American Idols Live! Tour 2007

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American Idols Live! Tour 2007
Tour by American Idol
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Jordin Sparks, Chris Sligh, Blake Lewis, LaKisha Jones
Phil Stacey, Sanjaya Malakar, Chris Richardson, Haley Scarnato
Melinda Doolittle, Gina Glocksen
Start dateJuly 6, 2007
End dateSeptember 23, 2007
No. of shows59
Box officeUS$23 million from 55 shows
American Idol concert chronology

American Idols Live! Tour 2007 was a summer and fall concert tour in the United States and Canada featuring the top 10 contestants of the sixth season of American Idol , which aired in 2007. It was sponsored by Kellogg's Pop-Tarts. The 59-date tour started on July 6 and ended on September 23. [1]

Contents

It follows in the tradition of other American Idol summer tours following the completion of each season in May.

Performers

Jordin Sparks (winner) Blake Lewis (2nd place)
Melinda Doolittle (3rd place) LaKisha Jones (4th place)
Chris Richardson (5th place) Phil Stacey (6th place)
Sanjaya Malakar (7th place) Haley Scarnato (8th place)
Gina Glocksen (9th place) Chris Sligh (10th place)

Show overview

The show was largely dominated by ensemble performances. With the exception of Jordin Sparks, Blake Lewis and Sanjaya Malakar, every other performers each had only one solo performance. The first half ended with the Blake Lewis' set, while Jordin Sparks performed her set before the traditional final performance by all 10 performers. The final group performance however differed from previous tours by being a collection of solos rather than a group song with each performer reprising a short segment of their solo song.

Setlist

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Jordin Sparks on American Idol tour 2007

Intermission

Additional notes

Special occasions

During the August 7, 2007 concert in Rosemont, Illinois, Gina Glocksen was surprised as her long-time boyfriend proposed to her following her duet with Phil Stacey.

After Sanjaya Malakar's solo during the September 9, 2007 concert in Washington, D.C., Sanjaya's sister Shyamali surprised him onstage. She placed a Fanjaya crafted "birthday boy" crown on his head as she led the audience in singing "Happy Birthday" to Sanjaya on the eve of his 18th birthday.

