List of Michael Jackson concerts

American singer Michael Jackson has performed on three concert tours, and four benefit concerts.

List of Michael Jackson concerts
Michael Jackson performing Jam in Tel Aviv, Israel, during the second leg of the Dangerous World Tour
Concert tours3
Benefit concerts4

Having toured with his brothers since the early 1970s, Michael Jackson began his first solo world tour Bad Tour in support of his seventh studio album Bad on September 12, 1987. Beginning in Tokyo, Japan, the tour lasted for 1 year, during which Jackson visited 15 countries and performed to 4.4 million people. Attendance figures for the first 14 dates in Japan totaled a record-breaking 450,000.[1] The most successful of the European dates were those in London at Wembley Stadium, where demand for the five July dates exceeded 1.5 million, enough to fill the 72,000-capacity venue 20 times.[2] Jackson went on to perform seven sold-out shows at Wembley for a total of 504,000 people which entered him into the Guinness World Records, setting a new world record for playing more dates at the stadium than any other artist.[3]The third concert was attended by Diana, Princess of Wales and Prince Charles, and subsequently released as Live at Wembley July 16, 1988.[4] The final European show was held in Liverpool at Aintree Racecourse, where 1,550 fans were reported injured among the crowd of 125,000, the largest show of the tour.[3][5] Jackson toured the United States for a second time between September 1988 and January 1989, with a return to Japan for nine sold-out shows in Tokyo Dome for a total of 450,000 people in December.[6] This would be the last time he toured his native country, aside from two shows in Hawaii in 1997 and a handful of one-off appearances in 2001 and 2002. Bad grossed a total of $125 million, earning two new entries in the Guinness World Records for the largest grossing tour in history and the tour with the largest attended audience. It was nominated for "Tour of the Year 1988" at the inaugural International Rock Awards.[7][8][9][10][11] Bad was the second highest-grossing tour of the 1980s after Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason tour

The follow-up concert series—the Dangerous World Tour began in Munich, Germany, on June 27, 1992, and concluded in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 11, 1993, playing 69 concerts in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Jackson performed in stadiums across the world with all being sold out in countries in Asia, Latin America, and Europe. At the tour's end, it grossed over $100 million and was attended by 3,500,000 people.[12] All profits were donated to various charities including Jackson's own "Heal the World Foundation". The October 1, 1992, concert in Bucharest, Romania was filmed for broadcast on the HBO network on October 10. Jackson sold the film rights for the concert for $20 million, then the highest amount for a concert performer to appear on television. The special, Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour, earned Jackson the second of two CableACE Awards of his career, this one for Outstanding Performance Musical Special.[13] In 1996, Jackson returned with the HIStory World Tour, an 82 run of concerts that concluded the following year. The concert series attracted more than 4.5 million fans from 58 cities in 35 countries around the world. It was the most attended tour of all time by any artist, having grossed over $165 million. The average concert attendance was 54,878. The next tour would be the HIStory World Tour, which ran from September 7, 1996 – October 15, 1997. The etour would promote the HIStory album which was released in June 1995. Starting on May 31, 1997, the tour would also promote Jackson's newly released single, "Blood On The Dance Floor", which released in March 1997. In 2001, after the release of the "Invincible" album, Sony Music planned another concert tour from Jackson for 2002 – 2003. However Jackson refused to tour and it was rumored that he would be forced to tour, but left the record company. The tour was canceled after Jackson's disputes, but it was marketed as being canceled due to 9/11.

