The Police Reunion Tour

The Police Reunion Tour

Tour by The Police
Start date	28 May 2007
End date	7 August 2008
Legs	10
No. of shows	5 in Asia 39 in Europe 94 in North America 9 in Oceania 4 in South America 151 total
Box office	US$362 million
The Police concert chronology
A Conspiracy of Hope Tour (1986) Reunion Tour (2007–08)

The Reunion Tour was a 2007–2008 worldwide concert tour by The Police, marking the 30th anniversary of their beginnings. At its conclusion, the tour became the third (now eleventh) highest-grossing tour of all time, with revenues reaching over $360 million. The tour began in May 2007 to overwhelmingly positive reviews from fans and critics alike and ended in August 2008 with a final show at Madison Square Garden.^[1]

Contents

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  1 History
  


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  2 The show
  


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  3 Stage design
  


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  4 Musical changes
  


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  5 Set list
  


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  6 Tour dates
  


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  7 See also
  


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  8 References
  


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  9 External links
  

History

On 24 January 2007, Rock101, a radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, reported the trio was coming together again and had begun tour rehearsals in Vancouver.^[2] There were numerous sightings of the group and their entourage in the Vancouver area as expectation built of such a tour.^[3]

The reunited Police performed at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards on 11 February 2007 in Los Angeles. On 12 February, The Police held rehearsals and a press conference for the media at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles, where they confirmed they would be undertaking the world tour starting in Vancouver in May.^[4] It was also announced the opening act for the North American and European legs of the tour would be Fiction Plane, a pop-rock band from England featuring lead singer and bass guitarist Joe Sumner, the son of Sting. In Philadelphia, Scottish rock band The Fratellis also joined Fiction Plane as an opening act. In addition, Maroon 5 joined the bill in Miami and Maxïmo Park joined The Police and Fiction Plane on the Twickenham dates, London.

Since concert tickets went up for sale worldwide, some concert dates were sold out in minutes. Tickets for the entire British tour, the band's first in 24 years, sold out within 30 minutes.^[5] Worldwide, they have sold about 1.5m tickets with revenues reaching $168m.^[6]

The Police and Best Buy released a collector's set on 7 October 2008 entitled Certifiable: Live in Buenos Aires, which includes an entire concert recorded live in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the tour. The set came in the following packages: 2DVD/2CD, 1 Blu-ray Disc/2CD, and 3 premium 180-gram vinyl LPs with MP3 file key. The set also included bonus footage, including a documentary shot by Copeland's son Jordan entitled Better Than Therapy.^[7][8]

The tour is a finalist for the Billboard 2008 Touring Awards for Top Tour and Top Draw.^[9] The 2008 portions came in fourth in Billboard's grosses rankings for that year.^[10]

Since the initial dissolution of the Police, Sting had adamantly refused to reunite with Copeland or Summers for any prolonged period, often commenting "If I ever reform the Police I should be certified insane." However, by 2007, he had a change of heart. When asked what prompted the reunion, Sting said "I'd just done the lute album — Songs from the Labyrinth. I was thinking: 'Well what do I do? What's going to surprise people?' I just had this instinct, this desire to call the guys up and say: 'Let's give this a go.'" Sting added that he saw the reunion as "a kind of healing. I think solving problems is an exercise worth doing".^[11]

The show

The first show was a preview concert in Vancouver, for 4,000 members of the band's fan club, on 27 May 2007. The first official show was on 28 May 2007 in front of 22,000 fans at one of two nearly sold-out shows. Opening with "Message in a Bottle", the band performed for roughly two hours, playing mostly hits with a smattering of fan favourites.

