Toy With Me Drops Friday With No Road Attached
Sixteen tracks, Epic Records, Friday — and the 32-date Live Nation arena run that was meant to carry the album is already cancelled on record.
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Sixteen tracks, Epic Records, Friday — and the 32-date Live Nation arena run that was meant to carry the album is already cancelled on record.
Four days after the festival ended, the Madonna–Carpenter Vogue clip and the Bieber–SZA cluster are still paying — the cameo-over-tour substitution is the quarter's clearest industry ledger.
Thursday adds a hardware announcement to the Strings postponement: screws and plates in the leg, an August 4–8 rescheduled run, and the touring-economics cluster now at eight events.
Thursday's streaming and gaming calendar is thin — the week's high-volume drops (Trainor's album, Disney's Orangutan, a raft of licensed Friday releases) all land tomorrow.