HIStory World Tour

The HIStory World Tour was the third and final worldwide solo concert tour by American artist Michael Jackson, covering Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania and North America. The tour included a total of 82 concerts spanning the globe with stops in 57 cities, 35 countries on 5 continents. The tour promoted Jackson's 1995 album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, with many of the album's songs like "They Don't Care About Us", "Earth Song" and "You Are Not Alone" appearing in the setlist. The second leg also promoted the remix album Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix. The tour was attended by approximately 4.5 million fans, beating his previous Bad World Tour with 4.4 million.

HIStory World Tour
Tour by Michael Jackson
Promotional image for the tour
ArrangersKenny Ortega, Michael Jackson
Associated albumHIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (from the show on May 31, 1997)
Start dateSeptember 7, 1996
End dateOctober 15, 1997
Legs3
No. of shows82
Attendance4.5 million
Box officeUS $165 million ($261.99 million in 2021 dollars)[1]
Michael Jackson concert chronology

Overview
Michael Jackson performing "Earth Song" in Lausanne, June 20, 1997

The tour was announced on May 29, 1996, and marked Jackson's first concert tour since his Dangerous World Tour ended in late 1993.[2] Jackson's debut concert for the tour, performed at Letna Park in Prague, was one of the largest single attended concerts in his career, with over 130,000 people.[3] On October 7, 1996, he performed for the first time ever in the Arab world and Africa as a solo artist in Tunis.[4] During the tour's stopover in Sydney, Australia, he married Debbie Rowe in a private and impromptu ceremony. He was interviewed by Molly Meldrum In Brisbane and danced with two women during "You Are Not Alone". From January 3–4, 1997, Jackson performed his only two concerts on this tour in the US, in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the Aloha Stadium, to a crowd of 35,000 each; making him the first artist in history to sell out the stadium.[5]

During the break period, Jackson worked and released his Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix album. The second leg started on May 31, 1997, at the Weserstadion in Bremen, Germany.[6] Set list changes included the addition of "Blood on the Dance Floor" and later on the removal of the "Off the Wall" Medley and "The Way You Make Me Feel". "Blood on the Dance Floor" was taken off the set list after the concert in Oslo on August 19, 1997.

Jackson performed at the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark on his 39th birthday with 60,000 fans. He was presented with a surprise birthday cake, marching band, and fireworks on stage after "You Are Not Alone". The concert at Hippodrome Wellington of Ostend, Belgium, was originally scheduled for August 31, 1997, but was postponed to September 3 following Diana, Princess of Wales's death.

There were some initial plans to take the tour, in February 1997, to such Brazilian cities as Sao Paulo, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, and Brasília; but these plans were suspended due to promotional issues. Jackson tried to do this visit Brazil again in February 1998, as well as Argentina, but these too were scrapped so that he could work on MJ and Friends.

Recordings

Throughout the tour, many concerts were professionally filmed by Nocturne Productions, but none were ever officially released on DVD. In South Korea, a VHS recording of his show in Seoul was released, only within the bounds of the country. Although the footage is poor in quality and Jackson was suffering a fever at the time, resulting in his vocals being weakened, it made major success in that country. Jackson planned to release a DVD of his performance in Munich, Germany. The film was never released due to Jackson being unimpressed by his vocals brought on by laryngitis.[7]

Show performance

Michael Jackson's HIStory tour was one of his most high tech concert shows of the time. The show's opening featured a video segment where Jackson piloted a spacecraft through multiple points in history before emerging from underneath the stage at the end. The stage featured two statues of Jackson on either side of it and was large enough to use an entire curtain for the opening segment of "Smooth Criminal".

Set list
  1. "Great Gates Of Kiev" (Introduction)
  2. "Scream" / "They Don't Care About Us" / “In the Closet" (contains excerpts of "HIStory", "Great Gates Of Kiev" and "She Drives Me Wild")
  3. "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
  4. "Stranger in Moscow"
  5. "Smooth Criminal" (contains elements of "Childhood")
  6. "The Wind" (Video Interlude)
  7. "You Are Not Alone"
  8. "The Way You Make Me Feel"
  9. "I Want You Back" / "The Love You Save" / "I'll Be There"
  10. "Rock with You" / “Off the Wall" / "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
  11. "Remember The Time" (Video Interlude)
  12. "Billie Jean"
  13. "Thriller"
  14. "Beat It"
  15. "Come Together" / "D.S."
  16. "Black Panther" (Video Interlude)
  17. "Dangerous" (contains elements from the James Bond theme, "Smooth Criminal", "You Want This", "Let's Dance", and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly theme)
  18. "Black or White"
  19. "Earth Song"
  20. "We Are The World" (Video Interlude)
  21. "Heal the World"
  22. "HIStory" (contains elements from "They Don't Care About Us" and "Great Gates Of Kiev")
Notes
  • Songs originally considered for the first leg of the tour included "Man in the Mirror", "She's Out Of My Life", and "2 Bad".[8] "Morphine" was also rehearsed twice for the 1997 leg, but was also removed.[9]
  • The medley of "Come Together" and "D.S." was cut from the setlist after November 11, 1996. "Blood on the Dance Floor" was performed in its place from May 31 and June 29 and July 4 to August 19, 1997.
  • "Rock With You", "Off the Wall", and "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" were performed on select dates before being permanently removed from the set list after June 13, 1997.
  • "The Way You Make Me Feel" was performed on select dates until after June 15, 1997.
  • Starting on September 3, 1997, the instrumental of "Gates of Kiev" was replaced with "Smile".

