The Special Tour

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The Special Tour
Tour by Lizzo
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Location
  • North America
  • Europe
  • Oceania
  • Asia
Associated album Special
Start dateSeptember 23, 2022
End dateJuly 30, 2023
No. of shows80
Supporting acts
Lizzo concert chronology

The Special Tour was the third concert tour by American singer and rapper Lizzo, in support of her fourth studio album Special (2022). The tour began at the FLA Live Arena in Sunrise, Florida on September 23, 2022, and concluded at the Fuji Rock Festival on July 30, 2023.

Contents

American rappers Latto and Saucy Santana supported all the North American dates on the tour. [1] [2] English rapper Bree Runway and English singer-songwriter Joy Crookes supported select dates on the European leg of the tour while Tkay Maidza supported dates in Oceania. The Special Tour became Lizzo's highest-grossing tour, with 833,879 tickets sold and grossing $83,678,324 across 68 shows.

Concert film

Lizzo: Live in Concert is a concert special directed by Sam Wrench, which was released on December 31, 2022, exclusively via HBO Max. The film follows American singer and rapper Lizzo's performance at Kia Forum in Inglewood, California on November 18 and 19, 2022. [3]

Setlist

This set list is from the show in Raleigh, United States on May 10, 2023. It is not intended to represent all tour dates. [4]

  1. "The Sign"
  2. "2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)"
  3. "Soulmate"
  4. "Phone" (Interlude)
  5. "Grrrls"
  6. "Boys"
  7. "Tempo"
  8. "Rumors"
  9. "Scuse Me"
  10. "Fitness" (Interlude)
  11. "Naked"
  12. "Jerome"
  13. "Break Up Twice" / "Doo Wop (That Thing)"
  14. "Special"
  15. "I’m Every Woman" / "Like a Girl"
  16. "Birthday Girl"
  17. "Everybody's Gay"
  18. "Water Me"
  19. "Cuz I Love You"
  20. "If You Love Me"
  21. "Coldplay"
  22. "Truth Hurts"
  23. "I Love You Bitch"
  24. "Good As Hell"
  25. "Juice"
  26. "About Damn Time"
Notes

