WBasshunter is a Swedish singer, record producer and DJ. He tries to plan his performances at show but usually they are spontaneous. In 2008 he said that he performed live at more than 600 shows in the United Kingdom. In April 2009 he said that the biggest crowd he ever played was 300,000 people at a festival and he played more than 25 concerts to more than 200,000 people. In October he said that he was doing 20 shows in a week after "Boten Anna" release.
WAmerican singer Beyoncé has embarked on seven concert tours during her solo career, five of which have been worldwide, one which has been collaborative, and one just in Europe. Her solo tour debut began in 2003, with the Dangerously in Love Tour. Based predominantly in the United Kingdom, the tour received an unfavorable review from Dave Simpson of The Guardian based on Beyoncé's costumes and a confusion of her core audience at the time. In 2007, she embarked on her first major solo world tour – The Beyoncé Experience, following Destiny's Child's disbandment in 2005. The tour visited five continents and Beyoncé was lauded by music journalism for her simultaneous dancing and singing abilities. Following the release of her 2008 third studio album I Am... Sasha Fierce, Beyoncé embarked on her next world concert venture, the I Am... World Tour. She collaborated with Thierry Mugler exclusively for the tour's costumes. The I Am... World Tour also marked the first time Beyoncé had performed in South American countries. Beyoncé saw her largest tour to date with 2013-2014's The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour. Grossing US $229,727,960, the 132 date venture was criticised for the name of the tour, as Beyoncé appeared to be letting herself be known as simply Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's wife, despite being proclaimed as a "modern-day feminist". The tour itself however was lauded by music critics, who again praised Beyoncé's performance abilities and the more advanced production seen compared to her previous tours. In 2016 Beyoncé saw her most successful tour to date, The Formation Tour grossing more than U$260.000.000 in just 49 shows.
WCanadian singer Justin Bieber has released several albums since his debut in 2009, resulting in three concert tours, and numerous TV and award shows performances. He first released an extended play named My World in November 2009. The EP got promoted through 2009, through performances at several award ceremonies and television shows, including the Summer Rush and the Jingle Ball as well through his first promotional tour Urban Behavior Tour. In 2009, Bieber served as the opening act on selected dates of Taylor Swift's Fearless Tour. In March 2010, he released his first studio album My World 2.0 which included his smash hit "Baby". A tour in support of the album began in June 2010 and ended in October 2011 after 127 stops. It was named My World Tour. In February 2011, he released his first documentary theatre movie Never Say Never. The soundtrack to the album was released the same day as the movie. Nine months later he released Under the Mistletoe, his first Christmas album.
WAmerican singer Mariah Carey has undergone thirteen tours, four residencies, along with numerous one-off concerts and televised performances. Carey did not do a significant amount of public performing in her early years in the music industry, partially due to stage fright. Despite this she still made appearances and performed at the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards and on Saturday Night Live. One of her first significant performances was at MTV Unplugged, which received positive reception as Carey silenced critics saying her vocals were studio-made. From 1993 to 2000, Carey toured for her albums: Music Box, Daydream, Butterfly and Rainbow.
WAmerican singer Miley Cyrus has released seven studio albums as well as two extended play and a live album since her debut in 2006. This has resulted in five concert tours, and a lot of TV and award shows performances. Since her musical debut in 2006 thanks to the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana (2006-2011) she has been promoting all of her albums as well as her debut one Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus, in 2007 and 2008, through performances at several festivals including the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
WAmerican singer Lady Gaga has embarked on five concert tours, becoming the fifth woman to pass the half-billion career total tour gross as per Billboard Boxscore. She has also performed live at various award ceremonies and television shows. Gaga promoted her debut single "Just Dance" through several performances, including Miss Universe 2008 and So You Think You Can Dance. She first served as an opening act for the boy band New Kids on the Block and the girl group The Pussycat Dolls, before beginning her own headlining tour, The Fame Ball Tour, which began in March 2009 and ended in September 2009. Following the canceled tour Fame Kills: Starring Kanye West and Lady Gaga with rapper Kanye West, Gaga embarked on her second worldwide concert tour, The Monster Ball Tour. Staged in support of her extended play The Fame Monster (2009), the tour was critically acclaimed and grossed $227.4 million, making it one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. Gaga also performed songs from the album at award ceremonies—the American Music Awards of 2009, 52nd Annual Grammy Awards and 2010 Brit Awards.
