Green Day announces global 2024 stadium tour
Green Day have announced a global stadium tour for 2024 to mark the anniversaries of their iconic albums American Idiot and Dookie.
The Saviors Tour comprises 34 dates in North America and Europe, including a number of festivals.
The outing will kick off in Europe on 30 May 2024 at O Son do Camino festival in Spain before visiting France, Germany, Italy and the UK, where the band will play a show at the 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium on 29 June.
The European leg includes festival appearances at Road to Rio Babel (Spain), Rock im Park/am Ring (Germany), I Days (Italy) and Isle of Wight (UK).
Nothing But Thieves, The Hives, Donots, The Interrupters and Maid of Ace will support Green Day in the UK/EU.
‘A career-spanning celebration of one of the biggest musical acts of all time and some of the most important albums in history’
The North American run begins shortly after on 29 July at Nationals Park in Washington, DC and makes 27 stops across North America in cities such as Toronto, ON; New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Los Angeles, CA; Phoenix, AZ; San Francisco, CA and many more before wrapping up in San Diego, CA at Petco Park (cap. 42,445) on 28 September.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, and The Linda Lindas will support Green Day on the North America leg, produced by Live Nation.
The Saviors Tour is being touted as a ‘career-spanning celebration of one of the biggest musical acts of all time and some of the most important albums in history’.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Green Day’s 1994 certified Diamond album, Dookie, and the 20th anniversary of 2004’s juggernaut, American Idiot. The US band will also perform tracks from their newly announced album, Saviors.
Green Day, booked by CAA worldwide and managed by Crush Music, are one of the most successful rock bands of the 21st century, grossing more than $200 million from 371 headline shows reported to the Pollstar Boxoffice since June 2000.
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Iron Maiden announce 2024 The Future Past Tour
Iron Maiden have announced a slew of North and South American tour dates for 2024 after playing to more than 750,000 fans around the world this summer.
The Future Past Tour includes songs from the metal band’s most recent studio album Senjutsu, as well as 1986’s Somewhere In Time, alongside other fan favourites.
Maiden played over 30 sold-out shows across Europe over the summer, and also performed in Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver alongside their appearance at California’s Power Trip Festival in October.
“The energy has been incredible and we can’t wait to continue bringing this amazing and innovative show to fans around the world”
“The Future Past Tour is one of the most exciting tours we’ve ever done and to be performing both brand new material and songs that haven’t been played for many years with a mix of fan favourites has been a great experience for both the fans and the band,” says manager Rod Smallwood. “The energy has been incredible and we can’t wait to continue bringing this amazing and innovative show to fans around the world next year.”
The North American tour leg, produced by Live Nation, will launch in San Diego, California on 4 October 2024 and is due to conclude in San Antonio, Texas on 17 November. It will then head to South America for a show at Chile’s National Stadium in Santiago on 27 November.
The full list of shows is as follows:
OCTOBER 2024
Fri 4th: North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre, SAN DIEGO, CA
Sat 5th: Michelob ULTRA Arena, LAS VEGAS, NV
Tues 8th: Kia Forum, LOS ANGELES, CA
Sat 12th: Aftershock Festival, SACRAMENTO, CA
Mon 14th: MODA Center, PORTLAND, OR
Weds 16th: Tacoma Dome, TACOMA, WA
Fri 18th: Delta Center, SALT LAKE CITY, UT
Sat 19th: Ball Arena, DENVER, CO
Tues 22nd: Xcel Energy Center, ST PAUL, MN
Thurs 24th: Allstate Arena, ROSEMONT, IL
Sat 26th: Scotiabank Arena, TORONTO, ON
Sun 27th: Videotron Centre, QUEBEC, QC
Weds 30th: Centre Bell, MONTREAL, QC
NOVEMBER 2024
Fri 1st: Wells Fargo Center, PHILADELPHIA, PA
Sat 2nd: Barclays Center, BROOKLYN, NY
Weds 6th: DCU Center, WORCESTER, MA
Fri 8th: PPG Paints Arena, PITTSBURGH, PA
Sat 9th: Prudential Center, NEWARK, NJ
Tues 12th: CFG Bank Arena, BALTIMORE, MD
Weds 13th: Spectrum Center, CHARLOTTE, NC
Sat 16th: Dickies Arena, FORT WORTH, TX
Sun 17th: Frost Bank Center, SAN ANTONIO, TX
Weds 27th: Estadio Nacional, Santiago, CHILE
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Christine and the Queens cancels 2023 dates
Christine and the Queens, also known as Redcar, has cancelled all remaining tour dates for 2023 due to illness.
