more shows to 'Cowboy Carter' tour: See the dates, locations

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She coming! Beyoncé added five more stadium shows to her Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour due to high demand from fans.

 

[+ azdr0710]

veering just a little off-topic, what little regard/care I had for her (her music is just not my thing) was entirely lost when I saw the video of her at the Kobe Bryant memorial....ever the self-important diva, she turned a Bryant memorial into a routine Beyonce concert.....note the sexy costuming, make-up, lighting, AND THE WIND MACHINE(!) on her hair in this clip.......

 

[Ali Gator]

10 hours ago, EZEtoGRU said:

Two points:

1.  These are not arena shows they are in stadiums.

2.  She indeed added multiple shows after the original tour announcement.

Beyoncé adds five more shows to 'Cowboy Carter' tour: See the dates, locations

WWW.USATODAY.COM

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She coming! Beyoncé added five more stadium shows to her Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin' Circuit Tour due to high demand from fans.

 

How long did it take her to sell out her stadium shows ? Hours..... or days ? That's a true barometer of how popular she still is (ask Taylor Swift, whose concerts sold out in hours after they went on sale, and they were all stadium shows on her tour). 

Edited April 22 by Ali Gator

[EZEtoGRU]

1 hour ago, Ali Gator said:

How long did it take her to sell out her stadium shows ? Hours..... or days ? That's a true barometer of how popular she still is (ask Taylor Swift, whose concerts sold out in hours after they went on sale, and they were all stadium shows on her tour). 

You keep changing the metric. First it was if she’s adding dates or not (she did add multiple dates in multiple cities). Now the metric is how quick her shows sell out. 
 

No-one has claimed she is as/more popular than Swift. 
 

My point is I doubt they are ready to pull the plug on the whole tour. I just don’t think the situation is that bad…the only caveat being if the numbers we are being told on ticket sales is low-balling the actual situation. 
 

I have no doubt there is ticket-price fatigue going on in general. I note that Gaga has opted to do shows in arenas rather than stadiums for her recently announced US tour.  She did mostly/all stadium shows for her previous Chromatica Ball tour. 

 

[caramelsub]

Beyoncé finally won album of the year for Cowboy Carter at the Grammys this year. She has wanted that award for over 25 years now. Always coming close to winning, then ultimately losing to artists such as Swift, Beck, Adele, Harry Styles, respectively. She finally got what she wanted this year. I doubt she is fazed by low ticket sales or not being able to sell out auditoriums. She is probably just happy that she won for her magnum opus, Cowboy Carter.

Edited April 25 by caramelsub

[+ Cash4Trash]

On 4/20/2025 at 1:23 PM, Ali Gator said:

 

Heads will roll when all is said and done. I have a feeling Beyonce's waning popularity will not be blamed for this failure, but her 'marketing team' sure as hell will be (even if it's not their fault). 

All's well. I understand she has hired Katy Perry's marketing team. 

[viewing ownly]

I'd like to not believe this to be true, but if one cares more about 3,000 people that aren't there as opposed to 77,000 that are, find something else to do.

[samhexum]

5 hours ago, viewing ownly said:

I'd like to not believe this to be true, but if one cares more about 3,000 people that aren't there as opposed to 77,000 that are, find something else to do.

Or someone.

Btw, I'm not totally devastated about this ticket situation for her because I stopped listening to current music so long ago that I have never heard a complete song she has done, even going back to Destiny's Child.  But I've seen or heard snippets, which is more than I can say about her hubby.

I CAN say that I have heard more snippets of Beyonce in my life than I have of the future Mrs. Travis Kelce.

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

3200 seats out of 60k+ is nothing.  This article is clickbait.

Sure, she's not selling out as quickly as Swift, but I wouldn't do the math and call these numbers soft.

A week out, they'll all be sold.  She's a massive artist with a huge catalog.  Her production value is top notch.

 

[mike carey]

Margin of error, rounding errors ... EEEK, THE SKY IS FALLING.

[d.anders]

I usually don't do live pop concerts, especially in extremely large venues. Outdoor is the worst. It is very rare for the highly paid sound technicians to get the sound right in a mega-arena.

50 minutes ago, BenjaminNicholas said:

She's a massive artist with a huge catalog.  Her production value is top notch.

Absolutely true.

I'm not that familiar with her catalog, but I loved her tribute to Barbra Streisand. Blew me away.

 

[Ali Gator]

7 hours ago, viewing ownly said:

I'd like to not believe this to be true, but if one cares more about 3,000 people that aren't there as opposed to 77,000 that are, find something else to do.

Her employees get paid to care about this, as this is their career- and they will indeed be 'finding something else to do' sooner than later, as they most likely won't be working for her any longer. Whoever did the stats and assured her she could sell-out these arenas came up short.   It's better to look at these dates and see 'sold out' rather than '3,000 seats are still available' this late in the game.  She's going to want answers, and heads will roll.

[Ali Gator]

18 hours ago, caramelsub said:

Beyoncé finally won album of the year for Cowboy Carter at the Grammys this year. She has wanted that award for over 25 years now. Always coming close to winning, then ultimately losing to artists such as Swift, Beck, Adele, Harry Styles, respectively. She finally got what she wanted this year. I doubt she is fazed by low ticket sales or not being able to sell out auditoriums. She is probably just happy that she won for her magnum opus, Cowboy Carter.

I think she 'always came close to winning' just like the others who lost 'came close to winning'. 

You would think she would be happy with what she did win at the Gramys, but then she was ignored by the CMA and her happiness was short lived. She needed to be validated by the CMA - and she wasn't. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/11/19/cma-awards-beyonce-post-malone-voters/

[samhexum]

31 minutes ago, d.anders said:

I usually don't do live pop concerts

No offense, but I don't think many people are clamoring for you to start, no matter how good a singer you (think you) are.

[d.anders]

2 hours ago, samhexum said:

I don't think many people are clamoring for you to start

What do you mean? My shower concerts bring the bath caddy down each and every time. Even the toilet seat stands at attention.