WAmerican singer Selena Gomez has released two studio albums since her solo debut in 2013. This has resulted in two concert tours all of them worldwide, and a lot of TV and award shows performances. During her Disney Channel days Gomez formed Selena Gomez & The Scene, her first musical group. The musical formation broke up in 2012 after ending their third and final concert tour named We Own the Night Tour. After the band's departure, Gomez has been releasing new music as a solo artist. She has been promoting all of her albums as well as her debut one Stars Dance, through 2013 and 2014, through performances at several festivals including the Rodeo Houston.
WSince her 2013 debut, American singer Ariana Grande has released six studio albums. Grande has performed four concert tours, three of which were worldwide. She has also performed at award shows, music festivals and on television programmes.
WThe Grateful Dead were an American rock band known for their lengthy, partially improvised performances, as well as for a loyal fan base who often followed the band for several shows or entire tours. They disbanded in 1995, following the death of de facto bandleader Jerry Garcia. Since then remaining members have reunited for a number of concert tours and one-off performances, often in very different configurations. The following is a list of instances where former Grateful Dead members have reunited.
WAustralian children's musical group Hi-5 performed on eighteen concert tours. In 1999, ICA were signed as the tour promoters for Hi-5 for their tour of Australia. The Jump and Jive with Hi-5 tour was performed from September to December 1999, beginning in Tasmania and continuing to venues such as the Sydney Opera House and Newcastle Civic Theatre in New South Wales. In 2000, the group performed over 180 shows in a national tour of Australia, also travelling to New Zealand and Singapore. The concert contained songs from the first two albums, Jump and Jive with Hi-5 and It's a Party. In the first four weeks of ticket sales, over 50,000 units were sold. The group performed at the State Theatre in Sydney in October. In 2001, Hi-5 performed to audiences in Australia and New Zealand. The Hi-5 Alive tour ran for three months and toured Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Newcastle.
WThis article lists the highest-attended concerts of all time. The oldest 100,000-crowd concert reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead's gig at the Raceway Park, Englishtown, New Jersey on September 3, 1977. The concert was attended by 107,019 people, which remains the largest ticketed concert in the United States to date. Frank Sinatra, Tina Turner, and Paul McCartney broke the record respectively in Maracanã Stadium. With an audience of over 184,000 people on April 21, 1990. McCartney's record was broken by A-ha in 1991 during the Rock in Rio, when they drew about 198,000 people with tickets. Their record was broken by a Japanese rock band, Glay, which held a concert with an audience of 200,000 people on July 31, 1999, in Chiba, Japan. GLAY held the record for 6 years. Italian singer Vasco Rossi surpassed McCartney's record with his solo concert on July 1, 2017. The concert was a celebration of his 40 years of career.
WAmerican singer Whitney Houston embarked on 10 concert tours, 6 of which were world tours and 4 which were territorial tours. After becoming the opening act for singer Jeffrey Osborne and Luther Vandross on their US amphitheatre tour and playing at various American theaters, festivals, and clubs in 1985, she embarked on her first worldwide tour, the successful The Greatest Love Tour in 1986. With promoting worldwide mega hit album Whitney, her second world tour, The Moment of Truth World Tour started in North America during the summer of 1987 and continued overseas during 1988 in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia. Especially in Europe, Houston visited 12 countries, playing to over half a million fans including nine consecutive nights at Wembley Arena in London. She then followed this with sold-out concert tour, Feels So Right Japan Tour in 1990 and I'm Your Baby Tonight World Tour in 1991.