“Red was taken ill today [16 October] and on advice of doctors forced to make the difficult decision to cancel all remaining tour dates for 2023,” reads a post on Christine and the Queens’ official Instagram account. “It’s not yet known what illness forced the cancellation.”
The French singer was scheduled to perform seven more shows in North America before wrapping the leg on 26 October.
“It’s not yet known what illness forced the cancellation”
Following that, Christine and the Queens was slated to perform a string of shows throughout Europe, including in Belgium and the Netherlands, with a final date scheduled for Paris’ L’Olympia on 27 November.
According to the singer’s statement, full refunds for all dates of the cancelled tour are available at the point of purchase.
The tour was in support of the French singer-songwriter’s most recent album ‘PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE’, which arrived in June of this year and featured the likes of Madonna, 070 Shake and Mike Dean.
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Olivia Rodrigo announces NA/Europe 2024 arena tour
Three-time Grammy Award-winner Olivia Rodrigo is set to embark on a North American and European tour next year in support of her sophomore album, GUTS.
The Live Nation-promoted, 57-date tour is set to traverse the US, Canada, and Europe. The singer-songwriter released her second album GUTS on 8 September.
The album’s support tour begins next February at Acrisure Arena (11,680) in Palm Springs, California. The initial North American leg will span the US and Canada, making stops at Austin’s Moody Center (15,000), Chicago’s United Center (23,500), and Montreal’s Bell Centre (21,000) before closing the first US leg with two nights at New York City’s Madison Square Garden (19,500) in April.
The European leg will kick off in April 2024, starting at Dublin’s 3Arena (8,000), with two nights at London’s O2 Arena (20,000) and stops in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Barcelona, and Manchester’s new Co-op Live (23,500).
The 20-year-old will return to North America following the European leg, playing across Washington DC, Atlanta, Kansas City, and Vancouver before closing with two nights at LA’s Kia Forum (17,505).
The Breeders, PinkPantheress, Chappell Roan, and Remi Wolf are set as support acts, playing select dates across the seven-month tour.
A portion of ticket sale proceeds will go to Rodrigo’s newly announced Fund 4 Good, a global initiative to support women and girls through “direct support of community-based non-profits that champion girls’ education, support reproductive rights and prevent gender-based violence”.
In support of the initiative, Rodrigo will introduce US$20 Silver Star Tickets to increase affordability and access to the tour. Sold in pairs and limited to two per customer, the seats will be randomly allocated.
Her debut outing, the SOUR tour, took Rodrigo across North America and Europe as she played 49 shows during the summer of 2022. She played venues including NYC’s Radio City Music Hall (5,960-cap) and London’s Eventim Apollo (5,300).
GUTS WORLD TOUR 2024 DATES:
Fri Feb 23 – Palm Springs, CA – Acrisure Arena ~
Sat Feb 24 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center ~
Tue Feb 27 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center ~
Wed Feb 28 – Austin, TX – Moody Center ~
Fri Mar 01 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center ~
Sat Mar 02 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center ~
Tue Mar 05 – Orlando, FL – Amway Center ~
Wed Mar 06 – Miami, FL – Kaseya Center ~
Fri Mar 08 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center ~
Sat Mar 09 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena ~
Tue Mar 12 – St. Louis, MO – Enterprise Center ~
Wed Mar 13 – Omaha, NE – CHI Health Center ~
Fri Mar 15 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center ~
Sat Mar 16 – Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum ~
Tue Mar 19 – Chicago, IL – United Center ~
Fri Mar 22 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena ~
Sat Mar 23 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena ~
Tue Mar 26 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre ~
Fri Mar 29 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena ~
Mon Apr 01 – Boston, MA – TD Garden ~
Fri Apr 05 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden +
Sat Apr 06 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden +
Tue Apr 30 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Arena =
Fri May 03 – Manchester, UK – Co-op Live =
Tue May 07 – Glasgow, Scotland – OVO Hydro =
Fri May 10 – Birmingham, UK – Utilita Arena =
Tue May 14 – London, UK – The O2 =
Wed May 15 – London, UK – The O2 =
