Femme Fatale Tour

by Britney Spears
Presentation album	Femme Fatale
Beginning of the tour	June 16, 2011
End of the tour	December 10, 2011
Total concerts ; (by continent)	* 26 in Europe 39 in North America ; 13 in Central America and South America ; 1 in Asia ;
Concerts in total	79
revenue	$ 68.7 million

The Femme Fatale Tour is a concert tour by the American pop music singer Britney Spears , which started on June 16, 2011 in Sacramento / USA and ended on December 10, 2011 in San Juan / Puerto Rico . The tour included 79 performances, 39 of them in North America, 26 in Europe, 13 in Central and South America and, for the first time, a concert in Dubai.

background

In an interview with Ryan Seacrest on his radio show on March 4, 2011, Spears announced a tour of the United States. After performing on Good Morning America on March 29, 2011 , she announced that Enrique Iglesias would be accompanying her on tour. Only hours after the announcement, the Billboard reported that Iglesias did not want to go with them. Billboard's Ray Wedell suspected that Iglesias didn't just want to act as an "opening act". The first 26 concert dates were announced on March 29th. Three more dates were added later. Nicki Minaj appeared in the opening act of their tour through North America , who was replaced by Joe Jonas for the appearances in Europe .

development

In March 2011, Larry Rudolph, Spears' manager, confirmed Jamie King as director and Brian Friedman as choreographer for the tour. Both were already involved in the circus tour. On April 21, 2011 Friedman announced his departure from the team, citing the reason that he was already working on other projects. On April 30, 2011, Spears posted a video showing her rehearsing for her tour. On May 11, 2011, Sabi, who together with Spears recorded the song Drop Dead (Beautiful) for the album Femme Fatale , announced on the sidelines of dinner for the St. Bernard Project, which was moderated by Spears, that she would be at I'll sing the song with Spears at a few selected concerts. Another concert date in Atlantic City was announced on May 26th . On May 30, 2011, Spears announced on Facebook that the tour would also take place in Europe. On June 6th, a total of seven new dates were announced for England alone. Four concerts were planned for The O₂ in London alone . A video was posted on their website on June 7th showing Spears the stage for the tour for the first time.

On June 10, 2011, selected fans and representatives of the press, including Perez Hilton , were invited to one of the last rehearsals before the start of the tour. All of the invited guests gave positive feedback. In addition, a countdown to the start of the tour was set on their website, with a new video of the rehearsals being published every day.

On July 26th, Spears announced new dates in South and Central America during a live broadcast. During the broadcast, only five dates were announced for the time being, followed by another four later. She also apologized to her fans for not coming to South America during The Circus Starring: Britney Spears tour and thanked them for their support. On July 27th there were four more dates for South America.

For the first time in her career, Spears also gave a concert in the United Arab Emirates . The concert took place on November 11, 2011, one day before the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix .

On November 30th, the Mayor of Mexico City confirmed via Twitter that Spears would give a free concert in the city. The concert took place on December 4th in front of about 80,000 people in the Placa Monumento a la Revolución in the middle of Mexico City.

Concert description

The show, which is divided into five segments, tells a story in which Spears is a secret agent and is pursued by a stalker played by Rudolf Martin . After a neon sign saying "Femme Fatale" is lifted off the stage, the show begins with a video in which Britney Spears is arrested by police after a chase sequence. In the video, she says, "I'm not that innocent". After the video ends, the screen opens and Spears appears, sitting on a metallic throne in a silver costume , singing her song Hold It Against Me . The second song is Up N 'Down (also from their album Femme Fatale ). During the performance, Spears and her female dancers are locked in cages. After walking around the B-stage on a conveyor belt, Spears dons a white trench coat and dark sunglasses and sings her song 3 . Then she goes on a platform at Piece of Me and hovers over the stage. This is followed by a break, underlaid with a video that contains parts from the video for My Prerogative . During the video, the viewer learns that Britney Spears is a secret agent. The next section begins with Spears in a pink latex body and jacket , while she sings Big Fat Bass while will.i.am appears on the screen in the background. She takes off her jacket from the How I Roll show and gets into a pink Mini Cooper convertible. During a short break, a male member is taken from the audience and brought to Spears. During the performance of Lace and Leather , she dances around him and wraps her legs around his neck from behind. After a costume change, Spears goes over to the song If U Seek Amy , she wears a white mini skirt and dances; this part is reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe's legendary scene in The Seven Year Itch (1955).

