The Truth About Love Tour

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The Truth About Love Tour
Tour by Pink
The Truth About Love Tour poster.png
Associated album The Truth About Love
Start dateFebruary 13, 2013 (2013-02-13)
End dateJanuary 31, 2014 (2014-01-31)
Legs4
No. of shows142
Box office$184,061,847
Website Tour website
Pink concert chronology

The Truth About Love Tour was the sixth concert tour by American rock artist P!nk. Sponsored by CoverGirl, and showcasing music from her sixth studio album The Truth About Love (2012), the tour played over 140 shows in Australia, Europe and North America. Shows in Melbourne, Victoria were recorded and released on a concert DVD, The Truth About Love Tour: Live from Melbourne .

Contents

Critical response

The Truth About Love Tour received widespread acclaim from music critics. Jason Bracelin from the Las Vegas Review-Journal called P!nk a: "party girl with a heart of gold", [1] while Jim Harrington from Mercury News said Pink "is the new gold standard", adding that:

you definitely don't walk away from a Pink show shrugging your shoulders and muttering 'meh.' It's far more likely that fans practically skip out of the building, feeling extremely satisfied with the experience and determined to tell others to 'go see Pink next time she's in town' [...] Honesty is, as they say, the best policy. And, after watching the Truth About Love Tour, I can honestly say that few, if any, performers deliver better pop spectacles than Pink. [2]

August Brown of the Los Angeles Times opined that P!nk is: "perhaps the most gifted and imaginative physical performer in pop right now." He believed P!nk's set served as a reminder that: "her best asset in performing – more than her aerialist talents or Joplin-esque power-rasp voice, is her self-awareness." [3]

Steve Appleford from Rolling Stone , who was also at the L.A. show, described the vaudeville as a: "grown-up, sophisticated show, and Pink was relaxed and chatty between songs." He went on to praise the singer, adding that:

by the time Pink was soaring gracefully through the air on cables stretched across the arena to perform "So What", the singer had demonstrated an epic workout of vocals, stagecraft and stunt-work without missing a note. The night's best special effect was Pink herself. [4]

Craig Rosen from The Hollywood Reporter summed up the show with: "P!nk launches back to the top of pop with acrobatic stunts and killer vocals." [5] After the Houston show, Jane Howze from Culture Map Houston gave a positive review, believing that The Truth About Love show was poised to be 2013's concert of the year. She added:

I have always said that Chris Martin, frontman of Coldplay is the hardest working entertainer around, but I’m reconsidering, and now I’m giving Pink the nod. A Pink concert is a little like a Cirque du Soleil performance. There is so much happening on stage—the songs, the dancing and of course the acrobatics—it is a feast for the senses. [6]

Giving a rave review, Sean Daly of Times Pop Music Critic judged P!nk has proven:

there are no longer any viable excuses for a performer to ever lip-synch again. If this 33-year-old mom could soulfully belt out opening hit "Raise Your Glass" while boing-boing-ing rafter-high via bungee ropes, the Britney's and Beyoncé's of the Top 40 realm can't claim dance moves or chilly climes as decent reasons to switch off the mike. [7]

Of her Palace of Auburn Hills show, Adam Graham of The Detroit News stated: "Tuesday's concert was Pink's first area headlining show since 2002, and she's now entered a master class of pop spectacle providers. She displayed the physicality of Madonna in the way she led her troupe of dancers, and the production was on par with that of any big name pop act". [8] Mario Tarradel of Dallas News , in his review of P!nk's Dallas show, felt that:

It's easy to like Pink. Her rock-charged brand of pop-dance is radio ready, but it's anchored in wit and grit. She's got a pliable voice with lung power and melodic grace. She's unbelievably taut with abs of steel and an adventurous streak. She's got attitude, and no qualms about tossing a few expletives. But mostly Pink is an awesome performer. Pink is a natural., [9]

The Toronto Sun complimented P!nk's performing abilities:

Pink was up for anything and everything as she bounced around on bungee cords, twirled around on hanging cloths, danced like a modern day Isadora Duncan and in the show's jaw-dropping pentultimate song, "So What", flew around the arena attached to four cables that turned her into a rock n’ roll Tinkerbell. She was equal parts gymnast, singer, dancer and even drummer. [10]

