$7 Tickets to Travis Scott's 'Circus Maximus' Tour

Now that Drake’s album is out, everyone’s releasing music tonight. You can look forward to new Offset, Young Thug, Westside Gunn, Ken Carson, and more 🔥 In other news today:

• The 10 best songs from Drake’s FATD 🐶 

• $7 tickets for Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus tour 😳 

• Offset addresses Quavo & Playboi Carti rumors 🥩 

• New Music Friday releases 💿️ 

• Industry Insights 📈 

The 10 Best Songs From Drake’s For All The Dogs Ranked

Instead of the usual song revenue chart, which didn’t have any new entries this week, we ranked the ten standout songs from Drake’s For All The Dogs. There are the obvious favorites with highly anticipated collaborators (J. Cole carried “FPS"), but many of the album’s best songs were the low-key ones you didn’t expect at first glance.

A-list features like Travis Scott and Future were noticeably absent, but Drake opted for the curation role, sharing the spotlight with new friends like Teezo Touchdown, Yeat, and Sexy Redd. Joe Budden didn’t not rate this, failing to see how mutually beneficial those relationships with “young” artists are.

Drake stays tapped into what his fan base wants, and emerging artists get massive exposure to millions of people who may never have heard their music otherwise. Case in point, FATD gave the below artists their highest Spotify Monthly listener count—ever.

• Yeat 18M (+54%)

• Chief Keef 14M (+40%)

• 13.1M Sexyy Red (+56%)

• 10.7M Teezo Touchdown (+149%)

$7 Tickets to Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus Tour

Travis Scott has embarked on his first tour since Astroworld, but even with the success of Utopia, he’s facing low ticket demand like many other rappers this year. The initially sold-out tour has resale tickets for as low as $7 USD. Why? Find out below.

For the tour’s first night in North Carolina, ticket retailer StubHub had a pair of tickets available for $7 each, and rates didn’t improve much for the second stop in Raleigh, NC, with the cheapest ticket being $18.

According to 404 Media, the low prices are a result of scalpers overbuying thousands of tickets based on a false prediction that they’d score big on the resale market.

What is a human ticket-buying botnet?

PSF Buyers Club is a ticket-buying scheme that leverages real individuals who want to maximize their credit card points. These members create a human botnet that can bypass Ticketmaster’s buying limits and hoard tickets for resale, collecting points as they go.

PSF told its members to buy as many tickets for Travis Scott as possible and promised they’d be reimbursed for the price and make a $25 commission on each ticket. PSF is now facing a $1M loss as tickets are being resold for under-face value—maybe Circus Maximus will become their new Roman Empire.

What to expect at Circus Maximus

Night one of the tour revealed the setlist, intricate stage set-up, and merch selection—the three things you want to know about a concert. Travis performed all the fan favorites, including “Aye” from Lil Uzi Vert's album, “Mamacita,” “90210,” “goosebumps,” and more. Certain cities with opener Teezo Touchdown can expect to see the duo perform “Modern Jam.”

Offset Addresses Rumors About Quavo & Playboi Carti

Offset has been doing the usual press tour for the release of his new album, Set It Off, and one of his stops was at The Breakfast Club. Known for asking tough personal questions, Offset set the record straight on his relationship with Quavo and Playboi Carti.

Earlier this year, the former Migos members reportedly got into a fight backstage at the Grammys but patched things up to perform a tribute to the late Takeoff at the BET Awards. Where do they stand now?

“That’s my brother at the end of the day,” Offset said. “But we good, though. We were just with each other in Paris. We be talking ’cause we be going through little emotions with this shit, and it don’t be for the public.”

There’s hope that the duo will make music together again, to which Offset said they probably will, but it’s not his main focus. He credited Pharrell for convincing him to do the BET tribute despite his hesitations and said it ended up being a healing experience for both him and Quavo.

At a listening party for Set It Off, Offset previewed an unreleased track with Playboi Carti that was part of the album. Carti, who is deadset on winning the most days without a release, was absent from the official tracklist, and rumors swirled it was because he wouldn’t clear the feature.

Offset confirmed the rumors were true but diplomatically answered the question saying, “I don’t get mad at folks for that cause sometimes people be going through their own shit, it’s all love though, that’s my little bro.”

New Music Friday

Young Thug is dropping a new single tonight 🐍 Meanwhile, Playboi Carti fans can’t even get a feature. Here’s all the music you can look forward to—categorized by 💿️ for albums and 🎶 for singles:

• 💿️ Set It Off by Offset

• 💿️ And Then You Pray For Me by Westside Gunn

• 💿️ A Great Chaos by Ken Carson

• 💿️ Ganger Deluxe by Veeze

• 💿️ Burning Desire by MIKE

• 💿️ Let’s Do It by DaBaby

• 🎶 “Glizock & Wizop” by Gucci Mane, Key Glock

• 🎶 “Hope You Know” by Kodak Black

• 🎶 “From A Man” by Young Thug

• 🎶 “Pretty Girl” by Ice Spice, Rema

• 🎶 “All My Life (Remix)” by Lil Durk, J. Cole, Burna Boy, Stray Kids

• 🎶 TBD by Lil Skies

• 🎶 “Do Not Disturb” by Mike Dimes, Dro Kenji

• 🎶 “Out There” by Lupe Fiasco

• 🎶 “Likka Sto” by Lil Blessin, Travis Scott, G Herbo, BIA

• FTC submits a proposal to ban concert ticket junk fees. The goal is to eliminate hidden fees that only appear at checkout and bogus fees that don’t clearly state what a customer is paying for.

• YNW Melly prosecutors want juror names hidden in double-murder retrial. The motion comes after a notebook with information on jurors was found in the home of Melly’s co-defendant, YNW Bortlen.

• A$AP Rocky & A$AP Relli in “early discussions” of possible lawsuit settlement. This would resolve the civil lawsuit Relli brought against Rocky, but the criminal case is still ongoing.

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