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The Formation World Tour
Tour by Beyoncé
Promotional poster for the tour
Associated albumLemonade
Start dateApril 27, 2016 (2016-04-27)
End dateAugust 3, 2016 (2016-08-03)
Legs2
No. of shows
  • 24 in North America
  • 17 in Europe
  • 41 total
Beyoncé concert chronology

The Formation World Tour[1] is the seventh concert tour by American singer Beyoncé in support of her sixth studio album, Lemonade. The all-stadium tour was announced following her guest appearance at the Super Bowl 50 halftime show. The tour started April 27 in Miami, Florida and concludes in Barcelona, Spain.[2] The tour's title is in reference to Beyoncé's 2016 song "Formation."

Background

The tour was announced following Beyoncé's guest appearance at the Super Bowl 50 halftime show.

On February 6, 2016, Beyoncé released "Formation" for free on the music streaming service TIDAL and its accompanying music video on her official YouTube.[3] The following day on February 7, 2016, Beyoncé performed "Formation" during her guest appearance at the Super Bowl 50 halftime show.[4] Immediately after the performance, a commercial aired announcing The Formation World Tour, which kicks off in Miami on April 27, with the first pre-sales going on sale just two days after the announcement on February 9, 2016.[5]

Leading up to the tour announcement, Beyoncé was praised and criticized over her new song and Black Panther-influenced costume for the Super Bowl halftime performance. As a result of this, the hashtags "#BoycottBeyonce" and "#IStandWithBeyonce" begun trending on social media platforms such as Twitter. A group of protesters also planned to stage an "anti-Beyoncé" rally outside of the NFL's headquarters in New York City on the day general sale of tickets went for sale.[6] However, the planned rally was met with zero protesters and instead dozens of Beyoncé supporters who held a counter-protest.[7]

The tour's associated album Lemonade was released four days prior to the start of the tour.

Development

In a press release by Live Nation Entertainment following the tours announcement, it was revealed that The Formation World Tour would be supporting local United Way of America programs, as well as the Flint water crisis. In the same press release, Beyoncé's partnership with THX was announced, with the purpose of providing the highest level of audio quality at concerts for the duration of the tour.[8] Following on from the aforementioned controversy over "Formation", The Miami Fraternal Order of Police were reported to be pushing for a national boycott of police officers working the security for the concert, ahead of the tour's opening night in Miami.[9] Other police departments reportedly pushing to avoid the concert included Tampa, Nashville and Tennessee, however a Tampa police spokesperson stated that these 'boycotts' had been blown "way out of proportion".[10]

Rehearsals for the tour took place at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium, which was rented by Live Nation for $745,000. TSA board member Thomas Scott spoke on the large-scale production of the tour after seeing the stage during rehearsals, stating "that's one of the largest stages they ever put up, I don't think I've seen a stage that size". During the same rehearsal period, members of Beyoncé's team met with more than 20 Tampa leaders, including the Tampa Police Chief, for a private luncheon in Ybor City, in which they discussed ways to make Tampa a better city, resulting in Beyoncé making multiple financial pledges to certain initiatives.[11]

Commercial performance

Following the announcement of the tour, Beyoncé's website temporarily crashed, as a result of the post-Super Bowl advertisement.[12] After the first round of North American ticket pre-sales, a second show at New York City's Citi Field was added to the itinerary, due to the high demand.[13] During the first round of the European general sale, Beyoncé's performance at Amsterdam ArenA sold out within 20 minutes, prompting a waiting list to be opened and promoters attempting to organise a second show.[14] Some Swedish fans were left unhappy due to the speed tickets sold out for the Friends Arena date of the tour, with complaints being made about the queueing system implemented by Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster apologised and stated "unfortunately, there were more who wanted tickets than what was available."[15] The UK shows were met with huge commercial success, with all tickets being sold in under 30 minutes, including 90,000 tickets at London's Wembley Stadium. Many fans shared their displeasure online with not being able to secure tickets, and, as is usual with in-demand concert tours, many tickets found their way onto the secondary market place with a large markup on the original price.[16] As a result of this, a second London show was added to the schedule, set for July 3, 2016.[17] After the first round of dates for the North American general sale opened to the public, an additional show was added at Chicago's Soldier Field, due to the "overwhelming demand".[18] Jesse Lawrence of Forbes reported that on the secondary market, tickets for The Formation World Tour were averaging at $432 before the tickets hit the general public.[19]

On February 17, 2016, Live Nation gave a press release announcing that nearly 1 million tickets had already been sold for the tour in 48 hours, including sell-outs in Miami, Arlington, Pasadena, Toronto, Chicago, Foxborough, Philadelphia, New York City, Baltimore, Sunderland, London, Manchester, Dublin, Amsterdam and Stockholm.[20] Chairman of Live Nation Global Touring Arthur Fogel confirmed in an article with Billboard that The Formation World Tour had already exceeded $100 million in gross revenue, as well as stating that Nashville's Nissan Stadium date of the tour, which had gone on sale the day of the article, had already sold 33,000 tickets and grossed $4 million.[21]