WHyde Park in London, England, has been an important venue for rock music concerts since the late 1960s. The music management company Blackhill Enterprises held the first rock concert there on 29 June 1968, attended by 15,000 people. On the bill were Pink Floyd, Roy Harper and Jethro Tull. The supergroup Blind Faith played their debut gig in Hyde Park on 7 June 1969. The Rolling Stones headlined a concert on 5 July that year, two days after the death of founding member Brian Jones, and is now remembered as one of the most famous gigs of the 1960s. The early gigs from 1968–71 were free events, while later concerts were pay-to-enter.
WDuring the Korean Wave (Hallyu), K-pop artists took their concerts outside of South Korea, and with increased exposure, became a huge success in other Asian countries, then started to expand to western music markets outside Asia. The word Hallyu first originated in China during 1999 by journalists that were surprised how fast it spread in China.
WAmerican singer Demi Lovato has released seven studio albums since their solo debut in 2008. This has resulted in six concert tours, and live TV and award shows performances. Their debut promotional tour in 2008, Demi Live! Warm Up Tour was based in North America only and supported their debut studio album, Don't Forget. At the same year, Lovato served as one of the opening acts for the Jonas Brothers on their fifth concert tour, Burnin' Up Tour and for Avril Lavigne on her third concert tour, The Best Damn World Tour on selected dates in North America.
WAmerican singer Madonna has performed on eleven concert tours, nineteen one-off concerts, nine benefit concerts, and three music festivals. Her 1985 debut concert tour, The Virgin Tour, was held in North America only and went on to collect more than US $5 million. In 1987 she performed on the worldwide Who's That Girl World Tour, which visited Europe, North America and Japan, and earned $25 million. One of the tour's shows in Paris in front of 130,000 fans was the largest paying concert audience by a female artist at the time and remains the largest crowd of any concert in French history. In 1990, she embarked on the Blond Ambition World Tour, which was dubbed as the "Greatest Concert of the 1990s" by Rolling Stone. BBC credited the tour with "invent[ing] the modern, multi-media pop spectacle". In 1993, Madonna visited Israel and Turkey for the first time, followed by Latin America and Australia, with The Girlie Show World Tour. A review in Time by Sam Buckley said: "Madonna, once the Harlow harlot and now a perky harlequin, is the greatest show-off on earth."
WCanadian singer and songwriter Shawn Mendes has released three studio albums, an extended play and two live albums since his debut in 2013. This has resulted in four concert tours, and numerous TV and award shows performances. He first released an extended play named The Shawn Mendes EP in July 2014. The EP got promoted through 2014, through performances at several award ceremonies and television shows, including the Jingle Ball and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Mendes has served as an opening act for Austin Mahone on the North American leg of his 2014 tour. He also has served as the opening act for Taylor Swift’s 1989 World Tour on selected dates of the tour's North American leg.
WThis is a list of live performances by film score composer, orchestrator, conductor and former trumpet player Ennio Morricone. He composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and television productions.
WThe Music Bank World Tour is a worldwide live concert tour of South Korean music show Music Bank by the Korean Broadcasting System. The tour stages live performances, featuring multiple K-pop acts, in various locations outside of South Korea. Since July 2011, the Music Bank World Tour has been held in multiple cities across Asia, Europe and Latin America with an estimated global live audience of 200,000.
WAmerican singer Katy Perry has released six studio albums as well as an acoustic album and two live albums since her debut in 2001. This has resulted in four concert tours, and a lot of TV and award shows performances. In 2001 she released her first studio album Katy Hudson under her real name Katy Hudson, which is only Christian music album. Since adopting the stage name Katy Perry, she has been promoting all of her albums, starting with her second album One of the Boys in 2008 and 2009, through performances at several festivals including the Jingle Ball and the MTV Video Music Awards.