The Star Tribune gave the show an overwhelming review, stating that P!nk:

put on arguably the most daring concert in the history of arena rock [...] It was incredibly entertaining — way superior to Madonna's and Lady Gaga's. It set a standard that Rihanna (coming Sunday) and Beyoncé (due in July) will have to live up to. [11]

Jim Farber of NY Daily News gave a rave review of the show, saying that P!nk:

reaches new heights in performance that puts her talent, composure on display ... yet it's to Pink's considerable credit that no matter how many bright lights, fast-moving sets or fancy dancers surrounded her, she kept her talent and character front and center. In the end, that's what gave the audience its ultimate high. [12]

Entertainment Weekly gave a glowing review of P!nk's vocals and performing skills:

"The "Truth About Love" tour is a lot of things (including game show and circus) but it is one thing above all: a showcase for the power-pop anthem, which Pink pulled and pushed on with a showboating snarl. Do you have to be a Pink fan to enjoy the tour? It's a ridiculous question: you’ll be blasted by almost two hours of music and end up a Pink fan, regardless. The wall-to-wall setlist had its interludes, in the form of spotlit one-offs (a guitar solo; an appearance by a man-in-the-moon straight out of a Méliès short; philosophy from our host of the game show-within-a-tour) and a late-in-the-night turn toward the acoustic. But the audience filled in around even the sound of a lone instrument. This was not the kind of crowd for stillness. [13]

James Reed of The Boston Globe praised her vocals, stating that she is the: "rare performer who handles party anthems ("Raise Your Glass") and heartbreaking ballads ("Just Give Me a Reason") with equal élan." [14]

The Irish Times gave the show an extremely positive review, stating that:

as ever with Pink, it is all about the movements, her athleticism, a wow factor that makes Madonna's taught and precise dance scenes on The MDNA Tour seem desperately flat. So here's the key: the reason Pink's live show is one of the best in the world is her live USP, which is aerial athleticism. You can have all the pyro you want at a Rihanna show, and all the ridonkulous costume changes at a Gaga gig, but Pink can FLY. The sense of danger as she descends silks, clambers around a spinning steel globe cage, the Broadway bonanza of her zip-lining into the gods, that's what makes Pink gigs next level. And man do the crowd appreciate it. Screaming women with identikit haircuts whoop her every flex and step. They know that nobody else can do a show like this. It's Pink's territory and hers alone. It's an aesthetic, however, that is also pretty over. While the topic of sex is occasionally apparent in Pink's writing (most awkwardly in ‘**** Like You’), she is a completely different beast to the plastic sex cartoons that Katy Perry, Britney, Christina, Rihanna, and basically every other poptart animate. Some people take all the glory for themselves, but Pink puts on a show, and then acknowledges the hard work from many that goes into it, even if as the remarkable centrepoint to it, she could probably claim all the kudos in the world. [15]

Alice Vincent of The Daily Telegraph gave the show 4/5 stars, praising the show's set list:

Pink's set list was well curated from an extensive back catalogue, rewarding hardened fans with a short medley of the early R&B tracks which made her a star. That these were performed with the same genuine enthusiasm as the hits from her last album (her seventh but first to make number one in America), is a testament to Pink's talent, and explains why she continues to sell records. Ten-year-old songs don't sound dated because she has maintained the same energy and sass that she created them with. [16]

Ian Gittins of The Guardian gave the show 4/5 stars, conceded that: "Pink may not be the most original singer-songwriter touring the world's enormodomes, nor the most gifted, but she makes up for these shortcomings with a live show akin to a pop-punk take on Cirque du Soleil." [17] Polly Coufos of The Australian praised P!nk's cover of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time":

A little later this fearlessness was echoed with her first performance of Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time. She tackled the pop classic with the lyrics in her hand, the tentative reading providing great balance with the precision required for most of the numbers. That may be Pink's greatest asset, that she can create a spectacular show that more than matches her peers, but the glitz never hides the pure, unvarnished talent at her core. [18]

The Herald Sun reviewed one of P!nk's 18 Melbourne shows:

P!nk's The Truth About Love tour takes concerts to the next level by aiming for the sky. The singing acrobat spends a good third of this new show in the air defying gravity because, unlike 99 per cent of her contemporaries, she can. And even when she's hanging upside down or spinning above your head she's singing completely live. Again, because she can. [19]