Spears dances to her song I Wanna Go with some fans

During the performance of I Wanna Go , members of the audience are brought on stage to dance to the song with Spears. A video clip in which the stalker talks about the femme fatales in the story begins the third section. Spears reappears on stage in a gold outfit and performs an Egyptian-themed version of Gimme More , with a barge and fireworks. In her next number (Drop Dead) Beautiful , Spears is surrounded by her dancers with picture frames, this appearance includes an appearance by Sabi, but only in selected cities. Then she sings the song Boys (Co-Ed Remix) . After climbing into a swing, she begins Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know while an acrobat hangs from her. After another video plays, Spears and her dancers in motorcycle clothing come on stage to dance to a medley ... Baby One More Time and S&M . During the next song Trouble for Me , Spears is accompanied by her dancers on the B-stage. Her song I'm a Slave 4 U is followed by a cover version of Madonna's Burning Up . She dances on the tip of a huge silver guitar. Then she sings Womanizer with her dancers disguised as police officers and thanks the audience. The encore begins with a video clip in a Spears kimono. She then sings her song Toxic in a kimono while her dancers dance on stage dressed as ninjas. At the end of the song, she goes under the stage and returns in a black glittery body for Till the World Ends . Halfway through the song, Nicki Minaj appears on stage and raps her verse of the song. After the song, Spears flies across the stage in a platform with huge angel wings. The show ends with Britney Spears and her dancers thanking the audience, confetti falling and the "Femme Fatale" sign lowered back onto the stage.

criticism

One day after its launch in Sacramento , Spears received positive reviews from the US press for the concept of the Femme Fatale Tour and its singing and dancing performances. After she was heavily criticized for her playback vocals during her last tour, The Circus Starring: Britney Spears , the Femme Fatale Tour was positively noticed that Spears sang live and only occasionally used background vocals.

A sold out show was reported from Sacramento itself. The Sacramento Bee , for example, wrote: "She performed the entire show like a pro. The sold-out hall was enthusiastic about Spears' outstanding songs from the start ”or“ It's so satisfying to see how relaxed it seems and apparently had just as much fun as the enthusiastic audience in the Power Balance Pavilion. ”

Rolling Stone magazine wrote, “Really, the evening was all Britney's own: she proved that she's still developing as a showgirl. And not only that, she does it better than even her die-hard defenders would have predicted. "

Following their shows in Nashville and Atlanta, Spears placed 10th on Billboard's Hot Tours List , grossing $ 1,563,934 after 2 concerts. Pollstar's website lists the tour as grossing $ 6.2 million after the first ten shows at number 55. On September 22, 2011, the tour was placed at number 6 in the Top 20 Concert Tours on the Pollstar website . By the ranking, shows in North America averaged $ 940,165 in revenue per city.

On December 9th, Billboard magazine published the list of the most successful tours in America. The Femme Fatale Tour took 19th place with 39 concerts, 14 of which were sold out. Income in America amounted to 37,100,000 US dollars and a total of 396,000 fans attended the concerts of the first stage. The Pollstar website published a list of the most successful tours of 2011 at the end of the year. Spears ranks 11th with total revenues of around $ 69 million. The average price of a ticket was $ 98.

Tour DVD

A live DVD of the tour has been released under the name Britney Spears Live: The Femme Fatale Tour . The DVD was recorded in 2D and 3D on August 13th and 14th during the concerts at the Air Canada Center in Toronto . The American TV channel EpixHD broadcast the recordings on November 12, 2011. The BBC will broadcast the 2D version on December 24th in Great Britain and Northern Ireland , the 3D version will follow in February 2012. This makes the tour one of the first tours ever to be broadcast in 3D. In the TV broadcast, the studio sound of the songs was partially superimposed on the live vocals at the direction of their management. In Germany, the DVD will be released on December 16, after the date had already been postponed twice due to production problems.

useful information

After the first ten shows, the profit was already 6.2 million US dollars.
The stage outfits come from Zaldy Goco , he has already worked with Gwen Stefani and Lady Gaga .
Spears was accompanied by 140 workers, 125 team members, 14 tour buses, 16 dancers and 2 live musicians at each concert.
The stage was set up from the ceiling down to the floor.
During the tour, Spears visited some countries she had never been to in her 13-year career, such as the United Arab Emirates and Puerto Rico .
Some of the remaining tickets for the concert in Dubai were worth over 1000 US dollars on the black market, and the 35,000 fans in Dubai caused traffic chaos on arrival.
On November 12th, her concert in New York was broadcast in Times Square .
The only concert in Germany was only half attended. A total of around 8,000 fans appeared in the Lanxess Arena in Cologne on October 18, 2011.

