Witness: The Tour

Fourth concert tour by Katy Perry

Withness: The Tour was the fourth concert tour by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry. It was to support her fifth studio album, Witness. It started on September 19, 2017 in Montreal, Canada and ended on August 21, 2018 in Auckland, New Zealand.

Witness: The Tour
Tour by Katy Perry
Associated albumWitness
Start dateSeptember 19, 2017 (2017-09-19)
End dateAugust 21, 2018 (2018-08-21)
Legs7
No. of shows115
Katy Perry concert chronology

Set list

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Perry closing the show with "Firework"

This set list is from the show on January 19, 2018, in Glendale. It is not intended to represent all concerts for the tour.[1]

  1. "Witness" / "Roulette"
  2. "Dark Horse"
  3. "Chained to the Rhythm"
  4. "Act My Age" (interlude)
  5. "Teenage Dream"
  6. "Hot n Cold" / "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"
  7. "California Gurls"
  8. "I Kissed a Girl"
  9. "Déjà Vu"
  10. "Tsunami"
  11. "E.T."
  12. "Bon Appétit" (contains elements of "What Have You Done for Me Lately")
  13. "Mind Maze" (interlude)
  14. "Wide Awake"
  15. "Thinking of You"
  16. "Power"
  17. "Part of Me"
  18. "Swish Swish"
  19. "Roar"

Encore

  1. "Firework"

Notes

  • "Wide Awake" was not performed during the first shows. Moreover, on selected dates, Perry performed "Save as Draft" and "Hey Hey Hey" before "Power" and "Part of Me" respectively.[2]
  • On October 6, 2017 in New York City, Perry performed an acoustic version of "Part of Me" before "Power", rather than later in the show as a dedication to her fans for coming after the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.[3][4]
  • On selected dates in South America, Perry performed "Unconditionally" in place of "Thinking of You". Moreover, during the concert in Rio de Janeiro, Perry dedicated the performance of "Power" to Marielle Franco, who died the week before, and called Franco's relatives onstage to express her condolences.[5]
  • From the first show in Saitama onwards, Perry performed "Into Me You See" in place of "Thinking of You".[6]
  • On selected dates, Perry performed "Pendulum" before "Firework", as part of the encore.[7]
  • On June 22, 2018 in Manchester, Perry performed "By the Grace of God" in place of "Into Me You See" as a dedication to the city due to the Manchester Arena bombing. She also dedicated "Firework" to the 22 victims of the attack.[8]
  • On June 28, 2018 in Barcelona, Perry performed a cover of "One of Us" by Joan Osborne in place of "Into Me You See".[9]

