Post Malone scrapped the first six dates of his "Big Ass Stadium Tour Part 2" with Jelly Roll on Friday night, saying he needs more time to finish a 40-track double album before hitting the road.
The canceled shows were to have taken place at stadiums in El Paso, Waco, Baton Rouge, Birmingham, Tampa and Oxford, Mississippi — roughly a third of the tour's North American dates. Not counting three festival appearances Malone still plans to fulfill, the joint tour with Jelly Roll will now begin June 9 in Charlotte, three and a half weeks later than originally scheduled.
"Looking at the upcoming schedule after Stagecoach," Malone wrote to fans on social media, "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."
The album, titled "The Eternal Buzz," has no announced release date. In a Billboard interview at Stagecoach last weekend, Malone said he had recorded "probably 35 songs" for the project but had only reached scratch vocals on the tracks. The full double album is reportedly targeting 40 songs.
The announcement came shortly after the music industry newsletter the Lefsetz Report circulated a piece about sluggish ticket sales for the tour. Last summer's original "Big Ass Stadium Tour" with Jelly Roll sold out every date and grossed a reported $170 million. Neither Malone nor Jelly Roll has released an album since 2024.
Malone did not address the ticket sales reports directly and was firm about his reasoning. "We been making some badass shit for this double album," he wrote, "and I can't wait to perform for y'all again."
The thinking in the industry is that getting "The Eternal Buzz," or at least a major single, into the market before the rescheduled dates could help boost sales for the remaining shows — similar to the effect his 2024 album "F-1 Trillion" had on last year's tour. The Live Nation-produced outing is still scheduled to run through the summer.