Tour dates
Date City Country Venue Attendance Revenue
Europe[10][11][12][13]
September 7, 1996 Prague Czech Republic Letná Park 130,000 / 130,000 N/A
September 10, 1996 Budapest Hungary Népstadion 65,000 / 65,000
September 14, 1996 Bucharest Romania Stadionul Național 70,000 / 70,000
September 17, 1996 Moscow Russia Dynamo Stadium N/A
September 20, 1996 Warsaw Poland Lotnisko Bemowo 120,000 / 120,000
September 23, 1996 Zaragoza Spain Estadio La Romareda 45,000 / 45,000
September 28, 1996[lower-alpha 1] Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam Arena 250,000 / 250,000[lower-alpha 2]
September 30, 1996[lower-alpha 1]
October 2, 1996[lower-alpha 3]
Africa
October 7, 1996 Tunis Tunisia Stade Olympique El Menzah 60,000 / 60,000 N/A
Asia
October 11, 1996 Seoul South Korea Olympic Stadium N/A N/A
October 13, 1996
October 18, 1996 Taipei Taiwan Zhongshan Soccer Stadium 98,000 / 98,000[lower-alpha 4]
October 20, 1996 Kaohsiung Chungcheng Stadium 35,000 / 35,000
October 22, 1996[lower-alpha 5] Taipei Zhongshan Soccer Stadium —[lower-alpha 4]
October 25, 1996 Singapore National Stadium 35,000 / 35,000
October 27, 1996 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Stadium Merdeka 110,000 / 110,000
October 29, 1996
November 1, 1996 Mumbai India Andheri Sports Complex 65,000 / 65,000
November 5, 1996 Bangkok Thailand Muang Thong Thani 12,000 / 40,000[14]
Oceania
November 9, 1996 Auckland New Zealand Ericsson Stadium N/A N/A
November 11, 1996
November 14, 1996 Sydney Australia Sydney Cricket Ground
November 16, 1996
November 19, 1996 Brisbane ANZ Stadium 40,000 / 40,000
November 22, 1996 Melbourne Melbourne Cricket Ground N/A
November 24, 1996
November 26, 1996 Adelaide Adelaide Oval 25,000 / 25,000
November 30, 1996 Perth Burswood Dome 60,000 / 60,000
December 2, 1996
December 4, 1996
Asia
December 8, 1996 Manila Philippines Asia World City Concert Grounds 110,000 / 110,000 N/A
December 10, 1996
December 13, 1996 Tokyo Japan Tokyo Dome 180,000 / 180,000
December 15, 1996
December 17, 1996
December 20, 1996
December 26, 1996 Fukuoka Fukuoka Dome 80,000 / 80,000
December 28, 1996
December 31, 1996 Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei Jerudong Park Amphitheater N/A
North America
January 3, 1997 Honolulu United States Aloha Stadium 70,000 / 70,000 $3,800,000
January 4, 1997
Europe
May 31, 1997 Bremen Germany Weser-Stadion N/A N/A
June 3, 1997 Cologne Müngersdorfer Stadion 50,000 / 50,000
June 6, 1997 Bremen Weser-Stadion N/A
June 8, 1997 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam Arena —[lower-alpha 2]
June 10, 1997
June 13, 1997 Kiel Germany Nordmarksportfeld 50,000 / 50,000
June 15, 1997 Gelsenkirchen Parkstadion N/A
June 18, 1997 Milan Italy San Siro 65,000 / 65,000
June 20, 1997 Lausanne Switzerland Stade olympique de la Pontaise N/A
June 22, 1997 Bettembourg Luxembourg Krakelshaff
June 25, 1997 Lyon France Stade de Gerland
June 27, 1997 Paris Parc des Princes
June 29, 1997
July 2, 1997 Vienna Austria Ernst-Happel-Stadion 50,000 / 50,000
July 4, 1997 Munich Germany Olympiastadion 150,000 / 150,000
July 6, 1997
July 9, 1997 Sheffield England Don Valley Stadium 43,031 / 48,000 $1,991,600
July 12, 1997 London Wembley Stadium 212,601 / 216,000 $9,236,683
July 15, 1997
July 17, 1997
July 19, 1997 Dublin Ireland RDS Arena 43,261 / 43,261 $1,740,203
July 25, 1997 Basel Switzerland St. Jakob Stadium 50,000 / 50,000 $2,317,881
July 27, 1997 Nice France Stade Charles-Ehrmann 30,003 / 36,260 $1,083,898
August 1, 1997 Berlin Germany Olympiastadion 78,187 / 78,187 $2,934,036
August 3, 1997 Leipzig Leipziger Festwiese 54,483 / 55,000 $2,110,035
August 10, 1997 Hockenheim Hockenheimring 85,000 / 85,000 $3,261,701
August 14, 1997 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadium 97,563 / 97,563[lower-alpha 6] $5,296,577[lower-alpha 6]
August 16, 1997 Gothenburg Sweden Ullevi 50,000 / 50,000 $2,202,073
August 19, 1997 Oslo Norway Valle Hovin 37,904 / 40,000 $1,646,889
August 22, 1997 Tallinn Estonia Tallinn Song Festival Grounds 75,000 / 75,000 $2,627,174
August 24, 1997 Helsinki Finland Helsinki Olympic Stadium 91,106 / 96,000 $4,166,735
August 26, 1997
August 29, 1997 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadium —[lower-alpha 6] —[lower-alpha 6]
September 3, 1997[lower-alpha 7] Ostend Belgium Hippodrome Wellington N/A N/A
September 6, 1997[lower-alpha 8] Valladolid Spain Estadio José Zorrilla
Africa
October 4, 1997 Cape Town South Africa Green Point Stadium 73,295 / 74,000 $2,092,625
October 6, 1997
October 10, 1997 Johannesburg Johannesburg Stadium 106,495 / 108,000 $3,747,560
October 12, 1997
October 15, 1997 Durban Kings Park Stadium 45,000 / 45,000 $1,493,047
Total 3,205,271 / 3,205,929

