Red Tour

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The Red Tour
World tour by Taylor Swift
Associated album Red
Start date March 13, 2013 (2013-03-13)
End date February 11, 2014 (2014-02-11)
Legs 3
Shows
  • 6 in Europe
  • 66 in North America
  • 7 in Oceania
  • 79 total
Box office $133 million
Taylor Swift tour chronology
Speak Now World Tour
(2011–12)		 The Red Tour
(2013–14)

The Red Tour[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] is the third worldwide concert tour by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The tour was launched in support of Swift's fourth studio album, Red (2012).

Background

On October 25, 2012, in partnership with ABC News on the prime-time TV special All Access Nashville with Katie Couric – A Special Edition of 20/20, Swift announced that she would launch a North American stadium and arena tour in early 2013 in support of her fourth studio album, Red (2012).[8] During a radio interview with WRVW, Swift mentioned that "It's nothing like any other tour before."[9]

Swift told Billboard: "Of course, you know the tour will be a big representation of this record". "I'm so excited to see what songs the fans like the most and which ones jump to the forefront, because that's the first step. We always see which songs are really the passionate songs and the ones the fans are freaking out over the most, and those are the ones that are definitely in the set list. I can't wait for that."[10]

Swift used Tom Petty's "American Girl" as her entrance song on her previous tour but now takes the stage to Lenny Kravitz's version of "American Woman".[11] She sings a cover of The Lumineers's "Ho Hey" nightly, intertwined with her own "Stay Stay Stay".[12]

Set list

The following set list is representative of the show on March 27, 2013. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour.[13]

  1. "State of Grace"
  2. "Holy Ground"
  3. "Red"
  4. "You Belong with Me"
  5. "The Lucky One"
  6. "Mean"
  7. "Stay Stay Stay"
  8. "22"
  9. "Starlight"
  10. "Everything Has Changed"
  11. "Begin Again"
  12. "Sparks Fly"
  13. "I Knew You Were Trouble"
  14. "All Too Well"
  15. "Love Story"
  16. "Treacherous"
  17. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"

Shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening acts, tickets sold, amount of available tickets and gross revenue
Date City Country Venue Opening acts Attendance Revenue
Leg 1 — North America[14]
March 13, 2013 Omaha United States CenturyLink Center Omaha Ed Sheeran
Brett Eldredge		 27,877 / 27,877 $2,243,164
March 14, 2013
March 18, 2013 St. Louis Scottrade Center 28,582 / 28,582 $2,346,203
March 19, 2013
March 22, 2013 Charlotte Time Warner Cable Arena 14,686 / 14,686 $1,162,733
March 23, 2013 Columbia Colonial Life Arena 12,490 / 12,490 $996,114
March 27, 2013 Newark Prudential Center Ed Sheeran
Florida Georgia Line		 38,065 / 38,065 $3,565,317
March 28, 2013
March 29, 2013
April 10, 2013 Miami American Airlines Arena Ed Sheeran
Brett Eldredge		 12,808 / 12,808 $1,010,175
April 11, 2013 Orlando Amway Center 25,617 / 25,617 $2,054,128
April 12, 2013
April 18, 2013 Atlanta Phillips Arena 25,471 / 25,471 $2,048,023
April 19, 2013
April 20, 2013 Tampa Tampa Bay Times Forum 14,080 / 14,080 $1,132,095
April 25, 2013 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena 15,336 / 15,336 $1,247,605
April 26, 2013 Indianapolis Bankers Life Fieldhouse 13,573 / 13,573 $1,082,042
April 27, 2013 Lexington Rupp Arena 17,003 / 17,003 $1,342,699
May 4, 2013 Detroit Ford Field Ed Sheeran
Austin Mahone
Florida Georgia Line		 48,265 / 48,265 $3,969,059
May 7, 2013 Louisville KFC Yum! Center Ed Sheeran
Florida Georgia Line		 15,135 / 15,135 $1,246,491
May 8, 2013 Columbus Nationwide Arena 14,267 / 14,267 $1,155,170
May 11, 2013 Washington, D.C. Verizon Center Ed Sheeran
Brett Eldredge		 27,619 / 27,619 $2,489,205
May 12, 2013
May 16, 2013 Houston Toyota Center 12,467 / 12,467 $961,422
May 21, 2013 Austin Frank Erwin Center Ed Sheeran
Florida Georgia Line		 11,916 / 11,916 $935,631
May 22, 2013 San Antonio AT&T Center 13,974 / 13,974 $1,105,253
May 25, 2013 Arlington Cowboys Stadium Ed Sheeran
Austin Mahone
Florida Georgia Line		 53,020 / 53,020 $4,589,266
May 28, 2013 Glendale Jobing.com Arena Ed Sheeran
Joel Crouse		 26,705 / 26,705 $2,239,370
May 29, 2013
June 1, 2013 Salt Lake City EnergySolutions Arena 14,007 / 14,007 $1,139,360
June 2, 2013 Denver Pepsi Center 13,489 / 13,489 $1,076,069
June 14, 2013 Toronto Canada Rogers Centre Ed Sheeran
Austin Mahone
Joel Crouse		 87,627 / 87,627 $7,863,310
June 15, 2013
June 22, 2013 Winnipeg Investors Group Field 33,061 / 33,061 $3,175,430
June 25, 2013 Edmonton Rexall Place Ed Sheeran
Joel Crouse		 25,663 / 25,663 $2,379,870
June 26, 2013
June 29, 2013 Vancouver B.C. Place Stadium Ed Sheeran
Austin Mahone
Joel Crouse		 41,142 / 41,142 $3,974,410
July 6, 2013 Pittsburgh United States Heinz Field 56,047 / 56,047 $4,718,518
July 13, 2013 East Rutherford MetLife Stadium 52,399 / 52,399 $4,670,011
July 19, 2013 Philadelphia Lincoln Financial Field 101,277 / 101,277 $8,822,335
July 20, 2013
July 26, 2013 Foxborough Gillette Stadium 110,712 / 110,712 $9,464,063
July 27, 2013
August 1, 2013 Des Moines Wells Fargo Arena Ed Sheeran
Florida Georgia Line		 13,368 / 13,368 $1,075,576
August 2, 2013 Kansas City Sprint Center 26,412 / 26,412 $2,093,172
August 3, 2013
August 6, 2013 Wichita Intrust Bank Arena Ed Sheeran
Casey James		 12,231 / 12,231 $983,882
August 7, 2013 Tulsa BOK Center 10,949 / 10,949 $868,955
August 10, 2013 Chicago Soldier Field Ed Sheeran
Austin Mahone
Casey James		 50,809 / 50,809 $4,149,148
August 15, 2013 San Diego Valley View Casino Center Ed Sheeran
Casey James		 10,872 / 10,872 $948,541
August 19, 2013 Los Angeles Staples Center 55,829 / 55,829 $4,734,463
August 20, 2013
August 23, 2013
August 24, 2013
August 27, 2013 Sacramento Sleep Train Arena 12,795 / 12,795 $1,138,103
August 30, 2013 Portland Moda Center 13,952 / 13,952 $1,084,760
August 31, 2013 Tacoma Tacoma Dome 20,348 / 20,348 $1,584,049
September 6, 2013 Fargo Fargodome 21,073 / 21,073 $1,661,578
September 7, 2013 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center 28,920 / 28,920 $2,320,937
September 8, 2013
September 12, 2013 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum 13,650 / 13,650 $1,109,253
September 13, 2013 Raleigh PNC Arena 13,941 / 13,941 $1,088,612
September 14, 2013 Charlottesville John Paul Jones Arena 12,689 / 12,689 $997,216
September 19, 2013 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 41,292 / 41,292 $3,336,545
September 20, 2013
September 21, 2013
Leg 2 — Oceania[15]
November 29, 2013 Auckland New Zealand Vector Arena Neon Trees 30,799 / 30,799 $3,100,290
November 30, 2013
December 1, 2013
December 4, 2013 Sydney Australia Allianz Stadium Guy Sebastian
Neon Trees		 40,930 / 40,930 $4,096,060
December 7, 2013 Brisbane Suncorp Stadium 38,907 / 38,907 $3,895,810
December 11, 2013 Perth nib Stadium 21,827 / 21,827 $2,364,080
December 14, 2013 Melbourne Etihad Stadium 47,257 / 47,257 $4,547,250
Leg 3 — Europe[16][17]
February 1, 2014 London England The O2 Arena N/A  —  —
February 2, 2014
February 4, 2014
February 7, 2014 Berlin Germany O2 World  —  —
February 10, 2014 London England The O2 Arena  —  —
February 11, 2014
Leg 4 — Asia
May 30, 2014 TBA China TBA  —  —
Total 1,543,230 / 1,543,230 $133,382,821

