Forbes reported at the beginning of March that Jennifer Lopez’s new album did worse than any of her previous solo albums.
Singer-actress Jennifer Lopezin the concept of the tour named after the new album has been changed and seven gigs have been cancelled, says the US entertainment magazine Variety.
Published in February This Is Me… Now is the first solo album Lopez has released in nearly a decade. The North American tour, previously titled “This Is Me… Now”, is scheduled to start in June, but its ticket sales have been weak.
According to Variety, the name of the tour has now been changed to “This Is Me… Live | The Greatest Hits”, which implies that the tour would include a wider range of Lopez’s songs from over the years and not just from the new album.
Variety estimates that the name change is probably an attempt to attract those Lopez listeners who were not enthusiastic to the concerts This Is Me… Now:sta.
Economic magazine Forbes said at the beginning of March This Is Me… Now, did worse on the charts than any of Lopez’s previous records. On the much-followed Billboard 200 list, the album ranked 38th right after its release.
According to Forbes, of Lopez’s previous eight solo albums, all but 2007 were released Brave have reached the top ten on the Billboard 200. When Brave reached “only” number 12 at the time of its publication, it was reported.
of Variety According to Lopez, he quietly canceled seven performances of his upcoming summer tour. Neither Lopez’s representatives nor Live Nation, which organizes the tour, responded to the magazine’s request for comment.
Despite the cancellations, the tour still includes more than 30 shows. However, based on Ticketmaster’s seating maps, a large number of concerts have a significant number of tickets unsold.
This Is Me… Now -levy is part of Lopez’s 20 million self-published multi-media investment, which also includes a music film This Is Me… Now: A Love Story and a document The Greatest Love Story Never Told.
This Is Me… Now is the follow-up to Lopez’s 2002 hit record This Is Me… Then. Both deal with the singer’s relationship with her current husband, an actor Ben Affleckiin.
Lopez and Affleck got engaged in 2002, surrounded by a lot of media attention, but broke off their engagement in 2004. In early 2021, the couple was rumored to be dating again after nearly twenty years, and Lopez confirmed the relationship in the summer of that year.
Lopez and Affleck got married in 2022.