Astroworld – Wish You Were Here Tour

The Astroworld – Wish You Were Here Tour was the third concert tour by American rapper and singer Travis Scott, in support of his third studio album, Astroworld (2018). American rappers Sheck Wes, Trippie Redd, Gunna served as the opening acts in North America for the first leg of the tour, with Sheck Wes solely continuing in North America for the second leg and Octavian being the sole opening act in Europe for the third leg, while Trippie Redd dropped out of the tour less than a month after it started. Don Toliver also came out to perform "Can't Say" with Scott for every show in the first leg and a few shows in the second leg despite not serving as an opening act for the tour. The tour started on November 8, 2018, at the CFG Bank Arena (then known as the Royal Farms Arena) in Baltimore, Maryland, and ended on July 16, 2019, at the O2 Arena in London, England.

Astroworld – Wish You Were Here Tour
Tour by Travis Scott
LocationNorth America and Europe
Associated albumAstroworld
Start dateNovember 8, 2018 (2018-11-08)
End dateJuly 16, 2019 (2019-07-16)
Legs3
No. of shows57
Supporting acts
Travis Scott concert chronology
  • Birds Eye View Tour (2017)
  • Astroworld – Wish You Were Here Tour (2018–2019)
  • Circus Maximus Tour (2023–2024)

Background

edit

The tour was officially announced via Scott's Instagram on August 16, 2018. Scott announced "Ive Been Ready To Get Back On Road For A Long Time!! Astroworld Tour Is Finally Here!!". In August 2018, prior to the start of the tour, Scott announced via Instagram "this is leg one Europe and other cities coming soon". At the start of the tour, Scott announced "more dates TBS".[1] Scott also announced that Virgil Abloh, Sheck Wes, Trippie Redd, and Gunna would perform opening acts.[2] On December 7, 2018, it was announced that Redd would no longer support Scott as an opening act for the duration of the tour due to "production issues" and cut down set times.[3] On June 10, 2019, Scott announced a show at the O2 Arena in London, where he would officially end the tour.[1]

Setup

edit

The initial idea of the Wish You Were Here Tour was to revive the childhood amusement park, Six Flags AstroWorld, where each stage was decorated in a fashion reminiscent of the theme park with features such as a small functioning ferris wheel and roller coaster.[4] Instead of having one stage for the show, Scott opted for two stages, one on each end of the arena.[5][4]

Critical reception

edit

North America

edit

The show was reviewed positively by Charles Holmes in Rolling Stone,[5] Julian Kimble in The Washington Post,[6] and by Chris DeVille of Stereogum.[7]

Set list

edit

This set list is representative of the show in Baltimore, Maryland on November 8, 2018. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour.[8]

  1. "Stargazing"
  2. "Lose" (instrumental)
  3. "Carousel"
  4. "Quintana"
  5. "Uptown"
  6. "Way Back"
  7. "Mamacita"
  8. "Butterfly Effect"
  9. "No Bystanders"
  10. "Don't Play"
  11. "Dark Knight Dummo" (originally performed by Trippie Redd)
  12. "Upper Echelon"
  13. "Skyfall"
  14. "Through the Late Night"
  15. "Drugs You Should Try It"
  16. "90210"
  17. "Love Galore" (originally performed by SZA)
  18. "Skeletons"
  19. "Astrothunder"
  20. "R.I.P. Screw"
  21. "Houstonfornication"
  22. "Stop Trying to Be God"
  23. "NC-17"
  24. "Zeze" (originally performed by Kodak Black)
  25. "Beibs in the Trap"
  26. "Yosemite" (with Gunna)
  27. "Piss on Your Grave" (instrumental)
  28. "5% Tint"
  29. "Can't Say" (with Don Toliver)
  30. "Antidote"
  31. "Goosebumps"
  32. "Sicko Mode"