Tour dates

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List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening acts, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue
Dates Cities Countries Venues Opening act(s) Attendance Revenues
Leg 1 — North America[10][11] [12]
September 19, 2017[a] Montreal Canada Bell Centre Noah Cyrus
September 21, 2017 Uncasville United States Mohegan Sun Arena 6,334 / 6,554 $1,704,881
September 22, 2017 Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena 8,577 / 12,163 $752,651
September 24, 2017[b] Columbus Schottenstein Center
September 25, 2017 Washington, D.C. Capital One Arena 11,503 / 12,511 $1,261,215
September 29, 2017 Boston TD Garden
September 30, 2017
October 2, 2017 New York City Madison Square Garden 21,688 / 22,667 $2,618,096
October 6, 2017
October 8, 2017 Newark Prudential Center 10,067 / 11,307 $1,118,597
October 9, 2017[c] Quebec City Canada Videotron Centre 11,798 / 12,700 $996,542
October 11, 2017 Brooklyn United States Barclays Center 9,055 / 11,712 $1,002,705
October 12, 2017[d] Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center
October 16, 2017 Louisville KFC Yum! Center 9,192 / 12,433 $689,988
October 18, 2017 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 8,276 / 8,868 $695,458
October 22, 2017 St. Louis Scottrade Center
October 24, 2017 Chicago United Center
October 25, 2017
October 27, 2017 Kansas City Sprint Center 8,507 / 10,350 $820,925
October 31, 2017[e] Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre
November 1, 2017[e]
November 7, 2017 Los Angeles United States Staples Center Purity Ring
November 8, 2017
November 10, 2017
November 14, 2017 San Jose SAP Center 10,770 / 11,798 $1,211,375
November 24, 2017 Salt Lake City Vivint Smart Home Arena
November 26, 2017 Denver Pepsi Center 9,340 / 10,198 $1,097,949
November 28, 2017 Omaha CenturyLink Center Omaha 10,017 / 11,965 $769,168
November 29, 2017 Tulsa BOK Center 10,243 / 11,208 $672,842
December 1, 2017 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center
December 2, 2017 Des Moines Wells Fargo Arena
December 4, 2017 Milwaukee BMO Harris Bradley Center
December 6, 2017 Detroit Little Caesars Arena 11,475 / 11,475 $895,084
December 7, 2017 Grand Rapids Van Andel Arena
December 9, 2017 Indianapolis Bankers Life Fieldhouse 9,595 / 9,595 $871,077
December 10, 2017 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena 8,744 / 11,374 $896,760
December 12, 2017 Atlanta Philips Arena 8,782 / 10,580 $950,017
December 15, 2017 Tampa Amalie Arena 9,334 / 11,555 $981,256
December 17, 2017 Orlando Amway Center 10,071 / 11,294 $1,145,356
December 20, 2017 Miami American Airlines Arena 12,754 / 12,754 $1,570,092
Asia[14]
December 31, 2017 Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates du Arena Martin Avari 22,500 / 22,500 $2,477,202
Leg 1 — North America[10][11][15][16]
January 5, 2018 New Orleans United States Smoothie King Center Carly Rae Jepsen
January 7, 2018 Houston Toyota Center 9,655 / 10,432 $1,139,385
January 10, 2018 San Antonio AT&T Center 12,637 / 12,637 $956,673
January 12, 2018 North Little Rock Verizon Arena 10,270 / 12,000 $793,991
January 14, 2018 Dallas American Airlines Center 11,341 / 11,341 $1,455,098
January 19, 2018 Glendale Gila River Arena
January 20, 2018 Paradise T-Mobile Arena 12,944 / 13,947 $1,230,517
January 31, 2018 Sacramento Golden 1 Center 10,635 / 11,024 $1,206,081
February 2, 2018 Portland Moda Center 11,756 / 12,530 $1,144,786
February 3, 2018 Tacoma Tacoma Dome 17,136 / 17,970 $1,436,723
February 5, 2018 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena 22,888 / 24,843 $1,761,537
February 6, 2018
Leg 2 — South America[10]
March 8, 2018 Santiago Chile Pista Atlética Estadio Nacional Augusto Schuster 15,336 / 22,191 $1,409,543
March 11, 2018 Buenos Aires Argentina Club Ciudad Lali 11,369 / 13,308 $999,068
March 14, 2018[f] Porto Alegre Brazil Arena do Grêmio Valéria
Bebe Rexha
13,989 / 14,707 $1,161,742
March 17, 2018 São Paulo Allianz Parque Bebe Rexha 37,284 / 37,284 $2,926,354
March 18, 2018[g] Rio de Janeiro Praça da Apoteose 11,888 / 13,509 $808,049
March 21, 2018 Lima Peru Jockey Club Parcela H 8,036 / 9,136 $653,722
Leg 3 — Asia[10]
March 27, 2018 Saitama Japan Saitama Super Arena
March 28, 2018
March 30, 2018 Hong Kong AsiaWorld–Arena
April 2, 2018 Manila Philippines Mall of Asia Arena
April 4, 2018 Taipei Taiwan Taipei Arena
April 6, 2018 Seoul South Korea Gocheok Sky Dome
April 8, 2018 Singapore Singapore Indoor Stadium Zedd
April 10, 2018 Bangkok Thailand IMPACT Arena India Carney
April 14, 2018 Bumi Serpong Damai Indonesia Indonesia Convention Exhibition
Leg 4 — North America[10]
May 3, 2018 Mexico City Mexico Arena Ciudad de México CYN 44,000 / 44,000 $2,872,249
May 4, 2018
May 8, 2018 Monterrey Arena Monterrey 29,000 / 29,000 $1,722,614
May 9, 2018
May 11, 2018 Guadalajara Arena VFG 10,359 / 10,445 $1,093,943
May 19, 2018[h] Santa Barbara United States Santa Barbara Bowl
Leg 5 — Europe[10][20][21]
May 23, 2018 Cologne Germany Lanxess Arena Tove Styrke 15,311 / 15,314 $1,330,383
May 24, 2018 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis 15,025 / 21,171 $1,255,551
May 26, 2018 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome
May 27, 2018
May 29, 2018 Paris France AccorHotels Arena 29,647 / 30,921 $2,841,439
May 30, 2018
June 1, 2018 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion 12,000 / 12,000 $1,046,880
June 2, 2018 Bologna Italy Unipol Arena 12,706 / 12,706 $1,134,752
June 4, 2018 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle
June 6, 2018 Berlin Germany Mercedes-Benz Arena
June 8, 2018 Copenhagen Denmark Royal Arena
June 10, 2018 Stockholm Sweden Ericsson Globe
June 14, 2018 London England The O2 Arena Hailee Steinfeld 25,913 / 29,609 $2,194,680
June 15, 2018
June 18, 2018 Birmingham Arena Birmingham 9,264 / 11,182 $835,564
June 19, 2018 Sheffield Sheffield Arena 6,423 / 9,251 $500,720
June 21, 2018 Liverpool Echo Arena 6,565 / 9,309 $509,738
June 22, 2018 Manchester Manchester Arena 10,558 / 11,607 $860,252
June 24, 2018 Glasgow Scotland SSE Hydro 11,274 / 11,453 $911,064
June 25, 2018 Newcastle England Metro Radio Arena 5,715 / 9,511 $450,802
June 28, 2018 Barcelona Spain Palau Sant Jordi
June 30, 2018[i] Lisbon Portugal Parque da Bela Vista
Leg 6 — Africa[10]
July 18, 2018 Johannesburg South Africa Ticketpro Dome The Dolls
Elle B
39,616 / 40,955 $2,724,946
July 20, 2018
July 21, 2018
Leg 7 — Oceania[10][23][24][25]
July 24, 2018 Perth Australia Perth Arena Starley 22,633 / 22,992 $1,978,590
July 25, 2018
July 28, 2018 Adelaide Adelaide Entertainment Centre
July 30, 2018
July 31, 2018
August 2, 2018 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena 31,834 / 45,001 $3,390,085
August 3, 2018
August 5, 2018
August 8, 2018 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre Zedd 16,882 / 18,749 $1,836,124
August 10, 2018
August 13, 2018 Sydney Qudos Bank Arena
August 14, 2018
August 16, 2018
August 17, 2018
August 20, 2018 Auckland New Zealand Spark Arena 18,800 / 20,399 $1,655,836
August 21, 2018
Total

