I am SO jealous of anyone that gets tickets to this! Following on from Jay's guest stint on The Mrs. Carter Show, Beyoncé and Mr. Carter have decided to go all the way and perform 20 stadium shows together this summer! The venues have yet to be announced, but New York is a possibility for the 4th July show.

I absolutely have to see this. She was amazing at V Festival last year but it was not enough and I was too poor for tickets last time round.

I absolutely have to see this. She was amazing at V Festival last year but it was not enough and I was too poor for tickets last time round.

It's US-only. Crushing.

Only US! :o I would've gone if it was UK! Opportunity not to be missed to see Mr and Mrs Carter together for a whole show!

They are literally the coolest parents of all time.

 

Imagine if your parents could pull off a joint sell-out stadium tour! :blink:. Mine definitely wouldn't draw the crowds.

They may as well. Wasn't he at every Mrs. Carter gig anyway?

They may as well. Wasn't he at every Mrs. Carter gig anyway?

During the UK stretch he was only at the O2 dates, but only for "Drunk In Love".

Apparently there's talks to hold it in the UK as well.

 

I MUST GO

Beyoncé and Jay Z surprised festival-goers at Coachella last weekend with a few unannounced appearances. But music's most famous couple have a bigger trick up their sleeves: a summer stadium run.

 

The married superstars will launch their first joint tour in June, a source close to the production told The Times.

 

Page Six first broke news of a trek that is slated to hit 20 cities in the U.S., including a possible Fourth of July appearance in New York City.

 

Expected to be named, aptly, the Mr. and Mrs. Carter Tour, according to our source, the U.S. leg will launch June 13 in Atlanta and wrap Aug. 6 in San Francisco. The tour is expected to have a stop at the Rose Bowl, tentatively set for Aug. 3 date. That show would be just days before Eminem and Rihanna's highly anticipated Monster Tour sets up a two-night stand in Pasadena.

 

The two then plan on taking the show to Europe, with multiple shows scheduled in Paris this September, a source said. Despite a number of joint hits documenting their love over the past dozen or so years -- "Crazy in Love", "'03 Bonnie & Clyde", and "Drunk in Love", to name the biggest -- and countless performances together, the pair have yet to embark on a joint tour.

 

The Carters recently wrapped separate tours. Jay's Magna Carter World Tour ended in January after a stadium run with collaborator Justin Timberlake. Beyoncé's extensive Mrs. Carter Show -- she dropped her top-secret surprise self-titled album toward the end of her U.S. run -- closed in March and ranks as one of the top-grossing tours of all time.

 

No official announcement has been made. Mr. Carter was busy Wednesday announcing an L.A. edition of his Made in America festival.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music...y#axzz2z8HmgQ2d

They're getting a home in the UK this summer, presumably for some UK dates!

Edited April 28, 201411 yr by THEO.

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They need to announce UK dates! :( Tickets for the US go on presale tomorrow.

They've just released a trailer for a fake film entitled Run as a promotional video for the tour:

 

STOP BUMPING THIS UNLESS WE'RE GETTING UK DATES :angry: I come running every time </3

 

LOVE that promo though, naturally.

Jay Z and Beyoncé's On The Run Tour Isn't Struggling

 

Despite what you've heard, demand appears high for Jay Z and Beyoncé's On The Run tour. Multiple published reports that the upcoming Jay Z/Beyoncé co-headlining stadium tour -- set to begin in Miami on June 25 and wrap in San Francisco Aug. 5 -- is struggling, or that ticket sales are "dismal," are inaccurate, Billboard has learned.

 

Sources close to the Live Nation-produced tour tell Billboard that, as of June 17, the tour has racked up about $86 million in ticket sales and is on a pace to gross close to $100 million from just 19 shows. The source says attendance is on a pace to top 850,000 tickets sold, and a Live Nation rep confirmed to Billboard last night that the tour is indeed nearing that threshold. That’s a whopping nightly take of $5.2 million, and an average attendance of nearly 45,000 per show -- well more than two sold-out arena shows would generate in any given market. Numerous shows are sold out, and Live Nation cites "unprecedented" VIP and platinum ticket sales.

 

Two days later, Live Nation offered this statement to Billboard: "The On The Run Tour opens next Wednesday in Miami’s Sun Life Stadium to over 48,000 fans, then rolls to Cincinnati to a sellout crowd of more than 37,000 fans, and on July 1st more than 50,000 fans will pack Boston’s Gillette Stadium. With sellout nights across North America, these first three shows are indicative of the strong demand. Overall, the tour has sold well over 750,000 tickets, grossing more than $90 million, and has unprecedented VIP and Platinum ticket sales."

 

Those types of numbers would make On The Run one of the most successful tours of the year, with quite possibly the highest per-show average in terms of gross and attendance of any tour on the road this year. That is not unexpected; while both Beyoncé and Jay-Z toured extensively in 2013, their audiences do not completely overlap, and their profile as music’s “power couple” gives the pairing the type of “event” status coveted in the live music industry.

 

It is true that a fair amount of tickets are still available for sale in some cities on both the primary and secondary markets. Regarding the latter, to pass judgment on the success of any tour by the number of tickets available on the secondary market is misguided. Those tickets have already been sold, at least once. Ticket resellers are, for the most part, speculators; they buy tickets at on-sale, speculating that they will be able to re-sell them at a higher price. Sometimes they win big, and sometimes they lose. Quite often, resellers purchase more tickets than demand dictates, and in many cases these tickets are priced higher than the market will bear. In such a situation, re-sellers adjust pricing or take a hit, and that’s when fans with patience can find deals as re-sellers slash prices in an attempt to cut their losses. In the end, supply and demand rules the day, as it does in most businesses.

 

As to primary sales, if these numbers revealed do play out, it would appear that On The Run could still come up short of an across-the-board sellout, as some of the venues on the route have capacities of as much as 60,000, depending on configurations and production kills. While a significant amount of tickets are currently available on the primary market a week before the tour begins, that is not out of line with market tendencies trending toward fans purchasing closer to the show, and walk-up will likely be strong as promoters promote, anticipation builds, and on-the-fence buyers figure out tickets are available. And, if early reviews are positive and the show lives up to its "must see" potential, that also shows up at the box office.

 

Even if OTR finishes at 90% capacity (which seems reasonable at this point), that would be considered a huge success, given the healthy ticket prices and the large number of tickets on the market. Complete stadium tours are rare these days in North America, not only because of the inherent production expenses involved, but also because of the huge demand necessary to pull them through. More often, superstars opt to route arenas or amphitheaters and then add on shows if the market dictates, or, increasingly for top acts, book stadium shows in only the best markets. Most likely, Jay Z and Beyoncé opted to go for stadiums on their first tour together not only because of perceived demand, but also because tapping into that demand at stadiums required less of a time commitment than would multiple shows in arenas or amphitheaters. Not only have both Bey and Jay already been touring hard for more than a year, but for stars of this stature, with diverse interests, causes and businesses, time is their most valuable asset.

 

Had both Beyoncé and Jay-Z been 100% “clean” in the marketplace -- meaning neither had been through these markets separately in the previous 18 months -- the tour might indeed have sold out immediately, in every market. But that's hindsight, and certainly not a given; Jay Z and Beyoncé together is a different animal, with different economics and perception in the marketplace from what these artists are separately. And, despite what would seem an obvious mass appeal, these two together was still an unknown entity. That’s why concert promotion is a risky business by its very nature. Though in this case it appears as though the risk/reward quotient will play out positively. The end results will show up in the Boxscore charts -- and whether they opt to do it again.

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news...ng-bad-not-true