An Evening with Silk Sonic at Park MGM

Last updated
An Evening with Silk Sonic at Park MGM
Residency by Silk Sonic
Location Las Vegas, Nevada, US
Venue Dolby Live at Park MGM
Associated album An Evening with Silk Sonic
Start dateFebruary 25, 2022
End dateApril 2, 2023
No. of shows47
Bruno Mars tour chronology
24K Magic World Tour
(2017–18)
An Evening with Silk Sonic at Park MGM
(2022–23)
Anderson .Paak tour chronology
The Best Teef In the Game Tour
(2020)
An Evening with Silk Sonic at Park MGM
(2022–23)

An Evening with Silk Sonic at Park MGM was a concert residency by American R&B superduo Silk Sonic, held at Dolby Live in the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada. The concert residency was promoted by Live Nation and MGM Resorts. [1]

Contents

Background and development

On January 19, 2022, Silk Sonic announced they would be performing 13 shows at Dolby Live in Paradise, Nevada between February 25, 2022 and April 2, 2022. [2] [3] Later, the duo added 12 shows in May, 9 shows in August, and 13 shows in early 2023. [4] [5] [6]

Reception

The set was nominated for Favorite Residency at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards. [7] It grossed $50.4M, selling 170k tickets. [8]

Setlist

The following setlist is representative of the show on February 25, 2022. [9]

Shows

List of concerts showing date
United States [10]
Leg 1 [2]
February 25, 2022
February 26, 2022
March 2, 2022
March 4, 2022
March 5, 2022
March 16, 2022
March 18, 2022
March 19, 2022
March 23, 2022
March 25, 2022
March 26, 2022
March 31, 2022
April 2, 2022
Leg 2 [4]
May 4, 2022
May 6, 2022
May 7, 2022
May 10, 2022
May 13, 2022
May 14, 2022
May 17, 2022
May 20, 2022
May 21, 2022
May 25, 2022
May 28, 2022
May 29, 2022
Leg 3
August 3, 2022
August 5, 2022
August 6, 2022
August 10, 2022
August 12, 2022
August 13, 2022
August 16, 2022
August 18, 2022
August 19, 2022

Personnel

Credits adapted from several sources: [11]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">MGM Grand Garden Arena</span> Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, United States

The MGM Grand Garden Arena is a 17,000-seat multi-purpose arena within the MGM Grand resort, located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The venue opened on December 31, 1993, with a concert by Barbra Streisand, and subsequent concerts by Luther Vandross, Anita Mui and Janet Jackson.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bruno Mars</span> American musician (born 1985)

Peter Gene Hernandez, known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for his stage performances, retro showmanship, and for performing in a wide range of musical styles, including pop, R&B, funk, soul, reggae, disco, and rock. Mars is accompanied by his band, the Hooligans, who play a variety of instruments, such as electric guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, drums, and horns, and also serve as backup singers and disco dancers. In 2021, he collaborated with Anderson .Paak, as the American musical superduo Silk Sonic.

"Runaway Baby" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars from his debut studio album Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010). It was written by Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine and Brody Brown. The former three produced the track under their alias, the Smeezingtons. "Runaway Baby" is a funk, pop rock, doo-wop and soul record. Its lyrics detail a playboy who is willing to break woman's heart regardless of their feelings. Instrumentally, the track relies on finger snaps, police sirens, hand claps and guitar. It received mixed reviews from music critics, who considered it one of the standouts in the album, but criticized its lyrical content.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bruno Mars discography</span>

American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars has released three studio albums, one collaborative studio album, one EP, 32 singles and four promotional singles. With estimated sales of over 26 million albums and 200 million singles worldwide, Mars is one of the best-selling artists of all time. Six of his singles are among the best-selling singles of all time: in order of release date, "Just the Way You Are", "Grenade", "The Lazy Song", "When I Was Your Man", "Uptown Funk" and "That's What I Like". According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), he has sold 91.5 million copies in the United States. His first two albums have sold 5.04 million copies in the US market alone. In 2012, Mars was named 2011's best selling music artist worldwide. In 2022, he became the first artist to receive six diamond certified songs in the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">When I Was Your Man</span> 2013 single by Bruno Mars

"When I Was Your Man" is a song by American singer and songwriter Bruno Mars from his second studio album, Unorthodox Jukebox (2012). Atlantic Records released the song as the third promotional single and as the second official single, taken from the album, to mainstream radio in the United States on January 15, 2013. "When I Was Your Man" was written by Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine and Andrew Wyatt. The former three produced the track under the name the Smeezingtons. The track was inspired by the time Mars was worried about losing his girlfriend, Jessica Caban.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Treasure (song)</span> 2013 single by Bruno Mars

