American Idols Live! Tour 2011

The American Idols Live! Tour 2011 is a summer concert tour in the United States, Canada and the Philippines that features the Top 11 contestants of the tenth season of American Idol. The 49-date tour started in West Valley City, Utah, on July 6, and its North American leg ended in Rochester, New York on September 10. Forty-five dates were originally planned but four extra dates were added due to high demand, including two final shows in Manila, Philippines, only the second time the show has traveled outside North America after Singapore was added to the tour schedule in Season 3.

American Idols Live! Tour 2011

Tour by American Idol
Back: James Durbin, Scotty McCreery, Paul McDonald Middle: Stefano Langone, Naima Adedapo, Haley Reinhart, Lauren Alaina Front: Pia Toscano, Casey Abrams, Thia Megia, Jacob Lusk
Start date	July 6, 2011
End date	September 21, 2011
No. of shows	49
Box office	22 million from 47 shows
American Idol concert chronology

This season's tour was promoted again by AEG Live after a year with Live Nation. This year Ford Motor Company, Coca-Cola, and U.S. Air Force Reserve joined as sponsors of the tour.

Performers

Scotty McCreery (Winner)	Lauren Alaina (Runner-up)
Haley Reinhart (3rd place)	James Durbin (4th place)
Jacob Lusk (5th place)	Casey Abrams (6th place)
Stefano Langone (7th place)	Paul McDonald (8th place)
Pia Toscano (9th place)	Naima Adedapo (10th or 11th place)
Thia Megia (10th or 11th place)

Show overview

In a break from the previous three years where the shows were essentially a series of mini-concerts by individual performers, this year there were more ensemble performances. Also unlike the previous three years, the individual performers did not perform according to their elimination order on American Idol, and the number of songs performed by each performer did not reflect their elimination order.

The show started with a group performance by the girls and the first half ended with a group performance. The first half featured solos from the first six eliminated contestants—Pia Toscano, Paul McDonald, Thia Megia, Stefano Langone, Naima Adedapo and Casey Abrams, while the Top 5 performed their solos in the second half. Duets and group performances interspersed the solo performances. The second half started with solos by the runner-up Lauren Alaina, and ended with solos by the winner Scotty McCreery followed by the traditional closing group performances.

Setlist

Season 10 American Idol tour, Scotty McCreery performing with Thia Megia, Haley Reinhart and Pia Toscano.

• Naima Adedapo, Thia Megia, Haley Reinhart, Lauren Alaina and Pia Toscano – "Born This Way" (Lady Gaga)
• Toscano – "Empire State of Mind" (Jay-Z and Alicia Keys)
• Toscano and Stefano Langone – "California King Bed" (Rihanna)
• Paul McDonald – "Maggie May" (Rod Stewart)
• Megia – "Who Says" (Selena Gomez & the Scene)
• Megia, Reinhart, Adedapo and Toscano – "Tightrope" (Janelle Monáe)
• Langone – "Grenade" (Bruno Mars)
• Langone (Adedapo, Megia, Reinhart and Toscano on backing vocals) – "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" (Usher)
• McDonald, James Durbin, Casey Abrams, Langone and Jacob Lusk – "Animal" (Neon Trees)
• Adedapo – "On the Floor" (Jennifer Lopez)
• Toscano – "This Time" (Pia Toscano)
• Alaina, Toscano and Megia – "Firework" (Katy Perry)
• Abrams – "Smooth" (Rob Thomas and Santana)
• Abrams and Reinhart – "Moanin'"
• Abrams – "Harder to Breathe" (Maroon 5)
• All (Except Scotty McCreery) – "Forget You!" (Cee Lo Green)

