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Have a Nice Day Tour
Tour by Bon Jovi
Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte, North Carolina, January 18, 2006
LocationNorth America, Asia, Europe
Associated albumHave a Nice Day
Start dateNovember 2, 2005 (2005-11-02)
End dateJuly 29, 2006 (2006-07-29)
No. of shows89
Box officeUS $131.4 million ($198.6 in 2023 dollars)[1]
Bon Jovi concert chronology

The Have a Nice Day Tour was a worldwide concert tour by American rock band Bon Jovi. It took place between November 2005 and July 2006. The tour supported their ninth studio album Have a Nice Day.

The tour was a significant commercial success – the group played to about 2 million fans and the tour grossed a total of $132 million.[2] It was the third-highest-grossing tour of 2006, just behind the Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang World Tour and Madonna's Confessions Tour.

The show

The set lists greatly varied between concerts, so after each show its set list was posted on the official website. Most concerts began with the song "Last Man Standing" from the Have a Nice Day record, with the show beginning as Jon Bon Jovi suddenly appeared on a small platform in the middle of the audience at the far end from the stage, followed by "You Give Love a Bad Name". "Livin' on a Prayer" was almost always played as the finalé before any encores.

For the early North American and United Kingdom dates, each city had a local band open for Bon Jovi; the band had decided this for a chance to promote local talent. Canadian band Nickelback, who had great success with their latest release (All The Right Reasons) supported Bon Jovi on the European dates of the tour, as well as on the band's summer stadium tour in North America.

Set list

Typical set-list:

  1. "Last Man Standing"
  2. "You Give Love a Bad Name"
  3. "Complicated"
  4. "Born to Be My Baby"
  5. "Story of My Life"
  6. "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"
  7. "Runaway"
  8. "The Radio Saved My Life Tonight"
  9. "Novocaine"
  10. "I Won't Back Down" (Tom Petty cover)
  11. "Have a Nice Day"
  12. "Who Says You Can't Go Home?"
  13. "It's My Life"
  14. "I'll Be There for You"
  15. "Blaze of Glory" (cover)
  16. "Bed of Roses"
  17. "Bad Medicine"
  18. "Raise Your Hands"
  19. "Livin' on a Prayer"

Encore:

  2. "Welcome to Wherever You Are"
  4. "In These Arms"
  6. "Everyday"
  8. "Wanted Dead or Alive"
  10. "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night"

