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Ticket sales for Nicki Minaj’s tour are ‘in the toilet’
By Emily Smith and Tashara Jones
August 21, 2018 | 9:22pm
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Nicki Minaj is “spiraling out of control,” say top music-industry insiders, amid disastrous tour ticket sales — and she’s lashing out at Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner, accusing them of using their baby to boost his album sales.
We’re told stubs for her upcoming tour — to begin next month — aren’t flying off the shelves.
A Live Nation source told us, “Nicki’s tour could be the most disappointing ticket sales of the year for any artist. These are big arenas with up to 20,000 capacities. Sales for opening night in Baltimore is 2,000 tickets. LA is 3,400, New Orleans 1,000, Denver 1,300, Chicago 3,900. Even her hometown Brooklyn is only 5,050.”
Sources even said the tour is in danger of being canceled.
Meanwhile, on Monday, Minaj went after Scott and Jenner on her Beats 1 show, “Queen Radio,” accusing them of manipulating the sales of his No. 1 album by using a well-known industry cheat of bundling free albums with cheap merchandise — like clothing and so-called tour passes — to bump up sales figures.
Minaj fumed that Scott was “selling f - - king sweaters [and] tour passes” and parading daughter Stormi “for publicity.”
She called Scott “ho n - - - a of the week,” ranting the alleged maneuver had put his “Astroworld” album at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 while her new album, “Queen,” debuted at No. 2.
An industry insider said, “Nicki has gone off the rails. She can’t take it that she sold less records than Cardi B (who’s stealing her thunder big time) in her first week; she can’t take it that Travis beat her to No. 1. Her ticket sales for her tour are in the toilet, and it’s making her even more crazy.”
Reps for Travis didn’t get back to us.
This comes after a major Minaj meltdown on Twitter, when she caused a stir by comparing herself to abolitionist Harriet Tubman. And at the Video Music Awards Monday, show organizers moved Scott and Jenner to seats farther away from her.
A rep for Minaj didn’t comment, and didn’t get back to us regarding the terrible ticket sales.
Renner bout to bless us. Sure she's like D-list, but it has to start somewhere.
? People like what that they like.
Yeah I'm in the same boat...
Not really. I said sheep because people regurgitate what others tell them. So and so said astroworld was fire therefore people believe it and fall for the hype. I listened to it and was not impressedIts sheep mentality for people to have a taste in music that differs from yours
You strike me as one of those elitist types that think their taste is better than everyone else's.
