Photo Credit: Roxette featuring original singer Marie Fredriksson by Dmitry Avdeev / CC by 3.0

Their 1990 hit “It Must Have Been Love” has billions of views across platforms like YouTube and Spotify, but the financials just didn’t add up for Roxette. Now, their North American tour has been canceled.

Swedish duo Roxette’s 1990 hit “It Must Have Been Love” just made the YouTube Billion Views Club last week. They hit the same mark on Spotify back in March, but North American fans who hoped to hear the track live will have to wait. The band canceled all North American dates on its 40th anniversary tour, with refunds on the way for ticketholders.

Despite the group issuing a statement that the North American leg of the tour was merely postponed, the logistics and mounting costs evidently just didn’t add up. The shows were booked in amphitheaters across the U.S. and Canada, with the band headlining a triple bill that would also have included fellow ‘80s hitmakers Nick Lowe and Taylor Dayne.

“Due to logistics and hugely increased touring costs, Live Nation US has decided to postpone the [North American] tour,” read a statement from Roxette’s social media accounts. “Hope to see you some other time down the road.”

Per Gessle, Roxette’s co-frontman, added that the decision to nix the shows was entirely up to Live Nation. “[The band is] of course disappointed. We were really looking forward to this [North American] tour, and [the] U.S. is by far our biggest streaming market. This decision was made by Live Nation USA, which they probably based on their own calculations. I hope we can play for our fab fans in the USA and Canada at some point in the near future.”

The North American tour was due to begin on September 10 in Michigan, with stops at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on October 5, before concluding in Washington on October 9.

Many fans expressed disappointment at the news after having paid for travel accommodations, with several noting they were coming from overseas and had already paid for nonrefundable flights. However, some fans expressed they hadn’t bought tickets despite loving Roxette, because they felt the group wasn’t the same without its late lead singer.

Marie Fredriksson, the original lead singer and co-founder of the band, died in 2019 from complications related to a brain tumor with which she had been diagnosed in the early 2000s. Roxette performed a limited series of dates with Fredriksson in 2016.

Last year, Gessle revived the band with a new female lead, fellow Swedish star Lena Philipsson, having co-written her first major hit back in 1986. The new incarnation of Roxette continues to tour successfully overseas, and performed shows in Austria and the Czech Republic last week. The band still has shows lined up across Europe throughout the end of the summer, with stops in Germany, Denmark, Finland, and Switzerland.