Commercial performance

Over 320,000 tickets for the Australian leg of the tour were sold within a few hours of release. [20] The tour broke records for a solo artist tour in Australia with over 650,000 tickets sold. 200,000 tickets were sold for shows in Melbourne breaking a record P!nk had set herself with 2009's Funhouse Tour. [21] At the 2013 Billboard Touring Awards, Pink won the award for "Top Boxscore". [22]

The first North American leg of tour grossed $28.3 million from 26 shows, [23] with an average gross per city of $1,134,385. [24] The European leg grossed $30.7 million. [25] The nine-week leg of Australia was expected to generate $100 million. [26]

In Australia, initial grosses reported topped $31.6 million ($29.2 million) from two venues in Sydney and one in Brisbane, however that total did not include the four-night stint in the city of Adelaide, and a record-breaking eighteen shows in Melbourne.

The Truth About Love Tour was the third highest-grossing tour of 2013 behind Bon Jovi, and Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour. P!nk was also the third highest grossing female touring artist of 2013, behind Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. [27]

Records

The Truth About Love Tour broke two records at the Rod Laver Arena, in Melbourne, Australia. P!nk is the artist who has performed the most shows at the venue, with a significant 18 sold-out shows on The Truth About Love Tour. This record surpassed her previous 17-show record at the venue during her 2009 Funhouse Tour. She was also the first artist to sell more than 250,000 tickets at the venue. On August 26, 2013, P!nk was rewarded a plaque backstage, a second pink pole, a star at the venue's entrance and Door 18 was painted pink.

P!nk broke Kylie Minogue's record of most concerts by a female performer at the Entertainment Centre having played twenty-six shows at the venue. Her four sold-out shows at the Allphones Arena in Sydney with more than 67,000 tickets sold, broke the record set by fellow popstar Britney Spears in 2009 with her The Circus Tour.

After playing to nearly 15,000 fans per night in Perth, P!nk now also holds the record for most performances by an artist at the RAC Arena, as well as the top four attended events at the venue. [28]

Michael Coppel, President and CEO of Live Nation Australia, thanked P!nk for spending three months on tour in this country. "Everyone at LNA has been thrilled to be involved in Pink's record breaking tour, continuing a decade-long association with an artist who continues to set new standards and who has now sold in excess of 1.5 million tickets in Australia." [29]

The pop star broke her own mark at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena with the 18th sold-out performance, having set a house record in 2009 with seventeen shows on her Funhouse tour. The combined gross of $29.2 million (US$) in Melbourne was the largest gross for any headliner at a single venue in 2013. [30]

P!nk also sold out the KFC Yum!, in the process becoming the highest-grossing female artist to play the arena to date. [31]

Development

To transport and set up the tour, there was a chartered 747 jumbo jet, nineteen semi-trailers, and eighty crew members to set up 400 tons of equipment. [32] She also opened her first pop-up store which featured things that are not normally available at her concerts. Merchandise included autographed items, backstage passes, T-shirts, key rings, show tickets, etc. [33]

Recordings

Truth About Love Tour: Live From Melbourne was released in November 2013 on DVD.

Set list

The following set list is representative of the show in Melbourne. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour. [34]

  1. "Raise Your Glass"
  2. "Walk of Shame"
  3. "Just Like a Pill"
  4. "U + Ur Hand"
  5. "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)"
  6. "Try"
  7. "Wicked Game"
  8. "Just Give Me a Reason"
  9. "Trouble"
  10. "Are We All We Are"
  11. "How Come You're Not Here"
  12. "Sober"
  13. "The Great Escape"
  14. "Who Knew"
  15. Time After Time
  16. "Fuckin' Perfect"
  17. "Most Girls" / "There You Go" / "You Make Me Sick"
  18. "Slut Like You"
  19. "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)"

Encore

  1. "So What"