Cancelled shows

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List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and reason for cancellation
Date City Country Venue Reason
September 16, 2017 Buffalo United States KeyBank Center Production delays[26]
September 27, 2017 Charlotte Spectrum Center Scheduling conflict[27]
  1. The September 19, 2017, concert at Bell Centre in Montreal was originally scheduled to take place on September 9, 2017, but was postponed due to "production delays".[13]
  2. The September 24, 2017, concert at Schottenstein Center in Columbus was originally scheduled to take place on September 7, 2017, marking the start of the tour, but was postponed due to "production delays".[13]
  3. The concert of October 9, 2017, at Videotron Centre in Quebec City was originally scheduled to take place on September 10, 2017, but was postponed due to "production delays".[13]
  4. The concert of October 12, 2017, at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia was originally scheduled to take place on September 18, 2017, but was postponed due to "production delays".[13]
  5. 5.0 5.1 The concerts of October 31, 2017, and November 1, 2017, at Air Canada Centre in Toronto were originally scheduled to take place on September 12, 2017 and September 13, 2017 respectively, but were postponed due to "production delays".[13]
  6. The concert of March 14, 2018 was rescheduled and relocated to Arena do Grêmio in Porto Alegre from March 15, 2018 at Pedreira Paulo Leminski in Curitiba due to high demand.[17]
  7. The concert of March 18, 2018, in Rio de Janeiro was relocated to Praça da Apoteose from Barra Olympic Park.[18]
  8. The concert of May 19, 2018, at Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara is part of Witness: Coming Home, a benefit concert in Perry's hometown that will benefit who are still recovering from the aftermath of the 2017 California wildfires and 2018 Southern California mudflows.[19]
  9. The concert of June 30, 2018, at Parque da Bela Vista in Lisbon is part of Rock in Rio Lisboa festival.[22]

References

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  1. Ed Masley (January 20, 2018). "Katy Perry show bears witness to singer's enduring appeal a decade after 'Kissed a Girl'". AZ Central. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
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  4. "Katy Perry Calls for 'Some Freakin' Peace' While Praising Fans for Attending Her Concert Following the Mass Shooting". People music. October 6, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2017.
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