Intermission

• Alaina – "Flat on the Floor" (Katrina Elam) and "Like My Mother Does" (Kristy Lee Cook)
• Alaina (Langone, Megia and Reinhart on backing vocals) – "If I Die Young" (The Band Perry)
• Durbin – "Sweet Child o' Mine" (Guns N' Roses) and "Uprising" (Muse)
• Lusk – "Never Too Much" (Luther Vandross)
• Lusk (Adedapo, Langone and Toscano backing vocals) – "You're All I Need to Get By" (Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell)
• Reinhart – "The House of the Rising Sun" (Traditional) and "Bennie and the Jets" (Elton John)
• McCreery – "Your Man" (Josh Turner), "Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not" (Thompson Square) and "I Love You This Big" (Scotty McCreery)
• McCreery and Alaina – "When You Say Nothing at All" (Keith Whitley)
• McCreery (Alaina, Megia, Reinhart and Toscano on backing vocals) – "Gone" (Montgomery Gentry)
• Group medley – Durbin and Alaina – "Here I Go Again" (Whitesnake), Abrams, McDonald and Reinhart – "Faithfully" (Journey), Adedapo, Langone, Lusk and Megia – "Walk This Way" (Aerosmith), all – "Any Way You Want It/Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" (Journey)

Additional notes

1. Lauren Alaina sprained her ankle backstage at the Portland show, and performed her next show with the injured foot strapped in a boot.
2. The performance of Firework was removed from the setlist in shows starting from Rosemont, Illinois due to Lauren Alaina needing to rest her voice. However, it did return to the set starting with the Philadelphia show. Alaina did not appear in the first half in Columbus and Pittsburgh, but did appear in the second. However, she missed the Baltimore show completely, and reported that she was suffering from severe bronchitis.
3. Paul McDonald was absent from the Providence show.
4. The show at Albany on August 28, 2011, was postponed to September 4, 2011, due to Hurricane Irene that struck the East Coast of the United States on August 27.
5. It was the second time that the American Idol Live! Tour traveled to Asia with the Philippines being the second and only country for this year that they traveled to outside the United States and Canada.