Opening act

Nicki Minaj (North America: Leg 1) (selected dates)
Jessie and the Toy Boys (North America: Leg 1) (selected dates)
Nervo (North America: Leg 1) (selected dates
DJ Pauly D (North America: Leg 1) (selected dates)
Joe Jonas (East Rutherford, Europe)
Destinee & Paris (selected dates in North America, Europe)

Set list

Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj sing Till the World Ends during the Femme Fatale tour.

Britney Spears surrounded by her dancers during the How I Roll performance .

Act 1: The Game Of The Cat And Mouse [Intro]

Act 2: Electronic Music In My Life [Intro]

Act 3: The Temptress [Intro]

Gimme More (contains elements from Get Naked (I Got a Plan) )
(Drop Dead) Beautiful (contains elements from Inside Out (performed with Sabi at selected North American concerts))
He About to Lose Me (performed at selected North American concerts)
Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know
Boys (The Co-Ed Remix)

Act 4: Around The Time [Intro]

... Baby One More Time
S&M
Trouble for Me
I'm a slave 4 U
Burning Up (Cover of Madonna ) (performed at selected North American concerts)
I wanna go
Womanizer (contains elements of the Jason Nevins Club remix )

Act 5: Sexy Assassin [Intro]

Toxic (contains elements of the Peter Rauhofer Reconstruction Mix )

Till the World Ends (contains elements of the Femme Fatale Remix ) (performed with Nicki Minaj Minaj at selected North American concerts)

Tour dates

date	city	country	Venue
North America
June 16, 2011	Sacramento	United States	Power Balance Pavilion
June 18, 2011	San Jose		HP Pavilion
June 20, 2011	los Angeles		Staples Center
June 22, 2011	Phoenix		Jobing.com arena
June 24, 2011	Anaheim		Honda Center
June 25, 2011	Las Vegas		MGM Grand Garden Arena
June 28, 2011	Portland		Rose Garden Arena
June 29, 2011	Tacoma		Tacoma Dome
July 1, 2011	Vancouver	Canada	Rogers Arena
4th July 2011	Winnipeg	Canada	MTS Center
July 6, 2011	St. Paul	United States	Xcel Energy Center
July 8, 2011	Chicago		United Center
July 9, 2011 ¹	Milwaukee		Marcus amphitheater
July 12, 2011	Dallas		American Airlines Center
July 13, 2011	Houston		Toyota Center
July 15, 2011	New Orleans		New Orleans Arena
July 17, 2011	Atlanta		Philips Arena
July 18, 2011	Nashville		Bridgestone Arena
July 20, 2011	Orlando		Amway Center
July 22, 2011	Miami		American Airlines Arena
July 23, 2011	Jacksonville		Veterans Memorial Arena
July 26, 2011	Cleveland		Quicken Loans Arena
July 28, 2011	Detroit		Palace of Auburn Hills
July 3, 2011	Philadelphia		Wells Fargo Center
July 31, 2011	Washington, DC		Verizon Center
August 2, 2011	Union Dale		Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
August 5, 2011	East Rutherford		Izod Center
August 6, 2011	Atlantic City		Boardwalk Hall
August 8, 2011	Boston		TD Garden
August 9, 2011	Hartford		XL Center
August 11, 2011	Montreal	Canada	Bell Center
August 13, 2011	Toronto		Air Canada Center
August 14, 2011	Toronto		Air Canada Center
17th August 2011	Grand Rapids	United States	Van Andel Arena
August 19, 2011	Pittsburgh		Consol Energy Center
August 20, 2011	Columbus		Nationwide Arena
August 22, 2011	Indianapolis		Conseco Fieldhouse
August 24, 2011	Charlotte		Time Warner Cable Arena
August 25, 2011	Raleigh		RBC Center
Europe
September 22, 2011	St. Petersburg	Russia	Ice rink Saint Petersburg
September 24, 2011	Moscow	Russia	Olimpijski
September 29, 2011	Kiev	Ukraine	Kiev Sports Palace
September 30, 2011	Budapest	Hungary	Papp László Budapest Sportaréna
October 1, 2011	Zagreb	Croatia	Arena Zagreb
October 3, 2011	Zurich	Switzerland	Hallenstadion
October 5, 2011	Amnéville	France	Galaxy Amnéville
October 6, 2011	Paris	France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
October 8, 2011	Antwerp	Belgium	Sports paleis
October 10, 2011	Herning	Denmark	Jyske Bank boxes
October 11, 2011	Malmo	Sweden	Malmo Arena
October 14, 2011	Helsinki	Finland	Hartwall Areena
October 16, 2011	Stockholm	Sweden	Ericsson Globe
October 18, 2011	Cologne	Germany	Lanxess Arena
October 19, 2011	Rotterdam	Netherlands	Ahoy
October 21, 2011	Montpellier	France	Arena Montpellier
October 24, 2011	Dublin	Ireland	The O₂Dublin
October 25, 2011	Belfast	United Kingdom	Odyssey Arena
October 27, 2011	London		The O₂
October 28, 2011	London		The O₂
October 30, 2011	Birmingham		LG Arena
October 31, 2011	London		Wembley Arena
November 3, 2011	Newcastle		Metro Radio Arena
November 5, 2011	Sheffield		Sheffield Motorpoint Arena
November 6, 2011	Manchester		Manchester Evening News Arena
November 9, 2011	Lisbon	Portugal	Pavilhão Atlântico
Asia
November 11, 2011	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	Yas Island
South America
November 15, 2011	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Apotesis
November 18, 2011	São Paulo	Brazil	Anhembi Convention Center
November 20, 2011	La Plata	Argentina	Estadio Ciudad de La Plata
November 22, 2011	Santiago de Chile	Chile	Estadio Nacional de Chile
November 24, 2011	Lima	Peru	Estadio Monumental "U"
November 26, 2011	Bogotá	Colombia	Parque Simon Bolivar
November 28, 2011	Caracas	Venezuela	Universidad Simón Bolívar
December 1, 2011	Guadalajara	Mexico	Estadio Tres de Marzo
December 3, 2011	Mexico city		Foro Sol
December 4, 2011 ²	Mexico city		Placa Monumento a la Revolución
December 6, 2011	Monterrey		Estadio Universitario
December 8, 2011	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	Estadio Olimpico
December 10, 2011	Hato Rey	Puerto Rico	Coliseo De Puerto Rico