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, attendance (tickets sold / total available) and gross revenue[3][4]
Date City Country Venue Opening acts Attendance (tickets sold / total available) Revenue
North America
November 2, 2005 Des Moines United States Wells Fargo Arena N/A 13,499 / 13,499 $926,882
November 4, 2005 Chicago United Center 30,908 / 30,908 $2,442,056
November 5, 2005
November 8, 2005 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena N/A N/A
November 9, 2005 Columbus Value City Arena 12,015 / 12,015 $829,168
November 11, 2005 Minneapolis Target Center 13,684 / 13,684 $960,181
November 12, 2005 Omaha CenturyLink Center Omaha 14,788 / 14,788 $1,051,694
November 16, 2005 Madison Kohl Center 12,462 / 12,462 $827,653
November 18, 2005 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 30,169 / 30,169 $1,990,713
November 19, 2005
November 26, 2005 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena 7,889 / 8,212 $751,635
November 28, 2005 New York City Madison Square Garden 30,040 / 30,040 $2,420,274
November 29, 2005
December 2, 2005 Philadelphia Wachovia Center 31,134 / 31,134 $2,579,183
December 3, 2005
December 6, 2005 Pittsburgh Mellon Arena 12,633 / 12,633 $969,090
December 7, 2005 Uniondale Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 12,771 / 14,000 $1,052,653
December 9, 2005 Boston TD Banknorth Garden 27,941 / 27,941 $2,230,413
December 10, 2005
December 12, 2005 Albany Pepsi Arena 12,060 / 12,060 $809,463
December 14, 2005 Montreal Canada Bell Centre 29,860 / 29,860 $2,542,409
December 15, 2005
December 17, 2005 Washington, D.C. United States MCI Center 15,128 / 15,128 $1,179,297
December 19, 2005 East Rutherford Izod Center 52,075 / 52,075 $3,915,607
December 21, 2005
December 22, 2005
January 14, 2006 Oklahoma City Ford Center 15,236/ 15,236 $1,068,439
January 15, 2006 Dallas American Airlines Center 15,373 / 15,373 $1,105,187
January 17, 2006 Atlanta Philips Arena 14,262 / 14,262 $1,095,715
January 18, 2006 Charlotte Time Warner Cable Arena 14,628 / 14,628 $938,136
January 20, 2006 Buffalo First Niagara Center 15,124 / 15,124 $972,789
January 21, 2006 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 65,690 / 65,690 $5,871,898
January 23, 2006
January 24, 2006
January 27, 2006 Saint Paul United States Xcel Energy Center 15,531 / 15,531 $1,204,593
January 28, 2006 Milwaukee BMO Harris Bradley Center 15,106 / 15,106 $1,023,297
January 30, 2006 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre [a] [a]
February 1, 2006 Uncasville United States Mohegan Sun Arena 8,284 / 8,284 $812,395
February 2, 2006 Washington, D.C. Verizon Center 14,911 / 14,911 $1,158,696
February 4, 2006 Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall 12,752 / 12,942 $1,112,210
February 8, 2006 Greenville Bi-Lo Center 11,575 / 11,575 $689,595
February 10, 2006 Sunrise BankAtlantic Center 14,895 / 14,895 $1,123,956
February 14, 2006 Nashville Gaylord Entertainment Center 14,980 / 14,980 $1,138,949
February 15, 2006 Duluth Arena at Gwinnett Center 10,852 / 10,852 $935,394
February 17, 2006 Tampa St. Pete Times Forum 29,498 / 29,498 $2,130,484
February 18, 2006
February 21, 2006 Houston Toyota Center 12,723 / 12,723 $800,988
February 23, 2006 Denver Pepsi Center 14,023 / 14,023 $1,012,082
February 25, 2006 Anaheim Arrowhead Pond 13,056 / 13,056 $935,066
February 27, 2006 San Jose HP Pavilion at San Jose 13,076 / 13,076 $949,183
March 1, 2006 Fresno Save Mart Center 11,734 / 11,734 $841,575
March 3, 2006 Los Angeles Staples Center 13,753 / 13,753 $1,007,231
March 5, 2006 Portland Rose Garden 13,240 / 13,240 $863,768
March 6, 2006 Seattle KeyArena 12,649 / 12,649 $949,10
March 9, 2006 Glendale Glendale Arena 14,885 / 14,885 $1,124,277
March 11, 2006 Paradise MGM Grand Garden Arena 14,230 / 14,230 $1,573,953
Asia
April 8, 2006 Tokyo Japan Tokyo Dome N/A N/A
April 9, 2006
April 12, 2006 Nagoya Nagoya Dome
April 14, 2006 Osaka Osaka Dome
April 15, 2006
April 18, 2006 Sapporo Sapporo Dome
Europe
May 13, 2006 Düsseldorf Germany LTU Arena Nickelback 47,862 / 47,862 $3,325,809
May 15, 2006 Linz Austria Linzer Stadion 32,002 / 32,002 $2,063,255
May 17, 2006 Koblenz Germany Schloßplatz 26,509 / 26,509 $1,524,278
May 20, 2006 Dublin Ireland Croke Park 81,327 / 81,327 $6,414,434
May 24, 2006 Hessisch Lichtenau Germany Hessentag 29,007 / 29,007 $1,579,140
May 25, 2006 Nijmegen Netherlands Goffert Park 39,815 / 39,815 $2,594,671
May 27, 2006 Stuttgart Germany Cannstatter Wasen 63,020 / 63,020 $3,654,201
May 28, 2006 Munich Olympiastadion 71,467 / 71,467 $4,622,221
May 30, 2006 Innsbruck Austria Olympia Stadium 25,660 / 25,660 $1,734,771
May 31, 2006 Bern Switzerland Stade de Suisse 38,762 / 38,762 $3,354,198
June 3, 2006 Glasgow Scotland Hampden Park 42,488 / 42,488 $2,853,220
June 4, 2006 Manchester England Etihad Stadium 58,698 / 58,698 $3,744,610
June 7, 2006 Coventry Ricoh Arena 36,293 / 36,293 $2,300,799
June 9, 2006 Southampton St. Mary's Stadium 34,783 / 34,783 $2,365,643
June 10, 2006 Milton Keynes National Bowl1 85,112 / 85,112 $6,489,043
June 11, 2006
June 13, 2006 Hull KC Stadium1 N/A N/A
North America
July 10, 2006 Hollywood United States Seminole Hard Rock Live N/A
July 13, 2006 Montreal Canada Parc Jean-Drapeau Nickelback 21,150 / 21,150 $1,483,759
July 15, 2006 Philadelphia United States Citizens Bank Park 39,409 / 44,238 $2,764,310
July 18, 2006 East Rutherford Giants Stadium 164,975 / 164,975 $11,352,051
July 19, 2006
July 21, 2006 Chicago Soldier Field 52,612 / 52,612 $3,988,455
July 23, 2006 Pittsburgh Heinz Field N/A N/A
July 27, 2006 Foxborough Gillette Stadium 45,874 / 45,874 $3,384,804
July 29, 2006 East Rutherford Giants Stadium [b] [b]
TOTAL[5] 1,823,834 $131,388,461

^Note 1 : These performances were originally scheduled at the new Wembley Stadium in London (the band were due to be the first band to play at the new stadium, having closed the old stadium with their Crush Tour in August 2000), however they were moved when the completion of the stadium was delayed until 2007.

Personnel

Sambora (left), Bon Jovi (right) in Dublin, May 2006

Bon Jovi

Additional musicians

Notes

  1. ^ a b The score data is representative of the four shows in Toronto, Ontario at the Air Canada Centre on January 21, January 23, January 24, and January 30 respectively.
  2. ^ a b The score data is representative of the three shows in East Rutherford, New Jersey at the Giants Stadium on July 18, July 19, and July 29 respectively.

References

  1. ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  2. ^ Waddell, Ray (December 10, 2010). "Bon Jovi: Billboard's Top Touring Act of the Year". Billboard.com. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
  3. ^ North America box score:
  4. ^ "Billboard, Vol. 118, Num. 33". August 19, 2006.
  5. ^ "Billboard, Vol. 118, Num. 51". December 23, 2006.

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