Ticket sales for the second half of Kanye West’s “Yeezus” tour were so dismal, prices were slashed and freebies were given out at the last minute for shows in New Jersey and New York.
We’re told several brokers were offering massively discounted tickets — and even free ones — for shows at the Prudential Center last week and for Sunday’s Nassau Coliseum gig, after only half of tickets for the Prudential Center show were sold, while just a third of the tickets were sold for Sunday’s Nassau show.
“He’d already been in the area four times,” said one music insider. “Why would fans go out [again]?”
West, in January, announced nine additional East Coast concert dates after he’d already performed 30 dates across the US, including concerts at the Barclays Center and MSG.
Kendrick Lamar and A Tribe Called Quest toured with West as supporting acts during the earlier dates.
A West rep would not comment on ticket sales, but said Sunday’s performance was “one of the more energetic crowds I’ve seen on this tour and definitely a great performance from Kanye.”