Concert promoter AEG Presents isn’t sweating the loss on the cancellation of the remaining dates on Justin Bieber’s Purpose World Tour. Company sources say, overall, the 154-concert tour was very successful, but some of the final dates weren’t selling that well.
After playing sold-out arena dates all over the country, Bieber might have been pushing his luck trying to return and play stadium shows without releasing a new album, sources say.Just one of the 14 shows left on the tour was a sellout, and in nearly every market, 5,000 to 12,000 tickets per show were available on the secondary market, often priced below face value. That made it very difficult to sell any additional tickets, and in many markets there were large sections of the stadium that were unsold.
Sources at AEG said despite the slow sales, they were planning to move forward with the final 14 dates when the singer’s camp informed them he was canceling the rest of the tour.
“If the sales were better, we might have pushed a little harder to try and convince him to finish the tour,” our source tells us. Despite the final…
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