{"id":63221,"date":"2026-10-21T20:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/mnek-cancels-tour-over-lack-of-ticket-sales-and-production-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T20:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:00:46","slug":"mnek-cancels-tour-over-lack-of-ticket-sales-and-production-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/mnek-cancels-tour-over-lack-of-ticket-sales-and-production-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"MNEK cancels tour over lack of ticket sales and production costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b>MNEK has cancelled his upcoming tour due to a lack of ticket sales and the show not being &#8220;ready to the standard&#8221; he wanted.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Grammy-nominated artist, who has worked with the likes of Beyonc\u00e9, Zara Larsson and Madonna, was due to start a run of shows for his latest album Bulldozer!! next month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement shared on Instagram, the 31-year-old said he joins other artists who have cancelled shows recently as a result of &#8220;high production costs&#8221; and &#8220;over-ambitious planning&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvgze6g5pz2o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">The Pussycat Dolls called off<\/a> almost the entire US leg of their reunion tour following poor ticket sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The singer, whose real name is Uzoechi Emenike, said he had been &#8220;really looking forward&#8221; to performing his new album but had &#8220;no interest in doing this tour if I can&#8217;t do it right&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He thanked fans who had bought tickets and said they would be refunded soon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artist also said he would try to tour the album when he could put on a show which fans &#8220;deserve&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pop star Larsson, whose hit album Midnight Sun was executive produced by MNEK, was among those who offered their support to the artist in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock also sent him love, while singer Becky Hill encouraged him, saying: &#8220;Touring is devastatingly expensive but you&#8217;ll find a way&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwe8lz018pe1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNEK has cancelled his upcoming tour due to a lack of ticket sales and the show not being &#8220;ready to the standard&#8221; he wanted. The Grammy-nominated artist, who has worked with the likes of Beyonc\u00e9, Zara Larsson and Madonna, was due to start a run of shows for his latest album Bulldozer!! next month. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[2928,919,7370,17181,4412,225,3851,2930],"class_list":["post-63221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-cancels","tag-costs","tag-lack","tag-mnek","tag-production","tag-sales","tag-ticket","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63223,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63221\/revisions\/63223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}