While the Vancouver concerts received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics,^[12][13] drummer Stewart Copeland, in a forum posting on his official site, called the band's 29 May performance "lame" and took humorous pokes at himself and his bandmates. He called one of Sting's song-ending leaps that of a "petulant pansy instead of the god of rock", joked the band botched the key changes so thoroughly they ended up playing "avant-garde twelve-tone hodgepodges" of "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" and "Don't Stand So Close to Me", suggested that guitarist Andy Summers was "in Idaho" when he and Sting ended up half a bar out of sync with each other during opener "Message in a Bottle", and claimed he "made a hash" out of a fill he had worked out for in "Walking in Your Footsteps" by playing it in the wrong part of the song. In spite of these glitches, however, he said he was enjoying himself and after the set he and his bandmates fell into each other's arms backstage, laughing.^[14]

"It was a sincere criticism," Copeland explained. "If you read the piece in context, it wasn't that vitriolic. It was an acknowledgement that we were only human. And we were struggling to make it work, playing as if our lives depended on it, and we still had to get it right… When Sting and Andy first read it, they were like, 'Oww!' But then they got over it."^[15]

Stage design

The Police performing "Roxanne" on 28 May 2007 at GM Place, Vancouver

The stage setup for The Police was a simple split-level oval design, ringed with blue lights. Above the stage were seven LED screens—three in the front of the stage, one on each side and two in the rear. The setup was not used during the show in The Woodlands on 20 May 2008 due to the smaller stage at the venue. In Marseille, France on 3 June 2008, the screens were used but not the split-level oval stage setup.

The placement of the band members echoed that of previous tours, with Sting and his bass equipment located stage-right, with Andy Summers and his guitar pedals and amps on stage-left. Stewart Copeland was located in the center rear. Behind him on a platform that could be raised and lowered, was a percussion setup consisting of various timpanis, hanging rotosounds, tuned percussion kits, and digital xylophone centered by a 60" gong used on various songs.^[16]

Musical changes

The Police had spent months in North Vancouver and Tuscany, Italy rehearsing and putting a new spin on the songs. "I think we've got a good mix now where the fans get the song they remember, and most of it will sound the way they remembered it. Just when they are enjoying that, they get a new twist. I think all three of us are pretty happy with the balance there" Stewart Copeland from the 2007–2008 Tour Program describing the new takes on the songs. They updated them, and wrote out all of the backing parts so the three of them can play them; though some backup instrumentals and vocals (either pre-recorded or performed by off-stage musicians) were used.^[17]

Tempos were slowed down for several songs, most notably "Don't Stand So Close to Me", which was slowed down to accent the powerful lyrics of the song. During "Wrapped Around Your Finger", "Walking in Your Footsteps" and "King of Pain", Stewart Copeland moved back and forth during the songs between his drumkit and the percussion setup on the elevated riser.

"The songs have to evolve. Twenty-odd years later we have to be better musicians than we were. So we've slowed it all down, looked at where we are, and how the songs are now happening by listening to ourselves play them", said Sting in the 2007–2008 tour programme.

Stewart Copeland was quoted as saying that he would "like to add 'Hole in My Life'" to the playlist at some point in the tour, and the song was performed live for the first time when the European tour kicked off in Stockholm on 29 August.

Set list

This set list is representative of the performance in Mountain View on 14 July 2008. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.^[18]

1. "Message in a Bottle"


2. "Walking on the Moon" †


3. "Demolition Man"


4. "Voices in My Head" †


5. "When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around"


6. "Don't Stand So Close to Me" †


7. "Driven to Tears"


8. "Hole in My Life" †


9. "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"


10. "Wrapped Around Your Finger" †


11. "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"


12. "Invisible Sun" †


13. "Can't Stand Losing You"/"Reggatta de Blanc"


14. "Roxanne"


15. "King of Pain"


16. "So Lonely" †


17. "Every Breath You Take"


18. "Next to You"

† – performed in a different key than original album version

Other songs played throughout the tour were "Synchronicity II" and "Walking In Your Footsteps" †. Other songs played in 2007 were "Truth Hits Everybody" †, "The Bed's Too Big Without You", "Spirits in the Material World" †, "Dead End Job" and "Murder by Numbers". All were replaced by "Bring On the Night" in 2008.

Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" and Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" were added for the final concert at 7 August 2008 at Madison Square Garden.^[1]

Tour dates

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
Leg 1 — North America[19]
27 May 2007	Vancouver	Canada	General Motors Place	Fiction Plane	4,000 / 4,000 Fanclub Only Show	$200,000
28 May 2007					37,018 / 37,018	$4,046,518
29 May 2007
2 June 2007	Edmonton		Commonwealth Stadium	Sloan Fiction Plane	29,592 / 29,592	$3,216,118
6 June 2007	Seattle	United States	KeyArena	Fiction Plane	29,022 / 29,022	$3,314,875
7 June 2007
9 June 2007	Denver		Pepsi Center		33,736 / 33,736	$3,762,755
10 June 2007
13 June 2007	Oakland		McAfee Coliseum	The Fratellis Fiction Plane	47,202 / 47,202	$4,572,620
15 June 2007	Paradise		MGM Grand Garden Arena	Fiction Plane	16,165 / 16,165	$2,863,954
16 June 2007	Manchester		Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival	N/A	N/A	N/A
18 June 2007	Phoenix		US Airways Center	Fiction Plane	16,710 / 16,710	$1,970,365
20 June 2007	Los Angeles		Staples Center		17,036 / 17,036	$2,656,145
21 June 2007	Anaheim		Honda Center		13,663 / 13,663	$2,059,675
23 June 2007	Los Angeles		Dodger Stadium	Foo Fighters Fiction Plane	55,623 / 55,623	$6,106,010
26 June 2007	Dallas		American Airlines Center	Fiction Plane	33,708 / 33,708	$3,784,600
27 June 2007
29 June 2007	Houston		Toyota Center		16,651 / 16,651	$1,847,945
30 June 2007	New Orleans		New Orleans Arena		15,992 / 15,992	$1,677,470
2 July 2007	St. Louis		Scottrade Center		17,821 / 17,821	$1,872,140
3 July 2007	Saint Paul		Xcel Energy Center		17,185 / 17,185	$1,943,310
5 July 2007	Chicago		Wrigley Field		79,458 / 79,458	$9,494,248
6 July 2007
7 July 2007	East Rutherford		Giants Stadium as a part of (Live Earth)	N/A	N/A	N/A
10 July 2007	Miami Gardens		Dolphin Stadium	Maroon 5 Fiction Plane	46,105 / 46,105	$5,094,870
11 July 2007	Tampa		St. Pete Times Forum	Fiction Plane	18,690 / 18,690	$2,064,875
14 July 2007	Louisville		Churchill Downs		25,413 / 25,413	$2,899,375
16 July 2007	Cleveland		Quicken Loans Arena		18,881 / 18,881	$1,885,040
17 July 2007	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills		19,342 / 19,342	$2,069,428
19 July 2007	Philadelphia		Citizens Bank Park	The Fratellis Fiction Plane	42,599 / 42,599	$4,128,705
20 July 2007	Hershey		Hersheypark Stadium	Fiction Plane	30,318 / 30,318	$3,101,630
22 July 2007	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre		38,031 / 38,031	$4,456,636
23 July 2007
25 July 2007	Montreal		Bell Centre		41,275 / 41,275	$4,571,063
26 July 2007
28 July 2007	Boston	United States	Fenway Park		67,154 / 67,154	$7,644,400
29 July 2007
31 July 2007	East Hartford		Rentschler Field		32,450 / 32,450	$3,318,015
1 August 2007	New York City		Madison Square Garden		37,487 / 37,387	$4,753,610
3 August 2007
4 August 2007	Baltimore		Virgin Festival	N/A	N/A	N/A
5 August 2007	East Rutherford		Giants Stadium	The Fratellis Fiction Plane	55,247 / 55,247	$6,415,610
Leg 2 — Europe [20]
29 August 2007	Stockholm	Sweden	Globe Arena	Fiction Plane	24,286 / 24,286	$2,098,632
30 August 2007
1 September 2007	Aarhus	Denmark	Vestereng	Fiction Plane	38,000 / 45,000	N/A
4 September 2007	Birmingham	England	National Indoor Arena	Fiction Plane	24,099 / 24,099	$3,579,363
5 September 2007
8 September 2007	Twickenham		Twickenham Stadium	Maximo Park Fiction Plane	104,417 / 104,417	$15,369,280
9 September 2007
11 September 2007	Hamburg	Germany	AOL Arena	Fiction Plane	29,150 / 34,596	$3,191,128
13 September 2007	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Amsterdam Arena		93,211 / 93,790	$10,216,228
14 September 2007
