Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia + Tour

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Sis has had probably the biggest and best pop era of my lifetime and still hasn't sold out her arena tour. I just don't get why the GP aren't on board with pulling the trigger to see her live.
 
Trousers

Trousers

Yeah, I think it's one thing if you're a super established act who has a great reputation as a live act and a devoted fanbase who will automatically just buy up tickets regardless of circumstances, but for an act like Dua where people have really only started to properly jump on board in the last 18 months you're relying on casuals, most of whom are thinking "I'll only buy tickets when I can be 100% sure it goes ahead".

I bought tickets to her streamed concert and loved it, adore the album but haven't yet bought concert tickets because I have no clue when it will actually go ahead, and I think tickets will be available up to the point that we actually see other artists' tours being held.
 
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Lucas said:
Covid? I have a few friends who are waiting to buy tickets because of the constant push back of dates.
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Jordtayylor said:
Because the global pandemic means said arena tour may not even happen until like 2024?
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Tea – but I'm just surprised there's been such a lack of consumer confidence in this tour in particular, and it wasn't shifting months before Covid too. Maybe it's just the multi-pushbacks that are really putting people off here, I've no idea.
 
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Mike

Nothing is certain, of course, but I think the April dates will likely stick at this point. With small to medium-sized gigs already returning now, I can't really imagine arena shows are going to take another three years.
 
Vasilios

Vasilios

Future Nostalgia tour was announced early December 2019. And at that point only one single had been released. Covid debuted February 2020. The initial sales were soft-ish but there's no doubt a tour announcement once the singles had started smashing would have resulted in a sell out. We'll never know I guess.
 
Joe.

Joe.

I find it kind of bizarre Radio 1 have snubbed 'Love Again', it's not uncommon for songs to be snubbed this late into the era, but I thought given the success of everything else that they'd show support for this.
 
RJF

RJF

I maintain what I said a while back about the tour that the announcement of it was one of the campaign's few missteps. She had toured the UK in particular with the debut about three or four times and was coming back relatively quickly off - at the time - only one more hit from the previous time. And then the entire world went to shit and it stopped being something anyone even thought about for two years. Tours benefit massively from that initial hysteria and boom of the announcement. It might be a struggle to recreate that.

If we manage to make it through this winter without anything going awry, I can imagine a massive push centring on the tour around Christmas. Maybe even a rebrand to make it seem like it's new thing entirely.

Either way, I don't see us getting out of this year without a new single entirely.
 
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Suburbia

I think at this point selling tickets for a tour supporting a two year old album is a big ask for locals. Do casual fans want to go see an album live in 2022 that was the soundtrack to the first lockdown in 2020? I don't know.

For me personally I don't mind and it would be a celebratory moment to finally see her basking in this new-found post-Future Nostalgia main pop girl glow, but that's not how my local friends see it. I know they feel very "that album is old now". Gays are fickle creatures.
 
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