Swedish House Mafia Cancels More Shows Due to Poor Ticket Sales – Billboard

Swedish House Mafia has canceled five more shows on its upcoming 2022 Paradise Again arena tour on Friday (July 22).

The newly canceled shows include July 31 at the Amway Center in Orlando, Aug. 2 at Madison Square Garden in New York, Aug. 9 at TD Garden in Boston, Aug. 11 at Verizon Arena Washington D.C. and Aug. 17 in Detroit at Little Caesars Arena.

Many arena acts are facing sluggish ticket sales, especially at the arena level where a number of first-time tours are playing to half-empty houses. Festivals too have struggled amid a wave of oversaturation and reduced consumer spending.

In April, the electronic dance music trio — which announced a two-year residency deal with Wynn Las Vegas earlier this week — canceled three U.S. shows, including an Aug. 30 stop at the Footprint Center arena in Phoenix that had so far sold only 250 tickets to the 15,000-capacity arena. At the time, a spokesperson for the group told Billboard that no further dates “are being rescheduled and the tour is proceeding as planned.”

Editor’s note: This story is in the process of being updated.