American Idols Live! Tour 2005

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American Idols Live! Tour 2005
Tour by American Idol
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From top to bottom Anwar Robinson, Scott Savol, Jessica Sierra, Nadia Turner, Anthony Fedorov, Vonzell Solomon, Nikko Smith, Carrie Underwood, Bo Bice, Constantine Maroulis
Start dateJuly 12, 2005
End dateSeptember 11, 2005
No. of shows44
Box officeUS$17.3 million from 43 shows
American Idol concert chronology

American Idols Live! Tour 2005 was a summer concert tour in the United States featuring the top 10 contestants of the fourth season of American Idol , which aired in 2005. It was sponsored by Kellogg Pop-Tarts. It followed in the tradition of other American Idol summer tours following the completion of each season in May. After the poor attendance of the tour the previous year, the tour was scaled down somewhat. Forty dates were initially planned, four more dates were however later added. [1] [2] An extra show was further added at the end of the tour as a benefit concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina which struck Mississippi two weeks earlier. [3]

Contents

Before the Las Vegas show, runner-up Bo Bice came down with serious stomach pains and was rushed to the hospital. He was diagnosed with a blockage in his intestines, and received emergency surgery. [4] He returned for the last two shows of the tour in Syracuse, New York. [5] Bice also broke his foot on stage earlier in the tour at Manchester. [6]

Performers

Top 10
Carrie Underwood (winner) Bo Bice (2nd place)
Vonzell Solomon (3rd place) Anthony Fedorov (4th place)
Scott Savol (5th place) Constantine Maroulis (6th place)
Anwar Robinson (7th place) Nadia Turner (8th place)
Nikko Smith (9th place) Jessica Sierra (10th place)

Show overview

Shows from this year's tour differed significantly from the previous three tours. Each performer performed their own set of two to three songs to showcase their differing talent. Unlike previous years, ensemble singing was more limited. There were only a few duets in addition to the obligatory final group performance which consisted of two songs in this tour. The individual sets started off with tenth-place finisher Jessica Sierra and ending with the winner Carrie Underwood, but those in between did not performed in elimination order. The first half of the show ended with Nadia Turner's set, and the second half began with a duet between Anwar Robinson and Vonzell Solomon. [7]

Bo Bice was absent throughout most of the later part of the tour due to his serious nature of his illness that required surgery, [4] and this necessitated modifications and re-arrangement to the tour set list. Extra songs were added by some singers, and a group performance by the male singers was also added.

Setlist

Intermission

Additional notes

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenueAttendance [10] Gross
SalesCapacityPercentage
July 12, 2005 Sunrise United States Office Depot Center 9,7509,750100%$420,958
July 13, 2005 Tampa St. Pete Times Forum 9,51010,70788.8%$406,153
July 15, 2005 Birmingham BJCC Arena 11,00411,004100%$493,458
July 16, 2005 Duluth Arena at Gwinnett Center 9,98610,29997.0%$453,402
July 17, 2005 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum 8,37423,50036%$357,280
July 19, 2005 Reading Sovereign Center 7,1697,169100%$304,405
July 20, 2005 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 8,76219,80044%$337,692
July 22, 2005 East Rutherford United States Continental Airlines Arena 14,51914,519100%$660,882
July 23, 2005 Uniondale Nassau Coliseum 13,01213,012100%$587,686
July 24, 2005 Philadelphia Wachovia Center 14,30414,304100%$633,132
July 26, 2005 Wilkes-Barre Wachovia Arena 8,3228,40099.1%$358,040
July 27, 2005 Washington, D.C. MCI Center 12,32813,34992.4%$552,194
July 29, 2005 Hartford Hartford Civic Center 12,18712,187100%$545,429
July 30, 2005 Worcester DCU Center 10,65510,655100%$461,084
July 31, 2005 Manchester Verizon Wireless Arena 9,2419,241100%$404,996
August 2, 2005 Cleveland Wolstein Center 10,45910,72697.5%$452,662
August 3, 2005 Columbus Value City Arena 9,65411,10986.9%$428,705
August 4, 2005 Detroit Joe Louis Arena 10,28411,62188.5%$468,552
August 6, 2005 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center 10,32411,00593.8%$467,667
August 8, 2005 Chicago United Center 10,9001200090.8%$477,850
August 9, 2005 St. Louis Savvis Center 9,66710,16295.1%$440,369
August 10, 2005 Norman Lloyd Noble Center 6,44212,00054%$294,653
August 13, 2005 Grand Prairie Nokia Live 6,0136,013100%$289,427
August 14, 2005 San Antonio SBC Center 4,1426,66462.2%$188,422
August 16, 2005 Glendale Glendale Arena 6,4178,79273.0%$302,277
August 17, 2005Los Angeles Staples Center 12,03013,26790.7%$544,269
August 18, 2005 Las Vegas Thomas & Mack Center 6,28818,06935%$293,804
August 20, 2005 San Jose HP Pavilion at San Jose 11,08412,16391.1%$470,380
August 21, 2005 Sacramento ARCO Arena 8,6189,68089.0%$397,012
August 23, 2005 Everett Everett Events Center 6,7027,57988.4%$307,374
August 24, 2005 Portland Rose Garden Arena 8,78510,50082%$383,706
August 26, 2005 Salt Lake City Delta Center 6,49718,30635%$285,105
August 28, 2005 Des Moines Wells Fargo Arena 3,6576,08160.1%$164,272
August 30, 2005 Green Bay Resch Center 6,6887,52288.9%$304,226
August 31, 2005 Milwaukee Bradley Center 6,78720,00063%$309,569
September 2, 2005 Albany Pepsi Arena 10,93711,78392.8%$476,512
September 3, 2005 Pittsburgh Mellon Arena 8,02312,80083%$361,237
September 4, 2005 Norfolk Constant Convocation Center 6,2749,52066%$283,241
September 6, 2005East RutherfordContinental Airlines Arena10,67114,79972.1%$504,678
September 7, 2005UniondaleNassau Coliseum10,47411,78988.9%$487,022
September 8, 2005 Providence Dunkin' Donuts Center 10,27410,66196.4%$453,948
September 9, 2005 Portland Cumberland County Civic Center 6,2356,235100%$267,595
September 10, 2005 Syracuse War Memorial at Oncenter 11,92811,928100%$524,820
September 11, 2005

Response

The tour returned to form after the dismal Season 3 tour. Excluding the sold-out Hurricane Katrina benefit show, the average attendance was at 89% capacity, with 12 of the 43 shows sold out. Excluding the last charity show in Syracuse, the revenue from ticket sales totalled $17,364,290 million with 392,094 tickets sold according to Billboard. [11]

Tour summary

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