There are plenty of cheap seats left for Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter' tour. A bad omen for live music?

Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” conscionable took location the Grammys’ apical prize, but fans successful immoderate markets aren’t yet pulling the trigger connected buying her performance tickets.

The popular megastar’s upcoming “Cowboy Carter” circuit seemed arsenic definite a stake arsenic is imaginable successful unrecorded music, fixed her medium of the twelvemonth triumph that followed the sold-out Renaissance tour, which was successful specified precocious request that American fans flew to Europe for a discount.

But arsenic respective outlets noticed, to justice by prices for disposable seats successful premier cities similar Los Angeles, the Beyhive seems slower to instrumentality to stadiums this clip around.

Tickets for the opening of her five-night SoCal run, April 28 astatine SoFi Stadium, arsenic of Wednesday greeting are inactive wide disposable and selling for arsenic small astatine $59 (and that’s all-in pricing including fees) connected Ticketmaster’s Verified Resale program. Subsequent dates astatine SoFi are going for arsenic debased arsenic $35.

Tickets are going for akin terms points astir the state and successful different markets similar the U.K. While Beyoncé’s medium is rooted successful state and her Texas euphony heritage, speech from a hometown Houston run, she’s avoiding state euphony strongholds similar Nashville.

Live Nation has cited a 94% sellout rate, but the prevalence of disposable resale tickets astatine rock-bottom prices suggests that fans, astatine best, are having immoderate buyer’s remorse.

While euphony fans are again battered by recession fears and ongoing inflation, and immoderate festivals person seen softening demand, different marquee runs from Oasis and Olivia Rodrigo haven’t seen akin lags. It’s hard to cognize if brushed request is owed to economical fears, an overbooked circuit oregon thing much ephemeral astir “Cowboy Carter’s” interaction extracurricular of awards season.

But adjacent a fewer months ago, it was unthinkable that an creator of Beyoncé’s caliber would person occupation moving tickets. Ring the alarm for an impending recession?