Rainbow World Tour

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Rainbow World Tour
Tour by Mariah Carey
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Rainbow Tour book cover
Associated album Rainbow
Start dateFebruary 14, 2000 (2000-02-14)
End dateApril 18, 2000 (2000-04-18)
Legs3
No. of shows19
Attendance234,541
Box officeUS $6.4 million ($10.88 million in 2022 dollars) [1]
Mariah Carey concert chronology

The Rainbow World Tour was the fourth concert tour in 2000 by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, and supports her seventh studio album Rainbow (1999). The tour started in Europe on February 14, in Antwerp, Belgium, also an itinerary that included North America and ended on April 18, in Toronto. The tour's nine-date North American leg grossed $7.1 million according to Billboard . [2] She would also mention a tribute to Tyrone after his death in May 25, 1999

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Background

The Rainbow Tour marked Carey's first tour in the U.S. in seven years since her 1993 Music Box Tour garnered a flurry of bad initial reviews. In addition to visiting more European countries, Carey also visited Singapore for the first time. During this tour, Carey debuted new songs from the Rainbow album such as: "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)", "Heartbreaker", "Thank God I Found You" and much more, including some of her biggest hits. Once again, longtime friend Trey Lorenz was featured as a backup singer. On tour merchandise shirts, a date in Dallas, Texas is listed, but was never actually scheduled.

Critical response

The tour received generally mixed reviews. Phil Gallo of Variety said: "Mariah Carey's show begs for either simplicity or coherency", and called the show a visual "mess". [3] While reflecting that this was the first time Mariah was scantily clad touring, Jim DeRogatis from the Chicago Sun-Times said that Carey had "been transformed from a wannabe Whitney to a wannabe Britney", and called her approach to concert performance "difficult to fathom" considering she was "the only artist to have scored a No. 1 hit in every year of the '90s, selling some 125 million records worldwide." [4]

Set list

The following set list is from the February 17 concert in Milan. It is not intended to represent all dates throughout the tour. [5]

  1. "Mariah & Bianca" (Introduction) (contains elements of "Rainbow (Interlude)" and "Butterfly")
  2. "Emotions"
  3. "My All"
  4. "Dreamlover"
  5. "X-Girlfriend"
  6. "Vulnerability" (Video interlude)
  7. "Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now)"
  8. "Without You"
  9. "Make It Happen"
  10. "Thank God I Found You" (performed with Trey Lorenz) (contains elements of the Make It Last Remix)
  11. "Make You Happy" (Interlude) (performed by Trey Lorenz)
  12. "Fantasy" (Bad Boy Remix)
  13. "Always Be My Baby"
  14. "Crybaby"
  15. "Close My Eyes"
  16. "Petals"
  17. "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)"
  18. "Money Ain't a Thang" (Dance Interlude)
  19. "Heartbreaker" (contains elements of the Desert Storm Remix)
  20. "Honey" (contains elements of the Bad Boy Remix)
  21. "Vision of Love"
  22. "Rainbow" (Interlude)
  23. "Hero"
  24. "Butterfly Reprise" (Outro)
Notes
  • During the opening show in Antwerp, Carey performed "Sweetheart".
  • "Make It Happen" was cut from the set list on February 23.
  • Starting on February 29, "Without You" was no longer performed.
  • "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was temporarily performed from March 4 to 9.
  • The "Vulnerability" video interlude was cut from the set list on March 4.
  • "Vision Of Love" was not performed in Tokyo.
  • Carey sang a snippet of Lauryn Hill's “Ex-Factor” in Singapore.
  • Starting on March 13, "Always Be My Baby" was moved up earlier in the set list, being performed after "My All". Additionally, "Heartbreaker" was performed before "Dreamlover".
  • A snippet of "Daydream Interlude (Fantasy Sweet Dub Mix)" was performed in Los Angeles, San Jose, Boston and Toronto.
  • A snippet of "Vanishing" was performed in Las Vegas.
  • A medley of "I Still Believe" and "Pure Imagination" was performed in Singapore and Los Angeles.
  • A snippet of "Breakdown" was performed in Los Angeles and Chicago.
  • "(You're Puttin') A Rush On Me" and "Slipping Away" were performed in Chicago. Additionally, 98 Degrees joined Carey onstage to perform "Thank God I Found You".

Shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue
DateCityCountryVenueAttendanceRevenue
Europe
February 14, 2000 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis
February 17, 2000 Milan Italy Fila Forum
February 20, 2000 Cologne Germany Kölnarena
February 23, 2000 Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
February 26, 2000 London England Wembley Arena
February 29, 2000 Madrid Spain Palacio de Deportes
Asia
March 4, 2000 Osaka Japan Osaka Dome ——
March 7, 2000 [lower-alpha 1] Tokyo Tokyo Dome 100,000 / 100,000
March 9, 2000 [lower-alpha 1]
March 13, 2000 Singapore National Stadium —
North America [6] [7]
March 16, 2000 Los Angeles United States Staples Center 15,627 / 15,627$990,648
March 18, 2000 Las Vegas Thomas & Mack Center 13,591 / 13,591$681,068
March 21, 2000 San Jose San Jose Arena 13,999 / 13,999$862,170
March 25, 2000 Chicago United Center 14,892 / 14,892$848,156
March 29, 2000 Miami American Airlines Arena 12,008 / 12,008$662,514
April 1, 2000 Atlanta Philips Arena 12,956 / 12,956$664,229
April 11, 2000 New York City Madison Square Garden 14,870 / 14,870$1,066,413
April 13, 2000 [lower-alpha 2] Boston FleetCenter ——
April 18, 2000 [lower-alpha 3] Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 13,598 / 13,598$606,118
Total234,541 / 234,541 (100%)$6,381,316

Notes

  1. 1 2 The concerts of March 7 and March 9, 2000, were originally scheduled to take place at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.
  2. ↑ The April 13, 2000 concert in Boston, Massachusetts at the Fleet Center was originally planned to take place on April 4 but was rescheduled due to illness. [8]
  3. ↑ The April 18, 2000 concert in Toronto, Ontario at the Air Canada Centre was originally planned to take place on April 7 but was rescheduled due to illness. [8]

Personnel

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