Wed May 22 – Antwerp, Belgium – Sportpaleis =
Fri May 24 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome =
Tue May 28 – Oslo, Norway – Spektrum =
Thu May 30 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena =
Sat Jun 01 – Berlin, Germany – Mercedes-Benz Arena =
Tue Jun 04 – Hamburg, Germany – Barclays Arena =
Wed Jun 05 – Frankfurt, Germany – Festhalle =
Fri Jun 07 – Munich, Germany – Olympiahalle =
Sun Jun 09 – Bologna, Italy – Unipol Arena =
Tue Jun 11 – Zurich, Switzerland – Hallenstadion =
Wed Jun 12 – Cologne, Germany – Lanxess Arena =
Fri Jun 14 – Paris, France – Accor Arena =
Tue Jun 18 – Barcelona, Spain – Palau Sant Jordi =
Thu Jun 20 – Madrid, Spain – WizInk Center =
Sat Jun 22 – Lisbon, Portugal – Altice Arena =
Fri Jul 19 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center ^
Sat Jul 20 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena ^
Tue Jul 23 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena ^
Wed Jul 24 – Lexington, KY – Rupp Arena ^
Fri Jul 26 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center ^
Sat Jul 27 – Oklahoma City, OK – Paycom Center ^
Tue Jul 30 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena ^
Wed Jul 31 – Salt Lake City, UT – Delta Center ^
Fri Aug 02 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center ^
Tue Aug 06 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena ^
Fri Aug 09 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena ^
Sat Aug 10 – Portland, OR – Moda Center ^
Tue Aug 13 – Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum +
Wed Aug 14 – Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum +
Support Key
+ The Breeders
^ PinkPantheress
~ Chappell Roan
= Remi Wolf
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P!nk grosses $350m with Summer Carnival Tour
P!nk has grossed US$350 million and sold nearly three million tickets on her blockbuster Summer Carnival Stadium Tour.
The outing, which is still underway, spans 64 dates in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.
“P!NK is a once-in-a-lifetime artist – her stage presence, dedication, and ability to captivate audiences is unparalleled,” says Brad Wavra, SVP, Live Nation Touring. “The incredible success of this record-breaking stadium tour shows her global impact, which only continues to grow.”
The tour kicked off on 7 June in Bolton, UK, going on to gross $125m and sell one million tickets on the European leg.
Stops included two concerts at BST Hyde Park in London, two at La Défense Arena (cap. 40,000) in France and two at Olympiastadion (74,475) in Germany.
European promoters involved in promoting the tour include Marshall Arts, AEG Presents/BST Hyde Park, Paris La Defense Arena, Live Nation/Werchter Boutique, Mojo, Peter Reiger Konzertagentur, Barracuda Music and Live Nation Poland.
The Summer Carnival is currently making its way through North America, with $150 million grossed and nearly one million tickets sold in the territory.
“P!NK is a once-in-a-lifetime artist – her stage presence, dedication, and ability to captivate audiences is unparalleled”
The Australia/New Zealand leg of the tour, which sold out in minutes, will commence in February 2024 and run until late March. More than 800,000 tickets have already been sold and AU$150 million grossed, becoming the country’s biggest-selling run ever by a female artist.
The 44-year-old has also become the highest-selling artist in Australia with over 3,000,000 tickets sold in the country throughout her career.
“It’s been the thrill of a lifetime to promote P!NK’s six Australian tours since 2004, and the twentieth anniversary of that association will see P!NK surpass three million tickets sold in Australia and New Zealand,” says Michael Coppel, Chairman of Live Nation Australasia.
P!nk’s longtime manager, Roger Davies, comments: “Alecia (P!NK) and I started working together over two decades ago. One of our goals was to make her an amazing international live act. Starting in little clubs and pubs, we travelled the world performing everywhere we could. Over the years, she’s just gotten better and better.
“Twenty-two years later, it makes me so proud to see her selling out stadiums around the world. She’s so comfortable on stage performing in front of tens of thousands of fans, always singing live and captivating audiences with her theatrical productions, continuing to push creative boundaries. She never ceases to amaze me! She has become a global superstar.”
Marshall Arts represents P!nk worldwide excluding North America, Australia & New Zealand.
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Taylor Swift to bring Eras Tour film to cinemas
Taylor Swift will bring her blockbuster Eras Tour to the big screen this autumn.
