Rihanna to cancel US tour because of low ticket sales?
It was announced last week that Rihanna would be canceling her shows in Phoenix and Dallas on her upcoming North American Tour and now Media Takeout has talked to a music industry insider who tells them the rest of the tour may be in jeopardy as well! The reason? A lack of ticket sales!
Rihanna’s reps and her fan sites downplayed the cancellations last week, calling out the “haters” who were starting rumors that the shows were canceled due to low ticket sales. The insider tells Media Takeout, “Rihanna’s people came up with some BS story that they were canceling the Arizona show because of some IMMIGRATION NONSENSE. That was a lie. It was because she couldn’t sell more than a third of the tickets.”
Initially there were 28 shows in the US and Canada on the “Last Girl On Earth Tour” which features TiK ToK punk pop diva Ke$ha as an opening act. After the Phoenix and Dallas shows were canceled it left 26. Here are the dates as it stands now:
July 2 – Seattle – White River Amphitheatre
July 4 – Vancouver, Canada – GM Place
July 6 – Calgary, Canada – Pengrowth Saddledome
July 9 – Sacramento – ARCO Arena
July 10 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
July 14 – Albuquerque, NM – Hard Rock Casino The Pavilion
July 15 – Denver – Comfort Dental Amphitheater
July 17 – Las Vegas – Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
July 21 – Los Angeles – Staples Center
July 22 – Phoenix – Cricket Wireless Pavilion
July 24 – Dallas – Superpages.com Center
July 25 – San Antonio, TX – AT&T Center
July 28 – Atlanta – Philips Arena
July 30 – Tampa, FL – Florida State Fairgrounds
July 31 – Miami – American Airlines Arena
August 3 – Indianapolis – Verizon Wireless Music Center (Indy)
August 5 – Toronto, Canada – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
August 7 – Montreal, Canada – Bell Centre
August 8 – Mansfield, MA – Comcast Center
August 11 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena
August 12 – New York City – Madison Square Garden
August 14 – Atlantic City, NJ – Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa
August 15 – Wantagh, NY – Jones Beach
August 18 – Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
August 21 – Harrisburg, PA – Hersheypark Stadium
August 22 – Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
August 25 – Chicago – United Center