The 60-year-old pop icon’s upcoming “Madame X” tour isn’t selling out the way it should.
Despite being one the most celebrated living music icons, it appears as though Madonna‘s hype isn’t what it once was. According to PageSix, Madonna’s forthcoming tour in support Madonna X has yet to sell out, unlike her previous tours.
Now, Madonna, who’s worked with nearly every artist under the sun, has sold out stadiums, arenas, and any other type venue you could think throughout her illustrious career. For the “Madame X” tour, she scaled back to smaller, theatre-size venues that could only fit a few thousand people for a more intimate performance. Unfortunately, even with smaller venues, she’s still reportedly having trouble selling out tour dates.
Initial reports stated that the first shows sold out but it was revealed on Ticketmaster that there are hundreds tickets still available for each concert. For example, her October 7th show at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House — one seventeen shows in Brooklyn — still has over half the $357 mezzanine seats available.
Live Nation insisted that the reason why so many tickets were available because it has “increased the number shows exponentially due to overwhelming demand.”
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However, an insider said that low ticket sales aren’t exactly thrilling the home team.
“It’s very telling these shows didn’t sell out as quickly as ‘Springsteen on Broadway’ did a couple years ago,” an insider said. “This clearly isn’t the home run Team Madonna was hoping for.”
Maybe things might change with the release Madame X on June 14th. The singer’s released five songs already but none them have yet to make a debut on the Billboard Hot 100.