16 September 2007	Geneva	Switzerland	Stade de Genève		21,878 / 21,878	$2,238,986
19 September 2007	Vienna	Austria	Wiener Stadthalle		15,463 / 15,463	$1,460,708
22 September 2007	Munich	Germany	Olympic Stadium		44,740 / 44,740	$4,451,894
25 September 2007	Lisbon	Portugal	Estádio Nacional	N/A	N/A	N/A
27 September 2007	Barcelona	Spain	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys	Fiction Plane	54,553 / 54,553	$5,554,320
29 September 2007	Paris	France	Stade de France		157,906 / 157,906	$15,319,076
30 September 2007
2 October 2007	Turin	Italy	Stadio delle Alpi		62,604 / 62,604	$5,164,887
6 October 2007	Dublin	Ireland	Croke Park		81,640 / 81,640	$11,837,425
8 October 2007	Antwerp	Belgium	Sportpaleis		17,905 / 17,905	$2,002,164
19 October 2007	Cardiff	Wales	Millennium Stadium	The Fratellis Fiction Plane	48,065 / 48,065	$5,964,008
20 October 2007	London	England	Wembley Arena	Fiction Plane	11,301 / 11,301	$1,852,912
Leg 3 — North America[21]
31 October 2007	New York City	United States	Madison Square Garden	Fiction Plane	34,961 / 34,961	$4,530,450
2 November 2007
4 November 2007	Atlantic City		Boardwalk Hall	N/A	12,394 / 12,394	$2,440,331
5 November 2007	Washington, D.C.		Verizon Center	Fiction Plane	14,050 / 14,050	$1,676,406
6 November 2007	Charlottesville		John Paul Jones Arena		10,496 / 10,496	$1,075,090
8 November 2007	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre		31,286 / 31,286	$3,828,654
9 November 2007
11 November 2007	Boston	United States	TD Banknorth Garden		14,256 / 14,256	$1,804,535
12 November 2007	Montreal	Canada	Bell Centre		12,615 / 12,615	$1,419,151
15 November 2007	Charlotte	United States	Charlotte Bobcats Arena		13,741 / 13,741	$1,523,560
17 November 2007	Atlanta		Philips Arena		27,665 / 27,665	$3,249,155
18 November 2007
20 November 2007	San Antonio		AT&T Center		8,967 / 8,967	$978,905
24 November 2007	Mexico City	Mexico	Foro Sol		47,027 / 58,374	$2,545,113
27 November 2007	Monterrey		Arena Monterrey		12,552 / 12,552	$1,298,400
28 November 2007
Leg 4 — South America[22]
1 December 2007	Buenos Aires	Argentina	River Plate Stadium	Fiction Plane	87,967 / 87,967	$4,972,415
2 December 2007
5 December 2007	Santiago	Chile	Estadio Nacional de Chile		48,725 / 48,725	$2,767,710
8 December 2007	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Maracanã Stadium	Os Paralamas do Sucesso	59,200 / 59,200	$5,410,606
Leg 5 — North America
11 December 2007	San Juan	Puerto Rico	Coliseo de Puerto Rico	Fiction Plane	11,089 / 11,089	$1,203,483
Leg 6 — Oceania
17 January 2008	Wellington	New Zealand	Westpac Stadium	Fergie Fiction Plane	21,614 / 21,614	$2,156,344
19 January 2008	Auckland		Western Springs Stadium		26,665 / 26,665	$2,397,286
22 January 2008	Brisbane	Australia	Suncorp Stadium		25,928 / 25,928	$3,306,646
24 January 2008	Sydney		ANZ Stadium		43,725 / 43,725	$4,840,514
26 January 2008	Melbourne		Melbourne Cricket Ground		29,655 / 29,655	$3,865,205
28 January 2008	Adelaide		Adelaide Entertainment Centre		13,950 / 13,950	$1,502,462
29 January 2008
1 February 2008	Perth		Members Equity Stadium		36,518 / 36,518	$4,340,778
2 February 2008
Leg 7 — Asia[23]
4 February 2008	Singapore	Singapore	Singapore Indoor Stadium	Fiction Plane	10,690 / 10,690	$2,002,692
7 February 2008	Macau	China	Venetian Arena		7,416 / 7,416	$919,527
10 February 2008	Osaka	Japan	Osaka Dome		21,526 / 21,526	$2,763,164
13 February 2008	Tokyo		Tokyo Dome		56,706 / 56,706	$7,062,008
14 February 2008
Leg 8 — North America[23][24]
16 February 2008	Honolulu	United States	Neal S. Blaisdell Center	Fiction Plane	16,444 / 16,444	$2,192,890
17 February 2008
1 May 2008	Ottawa	Canada	Scotiabank Place	Elvis Costello & The Imposters	10,509 / 10,509	$1,245,428
