Snoop Dogg’s postponed concert in Yerevan will take place in May or June 2024

The famous rapper Snoop Dogg’s $6 million postponed concert in Yerevan will take place in May or June 2024. The organizers of the concert broke the silence today, while they were negotiating with the star. – “He approached our decision very respectfully, because he understood that the decision was really appropriate.”

The concert financed by the government was scheduled for September 23, about 6 million dollars from the state budget had already been paid, and the rapper received his fee. The authorities announced that the issue of Armenia’s image will be decided at the “Hrazdan” stadium.

“We are doing this for the name of Armenia, so that no one thinks that Armenia does not exist, so that no one thinks that Armenia is broken.” – Days after these words of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijan attacked Artsakh, forcing hundreds of thousands of Armenians to leave. The government decided to postpone the concert indefinitely, and until now it was not clear what will happen to the 6 million dollars paid to the organizer, the company “Doping Space”. What part of that money is Snoop Dogg’s royalty is not made public, it is a secret.

“We said from the beginning that we don’t want just another Snoop Dogg concert, we want the best Snoop Dogg concert. We managed to invite 11,000 tourists to Armenia. In other words, we had 9,700 tourists as of September 19, and we had more than 1,000 reservations from Persia alone. In other words, by the day of the concert, we would have more tourists than locals. I don’t know, I haven’t seen anything like this at any other concert,” emphasized Hayk Simonyan, the founder of “Doping Space”.

The government had agreed to organize a concert at the expense of the state budget, expecting that many tourists would come, spend money, etc.

Was it vital to provide more than 6 million dollars for the concert during the current security and social problems? The Deputy Head of the Prime Minister’s Office gave a positive answer to this question yesterday.

In Georgia, too, the government launched a two-year campaign and provided more than $27 million from the budget for star concerts. In this series, recently Imagine Dragons performed in Tbilisi. However, the Georgian government was also the target of criticism. the money is paid to stars who are so rich that they sometimes help poor countries, stated the head of the Georgian “Transparency”, urging to calculate how much the economy, tourism and culture will benefit if so much money is spent, for example. on organizing festivals.