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenueAttendance [3] Gross
SalesCapacityPercentage
July 6, 2007 Sunrise United States BankAtlantic Center 7,73810,93871%$476,428
July 7, 2007 Tampa St. Pete Times Forum 7,7619,87679%$475,416
July 8, 2007 Jacksonville Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena 7,0899,45075%$429,908
July 10, 2007 Greenville Bi-Lo Center 6,71411,76757%$410,576
July 11, 2007 Nashville Sommet Center 5,7209,56060%$363,742
July 12, 2007 Birmingham BJCC Arena 3,7759,70339%$243,398
July 13, 2007 North Little Rock Alltel Arena 5,3249,65955%$333,171
July 15, 2007 Houston Toyota Center 5,52910,65952%$345,683
July 16, 2007 San Antonio AT&T Center 4,37010,83640%$281,533
July 18, 2007 Glendale Jobing.com Arena 9,70110,41293%$598,130
July 19, 2007 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena 5,7568,83965%$369,306
July 20, 2007 Fresno Save Mart Center 4,6049,31349%$289,648
July 22, 2007 Anaheim Honda Center 7,92210,92073%$488,294
July 23, 2007 Los Angeles Staples Center 8,26312,07468%$455,119
July 24, 2007 San Jose HP Pavilion at San Jose 8,87410,27286%$532,145
July 25, 2007 Sacramento ARCO Arena 8,23910,88376%$497,165
July 27, 2007 Tacoma Tacoma Dome 8,0249,58984%$488,145
July 28, 2007 Portland Rose Garden 5,43910,33953%$327,222
July 30, 2007 Nampa Idaho Center 3,5778,01345%$217,035
July 31, 2007 Salt Lake City EnergySolutions Arena 5,04211,53248%$291,785
August 3, 2007 Omaha Qwest Center 5,23712,81241%$321,870
August 4, 2007 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center 9,84314,69167%$549,488
August 5, 2007 Milwaukee Bradley Center 5,9989,44564%$363,899
August 7, 2007 Rosemont Allstate Arena 10,03412,52780%$605,172
August 8, 2007 Moline iWireless Center 4,5669,77647%$280,862
August 9, 2007 St. Louis Scottrade Center 5,8899,16764%$353,508
August 11, 2007 Columbus Schottenstein Center 7,43610,21273%$444,707
August 12, 2007 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 9,24511,35881%$550,930
August 13, 2007 Cleveland Wolstein Center 5,61110,02656%$343,377
August 14, 2007 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 6,72711,20560%$419,750
August 16, 2007 Indianapolis United States Pepsi Coliseum 3,2005,00064%Unknown
August 17, 2007 Louisville Freedom Hall 4,97114,61834%$228,125
August 18, 2007 Sedalia Missouri State Fair
August 19, 2007 Des Moines Iowa State Fair 4,89510,40047%$205,590 [4]
August 22, 2007 Pittsburgh Mellon Arena 7,5429,30881%$434,423
August 23, 2007 Rochester Blue Cross Arena 5,6138,27568%$348,244
August 24, 2007 Uniondale Nassau Coliseum 17,76721,17685%$1,045,485
August 25, 2007
August 27, 2007 Hartford Hartford Civic Center 7,6359,56480%$467,260
August 28, 2007 East Rutherford Continental Airlines Arena 20,27223,57686%$1,179,713
August 29, 2007
August 30, 2007 Albany Times Union Center 6,0787,10085%$364,430
September 1, 2007 Allentown Allentown Fair 7,0239,96771%$455,080
September 2, 2007 Syrasuse New York State Fair 8,67816,37753%$392,260
September 4, 2007 Portland Cumberland County Civic Center 5,5855,86695%$334,626
September 5, 2007 Worcester DCU Center 9,75410,50893%$569,866
September 7, 2007 Philadelphia Wachovia Center 9,13511,38680%$553,008
September 8, 2007 Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall 9,40310,52189%$564,826
September 9, 2007 Washington, D.C. Verizon Center 9,58411,26785%$570,254
September 11, 2007 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum 3,4795,51563%$216,735
September 12, 2007 Duluth Arena at Gwinnett Center 7,4059,23880%$441,785
September 13, 2007 Memphis FedExForum 3,1167,90039%Unknown
September 15, 2007 Huntington Big Sandy Superstore Arena 5,3006,52881%$332,478
September 16, 2007 Charlottesville John Paul Jones Arena 5,3866,38884%$327,095
September 18, 2007 Hampton Hampton Coliseum 5,9497,94275%$367,237
September 19, 2007 Baltimore 1st Mariner Arena 6,8249,24074%$417,726
September 20, 2007 Bridgeport Arena at Harbor Yard 6,6227,77085%$413,929
September 22, 2007 Manchester Verizon Wireless Arena 13,27915,48886%$801,343
September 23, 2007
TOTAL383,331 / 576,771 (66%)$23,178,930

Response

The 2007 tour turned out to be much less successful than the Season 5 tour. None of its first 30 shows were sellouts and only one stop bested the 93% capacity mark and that was the July 18 stop in Jordin Sparks' hometown of Glendale, Arizona. In addition 14 of the first 30 shows were below the 60% capacity mark. The lower attendance was blamed on the cast of contestants as well as the ticket prices. [5] Nevertheless, due to the higher ticket prices, the tour managed to gross over 23 million in U.S. dollars with nearly 400,000 tickets sold as totaled from the tour receipts of the 54 shows that reported to Billboard. [6] It was ranked number 41 in Pollstar Year End Top 100 Tour for 2007 with a gross of 20.9 million from the 50 shows that reported to Pollstar. [7]

Tour summary

References

  1. American Idols Live Concert Tour
  2. Blake Lewis hates Sanjaya Malakar Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Numbers from Billboard boxscore and Pollstar
  4. "The des Moines Register - des Moines, Iowa, News and Sports".
  5. 'Idols Live' tour now facing empty seats
  6. 'American Idol' by the numbers
  7. "2007 Year End Top 100 Tour" (PDF). Pollstar. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 24, 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2012.