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Jay-Z and Kanye West tickets went on sale today and the tour schedule has been tweaked a bit to allow for more tour dates to be added to the best selling cities. Some of the cities expected to add more tour dates for Jay-Z and Kanye West include, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles.

The Jay-Z and Kanye West tour will kick off on October 29th at the Philips Arena in Atlanta and so far runs through December 18th with only 16 cities in major markets on the tour schedule. Tickets for Jay-Z and Kanye West “The Throne” go on sale to the general public on August 8th, the same day the album “Watch the Throne” by the artists comes out.

Jay-Z and Kanye West 2011 Tour Schedule

October 2011
29 – Atlanta, GA – Philips Arena
30 – Greensboro, NC – Greensboro Coliseum Complex

November 2011
1 – Baltimore, MD – 1st Mariner Arena
2 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
3 – Washington, DC – Verizon Center
5, 6 – East Rutherford, NJ – IZOD Center
21 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
23 – Toronto, Ontario – Air Canada Centre
26 – Auburn Hills, MI – The Palace of Auburn Hills

December 2011
1 – Chicago, IL – United Center
5 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
6 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
9 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Hotel
10 – San Jose, CA – HP Pavilion at San Jose
12 – Los Angeles, CA – Staples Center
18 – Vancouver, British Columbia – Rogers Arena

Jay-Z and Kanye West tour dates have been announced for the 2011 “The Throne” tour which will kick off on September 22 at the Palace of Auburn Hills and run through November 3rd with a stop at Boston’s TD Garden. The Jay-Z and Kanye West tour will hit most of the major cities with a pair of dates at the Izod Center in New Jersey, the United Center in Chicago and the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

“Watch the Throne” is the new collaborative album by Jay-Z and Kanye West and several singles have been released including “H.A.M.” and “Otis” and there will be plenty to choose from for the tour from the new album and solo albums. One of the most highly anticipated albums will now be followed by the hottest concert tours of the summer with the hip-hop super group breathing some life into this year’s concert tours.

This will be one of the biggest tours of the summer and ticket prices for Jay-Z and Kanye West should be announced in the coming days. Jay-Z and Kanye West tickets will be on sale at PreferredSeat.com in the first week of August and good seats up front will be available for all of the concerts.

Jay-Z and Kanye West Tour Schedule – The Throne 2011 Tour

September 2011
22 – Auburn Hills, MI – Palace of Auburn Hills
24 – Toronto, Ontario – Air Canada Centre
25 – Montreal, Quebec – Bell Centre
27, 28 – East Rutherford, NJ – Izod Center
29 – Washington, DC – Verizon Center

October 2011
4 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
6, 7 – Chicago, IL – United Center
8 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
10 – Denver, CO – Pepsi Center
13 – Tacoma, WA – Tacoma Dome
14 – Vancouver, British Columbia – Rogers Arena
16 – San Jose, CA – HP Pavilion
17 – Sacramento, CA – Power Balance Pavilion
19, 20 – Los Angeles, CA – Staples Center
21 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena
25 -Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
26 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
29 – Atlanta, GA – Philips Arena
30 – Greensboro, NC – Greensboro Coliseum

November 2011
1 – Baltimore, MD -1st Mariner Arena
3 – Boston, MA – TD Garden

Ticketmaster has been convincing more and more artists to scalp their own tickets by offering Gold and Silver packages that give the fan access to the first 10 to 20 rows from the stage, at a steep premium. After years of blasting ticket brokers for reselling tickets, Ticketmaster is selling these seats for many times the original face value and passing on most of the profits to the artist.

Take Rob Thomas at the Tucson Music Hall; you can purchase a face value ticket for $56 plus service charges at the time of this post, that will seat you in the Orchestra, Row V, or you can buy a Silver Package, which seats you in Orchestra, Row L, 10 rows closer to the stage, for a whopping $350 each. Or, you can go all out and buy the Gold package, with 2nd row seats at $450 each. Rob Thomas, $450? Even most ticket brokers would agree that $450 is an over-the-top price for an artist such as Rob Thomas.

This isn’t an isolated case either. There are a whole slew of artists looking for big bucks at a time many of their fans are hurting financially. Kanye West and Lady Gaga just started selling Fame Kills GA VIP Packages through Ticketmaster, with a $500 price tag for a standing room only, general admission ticket! Have they lost their minds! Many of today’s artists have no idea how to treat their fans. Rather than cut prices during the worst recession since the great depression, they come up with these outrageous promotions with prices fans cannot afford, and honestly, these guys aren’t worth it.

And this is only the beginning. More than just a few artists have jumped on the program to scrape as much money out of the fans as possible, using the excuse that this is how they earn their living to support their lavish lifestyles. At some point soon, they will break the bank and fans will start staying away in droves and find other ways to spend their entertainment dollars.