The River Tour 2016
| Tour by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | |
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| Associated album | The Ties That Bind: The River Collection |
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| Start date | January 16, 2016 |
| End date | February 25, 2017 |
| Legs | 4 |
| No. of shows | 47 in North America 28 in Europe 14 in Oceania (Summer '17 tour) 89 in Total |
| Box office | $266.5 million |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert chronology | |
The River Tour 2016/Summer '17 tour is a concert tour by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in support of Springsteen's 2015 The Ties That Bind: The River Collection box set and in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Springsteen's 1980 album, The River.The River Tour 2016 ended in September 2016, however dates in 2017 have been added using the same promotional image from the original legs, and the tour will now be billed as Summer '17.
The River 2016 Tour was the top grossing worldwide tour of 2016 pulling in $268.3 million globally and was the highest grossing tour since 2014 for any artist topping Taylor Swift's 2015 tour which grossed $250.1 million. Springsteen and the E Street Band also hold the biggest Boxscore for 2016, with the May 27 and 29 shows at Dublin's Croke Park taking in $19,228,100 from 160,188 attendance for two sellout shows.
The tour marked the first tour in two years for Springsteen and the E Street Band. All shows on the first North American leg of tour and some shows from the second leg featured a full-length sequential performance of The River album. The other shows have featured a large part of the album performed, albeit not always in album order. Many of the shows have lasted over three and a half hours with around 33 songs being performed. Springsteen broke his longest show record in the United States a few times towards the end of the tour. His show on September 7, 2016 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania clocked in at 4 hours and 4 minutes, the longest show of his entire career in the United States and second longest ever just two minutes shy of his 2012 show in Helsinki.
Springsteen released The Ties That Bind: The River Collection on December 4, 2015. The extensive box set features the original 1980 The River album along with many outtakes from those sessions. Along with the full album performance (for part of the tour), songs from Springsteen's other albums will be performed and it is possible that select outtakes from the box set will be performed live, some likely for the first time.
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