🔥 “NOBODY IS WILLING TO PAY TO SEE A KID WITHOUT HIT SONGS” — The highly-anticipated summer music tour of North West—Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s 13-year-old daughter—has officially been abruptly canceled right before opening night.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West‘s oldest daughter North West recently hit a bump in her road to music stardom when the 13-year-old’s summer tour with fellow rapper Molly Santana was abruptly canceled. According to insiders who spilled to the Daily Mail recently, there were a few reasons why the plug was pulled on the 14-date tour, which was supposed to kick off August 6.

First of all, Santana, 21, had other priorities. The young star “wanted to finish her album” instead of hitting the road, said one source. “It was several factors, but mainly having to do with Molly not being available,” echoed another.

The second reason for the cancellation was “because there were low ticket sales,” said yet another source. “They really needed to pack these venues to make a profit because the tour was expensive with a lot of security and travel.”

“Because the economy is hurting, people are spending less money on concerts, a lot of seats are not being filled. And it’s not just North, it is big stars too. The tickets are expensive and so is the parking and the beer and hot dogs, it really adds up, and Americans are now saying no,” the insider continued. “‘People will splurge on a Taylor Swift concert ticket, but not for the smaller artists.”

North may be a particularly hard sell because although her fans are too young to buy themselves tickets, she’s not exactly an artist parents are clamoring to take their kids to see. “Moms don’t want to buy tickets for their kids and take them because it’s not Disney content, it’s not cutesy and innocent, it’s a young girl with piercings and blue hair. So moms don’t want to go there, it’s like no thanks, not for my kid,” said the source.

Perhaps when North—who released her first album N0rth4evr in May of this year—is more established, things will be different. “She also needs more hit songs under her belt before she can fill venues. People go to concerts to hear hit songs,” said the source.

While the insiders the Daily Mail spoke to agree that the teen is “disappointed,” it also seems like her famous parents are fully invested in her career.

“Kim and Kanye support their daughter and her dreams in music and were supporting the upcoming tour, but as it got closer to becoming reality, Kim wanted to be a little more hands-on, and know a little more about what was going down. She was worried about her security and her well-being throughout the tour,” said one of the sources, who also noted that Kim, 45, “has been very interested in North still being a kid” as well.

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