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance			Gross
				Sales	Capacity	Percentage
North America
July 6, 2011	West Valley City	United States	Maverik Center	6,251	6,616	94.5%	$351,295
July 8, 2011	Everett		Comcast Arena	7,887	7,887	100%	$435,295
July 9, 2011	Portland		Rose Garden Arena	8,695	9,044	96.1%	$467,635
July 11, 2011	Sacramento		Power Balance Pavilion	10,056	10,527	95.5%	$531,060
July 12, 2011	Oakland		Oracle Arena	7,836	8,510	92.1%	$428,155
July 13, 2011	San Jose		HP Pavilion at San Jose	9,623	10,162	94.7%	$513,515
July 15, 2011	Los Angeles		Nokia Theatre L.A. Live	6,537	6,537	100%	$374,125
July 16, 2011	Ontario		Citizens Business Bank Arena	7,845	7,845	100%	$464,985
July 17, 2011	Phoenix		US Airways Center	9,235	9,757	94.6%	$491,235
July 19, 2011	Oklahoma City		Cox Convention Center	6,910	7,391	93.5%	$385,210
July 20, 2011	Grand Prairie		Verizon Theatre	6,018	6,018	100%	$339,330
July 21, 2011	Houston		Reliant Arena	6,790	6,790	100%	$380,170
July 22, 2011	New Orleans		UNO Lakefront Arena	5,525	5,525	100%	$326,525
July 24, 2011	Orlando		Amway Center	10,791	11,296	95.5%	$564,395
July 26, 2011	Duluth		Arena at Gwinnett Center	10,026	10,026	100%	$533,870
July 27, 2011	Raleigh		RBC Center	13,533	13,533	100%	$696,605
July 28, 2011	Charlotte		Time Warner Cable Arena	9,239	9,239	100%	$493,115
July 30, 2011	Nashville		Bridgestone Arena	13,192	13,192	100%	$676,020
July 31, 2011	St. Louis		Scottrade Center	8,580	8,580	100%	$459,800
August 2, 2011	Kansas City		Sprint Center	8,535	8,535	100%	$457,795
August 3, 2011	Minneapolis		Target Center	9,632	9,632	100%	$510,560
August 4, 2011	Milwaukee		Bradley Center	8,646	8,646	100%	$460,930
August 6, 2011	Rosemont		Allstate Arena	11,932	11,932	100%	$613,720
August 7, 2011	Detroit		Joe Louis Arena	8,980	8,980	100%	$480,880
August 9, 2011	Columbus		Jerome Schottenstein Center	9,677	10,135	95.5%	$508,455
August 10, 2011	Pittsburgh		Consol Energy Center	8,772	9,167	95.7%	$465,400
August 11, 2011	Baltimore		1st Mariner Arena	7,571	7,974	95.0%	$420,675
August 13, 2011	Atlantic City		Boardwalk Hall	11,913	11,913	100%	$615,025
August 14, 2011	Newark		Prudential Center	18,529	19,846	93.4%	$1,009,565
August 15, 2011
August 17, 2011	Philadelphia		Wells Fargo Center	9,326	9,848	94.7%	$501,570
August 19, 2011	Washington, D.C.		Verizon Center	9,064	9,804	92.5%	$491,220
August 20, 2011	Richmond		Richmond Coliseum	8,183	8,411	97.3%	$449,475
August 21, 2011	Wilkes-Barre		Mohegan Sun Arena	7,562	7,562	100%	$415,490
August 23, 2011	Uniondale		Nassau Coliseum	18,981	19,613	96.8%	$1,044,245
August 24, 2011
August 25, 2011	Bridgeport		Webster Bank Arena	7,942	7,942	100%	$431,730
August 27, 2011	Providence		Dunkin' Donuts Center	8,460	8,460	100%	$457,540
August 30, 2011	Portland		Cumberland County Civic Center	6,070	6,070	100%	$350,550
August 31, 2011	Manchester		Verizon Wireless Arena	8,831	8,831	100%	$473,155
September 1, 2011	Worcester		DCU Center	8,840	9,701	91.1%	$480,740
September 3, 2011	Uncasville		Mohegan Sun Arena	5,296	5,296	100%	$385,560
September 4, 2011	Albanya		Times Union Center	6,738	7,772	86.7%	$370,590
September 6, 2011	Syracuse		War Memorial at Oncenter	4,975	5,581	89.1%	$286,435
September 7, 2011	Reading		Sovereign Center	5,850	6,780	86.3%	$337,830
September 9, 2011	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre	11,485	11,485	100%	$667,969
September 10, 2011	Rochester	United States	Blue Cross Arena	7,336	7,842	93.6%	$403,020
Asia
September 20, 2011	Quezon City	Philippines	Smart Araneta Coliseum	13,500	15,000	90%
September 21, 2011

• ^Note a The Albany show was originally scheduled for August 28 but moved to September 4, 2011, due to Hurricane Irene.

Response

The tour attendance rebounded after the poor turn-out for the Season 9 tour. Sixteen of the first 24 shows were sold out, and more than 97% its tickets hasd been sold through its first 14 dates with an average venue size of 8,100. The tour grossed $22,002,464 from 47 shows (the two Philippines shows did not report) with an attendance of 97%. The tour had the highest number of sell-outs of all seasons due in part to a lower-average venue size of 8,856. It was ranked number 38 in the Pollstar Top 200 North American Tours for 2011.

Revenue

The tour was ranked No. 38 in the list of 2011 Year-end Top 200 North American tours, based on total gross income.

Tour summary

• Number of shows – 49 (24 sold out)
• Total gross – $22,002,464 (47 shows)
• Total attendance – 403,695
• Average attendance – 8,589 (97.0%)
• Average ticket price – $54.5
• Highest gross – Raleigh, North Carolina – $696,605
• Lowest gross – Syracuse, New York – $286,435
• Highest attendance – Raleigh, North Carolina – 13,533 (100%)
• Lowest attendance – Syracuse, New York – 4,975 (89.1%)