Janet Jackson cancels Europe dates ‘over poor sales’

Was the European leg of the Unbreakable world tour "about to flop"?

News By IQ | 11 March 2016

Janet Jackson performs in Vancouver in 2011 as part of the Number Ones tour © J0 anna/Flickr

Poor ticket sales were reportedly to blame for Janet Jackson’s decision earlier this week to cancel all upcoming European tour dates. According to an “industry insider” quoted by the New York Post’s Page Six gossip website, “She was about to flop, badly.

Poor ticket sales were reportedly to blame for Janet Jackson’s decision earlier this week to cancel all upcoming European tour dates.

According to an “industry insider” quoted by the New York Post’s Page Six…

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