World tour by Bruno Mars | |
Location | North America • Europe • Oceania • Asia • Africa • South America |
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Associated album | 24K Magic |
Start date | March 28, 2017 |
End date | December 31, 2018 |
Legs | 8 |
No. of shows | 215 |
Box office | US$367,7 million |
Bruno Mars concert chronology |
The 24K Magic World Tour was the fourth concert tour of American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars that was performed in support of his third studio album 24K Magic (2016) from March 2017 to December 2018. Anderson .Paak was the opening act for the first European leg while Camila Cabello, Dua Lipa, and Jorja Smith opened the shows during the first North American leg. In Latin America, DNCE, Bebe Rexha, and Nick Jonas were the supporting acts, and in Oceania, Lipa and DJ Leggo My Fueggo opened shows. The second European leg included appearances at several music festivals such as Pinkpop in the Netherlands and Rock in Rio in Portugal. It was Mars's first tour to include a show in Africa, where he appeared at the Mawazine festival in Morocco.
In 2018, Mars announced another tour leg in North America; it was initially to feature Cardi B but she wanted to raise her newborn child and was replaced with Boyz II Men, Ciara, Ella Mai and Charlie Wilson. Apart from 24K Magic, the tour setlist included songs from Mars's previous albums Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010) and Unorthodox Jukebox (2012), as well as the Mark Ronson-Mars collaboration "Uptown Funk" (2014), which was often used for the encores alongside "Locked Out of Heaven". Mars was backed by an eight-piece band called The Hooligans and performed dances choreographed by him and Phil Tayag.
The 24K Magic World Tour received generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised Mars's showmanship and his guitar solos, as well as the stage production. His shows attracted a wide-ranging audience of all age groups and grossed over $367 million, making the 24K Magic World Tour a commercial success and one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. It won two Pollstar awards, two Billboard Music Awards and a TEC Award.