{"id":32575,"date":"2025-07-29T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32575\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:50:08","slug":"drake-officially-cancels-australia-new-zealand-tour-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32575\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Officially Cancels Australia &#038; New Zealand Tour Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/profile\/drake\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drake<\/a> has officially canceled the tour dates in Australia and New Zealand that he originally postponed back in February. At the time, he referenced having a &#8220;scheduling conflict&#8221; and promised to return to make good on the performances at some point in the future. His representatives wrote that he was \u201cactively working on rescheduling these dates along with adding some additional shows.&#8221; Five months later, he&#8217;s now offering full refunds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">In a new statement from Live Nation Australia, the company promised that the Toronto rapper will eventually return to perform for his fans, although it&#8217;s unclear when that will happen. \u201cDespite extensive efforts to find a solution, rescheduling within the necessary timeframe was not possible,\u201d the statement reads, as caught by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/drake-cancels-postponed-australia-new-zealand-dates-1236032202\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\">Billboard<\/a>. \u201cDrake remains committed to returning and performing these shows when his schedule permits.\u201d Fans can get further information about refunds through email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">Drake is currently performing in the United Kingdom after headlining three straight nights at London&#8217;s Wireless Festival, earlier this month. Last weekend, he brought out Central Cee for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/932616-drake-central-cee-which-one-live-manchester-concert-hip-hop-news\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\">their first live performance<\/a> of the new song, &#8220;Which One.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Drake&#8217;s &#8220;Iceman&#8221; Album<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">Drake premiered &#8220;Which One&#8221; during an episode of a livestream series he&#8217;s been hosting in promotion of the highly anticipated new project, Iceman. The song is heading for a top 10 debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, according to a new report from Talk of the Charts. If the projection holds true, it&#8217;ll mark Drake&#8217;s 84th career top ten hit, extending his record for the most ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">The song marks the second single he&#8217;s dropped from the project, having released &#8220;What Did I Miss?&#8221; back on July 5. In that song, he references his past friendships with DeMar DeRozan and LeBron James. &#8220;I saw bro went to Pop Out with them, but been dick riding gang since &#8216;Headlines,'&#8221; he raps. He\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/932044-steph-curry-not-like-us-drake-friendship-lebron-james-hip-hop-news\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\">had a falling out with both<\/a>\u00a0NBA stars after they attended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/profile\/kendricklamar\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kendrick Lamar<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Pop Out&#8221; concert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drake has officially canceled the tour dates in Australia and New Zealand that he originally postponed back in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2840,49,48,5320,75,5321,341,44,24903],"class_list":["post-32575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-australia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-drake","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-tour-dates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}