Tour dates

edit
List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening acts, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue
Date City Country Venue Opening act Attendance Revenue
Leg 1- North America[9][10]
November 8, 2018 Baltimore United States Royal Farms Arena Trippie Redd
Sheck Wes
Gunna
Virgil Abloh
11,444 / 13,325 $553,291
November 9, 2018 Raleigh PNC Arena 15,305 / 15,305 $858,876
November 11, 2018 Miami American Airlines Arena 15,050 / 15,050 $1,042,145
November 12, 2018 Tampa Amalie Arena
November 13, 2018 Atlanta State Farm Arena 12,166 / 12,166 $884,444
November 15, 2018 Dallas American Airlines Center 14,295 / 15,199 $980,570
November 17, 2018 Houston Astroworld Festival
November 19, 2018 Louisville KFC Yum! Center 15,722 / 16,496 $846,323
November 21, 2018 Toronto Canada Scotiabank Arena 17,380 / 17,741 $1,345,444
November 24, 2018 Newark United States Prudential Center 15,811 / 15,811 $1,341,089
November 25, 2018 Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena 15,288 / 15,288 $800,224
November 27, 2018 New York City Madison Square Garden 32,602 / 32,602 $2,823,519
November 28, 2018
November 29, 2018 Washington, D.C. Capital One Arena 16,512 / 16,512 $1,109,471
November 30, 2018 Hartford XL Center
December 1, 2018 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 17,003 / 17,057 $1,237,017
December 2, 2018 Boston TD Garden 16,109 / 16,113 $1,172,754
December 4, 2018 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena
December 5, 2018 Detroit Little Caesars Arena 16,567 / 16,567 $1,177,594
December 6, 2018 Chicago United Center 17,513 / 17,513 $1,327,057
December 8, 2018 Minneapolis Target Center 14,750 / 14,750 $939,481
December 9, 2018 Milwaukee Fiserv Forum
December 10, 2018 Omaha CHI Health Center Omaha 11,549 / 14,738 $683,484
December 12, 2018 Denver Pepsi Center 13,770 / 14,103 $972,132
December 15, 2018 Sacramento Golden 1 Center 16,080 / 16,080 $1,118,848
December 16, 2018 Oakland Oracle Arena 15,617 / 15,617 $1,066,718
December 18, 2018 Phoenix Talking Stick Resort Arena 15,774 / 15,774 $938,243
December 19, 2018 Inglewood The Forum 32,486 / 35,010 $2,447,312
December 20, 2018
December 22, 2018 Portland Moda Center 15,624 / 15,624 $1,021,593
Leg 2- North America[11][12]
January 25, 2019 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena Sheck Wes 16,191 / 16,191 $1,338,325
January 27, 2019 Portland United States Moda Center 15,969 / 15,969 $690,142
January 29, 2019 Tacoma Tacoma Dome 14,530 / 14,530 $1,032,208
February 4, 2019 San Diego Pechanga Arena 10,562 / 11,939 $899,911
February 6, 2019 Las Vegas T-Mobile Arena 13,243 / 13,243 $969,827
February 8, 2019 Inglewood The Forum 16,305 / 16,305 $1,719,024
February 13, 2019 Houston Toyota Center 14,120 / 14,120 $1,395,539
February 17, 2019 Kansas City Sprint Center 14,039 / 14,089 $1,215,415
February 18, 2019 St. Louis Enterprise Center 13,047 / 15,450 $856,705
February 20, 2019 Indianapolis Bankers Life Fieldhouse 13,727 / 13,727 $973,854
February 21, 2019 Chicago United Center 15,368 / 15,368 $1,360,723
February 22, 2019 Milwaukee Fiserv Forum 12,749 / 12,749 $845,719
February 24, 2019 Columbus Schottenstein Center 14,039 / 14,089 $1,028,887
February 26, 2019 University Park Bryce Jordan Center 12,690 / 12,690 $918,829
March 2, 2019 New York City Madison Square Garden 16,181 / 16,181 $2,095,376
March 3, 2019 Brooklyn Barclays Center 15,486 / 15,486 $1,654,921
March 5, 2019 Montreal Canada Bell Centre 14,337 / 15,956 $1,179,350
March 7, 2019 Toronto Scotiabank Arena 16,339 / 16,339 $1,472,771
March 9, 2019 Hartford United States XL Center 13,139 / 13,139 $826,248
March 12, 2019 Washington, D.C. Capital One Arena 12,292 / 14,917 $1,088,630
March 14, 2019 Jacksonville Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena 9,664 / 11,590 $707,427
March 15, 2019 Orlando Amway Center 12,587 / 13,282 $994,354
March 17, 2019 Tampa Amalie Arena 15,245 / 15,245 $913,270
March 20, 2019 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 13,370 / 14,051 $894,349
March 22, 2019 Atlanta State Farm Arena 11,593 / 11,593 $1,084,881
March 24, 2019 Charlotte Spectrum Center 16,386 / 16,386 $845,551
March 26, 2019 Tulsa BOK Center 12,425 / 13,231 $869,968
Europe[13][14]
July 16, 2019 London United Kingdom The O2 Arena Octavian 17,236 / 17,236 $1,479,640
Total 764,236 / 848,197 $63,715,185

Cancelled shows

edit
List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and reason for cancellation
Date City Country Venue Reason
February 28, 2019 Buffalo United States KeyBank Center Personal reasons, rescheduled to March 10, 2019[15]

References

edit
  1. ^ "Travis Scott reveals the "Astroworld: Wish You Were Here" tour". The FADER. August 16, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  2. ^ Bonner, Mehera (2018-11-19). "Travis Scott's Astroworld Tour 101: What You Need to Know". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  3. ^ "Trippie Redd Leaves Travis Scott's Astroworld Tour: Report". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  4. ^ a b Rosca, Emily (2018-12-11). "Travis Scott's "ASTROWORLD" Tour Left Most Wishing They Were There". Loyola Phoenix. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  5. ^ a b Holmes, Charles (2018-11-29). "Travis Scott's 'Astroworld' Tour Is the Greatest Show on Earth". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  6. ^ "Review | Travis Scott is one of the most electrifying performers of our time". Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  7. ^ "Travis Scott Made An Arena Feel Like A Packed Club And An Amusement Park At The Same Time". Stereogum. 2019-02-26. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  8. ^ "Travis Scott performs on a rollercoaster at ASTROWORLD Tour kick off: Video + Setist". Consequence of Sound. 2018-11-09. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  9. ^ "Travis Scott Unveils Astroworld Tour Dates". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  10. ^ "Travis Scott Announces 2019 'Astroworld' Tour Dates". Spin. 2018-12-17. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  11. ^ Kreps, Daniel (2018-12-18). "Travis Scott Sets 2019 'Astroworld: Wish You Were Here' Tour Dates". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  12. ^ "Travis Scott Announces Second Leg Of "Astroworld" Tour". HotNewHipHop. December 17, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  13. ^ "Travis Scott". The O2. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  14. ^ "Travis Scott London Show 2019: Tickets, Dates, Latest News". Capital XTRA. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  15. ^ "Travis Scott cancels Buffalo concert at last minute amid Kylie cheating rumors". syracuse.com. March 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-04.