The Pussycat Dolls\u2019 comeback tour is struggling to gain momentum, with early ticket sales pointing to a muted return for one of the 2000s\u2019 biggest girl groups.<\/p>\n
Screenshots circulating online from Ticketmaster show large sections of unsold seats for the tour\u2019s opening US dates.<\/p>\n
The June 5 launch at Acrisure Arena in Palm Springs – the group\u2019s first performance in seven years – has sold roughly 4,000 tickets in an 11,000-capacity venue.<\/p>\n
Similar patterns are emerging across other stops.<\/p>\n
The June 9 show in Phoenix at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre, which holds more than 20,000, has shifted an estimated 1,500 tickets.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a June 10 date at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre – capacity 20,500 – appears to have sold around 2,500 seats.<\/p>\n
Tickets for the opening show range from $60.05 to $248 for premium seating.<\/p>\n
The muted demand has raised questions over whether the tour – billed as the \u201cPCD Forever Tour\u201d – can sustain its planned 53-date run across the US, Canada, the UK and Europe.<\/p>\n
The trio to headline the tour: Nicole Scherzinger, Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt – announced the tour on March 12, with presales opening March 18 and general sales beginning March 20.<\/p>\n
However, only three of the group\u2019s six core members are returning, which has become a key factor many fans say has dampened interest.<\/p>\n
Fans on Reddit have pointed to the scaled-back lineup as a key issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love PCD, but what did you expect? I\u2019m not going to this tour. For what? 1\/2 of the group? To make Nicole richer?\u201d one commented.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could even give me money for the best seat in the house, VIP access and signed merchandise from them. I still wouldn’t go. It’s only 1\/2 the group. Plus, Carmit, Jessica and Melody are my favourites,\u201d another fan wrote.<\/p>\n
One pointed out how the dwindling sale numbers do not come as a surprise, as the performance may be lacking without the full lineup, noting, \u201ctheir whole thing has been about the dance, the stage, the show\u201d.<\/p>\n
With the other three members missing, \u201cit just seems so empty,\u201d another agreed.<\/p>\n
Others suggested the group misjudged demand, urging smaller venues or a festival rollout.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey should\u2019ve booked smaller venues,\u201d one person wrote online.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey set themselves up. They should’ve booked theatre\/club venues for their US dates and made it burlesque-themed as a nod to the PCD roots.”<\/p>\n
While the group\u2019s latest release, Club Song, has been met with positive reception, including a viral TikTok dance, many fans said the marketing was lacklustre, citing no music video and describing the TikTok dance trend as “uninspiring”.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like they\u2019ve been trying\/focusing too hard to go viral on TikTok and the zero live performances to promote is a death sentence.”<\/p>\n
The underperformance marks the group\u2019s second attempt at a comeback in recent years.<\/p>\n
Their 2020 return with the single React was meant to relaunch the band globally, including an Australian tour, before plans were derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
That revival also collapsed into a legal dispute, with founder Robin Antin suing Scherzinger in 2021, alleging she withdrew from efforts to relaunch the tour after failing to secure \u201ccomplete creative control\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a recent interview on Today promoting the tour, the trio were asked why only three members had returned.<\/p>\n
Ms Scherzinger appeared caught off guard, pausing before band member Kimberly Wyatt stepped in.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have ruptured in the past and now we are repairing,” Ms Wyatt said.<\/p>\n
Ms Scherzinger followed her bandmate’s answer, adding that despite the missing presence of the other three members, they will always be a part of the legacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I wanted to say, is that we have so much love and respect for all of the women who have a part of the PCD legacy and once a doll, always a doll,\u201d Scherzinger added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pussycat Dolls\u2019 comeback tour is struggling to gain momentum, with early ticket sales pointing to a muted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,63927,161820,172870,30673,28764],"class_list":{"0":"post-404896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-nicole-scherzinger","13":"tag-pcd","14":"tag-the-pussycat-dolls","15":"tag-today-show","16":"tag-world-tour"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}