Live in Barcelona (Bruce Springsteen video)

Live In Barcelona is a full concert video DVD of a performance by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band of their Rising Tour performance of October 16, 2002 at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Live in Barcelona
Directed byChris Hilson
Produced byJon Landau
Barbara Carr
George Travis
StarringBruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Edited byThom Zimny
Music byBruce Springsteen
recorded and mixed by Brendan O'Brien
Distributed byColumbia Music Video
Release date
  • November 18, 2003 (2003-11-18)
Running time
180 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageEnglish

The first half of the show was broadcast live at the time across Europe on MTV Europe and VH1 UK; the broadcast concluded with Springsteen's biggest hit, "Dancing in the Dark", unusually placed in the middle of the regular set for that reason. A tape of the broadcast was later aired by CBS in the United States on February 28, 2003 as well. The performance of "Waitin' on a Sunny Day" was released as a music video to promote the single.

Released on November 18, 2003 after the tour's conclusion and now incorporating the complete Barcelona performance, this DVD was the first time that an entire Springsteen concert was documented with an official release in either audio or video. Unlike the prior tour's concert video Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: Live in New York City, no equivalent audio-only album release was made.

Contents edit

Disc one edit

  1. "The Rising"
  2. "Lonesome Day"
  3. "Prove It All Night"
  4. "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
  5. "Empty Sky"
  6. "You're Missing"
  7. "Waitin' on a Sunny Day"
  8. "The Promised Land"
  9. "Worlds Apart"
  10. "Badlands"
  11. "She's the One"
  12. "Mary's Place"
  13. "Dancing in the Dark"
  14. "Countin' on a Miracle"
  15. "Spirit in the Night"
  16. "Incident on 57th Street"
  17. "Into the Fire"

Disc two edit

  1. "Night"
  2. "Ramrod"
  3. "Born to Run"
  4. "My City of Ruins"
  5. "Born in the U.S.A."
  6. "Land of Hope and Dreams"
  7. "Thunder Road"
  8. Drop the Needle and Pray: The Rising on Tour, a documentary featuring footage from shows on the Summer 2003 leg of the tour at Fenway Park and Giants Stadium, interviews with Springsteen and band members, and unpublished photographs.

Personnel edit

As listed on the DVD cover:

The E Street Band

Charts edit

Chart (2003) Peak
position
Australian DVDs Chart[1] 14
Austrian Music DVDs Chart[2] 4
German Albums Chart[3] 38
US Music Videos Chart[4] 5
Chart (2004) Peak
position
Belgian (Flanders) Music DVDs Chart[5] 10

Certifications edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[6] 3× Platinum 45,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[7] Gold 5,000*
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[8] Gold 20,000^
France (SNEP)[9] Gold 10,000*
Germany (BVMI)[10] Platinum 50,000^
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[11] 2× Platinum 50,000^
United States (RIAA)[12] 4× Platinum 200,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References edit

  1. ^ "ARIA Top 40 DVD" (PDF). The ARIA Report (718): 19. November 24, 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 6, 2003. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
  2. ^ "Austria Top 40 – Musik-DVDs Top 10 30.11.2003". austriancharts.at (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
  3. ^ "Album – Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Live in Barcelona [DVD]". charts.de (in German). Media Control. Archived from the original on December 2, 2014. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
  4. ^ "Top Music Videos". Billboard. Vol. 115, no. 49. December 6, 2003. p. 40. ISSN 0006-2510.
  5. ^ "Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band – Live in Barcelona [DVD]". ultratop.be (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Archived from the original on November 13, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
  6. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2008 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
  7. ^ "Austrian video certifications – Bruce Springsteen – Live in Barcelona" (in German). IFPI Austria. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
  8. ^ "Guld og platin i 2004". IFPI Denmark (in Danish). Archived from the original on June 11, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
  9. ^ "French video certifications – Bruce Springsteen – Live in Barcelona" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
  10. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Bruce Springsteen; 'Live in Barcelona')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
  11. ^ "Top 20 DVD 04_01" (PDF). PROMUSICAE (in Spanish). Retrieved December 27, 2012.
  12. ^ "American video certifications – Bruce Springsteen – Live in Barcelona". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved December 27, 2012.

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