Concert tour

The Blond Ambition World Tour 90 was the second world concert tour and third tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna. The tour spanned fifty-seven shows in twenty-seven cities in Japan, North America, and Europe, and lasted approximately four months. It was a highly controversial tour, mainly for its juxtaposition of Catholicism and sexuality.Rolling Stone magazine called it an "elaborately choreographed, sexually provocative extravaganza." and proclamed it "the best tour of 1990." Madonna...

In 2003, Metallica staged the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003, in part to promote their album, St. Anger. The first leg took place during 13 music festival appearances in Western Europe in June, while the second leg took place over 20 stadium shows in the United States and Canada during July and August. On this concert tour were in addition: Limp Bizkit, Deftones and Mudvayne did not play in Dublin. Instead Linkin Park and The Darkness played supporting Metallica. According to Rolling Stone,...

The Drowned World Tour 2001 was the fourth world concert tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna and was her first world tour in eight years, following her 1993 The Girlie Show. It was one of the most successful and highest-grossing concert tour of the year 2001 by selling out all concert dates throughout North America and Europe. She grossed more than U$75 million with summer sold-out shows and eventually played in front of 730,000 people throughout North America and Europe. The tour was...

The Vote for Change tour was a politically-motivated American popular music concert tour that took place in October 2004. All concerts were held in swing state, to benefit MoveOn.org and to encourage people to vote against George W. Bush (and implicitly, and in some performances explicitly, for John Kerry) in the 2004 Presidential election campaign. Every region had a specific night during which the concerts would be held in that region. When concerts were held in the same city, they were at...

The PopMart Tour, often referred to as simply PopMart, was a concert tour by the Irish rock band U2. The tour took place from 1997 to 1998, in support of the group's 1997 album, Pop. Much like the band's previous Zoo TV Tour, PopMart was an elaborately-staged, multimedia tour. PopMart featured a lavish stage design, complete with a 165 wide LED screen, a 100 foot-high golden arch, and a large mirror-ball lemon. The band performed in costumes that departed from their traditional image. PopMart,...

The Vertigo Tour was a concert tour by the Irish rock band U2, which took place in 2005 and 2006 in support of the group's 2004 album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. The tour grossed $260 million in 110 sold-out concerts in 2005, making it the top-grossing tour of the year. In North America alone, the tour grossed $138.9 millionThe Vertigo Tour won the 2005 Billboard Roadwork Touring Awards for Top Tour, Top Draw, and Top Single Event. By the time it finished, the Vertigo Tour had sold 4...

The Virgin Tour 1985 is the debut concert tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna, which visited major United States and Canadian cities. All 17,162 tickets for her three shows at New York City's Radio City Music Hall sold out in a record-breaking 34 minutes. All other concert dates sold out, many within hours of going on sale. The Beastie Boys were Madonna's supporting act. The tour grossed $17.8 million USD. This is the official setlist: these songs were not included on the...

The Who's That Girl World Tour 1987 was the debut world concert tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna, visiting cities in Japan, North America and Europe from June 14, 1987 to September 6, 1987. Upon completion, the tour was considered the largest and highest-grossing musical concert tour ever, even though some shows failed to sell-out, like her concert at the Orange Bowl. Despite this, the tour grossed $20 million, grossing over a half-million dollars for every date she played. It is...

The Re-Invention World Tour 2004 was the fifth world concert tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna, visiting North America and Europe. and a total of 20 cities; selling out 55 of 56 shows and attracting more than 900,000 fans. The Re-Invention tour was the highest earning concert tour of the year with nearly $125 million in ticket sales. In the fall of 2004, Billboard Magazine awarded Madonna Backstage Pass Award in recognition of having the top tour of the year 2004. The tour was...

The Onyx Hotel Tour was Britney Spears’ tour in support of her fourth #1 album In the Zone. Before the tour even began Spears made surprise appearances in New York in November 2003.(Being featured on MTV in a show titled "Britney Spears: In The Zone and Out All Night") Spears performed 3 surprise shows at three different nightclubs. Beginning in San Diego, California on March 2, 2004, the tour featured futuristic postmodern architecture supposedly inspired by Tokyo. The show didn't feature...

The Crazy 2K Tour was announced in December 1999 as Britney Spears' fourth United States single, "From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart," was being released. The tour was a continuation of her summer 1999 ...Baby One More Time Tour, for which Spears performed at theaters, state fairs, and amusement parks. The stage set-up from the Crazy 2K Tour echoed the setting for the previous tour, though two ramps on either side of the stage, an elevator, and a video screen were new additions to the set. For...

The Twisted Logic Tour was a global concert tour in support of Coldplay's third album, X&Y.; The year-long tour took the band across Europe and their native Britain, as well as to the United States and Canada. The tour concluded in July 2006 with dates in Australia, South East Asia and Japan. Pollstar reported that the 2005 North American leg grossed an estimated $24.1 million dollars. The second leg of the North American tour ended April 6, 2006 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia. ...

KylieFever2002 was a global concert tour in support of Kylie Minogue's 2001 hit album, Fever. The tour was the biggest production Minogue had ever put on. The album and its music videos were able to provide and inspire multiple stage sets and costume changes. These included: 'Silvanemesis', 'Droogie Nights', 'The Crying Game', 'Street Style', 'Sex In Venice', 'Cybertronica', and 'Voodoo Inferno', each representing a different side to Minogue. The tour had a much larger budget then past...

Intimate and Live Tour was a concert tour performed by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue in 1998 in support of her sixth studio album Impossible Princess. On the back of the more adult sound of her then latest and most misunderstood album, the 'Intimate and Live tour' revitalised Kylie's love of performing her own songs to a live audience. Australia had taken the Impossible Princess album to its heart and made it a huge hit, the only territory to truly do so, and whilst using a live show once...

The Let's Get to It Tour was a Kylie Minogue concert tour that took place in Europe in late 1991. At the request of English fans, the tour became a continuation of the previous Rhythm Of Love Tour. Together with four dancers, Minogue staged the tour in support of the album Let's Get to It. The show comprised an all-new wardrobe created exclusively by John Galliano and several new additions to the set list, much of which was written by Minogue herself. (costume change) (costume change) ...