Records

Swift becomes the first solo female artist in 20 years to headline a national stadium tour through Australia, with the last being Madonna's "Girlie Show" tour in 1993.[18] Swift performed to an at capacity crowd of over 40,900 fans at the Allianz Stadium in Sydney, Australia, becoming the first female artist in history to sell out the stadium since it was opened in 1988.[19]

References

  1. ↑ "Event Details". Theo2.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-10-26. 
  2. ↑ "The RED Tour is coming to London in 2014!". Taylor Swift. Retrieved 2013-10-26. 
  3. ↑ "Taylor talks about The RED Tour in Rolling Stone". Taylor Swift. Retrieved 2013-10-26. 
  4. ↑ "Taylor Adds 5th show to RED Tour London!". Taylor Swift. Retrieved 2013-10-26. 
  5. ↑ Loading... (2013-10-08). "Ed Sheeran Surprises Taylor Swift In New Footage From 'The Red Tour' (WATCH) - Celebrity Gossip, News & Photos, Movie Reviews, Competitions". Entertainmentwise. Retrieved 2013-10-26. 
  6. ↑ Frontier Touring. "Taylor Swift 2013 Australia & New Zealand | Tickets, Concert Dates, Pre-sale & Tour Information | Frontier Touring Australia & New Zealand". Frontiertouring.com. Retrieved 2013-10-26. 
  7. ↑ "Review: Taylor Swift connects with fans". Omaha.com. 2013-03-14. Retrieved 2013-10-26. 
  8. ↑ "Red Tour Announcement & Details!". Taylor Swift. Retrieved October 27, 2012. 
  9. ↑ "Radio Interview @ 107.5 Nashville". TSwiftOnTour. Retrieved February 7. 
  10. ↑ "Taylor Swift to Outdo Herself on 'Red' Tour: 'I Like for It to Be Big'". Billboard. Retrieved 2013-10-26. 
  11. ↑ "Taylor Swift's 'Red' Tour: Her Amps Go Up to 22 | Rob Sheffield". Rolling Stone. March 20, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2013. 
  12. ↑ Caramanica, Jon (March 28, 2013). "Music Review: Losing Her Audio, but Never Her Nerve". The New York Times. Retrieved March 29, 2013. 
  13. ↑ Sheffield, Rob (2013-10-18). "Taylor Swift's 'Red' Tour: Her Amps Go Up to 22 | Rob Sheffield". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2013-10-26. 
  14. ↑ North American leg of The Red Tour:
  15. ↑ "Billboard Biz: Current Boxscore". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. January 1, 2014. Archived from the original on January 5, 2014. Retrieved January 5, 2014. 
  16. ↑ 10:00AM BST 04 Oct 2013 (2013-10-04). "Extra Taylor Swift tickets now on sale". Telegraph. Retrieved 2013-10-26. 
  17. ↑ "The RED Tour Comes to Germany in February 2014". Taylor Swift. 2013-10-21. Retrieved 2013-10-26. 
  18. ↑ Frontier Touring. "Taylor Swift 2013 Australia & New Zealand | Tickets, Concert Dates, Pre-sale & Tour Information | Frontier Touring Australia & New Zealand". Frontiertouring.com. Retrieved 2013-10-26. 
  19. ↑ "Taylor Swift Is First Female Artist In History To Sell Out Sydney's Allianz Stadium". December 5, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2013. 
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