The concert film will open at cinemas in the US, Canada and Mexico on 13 October, where fans will be able to watch the pop star’s history-making live tour.
Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour will be available to watch at every AMC cinema in the US – with at least four showings per day on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays – and some Cinemark and Regal branches. Many of AMC’s IMAX and Dolby cinemas will also be screening the film in high definition.
“The Eras Tour has been the most meaningful, electric experience of my life so far and I’m overjoyed to tell you that it’ll be coming to the big screen soon,” Swift posted on her social media, alongside a trailer (see below) for the film. “Eras attire, friendship bracelets, singing and dancing encouraged…”
As previously reported on IQ, The Eras Tour is on target to become the first concert tour in history to gross more than US$1 billion.
It was comfortably the highest-grossing tour of H1 2023, generating $300.8m in revenue from its first 22 nights on total ticket sales of 1,186,314 and an average ticket price of $253.56.
“The Eras Tour has been the most meaningful, electric experience of my life so far”
The run currently amounts to 117 shows up to August 2024, with the potential for further dates to be added.
Swift isn’t the only artist to capitalise on a successful live tour with a concert film. K-pop stars BTS have enjoyed a record-breaking reign at the box office, having screened several of their tours in cinemas worldwide.
The band’s latest release, which documented their BTS Yet to Come in Busan concert, grossed more than $53 million. The film, titled BTS: Yet To Come in Cinemas, was screened in more than 5,817 cinemas across 128 countries.
Elsewhere, Coldplay last year screened their concert at Buenos Aires’ River Plate Stadium on the Music Of The Spheres World Tour in thousands of cinemas across more than 70 countries.
More recently, Machine Gun Kelly took his 2022 Mainstream Sellout Tour to cinemas worldwide, for one night only.
The film, titled Machine Gun Kelly: Mainstream Sellout Live from Cleveland: The Pink Era, recapped the star’s sold-out hometown concert at the FirstEnergy Stadium (cap. 50,000) in Cleveland, Ohio, and gave fans a behind-the-scenes peek at the whole tour.
French pop-rock band Indochine, classical superstar André Rieu and the Eurovision Song Contest have also been given the cinema treatment.
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Beyoncé tops box office for highest-grossing month
Beyoncé has posted the highest-grossing month of any touring artist since the Billboard Boxscore launched in the mid-1980s.
The star grossed $127.6 million in July for 11 shows on the North American leg of her Renaissance World Tour, with more than half a million tickets sold.
With the new Boxscore figures, Beyoncé knocks Bad Bunny and his 123.6m gross in September 2022 off the top spot.
Highlights from the past month on the Renaissance World Tour include two nights at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium ($33.1m), a night at Chicago’s Soldier Field ($30.1m) and two shows at Toronto’s Roger’s Centre ($18.3m).
Up until 1 August, The Renaissance World Tour has grossed $295.8m and has been crowned as the singer’s highest-grossing tour to date long before its conclusion.
This isn’t the first time Beyoncé has set a Boxscore record with the Renaissance World Tour; her five-show run at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium grossed $42.2m was the highest-grossing engagement ever by a woman, a Black artist, or any American artist.
With two months of shows yet to be reported, Billboard expects the total to soar past the half-billion mark
With two months of Renaissance World Tour shows yet to be reported, Billboard expects the total to soar past the half-billion mark.
The 41-year-old conquered Europe with a $150-million run but has made almost as much ($141.4 million) in North America with far fewer shows.
Her 12 North American dates have averaged $11.8 million, which is more than double the business that Beyoncé was doing in the territory on 2016’s The Formation World Tour and 2018’s On the Run II Tour with Jay-Z.
The CAA-booked tour is due to wrap up in Kansas City at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on 1 October.
Fans of the singer were recently given the chance to buy “listening only” tickets for select US tour dates. The US$157 passes offered admission for seats behind the stage, with no view of the show.
The “limited view” tickets – which are usually sold to visually impaired people at a reduced price – were first made available for the 41-year-old’s 29-30 July concerts at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium.
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Madonna confirms rearranged North America tour
The North American leg of Madonna’s Celebration Tour has been rescheduled and will now take place immediately following the originally announced UK and Europe dates.