Setlist

This set list is representative of the first performance in Miami, Florida. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

Intro

  2. "Formation"
  4. "Sorry"
  6. "Bow Down" / "Run the World (Girls)" (Contains Elements of "Tom Ford")

Interlude (Contains samples of "Superpower")

  2. "Mine" / "Baby Boy"
  4. "Hold Up"
  6. "Countdown"
  8. "Me, Myself & I"
  10. "Runnin' (Lose It All)"
  12. "All Night"

Interlude (Contains samples of "I Care", "Ghost", "6 Inch", "Don't Hurt Yourself")

  2. "Don't Hurt Yourself"
  4. "Ring the Alarm" (Contains samples of "Five to One", "Lost Yo Mind", "I Been On", "Independent Women", "Naughty Girl")
  6. "Diva" (Contains samples of " U Mad", "Cut It")
  8. "***Flawless (Remix)" / "Feeling Myself" / "Yoncé"

"7/11" (Interlude)

  2. "7/11"
  4. "Drunk in Love" (Contains samples of "Swimming Pools (Drank)")
  6. "Rocket"

Interlude (Contains samples of "Hip Hop Star", "Freakum Dress")

  2. "Daddy Lessons"
  4. "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)"

"Purple Rain" (Prince tribute) (Interlude)

  2. "Crazy in Love" (2014 Remix) / "Crazy in Love" (Contains samples of "Bootylicious")
  4. "Naughty Girl"
  6. "Party" (Contains samples of "Party and Bullshit")
  8. "Blow" (Contains samples of "Nasty Girl")
  10. "Sweet Dreams" / "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"

"Die With You" (Interlude)

  2. "Freedom"
  4. "Survivor" / "End of Time" / "Grown Woman"
  6. "Halo"

"Schoolin' Life" (Outro)

Special guests

Shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, amount of available tickets, and gross revenue
Date City Country Venue Opening act Attendance Revenue
North America[1][23]
April 27, 2016 Miami United States Marlins Park DJ Khaled — —
April 29, 2016 Tampa Raymond James Stadium — —
May 1, 2016 Atlanta Georgia Dome — —
May 3, 2016 Raleigh Carter–Finley Stadium — —
May 5, 2016 Nashville Nissan Stadium — —
May 7, 2016 Houston NRG Stadium — —
May 9, 2016 Arlington AT&T Stadium — —
May 12, 2016 San Diego Qualcomm Stadium — —
May 14, 2016 Pasadena Rose Bowl — —
May 16, 2016 Santa Clara Levi's Stadium — —
May 18, 2016 Seattle CenturyLink Field — —
May 20, 2016 Edmonton Canada Commonwealth Stadium — — —
May 23, 2016 Minneapolis United States TCF Bank Stadium — — —
May 25, 2016 Toronto Canada Rogers Centre — — —
May 27, 2016 Chicago United States Soldier Field — — —
May 28, 2016
May 31, 2016 Pittsburgh Heinz Field — — —
June 3, 2016 Foxborough Gillette Stadium DJ Khaled — —
June 5, 2016 Philadelphia Lincoln Financial Field — —
June 7, 2016 New York City Citi Field — —
June 8, 2016
June 10, 2016 Baltimore M&T Bank Stadium — —
June 12, 2016 Hershey Hersheypark Stadium — —
June 14, 2016[a] Detroit Ford Field — —
Europe[1][25][23]
June 28, 2016 Sunderland England Stadium of Light — — —
June 30, 2016 Cardiff Wales Principality Stadium — — —
July 2, 2016 London England Wembley Stadium — — —
July 3, 2016
July 5, 2016 Manchester Emirates Old Trafford — — —
July 7, 2016 Glasgow Scotland Hampden Park — — —
July 9, 2016 Dublin Ireland Croke Park — — —
July 12, 2016 Düsseldorf Germany Esprit Arena — — —
July 14, 2016 Zürich Switzerland Letzigrund — — —
July 16, 2016 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam Arena — — —
July 18, 2016 Milan Italy San Siro — — —
July 21, 2016 Paris France Stade de France — — —
July 24, 2016 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadium — — —
July 26, 2016 Stockholm Sweden Friends Arena — — —
July 29, 2016 Frankfurt Germany Commerzbank-Arena — — —
July 31, 2016 Brussels Belgium King Baudouin Stadium — — —
August 3, 2016 Barcelona Spain Estadi Olímpic — — —
Total — —

