BREAKING TOUR BUZZ: Nicki Minaj Cancels North American Tour Amid Reports of Low Ticket Sales

Nicki Minaj has cancelled her upcoming North American tour with Future just a month before it was set to start, citing her need to "reevaluate elements of production," per a statement from Live Nation. The news comes alongside unsubstantiated reports of low ticket sales.

One casualty of the rescheduled concert tour, which is now slated to kick off in May 2019, is that Future will no longer be a co-headliner due to a scheduling conflict of his own. And the cancellation is only for the North American leg of the tour. The previously announced European leg will occur as scheduled, now kicking off the entire tour in February 2019.

News of the cancellation came just a couple hours after Page Six reported extremely low ticket sales. According to a source with Live Nation, per the report, "Nicki's tour could be the most disappointing ticket sales of the year for any artist."
The source went on to detail several major cities where Minaj has sold a few thousand tickets in venues that can hold up to 20,000 people. At the time of that report, those same sources said the tour was in danger of being cancelled, and now that's happened.

Minaj posted a video to her social media accounts saying that it was simply a matter of timing and the delay of the "Queen" release by two months. "Now, I just simply don't have the time to rehearse and be on the road and give you guys the level of a show I need to give," she said.

My darlings: □□ pic.twitter.com/nBmsE2p9SI

— QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) August 22, 2018

Since the cancellation announcement, Minaj has been on Twitter assuring her fans that the tour was postponed so she could rework it to give them a better experience, and even promising a few perks for her "platinum and gold VIPs." Minaj says that Live Nation will be taking refunds, or allowing already-purchased tickets to be used at the rescheduled concerts, depending on what the fans wanted.