Where We Are Tour (One Direction)

Where We Are Tour

Tour by One Direction
UK Promotional poster
Associated album	Midnight Memories
Start date	25 April 2014
End date	5 October 2014
Legs	3
No. of shows	28 in Europe 31 in North America 10 in South America 69 in total
Box office	US$290.2 million
One Direction concert chronology

The Where We Are Tour was the third headlining concert tour by English-Irish boy band One Direction.^[1] The concert tour visited stadiums from April through October 2014 with addition to special performances in Las Vegas on 20 September 2014 for the iHeartRadio Music Festival. The concert tour officially kicked off on 25 April 2014 at El Campín Stadium in Bogotá, Colombia and concluded on 5 October 2014 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida. It promoted the band's third studio album, Midnight Memories,^[2][3] also announced along with the tour.^{[4][5][6][7][8]} Australian pop/rock band 5 Seconds of Summer served as opening act for UK, European and US tour dates.^[9] The tour grossed $290 million in sales after 69 performances with total attendance of 3.4 million. It became the 12th highest-grossing concert tour of all time.^[10]

Background

The tour was announced by One Direction during a press conference on 16 May 2013 at Wembley Stadium.^[11][12] One Direction raised £600,000 for Stand up to Cancer due to them giving 50p of each ticket sold to the charity.^[13] On March 2014, Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer announced they would be the opening act for UK, European and US tour dates.^[9]

Commercial performance

Tour stage at Santiago, Chile

The kickoff-date for the tour in Bogotá sold out all 20,000 tickets in few hours including the additional tickets that promoters made available months after.^[14][15]

It was also announced that when the tickets went on sale on 25 May 2013 it sold out in minutes;^[16] the same day, additional dates were announced for Dublin, Manchester and London. After a performance on Good Morning America on 26 November 2013, a day after the release of their third studio album, the band announced 21 additional tour dates for North America.^[17] Three additional dates were announced on 27 January 2014. More dates are speculated to be announced. The first show was on 25 April 2014 at El Campín Stadium, Bogotá which has a capacity of 41K which is one of the biggest stadium in Colombia. The band filled it up with 34K fans.

The band opened Radio 1's Big Weekend in Glasgow at the festival's Main Stage on 24 May before jetting back to Dublin to perform a second show that evening. They also opened up night 2 of the iHeart Radio Music Festival on 20 September, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.^[18]

Broadcast and recordings

Panoramic view of the Stade de France during the one of its two show dates

The 28 and 29 June 2014 shows at San Siro in Milan, Italy were recorded. They were released on DVD in December 2014. The DVD contains the entire concert as well as bonus content including backstage footage.^[19] The film was released on 11–12 October 2014 in theatrical locations worldwide before its home media release.^[20] The show's runtime is 96 minutes.^[21]

Set list

This set list is representative of the performance on 25 April 2014, the opening show, and the official used during the entire tour.

1. "Midnight Memories"
2. "Little Black Dress"
3. "Kiss You"
4. "Why Don't We Go There"
5. "Rock Me"
6. "Don't Forget Where You Belong"
7. "Live While We're Young"
8. "C'mon, C'mon"
9. "Right Now"
10. "Through the Dark"
11. "Happily"
12. "Little Things"
13. "Moments"
14. "Strong"
15. "Better Than Words"
16. "Alive"
17. "One Thing"
18. "Diana"
19. "What Makes You Beautiful"

Encore

20. "You & I"
21. "Story of My Life"
22. "Little White Lies"
23. "Best Song Ever"

• During the performance in Solna on 14 June, the band performed a cover of "Mamma Mia" by ABBA.
• During the performances in Paris on 22 June, the band performed a cover of "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams.
• During the performance in Detroit on 16 August, the band performed a cover of "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus.
• During the performance in Nashville on 19 August, the band performed a cover of "9 to 4" by Dolly Parton.
• During the performance in Chicago on 29 August, the band performed a cover of "Happy Birthday" by Mildred J. Hill dedicated to Liam, and one of "The Way You Make Me Feel" by Michael Jackson.
• During the performance in Pasadena on 13 September, the band performed a cover of "Happy Birthday" by Mildred J. Hill dedicated to Niall; and also of "I Gotta Feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas, "Beautiful Girls" by Sean Kingston, "Stand by Me" by Ben E. King and "Rock Your Body" by Justin Timberlake, along with a snippet of "I Want".
• During the performance in Atlanta on 1 October, the band performed a cover of "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon.

Shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, amount of available tickets, and gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Opening act	Attendance	Revenue
South America[22][23]
25 April 2014	Bogotá	Colombia	Estadio El Campín	El Freaky	34,935 / 34,935	$4,427,910
27 April 2014	Lima	Peru	Estadio Nacional	Abraham Mateo	42,601 / 42,601	$5,362,870
30 April 2014	Santiago	Chile	Estadio Nacional		87,324 / 87,324	$7,688,500
1 May 2014
3 May 2014	Buenos Aires	Argentina	Estadio Velez Sarsfield	Sonus	80,622 / 80,622	$5,682,760
4 May 2014
6 May 2014	Montevideo	Uruguay	Estadio Centenario		30,958 / 30,958	$2,316,460
8 May 2014	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Parque dos Atletas	P9	40,087 / 40,087	$3,826,760
10 May 2014	São Paulo		Estádio do Morumbi		102,792 / 102,792	$9,457,730
11 May 2014
Europe[1][23][24]
23 May 2014	Dublin	Ireland	Croke Park	5 Seconds of Summer	235,008 / 235,008	$20,115,900
24 May 2014[lower-alpha 1]	Glasgow	Scotland	Glasgow Green	N/A	N/A	N/A
24 May 2014	Dublin	Ireland	Croke Park	5 Seconds of Summer	[lower-alpha 2]	[lower-alpha 2]
25 May 2014
28 May 2014	Sunderland	England	Stadium of Light		51,231 / 51,231	$4,383,490
30 May 2014	Manchester		Etihad Stadium		158,579 / 158,579	$12,908,000
31 May 2014
1 June 2014
3 June 2014	Edinburgh	Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium		64,623 / 64,623	$5,297,750
6 June 2014	London	England	Wembley Stadium		236,566 / 236,566	$20,017,900
7 June 2014
8 June 2014
13 June 2014	Stockholm	Sweden	Friends Arena		88,978 / 88,978	$7,358,040
14 June 2014
16 June 2014	Copenhagen	Denmark	Parken Stadium	McBusted	83,577 / 83,577	$8,190,650
17 June 2014
20 June 2014	Paris	France	Stade de France	5 Seconds of Summer McBusted	114,172 / 114,172	$9,775,550
21 June 2014
24 June 2014	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Amsterdam Arena	5 Seconds of Summer	103,551 / 103,551	$7,859,850
25 June 2014
28 June 2014	Milan	Italy	Stadio San Siro		115,931 / 115,931	$7,779,190
29 June 2014
2 July 2014	Düsseldorf	Germany	Esprit Arena		44,684 / 44,684	$3,395,490
4 July 2014	Berne	Switzerland	Stade de Suisse		31,037 / 31,037	$3,150,110
6 July 2014	Turin	Italy	Stadio Olimpico		38,430 / 38,430	$3,294,610
8 July 2014	Barcelona	Spain	Estadi Olímpic	5 Seconds of Summer Abraham Mateo	40,333 / 40,333	$3,391,560
10 July 2014	Madrid		Estadio Vicente Calderón		65,186 / 65,186	$5,409,230
11 July 2014
13 July 2014	Porto	Portugal	Estádio do Dragão	D.A.M.A	45,001 / 45,001	$3,868,070
North America[26]
1 August 2014	Toronto	Canada	Rogers Centre	5 Seconds of Summer	98,851 / 98,851	$6,634,920
2 August 2014
4 August 2014	East Rutherford	United States	MetLife Stadium		139,247 / 139,247	$12,345,803
5 August 2014
7 August 2014	Foxborough		Gillette Stadium		148,251 / 148,251	$13,475,239
8 August 2014
9 August 2014
11 August 2014	Washington, D.C.		Nationals Park		42,834 / 42,834	$4,233,063
13 August 2014	Philadelphia		Lincoln Financial Field		101,527 / 101,527	$8,818,556
14 August 2014
16 August 2014	Detroit		Ford Field		92,428 / 92,428	$8,304,416
17 August 2014
19 August 2014	Nashville		LP Field		53,472 / 53,472	$4,286,308
22 August 2014	Houston		Reliant Stadium		55,703 / 55,703	$4,659,939
24 August 2014	Arlington		AT&T Stadium	Jamie Scott	51,074 / 51,074	$4,517,012
27 August 2014	St. Louis		Edward Jones Dome		52,315 / 52,315	$4,281,608
29 August 2014	Chicago		Soldier Field	5 Seconds of Summer	104,617 / 104,617	$9,446,247
30 August 2014
11 September 2014	Pasadena		Rose Bowl	5 Seconds of Summer Jamie Scott	165,170 / 165,170	$12,560,382
12 September 2014
13 September 2014
16 September 2014	Glendale		University of Phoenix Stadium	5 Seconds of Summer	56,524 / 56,524	$5,035,880
19 September 2014	El Paso		Sun Bowl Stadium		44,910 / 44,910	$3,632,097
20 September 2014[lower-alpha 3]	Las Vegas		MGM Grand Garden Arena	N/A	N/A	N/A
21 September 2014	San Antonio		Alamodome	5 Seconds of Summer	51,575 / 51,575	$4,237,714
23 September 2014	Tulsa		BOK Center		10,100 / 10,100	$1,012,051
25 September 2014	New Orleans		Mercedes-Benz Superdome		50,349 / 50,349	$4,258,450
27 September 2014	Charlotte		PNC Music Pavilion		37,365 / 37,365	$2,378,580
28 September 2014
1 October 2014	Atlanta		Georgia Dome		50,970 / 50,970	$4,438,203
3 October 2014	Tampa		Raymond James Stadium		52,158 / 52,158	$4,359,855
5 October 2014	Miami Gardens		Sun Life Stadium		53,914 / 53,914	$4,303,749
Total					3,439,560 / 3,439,560	$290,178,452

Notes

1. The 24 May 2014 concert in Glasgow, Scotland is a part of Radio 1's Big Weekend. The band opened the event at 1pm before flying back to Dublin to perform a second show that very same evening.^[25]
2. The score data is combined from the shows held at the Croke Park on 23, 24 and 25 May, respectively.
3. The 20 September 2014 concert in Las Vegas, Nevada at the MGM Grand Garden Arena was part of the iHeartRadio Music Festival. The band performed on the second night of the event.^[27]

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