¹ This concert was part of the Summerfest 2011 .

² additional concert with free entry

revenue

Venue	city	Number of shows	Tickets purchased	revenue
Staples Center	los Angeles	1	12,339 / 12,339 (100%)	$ 1,581,707
Rose Garden	Portland	1	7,171 / 8,717 (82%)	$ 513,297
American Airlines Center	Dallas	1	11,540 / 12,776 (90%)	$ 1,181,767
Philips Arena	Atlanta	1	13,014 / 13,495 (96%)	$ 988,235
Bridgestone Arena	Nashville	1	10,883 / 12,732 (85%)	$ 575,699
Amway Center	Orlando	1	11,215 / 12,953 (87%)	$ 1,032,656
Palace of Auburn Hills	Auburn Hills	1	13,144 / 13,144 (100%)	$ 989,737
Veterans Memorial Arena	Jacksonville	1	6,001 / 6,441 (93%)	$ 419,736
Van Vandel Arena	Grand Rapids	1	7,389 / 9,444 (78%)	$ 399,018
Verizon Center	Washington DC	1	12,023 / 14,084 (85%)	$ 1,331,270
Boardwalk Hall	Atlantic City	1	8,925 / 11,277 (79%)	$ 969,570
Bell Center	Montreal	1	8,772 / 10,445 (84%)	$ 942,113
Air Canada Center	Toronto	1	21,239 / 21,239 (100%)	$ 2,375,640
Sports paleis	Antwerp	1	9,323 / 11,868 (78%)	$ 858,151
Manchester Evening News Arena	Manchester	1	12,653 / 13,644 (93%)	$ 978,972
O² arena	London	2	24,902 / 26,550 (93%)	$ 1,818,120
Arena Anhembi	Sao Paulo	1	20,644 / 35,000 (58%)	$ 2,224,890
Estadio Unico Ciudad de La Plata	Buenos Aires	1	21,717 / 35,613 (60%)	$ 2,535,020
Praca da Apoteose	Rio de Janeiro	1	13,048 / 35,000 (37%)	$ 1,493,260
Estadio de Simon Bolivar	Caracas	1	8,474 / 8,474 (100%)	$ 3,183,790
Coliseo de Puerto Rico	Hato Rey	1	10,634 / 11,637 (91%)	$ 1,263,710
TOTAL			265,050 / 336,872 (78%)	$ 27,656,358

Web links

Commons : Femme Fatale Tour - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

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