WBarbadian singer Rihanna has embarked on seven concert tours, five of which have been worldwide. Her 2006 debut, Rihanna: Live in Concert Tour was based in North America only and supported her first and second studio album, Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl like Me (2006). The tour lasted for three months, through which Rihanna performed 36 shows. The same year, Rihanna continued to tour as a special guest on the PCD World Tour with Pussycat Dolls, Roc the Block Tour with Jay-Z and Ne-Yo, and the Monkey Business Tour with Black Eyed Peas. In the period from 2007 till 2009, she performed on the worldwide Good Girl Gone Bad Tour in a support of her third studio album with same name. During the tour, Rihanna visited Europe, North America, Oceania, Asia and Africa. It featured Rihanna presenting completely different style and wearing leather outfits. The Good Girl Gone Bad Tour sparked controversy in Malaysia where the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party recommended that Rihanna's concert tour should be banned due her provocative outfits. A DVD, titled Good Girl Gone Bad Live was released on June 16, 2008. It features the show from Evening News Arena in Manchester, England, held on December 6, 2007.
WAmerican entertainer Britney Spears has embarked on ten headlining concert tours, five of which have been worldwide. She first served as an opening act for NSYNC before starting her 1999 headlining debut, the ...Baby One More Time Tour, which was based in North America only. Its success prompted an extension of dates entitled Crazy Tour. The tour was positively received by critics but generated some controversy due to her racy outfits. Jae-Ha Kim of the Chicago Sun-Times commented that "Spears has that 'it' factor that worked for pinup queens of the past." In 2000–01, she performed on the worldwide Oops!... I Did It Again Tour. It was critically appreciated for Spears's energy and performance, as well as the band. She then followed this with the Dream Within a Dream Tour in 2001–02, visiting Japan and Mexico for the first time. The performances were accompanied by many special effects, the pièce de résistance being a water screen that pumped two tons of water onto the stage during the encore performance of "...Baby One More Time". During a concert in Mexico, Spears stopped the show three songs into the setlist because it was too dangerous to perform in the rainstorm.
WHalftime shows are a tradition during American football games at all levels of competition. Entertainment during the Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), represents a fundamental link to pop culture, which helps broaden the television audience and nationwide interest.
WAmerican singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has performed on five concert tours, three one-off concerts, 21 music festivals, and 195 live events. She first promoted her debut album Taylor Swift, in 2006 and 2007, through performances at several award ceremonies and television shows, including the 42nd ACM Awards and Good Morning America. She then served as an opening act for Rascal Flatts (2006), George Strait (2007), Kenny Chesney (2007), Brad Paisley (2007–08), and Tim McGraw's & Faith Hill's joint tour (2007).
WSince its opening in 1995, the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, has hosted many local, regional and international artists, spanning a wide range of musical genres. A list of notable concerts are given in the table below. All events are arranged in a chronological order.
WTaiwanese singer Jolin Tsai has embarked on five concert tours, each of which has been worldwide. Her 2004 debut, the J1 World Tour, was based in Asia and visited North America. Tsai appeared onstage on a rising platform and stroke yoga poses. In 2006, Tsai performed on the Dancing Forever World Tour, which visited Asia, Oceania, and North America. The performances featured Tsai striking yoga poses on rings and pommel horse. However, some critics complained that the show concentrated on "juggling", but generally the response was favorable, with over 500,000 ticket sales. In 2010, she embarked on the Myself World Tour. The performances featured Tsai performing either aerial hoop or pole dance during the final segment. She grossed more than NT$150 million and eventually played in front of 600,000 people in Asia, Europe, and Oceania. In 2015, Tsai performed on the Play World Tour, which collaborated with Live Nation Entertainment and visited Asia and North America, with over 400,000 ticket sales. In 2019, Tsai performed on the Ugly Beauty World Tour.
WEnglish singer-songwriter and recorder producer Charli XCX has embarked on 5 tours as a headlining artist, 11 tours as a supporting act, and has performed on televised programs 19 times.