Notes

Shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue
DateCityCountryVenueOpening actAttendanceRevenue
North America [38]
February 13, 2013 Phoenix United States US Airways Center The Hives 14,267 / 14,267$938,923
February 15, 2013 Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Events Center 9,511 / 9,511$1,033,984
February 16, 2013 Los Angeles Staples Center 15,562 / 15,562$1,140,275
February 18, 2013 San Jose HP Pavillon 14,187 / 14,187$1,043,587
February 21, 2013 Houston Toyota Center 13,247 / 13,646$1,067,357
February 22, 2013 Dallas American Airlines Center 15,567 / 15,567$1,154,934
February 24, 2013 Orlando Amway Center 13,414 / 13,414$965,525
February 25, 2013 Sunrise BB&T Center 13,732 / 13,732$979,399
February 27, 2013 Tampa Tampa Bay Times Forum 13,887 / 13,887$1,004,292
March 1, 2013 Atlanta Philips Arena 14,475 / 14,475$990,929
March 2, 2013 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 14,742 / 14,742$1,014,329
March 5, 2013 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 16,038 / 16,038$1,132,177
March 6, 2013 Columbus Schottenstein Center 14,841 / 14,841$985,678
March 8, 2013 Louisville KFC Yum! Center 17,686 / 17,686$1,092,401
March 9, 2013 Chicago United Center 16,609 / 16,609$1,195,791
March 11, 2013 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 16,188 / 16,188$1,296,550
March 12, 2013 Montreal Bell Centre 16,873 / 16,873$1,247,810
March 14, 2013 Washington, D.C. United States Verizon Center The Hives15,209 / 15,209$1,196,486
March 16, 2013 Charlotte Time Warner Cable Arena City and Colour 15,407 / 15,407$1,011,592
March 17, 2013 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 16,611 / 16,611$1,321,255
March 19, 2013 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center 15,818 / 15,818$1,146,010
March 22, 2013 New York City Madison Square Garden The Hives14,131 / 14,131$1,347,083
March 23, 2013 East Rutherford Izod Center 17,143 / 17,143$1,285,608
March 25, 2013 Uniondale Nassau Coliseum 13,740 / 13,740$1,066,954
March 27, 2013 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena 5,789 / 5,789$604,851
March 28, 2013 Boston TD Garden 14,766 / 14,766$1,142,061
Europe [39]
April 12, 2013 Dublin Ireland The O2 Walk the Moon 12,889 / 12,889$1,033,630
April 14, 2013 Manchester England Phones 4u Arena 35,610 / 35,610$2,320,760
April 15, 2013
April 17, 2013 Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy 17,000 / 17,000$1,203,450
April 19, 2013 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome 16,771 / 16,771$1,174,110
April 21, 2013 Birmingham England National Indoor Arena 14,947 / 14,947$975,121
April 24, 2013 London The O2 Arena Walk the Moon
Churchill
69,162 / 69,162$4,894,420
April 25, 2013
April 27, 2013
April 28, 2013
April 30, 2013 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis Churchill20,052 / 20,052$1,240,880
May 1, 2013 Hamburg Germany O2 World Hamburg 13,016 / 13,016$909,572
May 3, 2013 Berlin O2 World 14,513 / 14,513$940,673
May 4, 2013 Hanover TUI Arena 11,593 / 11,593$871,651
May 6, 2013 Düsseldorf ISS Dome 10,848 / 10,848$734,534
May 7, 2013 Frankfurt Festhalle 11,965 / 11,965$808,467
May 9, 2013 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle 14,858 / 14,858$1,146,330
May 10, 2013 Prague Czech Republic O2 Arena 17,322 / 17,322$969,882
May 12, 2013 Leipzig Germany Arena Leipzig 12,342 / 12,342$832,750
May 13, 2013 Dortmund Westfalenhalle 11,617 / 11,617$797,815
May 15, 2013 Oberhausen König-Pilsener-Arena 11,768 / 11,768$818,667
May 16, 2013 Mannheim SAP Arena 11,937 / 11,937$809,357
May 18, 2013 Munich Olympiahalle 25,855 / 25,855$1,759,650
May 19, 2013
May 21, 2013 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion 13,000 / 13,000$1,276,790
May 22, 2013 Stuttgart Germany Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle 13,196 / 13,196$941,962
May 25, 2013 Oslo Norway Telenor Arena 16,685 / 17,967$1,659,300
May 26, 2013 Stockholm Sweden Ericsson Globe 14,975 / 14,975$1,134,870
May 28, 2013 Helsinki Finland Hartwall Arena Redrama11,464 / 11,464$1,005,060
May 30, 2013 Herning Denmark Jyske Bank Boxen Wafande 15,160 / 15,160$1,396,530
Oceania [40]
June 25, 2013 Perth Australia Perth Arena The Kin58,587 / 58,587$7,287,630
June 26, 2013
June 28, 2013
June 29, 2013