Personnel

Main

  • Creator – Beyonce
  • Creative Director –Todd Tourso [26]
  • Choreographers – Chris Grant, Dana Foglia, Jaquel Knight [27]
  • Dancers –
    • Ashley Everett
    • Kimberly Gipson
    • Ebony Williams
    • D'nay Baptiste
    • Amandy Fernandez
    • Jasmine Harper
    • Gipsondeijah "Deijah" Robyn
    • Saidah Nairobi
    • Hannah Douglas
    • Hajiba Fahmy
    • Quinetta Wilmington
    • Tajana Bunton-Williams
    • Fulani Bahati
    • Tasha Bryant
    • Ferly Prado


  • Stylists – Eric Archibald, Marni Senofonte, [28]

References

Notes

  1. ^ The June 14, 2016, concert in Detroit was originally scheduled to take place on May 29, 2016, but was rescheduled due to "scheduling changes".[24]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c "The Formation World Tour". beyonce.com. February 7, 2016. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  2. ^ "Beyonce Announces "Formation World Tour"". Def Pen. February 7, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
  3. ^ Bartleet, Larry (February 6, 2016). "Listen to Beyoncé's new surprise single 'Formation'". NME. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  4. ^ "Beyoncé unleashes Black Panthers homage at Super Bowl 50". The Guardian. February 8, 2016. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  5. ^ Scott, Ellen (February 8, 2016). "Beyoncé announced a new world tour after her Super Bowl halftime performance". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  6. ^ "Anger: Anti-Beyonce Rally Planned For Next Week At NFL Headquarters". CBS New York. February 9, 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
  7. ^ France, Lisa Respers (February 16, 2016). "Only fans in 'Formation' at planned anti-Beyonce rally". CNN Entertainment. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  8. ^ "BEYONCÉ ANNOUNCES THE FORMATION WORLD TOUR". Live Nation Entertainment. February 7, 2016. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  9. ^ Carma, Hassan (February 21, 2016). "Police union calls for law enforcement labor to boycott Beyonce's world tour". CNN. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  10. ^ Associated Press (February 19, 2016). "More Police Unions Call for Beyoncé Boycott". Billboard. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  11. ^ Cridlin, Jay (April 22, 2016). "Beyoncé preps for her Formation Tour with rehearsals in Tampa". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
  12. ^ Nelson Jr., Keith (February 7, 2016). "Beyoncé's world tour announcement crashed her website during Super Bowl". Digital Trends. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  13. ^ Calcaterra, Craig (February 10, 2016). "Some Mets fans are not happy that Beyonce is playing at Citi Field". NBC Sports. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  14. ^ "Tickets for Beyoncé in the Arena rapidly away". Het Parool (in Dutch). February 15, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  15. ^ "Ticket Chaos to Beyonce - fans are now furious". Expressen (in Swedish). February 15, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  16. ^ "Beyoncé Formation UK tickets sell out in less than 30 minutes". The Telegraph. February 16, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  17. ^ Trendell, Andrew (February 16, 2016). "BEYONCE'S FORMATION UK TOUR JUST GOT A LITTLE BIGGER - TICKETS". Gigwise. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  18. ^ "Beyonce Adds 2nd Chicago Show". NBC Chicago. February 16, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  19. ^ Lawrence, Jesse (February 16, 2016). "As Beyoncé Tickets Go On Sale, Secondary Market Prices Averaging Over $400". Forbes. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  20. ^ "THE FORMATION WORLD TOUR BEYONCÉ 2016 SELLS OUT MULTIPLE STADIUM DATES; NEARLY 1 MILLION TICKETS SOLD; ALREADY ANNOUNCES NEW SHOWS" (Press release). PR Newswire. February 17, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  21. ^ Waddell, Ray (February 22, 2016). "Beyonce, Blowing Up Box Offices Before Formation Stadium Tour, Looks to Be the Queen of Touring". Billboard. New York City, New York. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  22. ^ LaCroix, Emy (April 27, 2016). "Lil Wayne, Future & More Huge Stars Open For Beyonce On 1st Night Of Formation Tour". Hollywood Life. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
  23. ^ a b "DJ Khaled Joins Beyonce's Formation Tour". Billboard. April 19, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
  24. ^ McCollum, Brian (February 12, 2016). "Beyoncé show at Ford Field bumped to June 14". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
  25. ^ "BEYONCÉ ANNOUNCES 'THE FORMATION WORLD TOUR'". Rap-Up. February 7, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
  26. ^ http://www.creativejeniusreport.com/the-choreography-styling-that-goes-into-producing-beyonces-formation-world-tour/
  27. ^ http://www.creativejeniusreport.com/the-choreography-styling-that-goes-into-producing-beyonces-formation-world-tour/
  28. ^ http://www.creativejeniusreport.com/the-choreography-styling-that-goes-into-producing-beyonces-formation-world-tour/
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