3 May 2008	Buffalo	United States	HSBC Arena		12,091 / 12,091	$1,146,350
4 May 2008	Columbus		Nationwide Arena		11,438 / 11,438	$1,088,290
10 May 2008	Rosemont		Allstate Arena		12,471 / 12,471	$1,589,480
11 May 2008	Grand Rapids		Van Andel Arena		7,624 / 7,624	$690,620
13 May 2008	Kansas City		Sprint Center		12,314 / 12,314	$1,378,942
14 May 2008	Omaha		Qwest Center		10,701 / 10,701	$1,134,045
16 May 2008	Orlando		Amway Arena		11,972 / 11,972	$1,378,670
17 May 2008	West Palm Beach		Cruzan Amphitheatre		18,523 / 18,523	$1,416,930
20 May 2008	The Woodlands		Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion		11,624 / 11,624	$1,020,092
21 May 2008	Dallas		SuperPages.com Center		10,305 / 10,305	$859,730
23 May 2008	Paradise		MGM Grand Garden Arena		9,697 / 9,697	$1,694,228
24 May 2008	Phoenix		Cricket Wireless Pavilion		10,765 / 10,765	$909,320
26 May 2008	Chula Vista		Coors Amphitheatre		17,764 / 17,764	$1,681,110
27 May 2008	Los Angeles		Hollywood Bowl		32,730 / 33,270	$3,854,713
28 May 2008
Leg 9 — Europe[25]
3 June 2008	Marseille	France	Stade Vélodrome	The Charlatans	47,337 / 47,337	$5,290,050
5 June 2008	Mannheim	Germany	SAP Arena		13,735 / 13,735	$1,510,408
7 June 2008	Werchter	Belgium	TW Classic
8 June 2008	Düsseldorf	Germany	LTU Arena		46,000 / 46,894	$5,139,564
10 June 2008	Saint-Étienne	France	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard	28,964 / 38,193	$2,721,354
12 June 2008	Zürich	Switzerland	Hallenstadion	Starsailor	8,896 / 8,896	$839,957
15 June 2008	Newport	England	Isle of Wight Festival	N/A	N/A	N/A
17 June 2008	Manchester		Manchester Arena	Starsailor	35,603 / 35,603	$4,578,672
18 June 2008
20 June 2008	Belfast	Northern Ireland	Stormont Castle	KT Tunstall	10,588 / 15,000	$1,313,814
22 June 2008	Venice	Italy	Parco San Giuliano	N/A	24,000 / 24,000	$1,575,246
24 June 2008	Belgrade	Serbia	Ušće	Counting Crows	27,104 / 35,000	$1,309,651
26 June 2008	Chorzów	Poland	Silesian Stadium		47,693 / 47,693	$3,137,631
28 June 2008	Leipzig	Germany	Messehalle	Arno Carstens	17,544 / 17,544	$1,531,333
29 June 2008	London	England	Hard Rock Calling	N/A	30,000 / 30,000	$3,239,956
2 July 2008	Valencia	Spain	Estadio Ciudad de Valencia	Starsailor	17,352 / 17,352	$2,193,508
4 July 2008	Bilbao		Bilbao BBK Live	N/A	31,500 / 31,500	$4,392,327
5 July 2008	Madrid		Rock in Rio Madrid		43,843 / 43,843	$3,881,852
Leg 10 — North America[26]
11 July 2008	Ridgefield	United States	The Amphitheater at Clark County	Elvis Costello & The Imposters	14,253 / 14,253	$1,195,200
12 July 2008	George		The Gorge Amphitheatre		10,255 / 10,255	$1,150,923
14 July 2008	Mountain View		Shoreline Amphitheatre		16,084 / 16,084	$1,301,091
16 July 2008	Concord		Sleep Train Pavilion		11,673 / 11,673	$951,206
17 July 2008	Wheatland		Sleep Train Amphitheatre		10,519 / 10,519	$810,149
19 July 2008	West Valley City		USANA Amphitheatre		15,655 / 15,655	$1,142,350
21 July 2008	Morrison		Red Rocks Amphitheatre		17,313 / 17,313	$2,520,256
22 July 2008
25 July 2008	Milwaukee		Marcus Amphitheater		15,042 / 15,042	$1,349,740
26 July 2008	Clarkston		DTE Energy Music Theatre		14,696 / 14,696	$1,324,029
28 July 2008	Burgettstown		Post-Gazette Pavilion		13,431 / 13,431	$867,200
29 July 2008	Philadelphia		Wachovia Center		11,133 / 12,415	$1,270,215
31 July 2008	Mansfield		Comcast Center		13,523 / 13,523	$1,352,730
1 August 2008	Saratoga Springs		Saratoga Performing Arts Center		19,010 / 19,010	$1,504,138
3 August 2008	Holmdel		PNC Bank Arts Center		16,857 / 16,857	$1,537,688
4 August 2008	Wantagh		Nikon at Jones Beach Theater		27,089 / 27,089	$3,655,783
5 August 2008
7 August 2008	New York City		Madison Square Garden	The B-52's	18,348 / 18,348	$2,754,050
Total					3,361,794 / 3,403,419 (98%)	$361,956,184

