We ain’t ready for tour just yet

Post Malone has postponed the start of his 2026 ‘Big Ass Stadium Tour 2’ and cancelled several upcoming dates outright – check out all the details below.

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The ‘Sunflower’ artist took to social media Friday night (May 1), and announced that he was scrapping the first few weeks of stadium outings with Jelly Roll, saying that he wanted to get his forthcoming album finished before beginning the trek.

Per Variety, the cancellation affects the first six scheduled dates on the joint tour, equating to roughly a third of the North American dates altogether. It was set to kick off on May 13 at El Paso’s Sun Bowl Stadium, with the other axed dates meant to have hit stadiums in Waco, Baton Rouge, Birmingham, Tampa, and Oxford, Mississippi.

Not including the three festival dates that Malone plans to fulfil in the interim, the tour alongside Jelly Roll will now kick off three and a half weeks later than planned in Charlotte, North Carolina, on June 9.

Despite reports of slower-than-expected ticket sales, Malone told fans that recording a new album was the reason the dates were axed. “Looking at the upcoming schedule after Stagecoach,” Malone wrote, “I came to the realization that what we’re trying to do, and what’s possible, isn’t really lining up.

“The truth is, I promised y’all beautiful people new music, and I don’t have the time to finish it before tour starts. We ain’t ready for tour just yet, so I’m making the decision to push the tour back about 3 weeks to get this music done.”

Malone teased a new 40-track album last year, and revealed he had “made probably 35 songs”. As yet, no release date has been announced, nor have any other details beyond the title, ‘The Eternal Buzz’.

“That being said,” Malone’s announcement continued, “I’m so sorry to the folks who were planing on coming to the few canceled shows. I was looking forward to going nuts with y’all. That THAT being said, we been making some badass shit for this double album… and I can’t wait to perform for y’all again.”

It follows widespread reports that ticket sales had slowed for the second iteration of the tour, in contrast to last summer’s initial ‘Big Ass Stadium Tour’ by Malone and Jelly Roll, which sold out every date, making it one of the highest-grossing of last year, pulling in $198million (£147million).

As noted by Variety, the discrepancy between last year’s sales and this year’s was the subject of a Lefsetz Report newsletter that went out to music industry readers shortly before Malone made his announcement.