The pop icon, who turns 65 today, was forced to postpone her 40-plus date run in the US, Canada and Mexico earlier this year after being hospitalised with a serious bacterial infection.
Announced in January, the tour was extended multiple times after selling out 36 shows and shifting over 600,000 tickets. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of her breakout single Holiday, the singer is due to perform music spanning her entire career, from 1983’s self-titled debut album to 2019’s Madame X in her first tour since 2020.
The global outing was originally due to start in Vancouver in July, but will now begin at The O2 in London on 14 October, followed by shows across Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
“Madonna regrets the inconvenience to fans and hopes to make it up to those markets in the future”
The North American leg will kick off on 13 December at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Tickets for the previously scheduled shows will be honoured on the new dates, except Los Angeles and one date in New York due to a venue change. Due to scheduling conflicts, concerts in Tulsa, Nashville, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Phoenix have been cancelled.
“Madonna regrets the inconvenience to fans and hopes to make it up to those markets in the future,” says promoter Live Nation.
In New York, fans holding tickets to the previously scheduled Madison Square Garden concert on 27 August will have an exclusive opportunity to purchase tickets to the newly added Barclays Center performance on Saturday 16 December. In Los Angeles, fans holding tickets to the shows previously scheduled at Crypto.com Arena and Kia Forum will also have an opportunity to purchase tickets to the new Kia Forum dates prior to the public onsale.
Tickets for the original shows will be automatically refunded to the original purchaser, with Ticketmaster providing all affected fans with a dedicated link and a unique code based on the quality of their previous seat locations to purchase tickets to the new dates.
The tour is currently slated to wrap up with two nights in Mexico City at Palacio De Los Deportes from 20-21 April 2024.
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SM Entertainment and Kakao integrate in N.America
K-pop giant SM Entertainment and its biggest stakeholder Kakao Entertainment are launching an integrated division in North America.
The division will combine SM’s global intellectual property and production capabilities with Kakao’s music distribution network and multi-label system, “with the goal of firmly establishing itself as a global K-pop key player”.
The aim is to promote artists from both companies, including Kakao-owned Starship Entertainment’s girl group IVE, as well as SM’s girl group Aespa and boy band NCT.
“We will accelerate the global advancement and growth of Kakao Entertainment and SM Entertainment’s artists”
“Through the North American integrated corporation, we will accelerate the global advancement and growth of Kakao Entertainment and SM Entertainment’s artists, and based on this, we will expand the growth potential of Kakao Entertainment’s music business, which encompasses planning, production, and distribution of music and artist IP, to the global market,” says Kakao Entertainment America CEO Jang Yoon-jung.
Jang Yoon-jung will lead the new North American company. He will be in charge of Kakao’s global strategy officer and SM’s chief business officer.
Earlier this year Kakao became the largest shareholder in SM Entertainment after a months-long corporate battle against SM rival HYBE to take control of the K-Pop agency.
HYBE, the South Korean music agency behind BTS and Ariana Grande, is also looking to expand in the US to secure a global foothold. It was reported in June that the Seoul-based company is looking to raise around 500 billion Korean won (approx USD $380m).
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The Cure’s low ticket prices pay off in spades
The Cure has achieved the highest-grossing tour of their career, despite keeping ticket prices intentionally low.
The legendary British band said they wanted their North America tour “to be affordable for all fans and we have a very wide (and we think very fair) range of pricing at every show”.
The average ticket price for concerts on the Lost World Tour was $68.54 — 37% less than the average ticket price for the year’s other top tours, according to Billboard.
The 30-date tour sold 547,000 tickets for a gross of $37.5 million
The 30-date tour sold 547,000 tickets for a gross of $37.5 million. Both numbers are new career bests: the band’s previous high-water mark for tickets sold in the US was 402,000 in 1992, while they more than doubled the gross revenue of their 2016 jaunt ($18 million).
As part of the on-sale process for the tour, the band opted out of Ticketmaster’s “platinum” and “dynamically priced” ticket options, and restricted ticket transfers in markets where he was legally allowed to do so.
Frontman Robert Smith also compelled Ticketmaster to offer partial refunds for “unduly high” transaction fees.
According to the singer, the band ultimately cancelled 7,000 concert tickets listed on secondary resale websites, which were resold to fans and the original fees were donated to the charity Amnesty International.
Revisit IQ’s in-depth feature on The Cure’s biggest-ever European tour here.
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