| Tour by Janet Jackson | |
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| Location |
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|---|---|
| Associated album | Unbreakable |
| Start date | September 7, 2017 |
| End date | April 7, 2019 |
| Legs | 3 |
| No. of shows | 79 |
| Attendance | 456,633 (first leg, with 56 shows) |
| Box office | US$44.6 million ($55.5 million in 2023 dollars[1]) |
| Janet Jackson concert chronology | |
The State of the World Tour was the eighth concert tour by American singer Janet Jackson. Launched in promotion of her eleventh studio album Unbreakable (2015), the tour is produced by Live Nation and is under the creative direction of Gil Duldulao.[2] Announced in May 2017 as a 56-city North American trek visiting the United States and Canada, it is a continuation of the Unbreakable World Tour, which was postponed in 2016 due to Jackson's pregnancy. Tickets originally purchased for the Unbreakable World Tour were honored with new concert dates under the revamped State of the World Tour.
The theme of the tour was altered to reflect socially conscious messages from Jackson's entire music catalog. The revised name of the tour is taken from her 1991 single "State of the World", released from her fourth studio album Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989). The tour was advertised on social media with socially conscious lyrics quoted from studio albums Rhythm Nation 1814, