Born This Way Ball

The Born This Way Ball
World tour by Lady Gaga
Promotional poster for the tour
Location
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Oceania
  • South America
Associated albumBorn This Way
Start dateApril 27, 2012 (2012-04-27)
End dateFebruary 11, 2013 (2013-02-11)
Legs6
No. of shows98
Box office$183.9 million ($240.54 in 2023 dollars)[1]
Lady Gaga concert chronology

The Born This Way Ball was the third concert tour by American singer Lady Gaga, in support of her second studio album Born This Way (2011). The tour visited every populated continent,[2] and was ranked as the fifth highest-grossing tour of 2012 by Pollstar.[3] The tour grossed $22.5 million in 2013 according to Pollstar's year-end chart from the 18 dates played, bringing the Born This Way Ball Tour's total gross to $183.9 million from 98 dates.[4] The tour was well received by critics who praised the stage design, Gaga's vocal abilities and different expressive messages.

On February 13, 2013, after already announcing the postponement of shows in Chicago, Detroit, and Hamilton two days earlier due to an injury,[5] Live Nation and Lady Gaga announced the cancellation of the remaining concert dates due to the singer's development of a labral tear of the right hip caused by strenuous repetitive movements involved in the shows.[6] The singer went through surgery to fix the damage caused.[7][8]

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  2. ^ Waddell, Ray (February 8, 2012). "Exclusive Info: Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way Ball' Tour to Hit Asia, Europe, Latin America This Year; North America in 2013". Billboard. Archived from the original on February 11, 2012. Retrieved February 12, 2012.
  3. ^ "2012 Top Worldwide Tours" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 1, 2013.
  4. ^ "2013 Pollstar Year End Top 100 Worldwide Tours" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
  5. ^ Alan Duke; CNN (February 12, 2013). "Lady Gaga suffers 'show injury,' postpones tour for a week". CNN. Archived from the original on March 28, 2013. {{cite web}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
  6. ^ McKinley, James C. Jr. (February 14, 2013). "Lady Gaga Cancels Tour Because of Hip Injury". Archived from the original on February 17, 2013.
  7. ^ "Lady Gaga Cancels Rest of Tour for Surgery". Rolling Stone. February 14, 2013. Archived from the original on March 28, 2013.
  8. ^ "Lady Gaga cancels tour, will have hip surgery". CNN. February 14, 2013. Archived from the original on February 14, 2013.