Beyoncé canceled the show: The crew said because the pitch was too small, but netizens pointed out that the ticket sales were far behind the Taylor Swift show?

Beyoncé abruptly canceled a concert in Pittsburgh during the Renaissance World Tour.

Recently, the official social media page of Acrisure Stadium (Pittsburgh City) has announced that Beyoncé will cancel the concert here on the evening of August 3, 2023 for technical reasons and schedule changes. All ticket fare that the audience spends for this show will be refunded to the payment account as soon as possible. Subsequent concerts in Seattle, Kansas City were also rescheduled to a few days later.

The mayor of Pittsburgh also expressed great disappointment when Beyoncé did not visit the city as planned: “We are ready to welcome her to Pittsburgh and honor her with an official holiday. We are also talking with the program organizers to understand the problem we are facing, and also try to arrange if we can find a new venue or a new show date.” Many inside sources said that the Beyoncé team judged the space of Acrisure Stadium to be too small to set up the grand stage of the Renaissance World Tour.

Notably, Taylor Swift also performed at the same stadium in the framework of The Eras Tour not long ago. Specifically, The Eras Tour had 2 shows at Acrisure Stadium on the evening of June 16 and 17, attracting a total of 146,000 spectators. Taylor Swift also became the first artist to perform at this stadium two nights in a row on a tour. At the same time, the show The Eras Tour on June 17 also set a record for the largest audience ever to Acrisure Stadium with an impressive number: 73,117 attendees. These are the two biggest tours of the year, attracting strong attention in all aspects, making every city they go through “fever” – so the fact that Taylor Swift and Beyoncé’s fandoms are constantly “fighting” on the table. Comparing 2 tours The Eras Tour and Renaissance World Tour is easy to see.

The stage of The Eras Tour has an investment level, the area certainly cannot lose to the Renaissance World Tour. Therefore, before the information from the crew that the reason for the cancellation of the show was because the ground area was too small, the stage for Beyoncé could not be set up, which made netizens immediately sarcastic. Many people also point out that the real problem lies in the fact that tickets for Beyoncé’s show are selling very slowly, far from the speed of ticket sales for the Taylor Swift show.

Daily Mail reported that according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, this stadium still has thousands of unsold tickets even though it has been open for sale for many months. Even the ticket price for the show has been lowered to only about 50 USD to have a ticket in hand. A ticket sales diagram of Ticketmaster circulating on Twitter also shows that almost all areas in Acrisure Stadium have empty seats, which can be purchased easily even though there is only about 1 month left of the event.