Post Malone‘s “Large Ass Stadium Tour Half 2” simply obtained smaller. The artist took to social media Friday night time to announce that he was canceling the primary few weeks of his outing in stadiums with Jelly Roll, saying that he needs to get his forthcoming album completed earlier than hitting the highway in earnest.
The cancellation impacts the primary six recurrently scheduled dates on the Reside Nation-produced joint tour, or virtually a 3rd of the North American dates altogether. The tour was to formally kick off Could 13 at El Paso’s Solar Bowl Stadium, with the opposite scotched dates have been to have taken place at stadiums in Waco, Baton Rouge, Birmingham, Tampa and Oxford, Miss.. Not counting three competition dates that the star plans to meet within the interim, the tour with Malone and Jelly Roll will now kick off three and a half weeks later than deliberate in Charlotte, NC on June 9.
Regardless of stories of slower-than-expected ticket gross sales, Malone was adamant in his message {that a} concentrate on getting by an epic album-in-progress was the rationale for placing this primary batch of dates on ice.
“Wanting on the upcoming schedule after Stagecoach,” Malone wrote followers, “I got here to the belief that what we’re attempting to do, and what’s potential, isn’t actually lining up. The reality is, I promised y’all lovely folks new music, and I don’t have the time to complete it earlier than tour begins. We ain’t prepared for tour simply but, so I’m making the choice to push the tour again about 3 weeks to get this music accomplished.”
Malone has been touting a 40-track album on the best way, to be titled “The Everlasting Buzz.” No launch date has been introduced, nor have every other particulars past the title. Malone’s announcement signifies it nonetheless has a option to go to the end line. (In an interview with Billboard at Stagecoach final weekend, Malone stated he’d recorded “most likely 35 songs” for the challenge however had solely gotten so far as scratch vocals.)
“That being stated,” Malone’s announcement continued, “I’m so sorry to the parents who have been planing on coming to the few canceled exhibits. I used to be wanting ahead to going nuts with y’all. That THAT being stated, we been making some badass shit for this double album… and I can’t wait to carry out for y’all once more.”
The pushing again of the beginning of the tour comes on the heels of widespread stories that ticket gross sales have been comfortable for a lot of dates on the tour, in distinction to final summer time’s preliminary “Large Ass Stadium Tour” by Malone and Jelly Roll, which bought out each date and grossed a reported $170 million. The disparity between final 12 months’s gross sales and this 12 months’s was the topic of a Lefsetz Report publication that went out to music trade readers shortly earlier than Malone made his announcement.
Neither Malone nor Jelly Roll has had an album out since 2024. The considering could also be that if Malone can get “The Everlasting Buzz” and/or successful single into {the marketplace} sooner reasonably than later, it might goose ticket gross sales for the remaining dates, in the identical means that the recognition of “F-1 Trillion” a 12 months and a half in the past undoubtedly spurred a rush on the sold-out 2025 tour.
Business observers have engaged in debate about why this 12 months’s tour has up to now not appeared as sizzling because the red-hot outing final summer time. Most of this 12 months’s exhibits should not in the identical cities as final 12 months’s, so in most situations it isn’t a case of revisiting the identical market too quickly. Some have put it right down to hypothesis or confusion over whether or not Malone will emphasize his nation aspect or his hip-hop/rock aspect on the tour — and within the feedback, it’s not onerous to seek out followers who’re hoping the live shows will veer extra by hook or by crook — though, once more, this didn’t appear to be a hindrance in 2025.
Malone could concentrate on the guessing sport occurring about whether or not the forthcoming album and tour will lean one musical path or one other. He’s indicated “The Everlasting Buzz” can have its 40 songs divided up right into a two-part format (unfold evenly throughout two CDs, within the bodily realm), leaving some to marvel if he could be planning to divide it up amongst genres, versus the strict nation focus of “F-1 Trillion.”
The rapper-turned-rocker-turned-country-star could have hinted at a decision that might mark a minimum of a partial return to his roots, with a barely cryptic remark tagged on to the tip of Friday’s social media submit.
“And to lots of little stinkers that assume I’ve forgotten about outdated Stoney, I haven’t,” he wrote. (“Stoney” was the title of his debut album in 2016.) “I like you, and may’t wait to see you loopy motherfuckers quickly,” he concluded.
As soon as the Malone/Jelly Roll belatedly begins up in June, it is going to run by 13 exhibits in North America, with Carter Religion as opener (stepping in for final 12 months’s help act, Sierra Ferrell). After a month and a half off, beginning in mid-September, Malone will transfer his “Large Ass” tour to Asian territories, with hip-hop star Don Toliver taking Jelly Roll’s place on the invoice abroad.
Malone nixing a couple of third of his U.S. stadium exhibits is definitely on the much less extreme aspect of a current rash of tour cancellations, nearly all of which have been formally ascribed to non-public circumstances and never headwinds within the live performance financial system. Earlier Friday, Zayn canceled his whole U.S. enviornment tour, though he is occurring with the abroad parts, citing unspecified well being points. In mid-April, Meghan Trainor additionally known as off her whole enviornment tour, citing a want to spend time along with her younger youngsters.
