The 54-year-old performer mentioned she was “fully heartsick and devastated” in regards to the information in a message to followers shared on her web site. “Please know that I wouldn’t do that if I didn’t really feel that it was completely essential.”
Lopez didn’t elaborate on her causes, however a consultant mentioned the choice was not made because of ticket gross sales.
The practically two-month tour was set to kick off in Orlando on June 26, with exhibits scheduled throughout america and Canada. Nevertheless it’s been marred by stories of poor gross sales since its announcement early this yr.
The tour, which was going to be Lopez’s first in 5 years, was meant to assist her ninth album, “This Is Me … Now,” which got here out in February as her first solo album in practically a decade. It didn’t chart effectively, debuting at No. 38 on the Billboard 200 — a profession low for the entertainer. The 13-track album, which the singer has mentioned was impressed by her rekindled relationship with Affleck, was additionally accompanied by a star-studded, quasi-biographical fictionalized film, “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story,” and a behind-the-scenes documentary, “The Biggest Love Story By no means Advised.”
In March, the last seven tour dates in Cleveland, Nashville, Raleigh, N.C., Atlanta, Tampa, New Orleans and Houston had been canceled. Then in April, the tour title was modified from “This Is Me … Now” to “This Is Me … Stay: The Biggest Hits,” which steered the tour’s focus can be extra career-spanning. Screenshots of ticket-booking web sites for J-Lo’s tour dates in Denver, Tulsa and Pittsburgh revealed in a Selection article confirmed swaths of sections with accessible tickets.
Related screenshots for different artists’ exhibits have additionally circulated on social media. Final month, the Black Keys appeared to be in an analogous predicament to Lopez. The rock duo mentioned in an announcement that they had been canceling North American tour dates and deliberate to reschedule the performances in downsized venues to supply an “thrilling, intimate expertise for each followers and the band.”
Different musicians have additionally needed to make modifications to their touring schedules. The Jonas Brothers introduced in April that they had been suspending the European leg of their tour because of scheduling conflicts. Pink couldn’t carry out just a few exhibits final yr because of a respiratory infection, and Justin Timberlake canceled a show earlier this yr after coming down with the flu.
Stay Nation has come beneath scrutiny from the federal authorities, which final month filed an antitrust lawsuit towards the corporate and its subsidiary Ticketmaster, claiming they function as an efficient monopoly over the dwell music business.
In the meantime, Lopez has been silent a couple of flurry of unconfirmed stories claiming that she and Affleck are having relationship issues. The couple, nicknamed “Bennifer” when their relationship grew to become a cultural obsession within the early 2000s, not too long ago rekindled their romance and married in 2022. For the previous few weeks, tabloids have been stuffed with headlines about “marriage issues.”
When Lopez was requested to handle the rumors at a press junket final week for her newest movie “Atlas,” she responded, “You already know higher than that.”
