Rihanna’s Philips concert canceled

Thursday, July 8, 2010

After hearing reports that Rihanna’s concert, planned for July 28 at Philips Arena, was suffering poor ticket sales, we have now heard it has been canceled.

Our source is an insider who’s been working with promoters.

Rihanna was to have performed with Ke$ha.

It’s just the latest in a long string of summer concert cancelations. Here locally, 50 Cent was to have played the Tabernacle but scrapped the show, presumably due to low ticket sales. On Friday night, Liza Minnelli’s planned concert at Chastain Park Amphitheatre was scotched. The performer sent a statement saying that complications following knee surgery forced the move.

And Lilith Fair dropped its planned Aug. 8 date.

Rihanna’s concert is still listed on the Philips events calendar and the Live Nation Web site, although some of her other concerts are listed as “canceled” on the Live Nation site. She was to have performed July 22 and 24 in Phoenix and Dallas and Aug. 3 in Indiana, for example. All of those dates are now scotched.

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