Are There Empty Seats At Beyonce's Cowboy Carter Tour? What We Know
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While Beyonce may be known as Queen Bey, some fans have reported her new Cowboy Carter tour to be a little lacking when it comes to the audience department.
Photographs and videos have circulated online revealing that many seats at the Beyonce concert tour are empty, indicating the show has not been as successful as anticipated by fans.
Newsweek reached out to representatives for Beyonce for comment via email.
Why It Matters
The Cowboy Carter tour kicked off on Monday at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
The show lasts two hours and 45 minutes and features songs from Beyonce's Grammy Award-winning album Cowboy Carter. Past hits were also included in the song lineup, like Crazy in Love and Formation.
While Beyonce has an estimated net worth of $760 million as of May 2024, according to Forbes, empty stadium seats in her new show could indicate the Cowboy Carter show is bringing in fewer ticket sales than past tours.
Beyoncé accepts the Best Country Album award for "COWBOY CARTER" onstage during the 67th Annual Grammy Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
Beyoncé accepts the Best Country Album award for "COWBOY CARTER" onstage during the 67th Annual Grammy Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.for The Recording Academy
What To Know
Many fans have posted photographs and videos on social media sharing their shock at the Cowboy Carter tour being relatively empty.
One X user @SaintMateos posted a picture showing several empty seats: "Why is my cowboy carter show so empty … where is everyone?"
Another social media user @artemxcx said: "the way cowboy carter tour is happening right now and it's not making any noise whatsoever."
Some photographs appear to show entirely empty sections of the arena for Cowboy Carter.
"Cowboy Carter tour? More like Empty tour," wrote @BeyIsOver on X.
Cowboy Carter tour? More like Empty tour pic.twitter.com/U0gQIOxK6z — victor🦄 (@beyisover) April 29, 2025
Yet another expressed shock over how the pop and R&B star's tour hadn't sold out. "Cowboy carter tour starting tonight and half the tickets remain unsold omg this is bad," @jdkaknak wrote on the platform.
According to Ticketmaster, many Cowboy Carter tickets remain on sale for as low as $66 for May shows. Tickets originally went on sale on February 14 and had a hefty price of roughly $250.
The dwindling ticket sales is unusual for Beyonce, whose most recent "Renaissance World Tour" brought in $579 million, making it the highest-grossing tour by a Black artist. Previously, Beyonce beat that record with her "Formation World Tour," according to Investopedia.
Cowboy Carter earned the Album of the Year award at the Grammys, and Beyonce also brought home the Best Country Album award.
What People Are Saying
X user @Himu_Art wrote: "The only noise CowDung Carter made was having empty seats & not being sold out."
@ThePopStuff also posted on X: "Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter" tour is STRUGGLING to fill thousands of empty seats in its 29/32 UNSOLD shows."
"Ticketmaster is now arbitrarily re-accomodating fans' seats to the front floor in order to make the shows look "full." Will these desperate tactics save her LOW DEMAND tour?"
What Happens Next
While the tour kicked off on Monday, Beyonce has announced the first nine tour stops for Cowboy Carter, which include Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, London, Paris, Houston, Atlanta, Washington, D.C, and Las Vegas.
Billboard predicted in March that the tour would generate approximately $294 million in revenue and sell between 1.1 to 1.2 million tickets.
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