Concert tours
Title Date Associated album(s) Continent(s) Shows Gross Gross adj.
in 2022[14]		 Attendance Ref.
Bad World Tour September 12, 1987 – January 27, 1989 Bad Eurasia
North America
Australia		 123 $125,000,000 $309,299,381 4,400,000 [8][9][10][11]
Dangerous World Tour June 27, 1992 – November 11, 1993 Dangerous Europe
Asia
Latin America		 69 $100,000,000 $202,580,051 4,000,000 [8][15][16][17]
History World Tour September 7, 1996 – October 15, 1997 HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix		 Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
Oceania		 82 $165,000,000 $300,789,801 4,500,000 [18][8][19]
2009–2010This Is ItJuly 13, 2009 – March 6, 2010 (United Kingdom) (cancelled)
50
This Is It was a planned series of fifty concerts by Michael Jackson to be held at The O2 Arena in London, United Kingdom. They were scheduled to begin in July 2009 and continue through to March 2010. However, with all concerts sold out, Jackson suffered a cardiac arrest and died due to an overdose of propofol and benzodiazepine drugs, less than three weeks before the first concert kicked off. Jackson officially announced the concerts at a press conference held inside The O2 Arena stated that This Is It was going to be his final series of concerts. AEG Live, the concert promoters, released a promotional video that took up an entire commercial break, setting a record for ITV. The shows were to be Jackson's first major series of concerts since the HIStory World Tour finished in 1997, and had been cited as one of the year's most important musical events. The preparations for the shows was chronicled in the concert documentary Michael Jackson's This Is It, released on October 28, 2009.[20][21][22][23][24]

Benefit concerts
YearTitleDurationNumber of
performances
1999MJ & FriendsJune 25 – 27, 1999 (South Korea and Germany)2
A tour intended to help raise funds for children in Kosovo, Africa and elsewhere. Jackson gave two concerts during the tour. The first one took place in Seoul, South Korea on June 25, and the second one was in Munich, Germany. Jackson was joined by long-time collaborator Slash during the two concerts.[25][26]
1999-2000New Year's Eve 2000 concertsDecember 31, 1999 – January 1, 2000 (Australia, United States) (cancelled)
2
In 1999, it was announced that Jackson planned to headline two concerts on New Year's Eve 1999 to mark the new millennium, beginning with an event in Sydney, and then travelling to a second event at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, United States later in the day, the concerts were planned to be part of the MJ & Friends Tour. As Hawaii is 20 hours behind Australia and on the other side of the International Date Line, the intent of the concerts were to have Jackson perform in one of the first countries to celebrate the new year, and then one of the last. However, in October, it was announced that the twin shows had been cancelled, with his promoter stating that Jackson did not want to disrupt ongoing work on his next album. Critics also doubted if Jackson would be able to make his flight in time due to Australia's flight curfews.[27][28][29]
2001United We Stand: What More Can I GiveOctober 21, 2001 United States1
After the September 11 attacks, Jackson helped organize the United We Stand: What More Can I Give benefit concert at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. on October 21, 2001. The special premiered on ABC on Thursday, November 1, 2001.[30]
2002Michael Jackson: Live at the Apollo 2002April 24, 2002 United States1
Michael Jackson: Live at the Apollo was a concert by Michael Jackson. The concert was performed at the Apollo Theater in New York City on April 24, 2002. The concert was a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee and former President Bill Clinton. The money collected would be used to encourage citizens to vote. It raised almost $3 million. This was Michael Jackson's final on-stage performance.[31][32]

Performances on television shows and specials
YearTitleDurationNumber of
performances
1983Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, ForeverMarch 25, 1983, Pasadena, California1
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever is a 1983 television special to commemorate Motown's 25th year. The program was taped before a live audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on March 25, 1983, and broadcast on NBC on May 16 to an estimated audience of 47 million, and the solo performance of "Billie Jean" earned Jackson his first Emmy Award nomination. This was the first time Jackson performed what would become his most famous signature move, the moonwalk.[33]
2001Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary CelebrationSeptember 7 – 10, 2001 (New York City)2
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration was two concerts held in 2001. The purpose of the performances was to mark Jackson's thirtieth anniversary as a solo performer. Both concerts took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. This would be Jackson's final public performance with his brothers. The show was watched by 30 million viewers on CBS when it aired later the same year. The shows sold out in 2 hours. Ticket prices were among the most expensive ever for an event; the best seats cost $10,000 and included a dinner with Jackson and a signed poster. Jackson reportedly earned $7.5 million for each of the two concerts. The concert's official box-office taking was $10,072,105 for both concerts.[34][35]

See also

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