“Looking at the upcoming schedule after Stagecoach,” he wrote, “I came to the realization that what we’re trying to do, and what’s possible, isn’t really lining up. The truth is, I promised y’all beautiful people new music, and I don’t have the time to finish it before tour starts. We ain’t ready for tour just yet, so I’m making the decision to push the tour back about 3 weeks to get this music done.”
That is a fairly direct artist-to-fans explanation, which is useful because the surrounding industry chatter has not exactly been quiet.
The album is still in progress
Malone has been teasing The Eternal Buzz as a massive 40-song release. He has announced the title, but not a release date or many other details.
At Stagecoach last weekend, he told Billboard that he had recorded “probably 35 songs” for the album, but said the material was still at the scratch-vocal stage. In plain terms, that means the songs exist in early form, but the final performances and polish are not done yet. Forty tracks do not finish themselves, even for someone who has made genre-hopping look suspiciously casual.
Malone apologized to fans affected by the cancellations, while also signaling that the new music is the priority.
“That being said,” he wrote, “I’m so sorry to the folks who were planing on coming to the few canceled shows. I was looking forward to going nuts with y’all. That THAT being said, we been making some badass shit for this double album… and I can’t wait to perform for y’all again.”
Soft ticket-sale reports are part of the backdrop
Malone’s statement puts the emphasis firmly on finishing The Eternal Buzz, but the delay arrives amid widespread industry reports that ticket sales for several dates have been slower than expected.
That is a notable shift from the previous Big Ass Stadium Tour with Jelly Roll, which reportedly sold out every date and grossed about $170 million. The contrast between that run and the current sales picture was also raised in The Lefsetz Report, a music-industry newsletter, shortly before Malone posted his announcement.
Neither Malone nor Jelly Roll has released a new album since 2024. One likely industry calculation is that getting The Eternal Buzz, or even a strong single, into the market sooner could help energize demand for the remaining shows. Malone’s F-1 Trillion helped fuel excitement around the earlier sold-out stadium run, and new music is still one of the cleanest ways to remind casual fans why they wanted a ticket in the first place.
What kind of Post Malone show is this?
There is also the question of musical identity, which is unusually relevant with Malone. He has moved from rap to rock to country without fully leaving any of those audiences behind.
Some observers have wondered whether the new tour will lean into the country sound of F-1 Trillion, or whether fans should expect more of the hip-hop and rock material that defined earlier phases of his career. In comment sections, fans are not shy about hoping for one direction or the other. That debate did not stop the last tour from selling out, but it is still part of the current conversation.
Malone may be aware of the guessing. He has suggested The Eternal Buzz will be structured as a two-part, 40-song album, divided evenly across two CDs for the physical release. That has raised the possibility that the project may split its personality across genres rather than following the strict country focus of F-1 Trillion.
At the end of Friday’s post, he appeared to nod toward longtime listeners who are still attached to his 2016 debut album, Stoney.
“And to a lot of little stinkers that think I’ve forgotten about old Stoney, I haven’t,” he wrote. “I love you, and can’t wait to see you crazy motherfuckers soon.”
What remains on the schedule
Once the North American tour begins in June, Malone and Jelly Roll are set to play 13 shows, with Carter Faith opening. Faith steps into the support slot held last year by Sierra Ferrell.
After roughly a month and a half off, Malone is scheduled to take the Big Ass tour to Asian territories starting in mid-September. For those overseas dates, Don Toliver will join the bill in place of Jelly Roll.
Malone’s canceled stretch is significant, but it is still less drastic than some recent tour pullbacks. Earlier Friday, Zayn canceled his entire U.S. arena tour while keeping overseas dates in place, citing unspecified health issues. In mid-April, Meghan Trainor canceled her full arena tour, saying she wanted to spend time with her young children.
For Malone, the public line is clear: the album comes first, the stadiums come after. The remaining question is whether The Eternal Buzz arrives quickly enough to turn a delayed tour into a refreshed one.
