Madonna’s North American tour is formally postponed.

Two weeks in the past, the pop star’s new Celebration Tour — a greatest-hits outing introduced to nice media fanfare in January, which was set to open this week — was placed on an undefined “pause” after the singer’s supervisor mentioned she had been admitted to a hospital with “a severe bacterial an infection.” Rampant concern and hypothesis ensued amongst followers and inside the music enterprise about Madonna’s well-being, in addition to the destiny of her world tour, which had the potential to be one of many yr’s greatest occasions.

On Monday, a message from Madonna on social media clarified that your entire North American leg of her tour — 41 reveals, about half the whole that had been introduced for the total world outing — could be rescheduled, and that the tour would now open in Europe in October. Dwell Nation, which is producing the tour, requested followers to “maintain onto their tickets as they are going to be legitimate for the brand new dates as soon as introduced.”

“My focus now could be my well being and getting stronger and I guarantee you, I’ll be again with you as quickly as I can!” Madonna, 64, wrote in her first assertion since her supervisor’s publish on June 28. She additionally posted a photograph that appeared to point out her in her residence in Manhattan.

“I’m on the highway to restoration and extremely grateful for all of the blessings in my life,” she added.

Ticket gross sales for Madonna’s tour opened with a splash; in response to an announcement in March, greater than 40 dates had already offered out by then. However a look at additional dates on Ticketmaster’s web site reveals a lot of areas — Sacramento; Tulsa, Okla.; even Barclays Heart in Brooklyn — the place loads of seats can be found.

Final week, Beyoncé canceled a date in Pittsburgh, and postponed two others, over what was introduced as points with “manufacturing logistics and scheduling.”

Rescheduling a serious tour, for any cause, generally is a advanced and costly course of today, music executives say. That’s as a result of with the return of dwell music after its shutdown by the Covid-19 pandemic, massive venues usually lock of their schedules many months upfront, with little wiggle room for modifications. In its announcement in regards to the Madonna tour, Dwell Nation mentioned merely, “Rescheduled dates might be introduced as quickly as potential.”