American Idols LIVE! Tour 2010 (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

The American Idols LIVE! Tour 2010 was a summer concert tour in the United States and Canada that featured the Top 10 contestants of the ninth season of American Idol. The 44 date tour started in Auburn Hills, Michigan, on July 1, and ended in Indianapolis, Indiana, on August 31.

The tour was sponsored by M&M'S Pretzel Chocolate Candies. The tour was promoted by Live Nation for the first time after a seven-year stint with AEG Live. The show was produced and directed by Raj Kapoor who was also responsible for the 2008 and 2009 Idols tour shows.

Performers

Lee DeWyze (Winner)	Crystal Bowersox (2nd place)
Casey James (3rd place)	Michael Lynche (4th place)
Aaron Kelly (5th place)	Siobhan Magnus (6th place)
Tim Urban (7th place)	Katie Stevens (8th place)
Andrew Garcia (9th place)	Didi Benami (10th place)

Show overview

The show repeated the format of the last two season where each performer presented a mini-concert, starting from the tenth place finisher and ending with the winner.

Setlist

Didi Benami - "Lay It On Me" (Kyler England) and "Terrified" (Katharine McPhee)
Andrew Garcia - "Straight Up" (Paula Abdul) and "Sunday Morning" (Maroon 5)
Katie Stevens - "Here We Go Again" (Demi Lovato) and "Fighter" (Christina Aguilera)
Tim Urban - "Better Days" (Goo Goo Dolls) and "Viva la Vida" (Coldplay)
Siobhan Magnus - "Paint It, Black" (The Rolling Stones), "Spiderwebs" (No Doubt) and "Stockholm Syndrome" (Muse)
Aaron Kelly - "Somebody Like You" (Keith Urban), "Walking in Memphis" (Marc Cohn), and "Fast Cars and Freedom" (Rascal Flatts)
Benami, Garcia, Stevens, Urban, Magnus, and Kelly - "The Climb" (Miley Cyrus)

Intermission

Michael Lynche - "This Woman's Work" (Kate Bush), "Ready for Love" (India.Arie) and "My Love" (Justin Timberlake)
Casey James - "I Got Mine" (The Black Keys), "Don't!" (Shania Twain) "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" (Bryan Adams) with Michael Lynche and "It's All Over Now" (The Rolling Stones)
Crystal Bowersox - "What's Up?" (4 Non Blondes), "Come to My Window" (Melissa Etheridge), "Up to the Mountain" (Patty Griffin) and "Piece of My Heart" (Janis Joplin).
Lee DeWyze - "Beautiful Day" (U2), "Rocket Man" (Elton John), "Hallelujah" (Leonard Cohen), "Treat Her Like a Lady" (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose), and "Use Somebody" (Kings of Leon)
Group song: It's My Life (Bon Jovi), "My Life Would Suck Without You" (Kelly Clarkson)

Additional notes

Crystal Bowersox sang "People Get Ready" by The Impressions in place of "Up to the Mountain" in Atlantic City.
Crystal Bowersox sang "Holy Toledo" instead of "Up to The Mountain" in her home town show in Toledo, OH.

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Percentage
July 1, 2010	Auburn Hills	United States	The Palace of Auburn Hills	96.2%
July 2, 2010	Milwaukee		Summerfest
July 3, 2010	Grand Rapids		Van Andel Arena
July 5, 2010	Hamilton	Canada	Copps Coliseum
July 7, 2010	Wantagh	United States	Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
July 9, 2010	Bridgeport		Arena at Harbor Yard
July 10, 2010	Atlantic City		Mark G. Etess Arena
July 11, 2010	Philadelphia		Wells Fargo Center	52.5%
July 13, 2010	Uncasville		Mohegan Sun Arena	89.5%
July 14, 2010	Manchester		Verizon Wireless Arena
July 15, 2010	Hershey		Giant Center	64.8%
July 17, 2010	Albany		Times Union Center
July 18, 2010	Mansfield		Comcast Center
July 20, 2010	Newark		Prudential Center	87.3%
July 21, 2010	Burgettstown		First Niagara Pavilion
July 23, 2010	Bristow		Jiffy Lube Live
July 24, 2010	Baltimore		1st Mariner Arena
July 25, 2010	Charlotte		Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 27, 2010	Columbus		Nationwide Arena
July 28, 2010	Knoxville		Thompson-Boling Arena
July 29, 2010	Virginia Beach		Virginia Beach Amphitheater
July 31, 2010	Lexington		Rupp Arena
August 1, 2010	Duluth		Arena at Gwinnett Center
August 3, 2010	Sunrise		BankAtlantic Center
August 4, 2010	Tampa		St. Pete Times Forum	69.3%
August 7, 2010	The Woodlands		Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion	39.0%
August 8, 2010	Tulsa		BOK Center
August 9, 2010	Dallas		American Airlines Center	55.5%
August 12, 2010	Phoenix		US Airways Center
August 13, 2010	Los Angeles		Staples Center
August 14, 2010	Mountain View		Shoreline Amphitheatre
August 16, 2010	San Diego		Viejas Arena
August 17, 2010	Anaheim		Honda Center	38.2%
August 18, 2010	Sacramento		ARCO Arena
August 20, 2010	Seattle		KeyArena	80.3%
August 21, 2010	Portland		Rose Garden	73.3%
August 23, 2010	Greenwood Village		Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
August 25, 2010	St. Louis		Scottrade Center
August 26, 2010	Des Moines		Wells Fargo Arena
August 27, 2010	Minneapolis		Target Center	80.8%
August 28, 2010	Chicago		United Center
August 29, 2010	Toledo		Huntington Center	83.1%
August 30, 2010	Cincinnati		Riverbend Music Center
August 31, 2010	Indianapolis		Conseco Fieldhouse

Rescheduled and canceled shows

Rescheduled

Bridgeport, Connecticut moved from September 13 to July 9
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania moved from September 14 to July 21 at First Niagara Pavilion.
Des Moines, Iowa moved from August 31 to August 26
Minneapolis, Minnesota moved from August 29 to August 27
Chicago, Illinois moved from August 30 to August 28
Toledo, Ohio moved from September 2 to August 29
Cincinnati, Ohio moved from September 3 to August 30
Indianapolis, Indiana moved from September 4 to August 31

Canceled

Omaha, Nebraska on August 26
Kansas City, Missouri on August 27
Winnipeg, Manitoba on September 7
Toronto, Ontario on September 9
Buffalo, New York on September 10
Cleveland, Ohio on September 11
Portland, Maine on September 16

Response

The season 9 tour performed significantly worse than the last few years of the tour. Of the limited number of shows that reported their tour receipts to Billboard, the number of ticket sold averaged 6057 per show with an average revenue of $277,814 per show. While this average number of ticket sold is around two-third of the previous two seasons, the average revenue was less than half of those seasons due to ticket price reduction and special offers. The ticket price this year averaged $45.87, down by around 25% from the previous two seasons.

The total gross was reported by Pollstar to be $9.6 million, only around a third of the previous two seasons, making this tour the second lowest grossing tour after the first season tour which had only 30 shows.

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