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My prayers have been heard!!! Now we can finally share pics in comments!!! Yay! So what's your top streaming song?

During the TalkShopLive event he says at 34:44 that there will be five extra songs on the deluxe album and that they've already picked three or four out of them. But somehow we ended up with two??? Man cannot raise our hopes like that and drop it unreliably.

No surprises at all

Blue dot fever is a slang term used to describe a wave of concert tour cancellations caused by low ticket sales. The phrase gets its name from the sea of blue dots that represent unsold seats on ticketing platforms like Ticketmaster, visually highlighting lagging demand for live music shows.

Why Is This Happening?

Several economic and industry factors have contributed to the rise of blue dot fever: [1, 2]

• Surging Prices: The cost of live music has skyrocketed. According to industry reports, average primary-market ticket prices have reached upwards of \(\$144\), which does not include additional fees, travel, or accommodations.
• Market Saturation: Following the post-pandemic live music boom, the market has become heavily crowded with dozens of major acts touring at the same time.
• Changing Consumer Habits: Faced with inflation and economic pessimism, fans are being highly selective with their discretionary spending, realizing that billions of streams do not automatically guarantee packed arenas. [1, 2, 3]

Notable Examples

High-profile artists have been forced to adjust or abandon large-scale tours due to sparse seating charts: [1, 2, 3]

• Post Malone & Jelly Roll: Scaled back their co-headlining stadium tour by canceling about a third of their scheduled stops.
• Meghan Trainor & Zayn: Canceled their planned US arena dates entirely.
• Kid Cudi: Canceled select individual arena shows after publicizing that ticket sales simply weren't strong enough

The US shows were months away, they were selling well as you can see it was 75% sold before being cancelled. So the claims that he cancelled the shows because of tickets not selling is completely untrue. If the shows were still happening, they would have all sold by the time they came around. He only cancelled the US shows because he has done enough shows in North America and fans from other countries also deserve to see him!