July 1, 2013 Adelaide Entertainment Centre Arena 38,807 / 38,807$4,608,100
July 2, 2013
July 4, 2013
July 5, 2013
July 7, 2013 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena 235,187 / 235,187 [lower-alpha 1] $29,201,400 [lower-alpha 1]
July 8, 2013
July 10, 2013
July 11, 2013
July 13, 2013
July 14, 2013
July 16, 2013
July 17, 2013
July 19, 2013 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre 98,264 / 98,264 [lower-alpha 2] $12,037,400 [lower-alpha 2]
July 20, 2013
July 22, 2013
July 23, 2013
July 30, 2013 Sydney Sydney Entertainment Centre Youngblood Hawke 94,994 / 94,994$11,597,300
July 31, 2013
August 2, 2013
August 3, 2013
August 6, 2013
August 7, 2013
August 9, 2013
August 10, 2013
August 13, 2013MelbourneRod Laver Arena [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 1]
August 14, 2013
August 16, 2013
August 17, 2013
August 19, 2013
August 20, 2013
August 22, 2013
August 23, 2013
August 25, 2013
August 26, 2013
August 29, 2013BrisbaneBrisbane Entertainment CentreThe Preatures [lower-alpha 2] [lower-alpha 2]
August 30, 2013
September 1, 2013Sydney Allphones Arena 67,978 / 67,978$7,986,170
September 2, 2013
September 4, 2013
September 5, 2013
September 7, 2013 [lower-alpha 3] BrisbaneBrisbane Entertainment Centre Spiderbait [lower-alpha 2] [lower-alpha 2]
September 8, 2013
North America [41]
October 10, 2013 Oakland United States Oracle Arena New Politics 14,048 / 14,048$1,267,176
October 12, 2013Los AngelesStaples Center28,124 / 28,124$2,887,773
October 13, 2013
October 15, 2013San JoseSAP Center13,834 / 13,834$1,220,902
October 20, 2013 Seattle KeyArena 12,740 / 12,740$1,135,382
October 21, 2013 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena 15,117 / 15,117$1,394,480
November 5, 2013ChicagoUnited StatesUnited Center15,583 / 15,583$1,424,149
November 6, 2013Auburn HillsThe Palace of Auburn HillsThe Kin13,867 / 13,867$1,262,846
November 8, 2013 Des Moines Wells Fargo Arena 13,894 / 13,894$1,103,865
November 9, 2013 Lincoln Pinnacle Bank Arena 13,883 / 13,883$1,123,050
November 11, 2013 St. Louis Scottrade Center 15,422 / 15,422$1,220,713
November 12, 2013 Kansas City Sprint Center 13,263 / 13,263$1,122,833
November 14, 2013 San Antonio AT&T Center 13,423 / 13,423$1,122,919
November 16, 2013DallasAmerican Airlines Center14,060 / 14,060$1,387,539
November 17, 2013 North Little Rock Verizon Arena 11,852 / 13,668$942,167
November 20, 2013 Rosemont Allstate Arena 13,786 / 13,786$1,293,348
November 21, 2013 Indianapolis Bankers Life Fieldhouse 13,647 / 13,647$1,253,393
November 23, 2013 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena 15,957 / 15,957$1,375,003
November 24, 2013Washington, D.C.Verizon Center15,010 / 15,010$1,473,553
November 30, 2013TorontoCanadaAir Canada CentreThe Hives32,965 / 32,965$2,716,310
December 2, 2013
December 3, 2013MontrealBell Centre13,397 / 13,397$1,214,170
December 5, 2013BostonUnited StatesTD Garden14,306 / 14,306$1,418,435
December 6, 2013PhiladelphiaWells Fargo Center15,822 / 15,822$1,595,912
December 8, 2013 Brooklyn Barclays Center 28,916 / 28,916$2,592,472
December 9, 2013
December 11, 2013 Newark Prudential Center 14,031 / 14,031$1,270,066
December 13, 2013 Birmingham BJCC Arena 10,096 / 11,241$808,287
December 14, 2013AtlantaPhilips Arena14,683 / 14,683$1,316,729
January 7, 2014 [lower-alpha 4] Minneapolis Target Center New Politics14,733 / 14,733$1,361,547
January 9, 2014 [lower-alpha 5] Milwaukee BMO Harris Bradley Center 14,663 / 14,663$1,168,427
January 11, 2014 [lower-alpha 6] Fargo Fargodome The Kin21,879 / 21,879$1,613,670
January 14, 2014 [lower-alpha 7] Winnipeg Canada MTS Centre 13,034 / 13,034$966,983
January 15, 2014 [lower-alpha 8] Saskatoon Credit Union Centre 13,878 / 13,878$904,023
January 16, 2014 [lower-alpha 9] Edmonton Rexall Place 14,632 / 14,632$953,347
January 19, 2014 [lower-alpha 10] Denver United States Pepsi Center 13,518 / 13,518$1,324,394
January 20, 2014 [lower-alpha 11] Salt Lake City EnergySolutions Arena 15,738 / 15,738$1,182,944
January 29, 2014 Anaheim Honda Center 13,741 / 13,741$1,260,064
January 30, 2014 Fresno Save Mart Center 12,443 / 12,443$975,412
January 31, 2014Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena 13,064 / 13,064$1,502,659
TOTAL1,997,614 / 2,002,256 (99.8%)$184,061,847

