The Final Frontier World Tour
| Tour by Iron Maiden | |
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| Location | North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America |
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| Associated album | The Final Frontier |
| Start date | 9 June 2010 |
| End date | 6 August 2011 |
| Legs | 4 |
| No. of shows | 101 (3 cancelled) |
| Iron Maiden concert chronology | |
The Final Frontier World Tour was a concert tour by Iron Maiden in support of the band's 15th album, The Final Frontier, which began on 9 June 2010 in Dallas and ended in London, England on 6 August 2011. The tour was announced on the band's official website on 5 March 2010 under the following statement:
"Iron Maiden are pleased to announce that their forthcoming new studio album will be called 'The Final Frontier', and is expected be released late summer of this year.
The announcement comes with news of a North American Tour with Very Special Guests Dream Theater to open in Dallas, Texas, on 9th June and finish in Washington, D.C. on 20th July, making it Maiden's most extensive North American tour in many years.
The tour was extremely successful, with the band performing 98 shows in 36 countries across 5 continents to an estimated audience of over 2 million people and led to 2012's live album/ video, En Vivo!.
The first leg of the tour was announced alongside the album title on 4 March, to include North American and European dates. The full track listing and artwork was unveiled on 8 June, along with a free download of the song El Dorado, confirmed as the only song from The Final Frontier to be played on the 2010 tour. In their list of the Top 50 North American Tours of 2012, Pollstar reported that, from 23 shows, the band grossed US$14.6 million from 274,289 ticket sales.
On 5 August 2010, Iron Maiden began releasing dates for the 2011 tour with a series of shows in Australia, incorporating several Soundwave festival appearances and two arena shows. This was followed by the announcement of a string of Scandinavian dates on 21 September, including shows in Oslo, Gothenburg, Helsinki, and the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. On 2 November, the band announced a total of 29 additional performances over 66 days, starting in Moscow on 11 February 2011, and continuing through Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, Mexico, South America, Florida and encompassing the previously announced Australian dates. The band also confirmed that they would again be using the converted Boeing 757, dubbed "Ed Force One", as on the Somewhere Back in Time World Tour and that the setlist would be modified to include more material from the new album as well as older songs. It was during this leg of the tour that the band's 2012 live album and video, En Vivo!, was recorded, with concert footage shot in Buenos Aires and Santiago.
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