"Treasure" is a song by American singer and songwriter Bruno Mars from his second studio album, Unorthodox Jukebox (2012). It was written by Mars himself along with Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, and Phredley Brown, while production was handled by Mars, Lawrence and Levine under the name of the Smeezingtons. Due to the similarities shared with Breakbot's "Baby I'm Yours", new writing credits were added. The song was selected as the third single by Atlantic Records and was first issued to airplay in Italy on May 10, 2013.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anderson .Paak</span> American musician (born 1986)

Brandon Paak Anderson, better known by his stage name Anderson .Paak, is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, and drummer. He released his debut mixtape, O.B.E. Vol. 1 in 2012 and went on to release his debut album Venice in 2014. In 2016, he followed up with his second album, Malibu, which received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album, followed by his third album, Oxnard (2018). At the 61st Grammy Awards, Paak won his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance with his 2018 non-album single "Bubblin". In 2020, he won two additional Grammy Awards for Best R&B Album with his fourth album Ventura, while a song from the album won Best R&B Performance with "Come Home".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anderson .Paak discography</span>

The discography of American musician Anderson .Paak has released four studio albums, two collaborative albums, four extended plays (EP), one mixtape and 18 singles.

Charles Moniz is a Canadian recording engineer who worked on Bruno Mars's studio albums Unorthodox Jukebox and 24K Magic. Alternatively, he recorded "All I Ask" for Adele's 2015 studio album 25. For his recordings with Mars and Adele, Moniz has won multiple Grammy Awards. Out of his six Grammys, Moniz is a three-time winner of the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and two-time winner of the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. He has also received the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Outside of engineering, Moniz played for the Canadian hardcore band Grade and was the bass guitarist for Avril Lavigne from 2002 to 2007.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dolby Live</span> Indoor amphitheater on the grounds of the Park MGM in Las Vegas, Nevada

Dolby Live is an indoor amphitheater on the grounds of the Park MGM casino hotel in Paradise, Nevada. Opening in December 2016, the theater primarily hosts concerts and residencies and is the second-largest theater on the Las Vegas Strip. The theater sits adjacent to the T-Mobile Arena and Toshiba Plaza.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bruno Mars at The Chelsea, Las Vegas</span> Residency show

Bruno Mars at The Chelsea, Las Vegas was the debut concert residency at the new concert showroom in the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, United States, by American singer and songwriter Bruno Mars, from December 2013 to December 2015. DJ Supra, Havana Brown and DJ Crykit opened some shows of the residency, whilst the setlist, which featured songs from Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010), Unorthodox Jukebox (2012), and various covers, was performed by Mars, backed by his eight-piece band, The Hooligans. The show ended with Mars performing an encore of "Locked out of Heaven" (2012). It received a positive reception from music critics, who praised the energetic and intimate show. The eleven shows in the concert residency was promoted by C3 Presents and grossed $3 million.

Bruno Mars at Park MGM is a concert residency by American singer and songwriter Bruno Mars, being held at Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas, Nevada, and at The Theater at MGM National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Maryland. For performances, Mars is accompanied by his eight-piece band, the Hooligans, and the setlists feature songs from his albums Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010), Unorthodox Jukebox (2012), and 24K Magic (2016), along with various covers. The concert residency has been promoted by Live Nation and MGM Resorts, has lasted eight years, and grossed $114.3 millions. It attracted a wide-ranging audience of all age groups. The April 2020 dates were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The residency won Top R&B Tour at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Silk Sonic</span> American R&B superduo

Silk Sonic is an American musical superduo composed of musicians Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak. The duo released their debut single, "Leave the Door Open", in March 2021. They later released "Skate" in July 2021, followed by third single, "Smokin out the Window", and their debut album, An Evening with Silk Sonic, in November 2021. The album peaked at number two on the Billboard 200, while the first three singles reached the top twenty on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Leave the Door Open" spending 18 weeks in the top ten and two non-consecutive weeks at the top spot. The song later won four Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

<i>An Evening with Silk Sonic</i> 2021 studio album by Silk Sonic

An Evening with Silk Sonic is the debut studio album by American musical superduo Silk Sonic, composed of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak. It was released on November 12, 2021, by Aftermath Entertainment and Atlantic Records. Silk Sonic reunited with Christopher Brody Brown and James Fauntleroy to write the album. They recruited American musician Bootsy Collins, who came up with the name for Mars and Paak's duo, for narration and American record producer D'Mile to compose the album. Recording sessions for An Evening with Silk Sonic took place from early 2020 to mid-2021 at Shampoo Press & Curl Studios.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leave the Door Open</span> 2021 single by Silk Sonic

"Leave the Door Open" is the debut single by the American superduo Silk Sonic, consisting of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, from their studio album An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021). The song was written by the artists alongside Brody Brown and Dernst "D'Mile" Emile II, who produced it with Mars. It was released on March 5, 2021, by Aftermath Entertainment and Atlantic Records for digital download and streaming. A Philadelphia soul, R&B, and pop song, it is influenced by quiet storm. The lyrics are humorous and describe a "detailed erotic invitation".

