Tuesday, March 31, 2026

April Fools: Kanye West’s LA Arena Shows for First Night of Passover — and for Friday — Are Largely Unsold, Ticket Prices Slashed

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Only Kanye West, an avowed antisemite, would schedule a stadium show on the first night of Passover.

His reward? Almost no seats sold for tomorrow night in Los Angeles at SoFi Stadium, and just as few on Friday night.

The seating map is a solid sea of blue in every section of the stadium for many reasons.

The major one would be that it’s the first night of Passover seder, which of course means nothing to a man who was singing “Heil Hitler” a year ago.

West says now that a hit on the head in 2002 made him say such evil and racist things that Adidas and other design companies cancelled their contracts with him.

Ticket sales for Friday night, April 3rd, are marginally better. But there are huge swaths of blue, and something like 40 sey,”ats or more empty in most sections.

The show is supposed to launch Kanye’s new “reconciliation” album, “Bully,” which dropped last Saturday. Reviews are not good. Many fans have accused the rapper of using AI for the vocals. Every song contains multiple samples — the lawyers must have worked overtime clearing and paying for all of them. One collaborator vocalist, James Blake, has asked his name be taken off the credits because his voice sounds completely different from the recording made a year ago.

Meantime, Pepsi is not agreeing with Adidas, The Gap, and Balenciaga. They’re the sponsor for London’s Wireless Festival this July, which has announced Kanye will be headlining this summer for three nights.

(A tip of the hat to someone not related to me named Scott Friedman, who covers ticket sales and broke this news on his Twitter feed. See below.)

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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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