The Twenty Tour

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The Twenty Tour
Tour by Westlife
Westlife-TheTwentyTourPoster.png
Promotional poster for tour
Associated album Spectrum
Start date22 May 2019 (2019-05-22)
End date15 September 2019 (2019-09-15)
Legs4
No. of shows51
Supporting act(s) James Arthur
The Rua
Keelie Walker
Wild Youth
Marion Jola
Yura Yunita
Attendance617,146
Box office$29,900,000
Westlife concert chronology

The Twenty Tour (also known as the 20th Anniversary Tour) was the thirteenth concert tour by Irish pop vocal group, Westlife. It began on 22 May 2019 in Belfast, Northern Ireland at the SSE Arena and concluded on 15 September 2019 in Hyde Park, London, consisting of 33 shows in Europe and 17 shows in Asia. Westlife sold a total of 617,146 tickets for this tour. [1]

Contents

Background and production

On 3 October 2018, the band officially announced their reformation with new music and tour. Later that month, the first confirmed dates of the tour were announced through the band's social networks. Pre-sale for tickets started at 9am GMT on 23 October 2018. [2] Multiple extra dates were later added due to a high demand. [3] [4] [5] [6]

A concert tour date in Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland was recorded and released in March 2020.

Set list

This set list is representative of the 5th July 2019 show in Dublin. It does not represent all dates of the tour. [7]

  1. "Hello My Love"
  2. "Swear It Again"
  3. "What About Now"
  4. "My Love"
  5. "When You're Looking Like That"
  6. "Uptown Girl"
  7. "Mandy"
  8. "If I Let You Go"
  9. "Home"
  10. "Better Man"
  11. Queen Medley: "Another One Bites the Dust" / "Radio Ga Ga" / "I Want to Break Free" / "Somebody to Love" / "Don't Stop Me Now" / "We Will Rock You" / "We Are the Champions"
  12. "I Have a Dream"
  13. "Unbreakable"
  14. "Fool Again"
  15. "Queen of My Heart"
  16. "What Makes a Man"
  17. "Dynamite"
  18. "You Raise Me Up"
Encore
  1. "Flying Without Wings"
  2. "World of Our Own"

Dynamite was performed on the Croke park gigs and on the rest of the tour

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening acts, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue
DateCityCountryVenueOpening actsAttendanceRevenue
Europe [8] [9]
22 May 2019 Belfast Ireland SSE Arena The Rua
Kellie Walker		48,653$3,018,213
23 May 2019
25 May 2019
26 May 2019
27 May 2019
28 May 2019 Glasgow Scotland SSE Hydro 9,837 / 9,964$748,688
30 May 2019 Manchester England Manchester Arena 13,489 / 13,534$1,010,160
31 May 2019 Newcastle Utilita Arena Newcastle 18,412 / 18,412$1,361,540
1 June 2019
3 June 2019GlasgowScotlandSSE Hydro31,992 / 32,295$2,613,260
4 June 2019
5 June 2019
7 June 2019 Sheffield England FlyDSA Arena 20,492$1,502,414
8 June 2019
10 June 2019 Leeds First Direct Arena 19,718 / 22,430$1,445,080
11 June 2019
13 June 2019 London The O2 Arena 42,939 / 46,799$3,541,420
14 June 2019
15 June 2019
18 June 2019 Nottingham Motorpoint Arena 13,576$974,903
19 June 2019
21 June 2019 Birmingham Arena Birmingham 32,818$2,579,167
22 June 2019
23 June 2019
25 June 2019 Liverpool M&S Bank Arena ——
26 June 2019
28 June 2019ManchesterManchester Arena——
29 June 2019
1 July 2019 Cardiff Wales Motorpoint Arena ——
2 July 2019
3 July 2019 [lower-alpha 1] Nibe Denmark Skalskoven——
5 July 2019 Dublin Ireland Croke Park James Arthur
Wild Youth		148,470$11,577,344
6 July 2019
Asia
24 July 2019 Bangkok Thailand IMPACT Arena —8,500$1,099,968
26 July 2019 [lower-alpha 2] Macau Cotai Arena ——
27 July 2019
28 July 2019 Taipei Taiwan Linkou Stadium——
29 July 2019 [lower-alpha 3] Quezon City Philippines Smart Araneta Coliseum 15,000$2,469,378
30 July 2019
6 August 2019 [lower-alpha 4] South Tangerang Indonesia Indonesia Convention Exhibition ——
7 August 2019
8 August 2019 Shah Alam Malaysia Malawati Stadium ——
9 August 2019
10 August 2019 Singapore Singapore National Stadium 20,000$12,713,822
13 August 2019 Beijing China Cadillac Arena ——
16 August 2019 Shanghai National Exhibition and Convention Center ——
18 August 2019 Palembang Indonesia Stadion Gelora Sriwijaya Marion Jola——
29 August 2019 Dubai United Arab Emirates Coca-Cola Arena ———
31 August 2019 Magelang Indonesia Borobudur Temple Yura Yunita8,250$1,163,085
1 September 2019 Semarang Sam Poo Kong ———
Europe
15 September 2019 [lower-alpha 5] LondonEngland Hyde Park ———

Personnel

Vocals

Band

Crew

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References

Notes

  1. ↑ The 3 July 2019 show in Nibe, Denmark at Skalskoven is part of the Nibe Festival concert series. [10]
  2. ↑ The 26 July 2019 show in Macau was added due to high demand after concert tickets for July 27 were sold out.
  3. ↑ The 29 July 2019 show in Quezon City, Philippines was added due to high demand after concert tickets for July 30 were sold out. [11]
  4. ↑ The 6 August 2019 show in Jakarta, Indonesia was added due to high demand after concert tickets for 7 August were sold out.
  5. ↑ The 15 September 2019 show in London at Hyde Park is part of the BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park concert series. [12]

Citations

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