"Skate" is a song by American superduo Silk Sonic, which consists of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak. It was released on July 30, 2021, by Aftermath Entertainment and Atlantic Records as the second single from their debut studio album An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021). The song was written by the artists alongside James Fauntleroy, Domi & JD Beck, and Dernst "D'Mile" Emile II, who produced it with Mars. An R&B, disco, and funk song, it was inspired by music from the 1970s disco period. The song's lyrics discuss roller skating and include an invitation to a dance floor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Smokin out the Window</span> 2021 single by Silk Sonic

"Smokin out the Window" is a song by American superduo Silk Sonic, which consists of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak. It was released on November 5, 2021, by Aftermath Entertainment and Atlantic Records as the third single from their debut studio album An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021). The song was written by the artists alongside Dernst "D'Mile" Emile II, who produced it with Mars. An R&B and soul song, it was inspired by music from the 1970s. The lyrics are humorous and describe the narrator's heart being broken by an unfaithful lover.

"After Last Night" is a song by American superduo Silk Sonic, which consists of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, with Thundercat and Bootsy Collins, from their debut studio album, An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021). The song was written by Mars, .Paak, Thundercat, Dernst "D'Mile" Emile II, James Fauntleroy, Jonathan Yip, Ray Romulus, Jeremy Reeves, and Ray Charles McCollough II. The production was handled by Mars, D'Mile, Yip, Romulus, Reeves, and McCollough II, with the latter four credited as the Stereotypes. It was released to urban adult contemporary radio as the fifth single from the album in the United States on July 5, 2022, by Atlantic Records. The song is a funk, neo soul and R&B ballad about a man who was a player, changing his behavior for a woman with whom he is in love.

"Love's Train" is a song by American R&B and funk band Con Funk Shun from their tenth studio album, To the Max (1982). The song was written by Michael Cooper and Felton C. Pilate II, and produced by Con Funk Shun. Cooper wrote the song to a music track created by Pilate, which had different lyrics. It is an R&B, funk and quiet storm song that includes a "steering bass guitar", "glittering keys", and "synth-centric flair of '80s R&B". Lyrically, the song is based on a real-life love triangle, involving Cooper and Pilate. Since its release, the song has received praise from music critics, with the majority commending the band's vocals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Domi and JD Beck</span> French-American jazz duo

Domi and JD Beck are a jazz duo consisting of French keyboardist Domi Louna and American drummer JD Beck. The two met in 2018 and have since worked with Thundercat, Anderson .Paak, Herbie Hancock, Eric Andre, Ariana Grande, Earl Sweatshirt, Bruno Mars and many more. They released their first single, "Smile", and debut album, Not Tight, as a duo in 2022. They received two Grammy Award nominations in 2022, for Best New Artist and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for Not Tight.

References

  1. Paul, Larisha (January 19, 2022). "Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak Hit Vegas for Silk Sonic Residency". Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
  2. 1 2 Skinner, Tom (January 19, 2022). "Silk Sonic announce 2022 Las Vegas residency: "It's happening!"". Nme. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
  3. Bloom, Madison (January 19, 2022). "Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak Announce Silk Sonic Las Vegas Residency". Pitchfork. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
  4. 1 2 Kaufman, Gil (January 19, 2022). "Silk Sonic Set Las Vegas Residency". Billboard. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
  5. "Silk Sonic extends Las Vegas residency with new summer shows". 10 May 2022.
  6. "Silk Sonic Tickets & 2023 Las Vegas Residency". Vivid Seats. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  7. Atkinson, Katie (March 27, 2023). "Here Are the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards Winners: Full List". Billboard. Retrieved June 14, 2023.
  8. https://www.billboard.com/lists/top-grossing-concert-residencies-all-time/katy-perry-katy-perry-play-2021-present/
  9. Gill, Melissa (February 26, 2022). "Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak Kick Off Silk Sonic Las Vegas Residency: Recap + Setlist". Consequence . Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  10. An Evening with Silk Sonic at Park MGM:
    • "An Evening with Silk Sonic at Park MGM Boxscore". August 10, 2022. February 25, 2022- August 6, 2022: Silk Sonic, Dolby Live, Las Vegas (60,518 – $18,311,526); Average (5,043 – $1,525,961); Average Price: $302.58; 100% Tickes Sold; 12/34 Reported Shows
  11. Clara, Marina (April 3, 2022). "Conheça Mateus Asato, o guitarrista brasileiro de Bruno Mars" (in Portuguese). Tangerina. Archived from the original on April 2, 2022. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  12. Sheckells, Melinda (February 26, 2022). "Silk Sonic Bring the Funk, Perform Entire Debut Album at Las Vegas Residency Launch". Billboard. Archived from the original on April 12, 2022. Retrieved April 3, 2022.