Cancelled shows

DateCityCountryVenueReason for cancellation
April 22, 2013 Birmingham England Arena Birmingham Sickness [43]


Personnel

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 The score data is combined from the shows held at the Rod Laver Arena from July 7–17 and August 13–26, 2013, respectively.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 The score data is combined from the shows held at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre from July 19–23, August 29–30 and September 7–8, 2013, respectively.
  3. The September 7, 2013 show at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane was originally scheduled to take place on August 27, 2013.
  4. The January 7, 2014 show at Target Center in Minneapolis was originally scheduled to take place on November 2, 2013. [42]
  5. The January 9, 2014 show at BMO Harris Bradley Center in Milwaukee was originally scheduled to take place on November 3, 2013. [42]
  6. The January 11, 2014 show at the Fargodome was originally scheduled to take place on October 27, 2013. [42]
  7. The January 14, 2014 show at MTS Centre in Winnipeg was originally scheduled to take place on October 26, 2013. [42]
  8. The January 15, 2014 show at Credit Union Centre in Saskatoon was originally scheduled to take place on October 24, 2013. [42]
  9. The January 16, 2014 show at Rexall Place in Edmonton was originally scheduled to take place on October 23, 2013. [42]
  10. The January 19, 2014 show at Pepsi Center in Denver was originally scheduled to take place on October 18, 2013. [42]
  11. The January 20, 2014 show at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City was originally scheduled to take place on October 17, 2013. [42]

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The Doll Domination Tour was the second and final concert tour by American girl group The Pussycat Dolls. It was launched in support of their second studio album, Doll Domination (2008). The tour was announced in October 2008 with dates in Europe and Oceania revealed in the following month, the tour contained six legs and 50 shows. It began in Aberdeen, Scotland on January 18, 2009, and concluded in Beirut, Lebanon on July 31, 2009. In-between the first two legs, the group supported the first leg of The Circus Starring Britney Spears in North America. The setlist for the concerts included songs from PCD (2005) and Doll Domination as well a cover of Shirley Bassey's Big Spender. Nineteen shows were submitted to Billboard's boxscore grossing $14.3 million, with 231,711 fans attending the performances.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Funhouse Tour</span> 2009 concert tour by Pink

The Funhouse Tour was the fourth concert tour by American singer-songwriter Pink. The tour supported her fifth studio album, Funhouse (2008). The tour visited Europe, Australia and North America. According to Pollstar, the Funhouse Tour (2009) earned more than $100 million with more than 1.5 million in attendance. The Australian leg of the tour broke the record for the biggest tour in the history of the country. The Australian shows were attended by 660,000 people and grossed over $55 million.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nothing but Love World Tour</span> 2009–10 concert tour by Whitney Houston

The Nothing but Love World Tour was the ninth and final concert tour by American recording artist Whitney Houston. It was her first major tour in almost a decade and was used to promote her seventh studio album I Look to You released in 2009.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Blow Me (One Last Kiss)</span> 2012 single by Pink

"Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" is a song by American singer-songwriter Pink from her sixth studio album, The Truth About Love (2012). Pink wrote the song with its producer Greg Kurstin. The song was released as the lead single from the album on July 2, 2012, by RCA Records, shortly after a demo version leaked on to the internet. It is an uptempo electropop song with synthesizers, keyboards, and bass drums as part of the instrumentation. Lyrically, it finds Pink reflecting on past relationships and life situations.

