Take Me Home Tour (One Direction)

Take Me Home Tour
Tour by One Direction
Location
  • Europe
  • Oceania
  • Asia
  • North America
Associated albumTake Me Home
Start date23 February 2013 (2013-02-23)
End date3 November 2013 (2013-11-03)
Legs4
No. of shows123
Box office$114 million ($149.11 in 2023 dollars)[1]
One Direction concert chronology

The Take Me Home Tour[2] was the second headlining concert tour by English-Irish boy band One Direction, in support of their second studio album, Take Me Home (2012).[3][4] The tour began on 23 February 2013 in London, England, and concluded on 3 November 2013 in Chiba, Japan. It was announced by member Liam Payne at the BRIT Awards in early 2012, originally billed as the UK & Ireland Arena Tour. In mid-2012, the tour expanded to include North America and Australia following the band's international breakthrough. The tour was documented in the film One Direction: This Is Us directed by Morgan Spurlock.[5]

The Take Me Home Tour was commercially successful, with many sold-out shows and overwhelming demand for tickets, prompting organisers to add more dates to the itinerary. In the UK and Ireland, ticket sales reached 300,000 within a day of release, which included a six sell-out dates at the O2 Arena in London. In Australia and New Zealand, ticket sales grossed US$15.7 million, with all 190,000 tickets sold for eighteen shows held in Australia and New Zealand. The tour placed at number 10 on Pollstar's Year-End Top 20 Worldwide Tours list, grossing $114 million from the 123 shows.

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  2. ^ "One Direction Take Zumba Classes To Prepare For 'Take Me Home' World Tour". Capital FM. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  3. ^ "1D Announce 2013 North America Live Arena Tour". One Direction official website. Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd. 18 April 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  4. ^ Jocelyn Vena (12 April 2012). "One Direction Announce U.S. Dates On 2013 World Tour". MTV News. Archived from the original on 13 April 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  5. ^ "One Direction: This Is Us (2013)". IMDb. Retrieved 2 September 2018.