Shows

List of concerts [8] [9]
DateCityCountryVenueAttendanceRevenue
North America
September 23, 2022 Sunrise United States FLA Live Arena 8,020 / 8,020$819,088
September 24, 2022 Tampa Amalie Arena 11,434 / 11,434$1,125,873
September 27, 2022 Washington, D.C. Capital One Arena 13,163 / 13,163$1,629,345
September 29, 2022 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 12,023 / 12,023$1,383,197
September 30, 2022 Boston TD Garden 12,787 / 12,787$1,658,272
October 2, 2022 New York City Madison Square Garden 23,875 / 23,875$2,996,293
October 3, 2022
October 6, 2022 Detroit Little Caesars Arena 11,444 / 11,444$1,435,945
October 7, 2022 Toronto Canada Scotiabank Arena 12,249 / 12,249$1,308,924
October 11, 2022 Saint Paul United States Xcel Energy Center 14,389 / 14,389$1,600,312
October 14, 2022 Kansas City T-Mobile Center 13,152 / 13,152$1,408,931
October 16, 2022 Chicago United Center 14,598 / 14,598$1,846,297
October 18, 2022 Indianapolis Gainbridge Fieldhouse 10,779 / 10,779$1,048,144
October 20, 2022 Charlotte Spectrum Center 13,246 / 13,246$1,385,470
October 22, 2022 Atlanta State Farm Arena 11,650 / 11,650$1,359,408
October 23, 2022 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 13,449 / 13,449$1,308,849
October 25, 2022 Austin Moody Center 11,435 / 11,435$1,427,279
October 26, 2022 Houston Toyota Center 10,363 / 10,363$1,052,961
October 28, 2022 Dallas American Airlines Center 12,799 / 12,799$1,468,801
October 31, 2022 Denver Ball Arena 12,785 / 12,785$1,394,224
November 2, 2022 Salt Lake City Vivint Arena 11,560 / 11,560$1,242,619
November 4, 2022 Portland Moda Center 27,228 / 27,228 [lower-alpha 1] $2,901,684 [lower-alpha 1]
November 7, 2022 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena 11,700 / 11,700$1,128,998
November 9, 2022 Seattle United States Climate Pledge Arena 14,669 / 14,669$1,806,437
November 10, 2022PortlandModa Center— [lower-alpha 1] — [lower-alpha 1]
November 12, 2022 San Francisco Chase Center 13,357 / 13,357$1,590,387
November 18, 2022 Inglewood Kia Forum 26,350 / 26,350$3,154,782
November 19, 2022
Europe
February 17, 2023 Oslo Norway Spektrum 8,957 / 8,957$505,414
February 18, 2023 Copenhagen Denmark Royal Arena 12,194 / 12,194$782,080
February 20, 2023 Hamburg Germany Barclays Arena 4,856 / 7,167$325,003
February 23, 2023 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome 16,069 / 16,069$1,044,946
February 24, 2023 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis 10,677 / 11,305$626,180
February 27, 2023 Cologne Germany Lanxess Arena 6,881 / 8,767$479,918
February 28, 2023 Berlin Mercedes-Benz Arena 8,864 / 10,081$558,338
March 2, 2023 Milan Italy Mediolanum Forum 9,008 / 10,299$553,141
March 3, 2023 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion 7,236 / 9,678$544,830
March 5, 2023 Paris France Accor Arena 12,000 / 13,619$793,445
March 8, 2023 Glasgow Scotland OVO Hydro 13,851 / 13,851$1,192,414
March 9, 2023 Birmingham England Utilita Arena 14,457 / 14,457$1,192,074
March 11, 2023 Manchester AO Arena 15,545 / 15,545$1,230,558
March 13, 2023 Dublin Ireland 3Arena 12,264 / 12,264$913,469
March 15, 2023 London England The O2 Arena 34,765 / 34,765$2,767,434
March 16, 2023
North America
April 21, 2023 Knoxville United States Thompson-Boling Arena 13,700 / 13,700$1,336,022
April 22, 2023 Lexington Rupp Arena 13,891 / 13,891$1,487,420
April 24, 2023 Memphis FedEx Forum 11,628 / 11,628$1,215,789
April 25, 2023 St. Louis Enterprise Center 9,063 / 10,709$841,371
April 28, 2023 [lower-alpha 2] New Orleans Fair Grounds Race Course ——
May 9, 2023 Baltimore CFG Bank Arena 12,153 / 12,153$1,287,412
May 10, 2023 Raleigh PNC Arena 13,416 / 13,416$1,611,440
May 12, 2023 Cleveland Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse 12,953 / 14,419$1,378,779
May 13, 2023 Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena 13,931 / 13,931$1,585,622
May 16, 2023 Milwaukee Fiserv Forum 12,210 / 12,210$1,238,629
May 17, 2023 Chicago United Center 13,614 / 13,614$1,550,660
May 19, 2023 Omaha CHI Health Center Omaha 13,385 / 13,385$1,408,975
May 20, 2023 Tulsa BOK Center 12,567 / 12,567$876,500
May 24, 2023 Phoenix Footprint Center 11,699 / 11,699$1,328,452
May 25, 2023 San Diego Viejas Arena 8,879 / 8,879$1,090,577
May 28, 2023 Sacramento Golden 1 Center 12,078 / 12,078$1,540,120
June 2, 2023 Thousand Palms Acrisure Arena 9,522 / 9,522$1,144,192
June 11, 2023 Montreal Canada Bell Centre 11,359 / 11,359$1,039,301
June 13, 2023 Hartford United States XL Center 10,944 / 11,893$1,181,899
Europe
June 22, 2023 [lower-alpha 3] Belfast Northern Ireland Ormeau Park ——
June 24, 2023 [lower-alpha 4] Pilton England Worthy Farm ——
June 28, 2023 [lower-alpha 5] Gdynia Poland Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport ——
June 30, 2023 [lower-alpha 6] Stockholm Sweden Gärdet ——
July 1, 2023 [lower-alpha 7] Roskilde Denmark Roskilde Dyrskueplads ——
July 6, 2023 [lower-alpha 8] Madrid SpainEspacio Mad Cool Villaverde——
July 7, 2023 [lower-alpha 9] Lisbon PortugalPasseio Marítimo de Algés——
July 9, 2023 [lower-alpha 10] Rotterdam Netherlands Rotterdam Ahoy ——
Oceania
July 14, 2023 Perth Australia RAC Arena 14,592 / 15,441$1,490,180
July 17, 2023 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena 26,146 / 26,146$1,899,204
July 18, 2023
July 21, 2023 [lower-alpha 11] Byron Bay North Byron Parklands——
July 23, 2023 Sydney Qudos Bank Arena 29,067 / 31,451$3,031,143
July 24, 2023
July 26, 2023 Auckland New Zealand Spark Arena 11,511 / 11,511$674,981
Asia
July 30, 2023 [lower-alpha 12] Niigata Japan Naeba Ski Resort ——

Cancelled dates

List of cancelled concerts
DateCityCountryVenueReason
July 3, 2023 [lower-alpha 13] Luxembourg City LuxembourgLuxExpo The BoxUnknown [10]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Attendance and box office score data combined for the November 4 and 10 shows in Portland.
  2. ↑ Part of New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
  3. ↑ Part of the Belsonic.
  4. ↑ Part of the Glastonbury Festival 2023.
  5. ↑ Part of the Open'er Festival.
  6. ↑ Part of Lollapalooza Stockholm.
  7. ↑ Part of the Roskilde Festival.
  8. ↑ Part of the Mad Cool festival.
  9. ↑ Part of the NOS Live festival.
  10. ↑ Part of the North Sea Jazz Festival.
  11. ↑ Part of Splendour in the Grass.
  12. ↑ Part of Fuji Rock Festival.
  13. ↑ Part of Luxexpo Open Air.

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