(99%)

 $50,948,717

Cancelled shows
List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and reason for cancellation
Date City Country Venue Reason
July 29, 1997 Barcelona Spain Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys Schedule changes
July 30, 1997 Prague Czech Republic TBC[15]
August 8, 1997 Ljubljana Slovenia Ljubljana Hippodrome Low ticket sales

Personnel
HIStory World Tour

Credits
  • Executive Director: MJJ Productions
  • Artistic Director: Michael Jackson
  • Assistant Director: Peggy Holmes
  • Choreographed by: Michael Jackson & LaVelle Smith
  • Staged & Designed by: Kenny Ortega
  • Set Designed by: Michael Cotton & John McGraw
  • Lighting Designer: Peter Morse
  • Security 1996: Darrell Featherstone
  • Security 1997: Bill Bray
  • Costumes Designed by: Dennis Tompkins & Michael Bush
  • Hair & Make-up: Karen Faye
  • Stylist: Tommy Simms
  • Tour Producer and Artistic Manager: Tarak Ben Ammar
  • Former Manager: Dieter Wiesner
  • Personal Management: Gallin Morey Associates
  • Music Video Directors: Steve Barron/Joe Pytka/John Landis/Bruce Gowers/Martin Scorsese/Bob Giraldi/John Singleton/Nick Saxton
  • Kingdom Entertainment

See also

Notes
  1. The September 28 and 30 shows in Amsterdam were originally scheduled to take place at Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca, Morocco; but the venue and country were moved due to problems with the government.
  2. Attendance combined with the attendance from September 28 and 30 and October 2, and June 8 and 10.
  3. The October 2 show in Amsterdam were originally scheduled to take place at Cairo International Stadium, Cairo, Egypt; but the venue and country were moved due to security measures.
  4. Attendance combined with the attendance from October 18 and 22.
  5. The October 22, 1996 concert at Zhongshan Soccer Stadium, Taipei, was originally set for October 16 but was rescheduled due to time constraints.
  6. Attendance and box office combined with the attendance from August 14 and 29.
  7. The September 3, 1997 concert Hippodrome Wellington, Ostend was originally set for August 31, 1997, but was rescheduled due to Princess Diana’s death.
  8. Originally scheduled to take place on September 7, but was moved ahead one day, due to schedule changes.

References
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  9. https://twitter.com/MJJVariety/status/1272381674467151872/photo/1
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  11. "Billboard". 13 September 1997.
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  13. "Billboard". November 1997.
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