<i>The Truth About Love</i> (Pink album) 2012 studio album by Pink

The Truth About Love is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Pink. It was released on September 14, 2012, through RCA Records. After giving birth to her first child in 2011, Pink started working on the album with longtime collaborator Billy Mann. With hopes of becoming more involved in the production of the album, she also reunited with Greg Kurstin and Butch Walker. Recording sessions took place between January and May 2012. The Truth About Love is primarily a pop record and includes elements of electropop, dance-pop, and rock music. Its lyrics explore themes of love, monogamy, and sexuality, as evidenced by the album title. The songs on the album express various perspectives towards romance and delve into the realities of long-term relationships. It features guest appearances by Eminem, Lily Allen, and Nate Ruess.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Prismatic World Tour</span> 2014–2015 concert tour by Katy Perry

The PrismaticWorld Tour was the third concert tour by American singer Katy Perry, in support of her fourth studio album, Prism (2013). The tour began on May 7, 2014, at Belfast, Northern Ireland's Odyssey Arena and ended on October 18, 2015, at Alajuela, Costa Rica's Parque Viva after six legs. The Prismatic World Tour grossed more than $204.3 million from 149 shows, with a total tour attendance of 1,984,503 between 2014 and 2015; the tour is Perry's most successful, to-date.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kiss Me Once Tour</span> 2014–15 concert tour by Kylie Minogue

The Kiss Me Once Tour was the fourteenth concert tour by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. It was launched in support of her twelfth studio album, Kiss Me Once (2014) and visited Europe, Australia and Middle East. Rumours of plans to tour arose as early as July 2013, after Minogue signed to Roc Nation. The tour was officially announced in March 2014, with the first European dates revealed. Australian dates were announced in June of the same year. The staging, inspired by Bauhaus architecture and club settings, was considered less elaborate and more simple than her previous tours and featured a runway, a B-stage and a series of structural beams. Costumes for the tour were created by fashion designers Jean Paul Gaultier, Julien Macdonald, William Wilde, Marchesa and Dolce & Gabbana. Effects were provided by ER Productions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adele Live 2016</span> 2016–17 concert tour by Adele

Adele Live 2016 was the third concert tour by English singer-songwriter Adele in support of her third studio album, 25. It began on 29 February 2016, in Belfast, Northern Ireland at the SSE Arena, continued throughout Western Europe, North America and Oceania. It was originally scheduled to conclude on 2 July 2017, in London, England, at Wembley Stadium, however on 30 June Adele announced via social media that she had regretfully cancelled her final two performances upon medical advice due to vocal injuries.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beautiful Trauma World Tour</span> 2018–19 concert tour by Pink

The Beautiful Trauma World Tour was the seventh concert tour by American singer Pink, in support of her seventh studio album, Beautiful Trauma (2017) and her eighth studio album Hurts 2B Human (2019) for the 2019 shows. The tour began in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 1, 2018, at the Talking Stick Resort Arena, and concluded on November 2, 2019, in Austin, Texas, at the Circuit of the Americas. It became the second-highest-grossing tour of all time by a female solo artist, the highest-grossing tour of the 2010s by a female artist, and the tenth-highest-grossing tour of all time, earning $397.3 million and selling over 3 million tickets.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Summer Carnival (tour)</span> 2023–2024 concert and festival tour by Pink

The Summer Carnival is the ongoing eighth concert tour by American singer Pink. The tour began on June 7, 2023, at the University of Bolton Stadium in Bolton, England and will finish at the LoanDepot Park on November 23, 2024, in Miami, United States. It is in support of her ninth studio album Trustfall (2023). The tour includes appearances at three major European music festivals: Pinkpop Festival, Werchter Boutique and BST Hyde Park.

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