Love Letter Tour

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Love Letter Tour
Tour by R. Kelly
RKelly 2011TourPoster.jpg
Promotional poster for the tour
Associated album Love Letter
Start dateApril 17, 2011 (2011-04-17)
End dateJuly 14, 2011 (2011-07-14)
Legs2
No. of shows10 in Europe
24 in North America
34 Total
R. Kelly concert chronology
  • Ladies Make Some Noise Tour
    (2009)
  • Love Letter Tour
    (2011)
  • Single Ladies Tour
    (2012)

The Love Letter Tour was a summer tour headlined by R&B artist R. Kelly. It supported the album, Love Letter .

Contents

Opening acts

Setlist

This setlist was obtained from the concert held on June 30, 2011, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. It does not represent all shows during the tour. [2]

  1. "Video Sequence"
  2. "Step in the Name of Love" (Remix) / "Red Carpet (Pause, Flash)" / "Chocolate Factory"
  3. "Love Letter"
  4. "Number One Hit"
  5. "Happy People"
  6. "Freaky in the Club"
  7. "So Sexy" / "Hotel" / "Thoia Thoing" / "Slow Wind"
  8. "Strip for You"
  9. "TP-2"
  10. "Video Sequence"
  11. "Home Alone" / "Gigolo" / "Snake" / "Use to Me Spending" / "I'm a Flirt"
  12. "Ignition (Remix)"
  13. "Fiesta" / "Number One" / "Friend of Mine" / "Feelin' On Yo Booty" / "Real Talk" / "Bump N' Grind" (Old School Remix)
  14. "In the Kitchen" / "Slow Dance (Hey Mr. DJ)" / "12 Play"
  15. "It Seems Like You're Ready"
  16. "Your Body's Callin'"
  17. "When a Woman's Fed Up"
  18. "Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)"
  19. "R&B Thug"
  20. "Video Sequence"
  21. "When a Woman Loves"
  22. "Step in the Name of Love" (Reprise)
  23. "My Way"

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenue
Europe [3]
April 17, 2011 Nuremberg Germany Planet
April 18, 2011 Zürich Switzerland X-tra
April 19, 2011 Amsterdam Netherlands Heineken Music Hall
April 22, 2011 Manchester England O2 Apollo
April 23, 2011 London HMV Hammersmith Apollo
April 25, 2011 Berlin Germany Admiralspalast
April 26, 2011 Hamburg Große Freiheit 36
April 27, 2011 Offenbach Capitol
April 28, 2011 Cologne Live Music Hall
April 30, 2011ParisFrance Le Bataclan
North America [4]
June 2, 2011 Southaven United States DeSoto Civic Center
June 3, 2011 New Orleans Lakefront Arena
June 4, 2011 Mobile Civic Center Arena
June 5, 2011 Houston Toyota Center
June 10, 2011 Oakland Oracle Arena
June 11, 2011Los Angeles Nokia Theatre L.A. Live
June 16, 2011 Rosemont Allstate Arena
June 17, 2011 St. Louis Chaifetz Arena
June 18, 2011 Kansas City Sprint Center
June 19, 2011 Grand Prairie Verizon Theatre
June 23, 2011 Columbia Colonial Life Arena
June 24, 2011 Raleigh RBC Center
June 25, 2011 Atlanta Philips Arena
June 26, 2011 Birmingham BJCC Arena
June 29, 2011 [A] Cleveland Wolstein Center
June 30, 2011 Newark Prudential Center
July 1, 2011 Baltimore 1st Mariner Arena
July 2, 2011 Washington, D.C. Verizon Center
July 3, 2011 Philadelphia Mann Center for the Performing Arts
July 8, 2011 Columbus Value City Arena
July 9, 2011 Detroit Fox Theatre
July 10, 2011
July 13, 2011 Louisville KFC Yum! Center
July 14, 2011 Nashville Bridgestone Arena
Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
A WZAK 30th Anniversary Celebration [5]
Cancellations and rescheduled shows
June 14, 2011 Council Bluffs, Iowa Mid-America Center Cancelled [6]
July 12, 2011 Richmond, Virginia Landmark Theater Cancelled [7]
July 19, 2011 Savannah, Georgia Martin Luther King Jr. Arena Cancelled [8]

Box office score data

VenueCityTickets sold / AvailableGross revenue
Oracle ArenaOakland5,131 / 6,535 (79%)$384,678 [9]
Nokia Theatre L.A. LiveLos Angeles13,764 / 13,764 (100%)$950,547 [10]
Verizon TheatreGrand Prairie5,706 / 5,952 (96%)$393,466 [11]
Philips ArenaAtlanta11,024 / 11,024 (100%)$699,821 [12]
Prudential CenterNewark7,217 / 7,804 (92%)$582,894 [11]
Verizon CenterWashington, D.C.7,652 / 12,546 (61%)$648,356 [13]
Mann Center for the Performing ArtsPhiladelphia6,947 / 7,421 (94%)$473,216 [14]
Bridgestone ArenaNashville4,626 / 7,407 (86%)$294,555 [12]
TOTAL62,067 / 72,453 (86%)$4,427,533


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