Adele Live 2016
| Tour by Adele | |
Promotional poster for the tour
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| Associated album | 25 |
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| Start date | 29 February 2016 |
| End date | 2 July 2017 |
| Legs | 4 |
| No. of shows | 53 in Europe 58 in North America 11 in Oceania 122 in total |
| Attendance | 1.54 million |
| Box office | $167.7 million (107 shows) |
| Adele concert chronology | |
Adele Live 2016 (titled as Adele Live 2017 for the shows in 2017) is the third concert tour by British singer Adele in support of her third studio album, 25. It began on 29 February 2016, in Belfast, Northern Ireland at the SSE Arena and will continue throughout Western Europe, North America and Oceania before concluding on 2 July 2017, in London, England, at Wembley Stadium.
Adele announced the Western European headlining dates on 26 November 2015. After tickets went on sale on 4 December, many venues reported sell-outs, resulting in extra dates being added in multiple cities on the itinerary.
Tickets sold out nearly instantaneously, with promoters for Glasgow's SSE Hydro reporting tickets for the 13,000 venue sold out within two minutes. Due to the high demand, online queues were set up, which resulted in queues of over 50,000 people for venues only seating a quarter of that.
On 14 December 2015, Adele announced the North American leg of the tour. The leg will include six nights at Madison Square Garden and eight nights at Staples Center. Adele broke Taylor Swift's five-show record for most consecutive sold-out shows at Staples Center.
Ten million people tried to buy tickets to the North American leg of Adele's world tour. Only 750,000 tickets were available.
On 18 March 2016, Adele confirmed rumours that she would be headlining Glastonbury Festival 2016, on 25 June. She was the fourth solo female to perform a headline set at the festival, and the first on a Saturday. Adele confirmed the news live on stage at the O2 Arena, in London.
In July 2016, Pollstar released its 2016 Mid Year Special featuring the top-grossing tours of the year so far. Adele was announced as the sixth highest-grossing worldwide act of 2016 so far, with ticket sales of $75.9 million and 709,498 tickets sold from the 49 shows of the European leg of her tour. Billboard reported that overall based on tickets sold through the first week of October 2016 the tour had sold in the $150 million range and that the total gross from the first 15 venues of the North American leg of tour was $67,599,098 with 601,195 tickets sold from 5 July to 7 October 2016.
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