See also

• List of highest-grossing concert tours

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      "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 119 (31): 14. 4 August 2007. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
      
    
    
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      "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 119 (32): 12. 11 August 2007. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
      
    
    
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      "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 119 (33): 12. 18 August 2007. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
      
    
    
    
    


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    ^ Europe box score data:
    
    
    
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      "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 119 (40): 18. 6 October 2007. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
      
    
    
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      "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 119 (41): 17. 13 October 2007. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
      
    
    
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      "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 119 (45): 18. 10 November 2007. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
      
    
    
    
    


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    ^ "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 119 (47): 20. 24 November 2007. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
    


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    ^ "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 120 (30): 48. 26 July 2008. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
    


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    ^ ^ab "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 120 (10): 17. 8 March 2008. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
    


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    ^ North America box score data:
    
    
    
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      "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 120 (23): 42. 7 June 2008. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
      
    
    
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      "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 120 (28): 9. 12 July 2008. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
      
    
    
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      "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 120 (29): 16. 19 July 2008. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
      
    
    
    
    


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    ^ "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 120 (30): 50. 26 July 2008. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
    


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    ^ North America box score data:
    
    
    
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      "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 120 (32): 17. 9 August 2008. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
      
    
    
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      "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 120 (34): 15. 23 August 2008. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
      
    
    
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      "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard. 20 September 2008. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
      
    
    
    
    

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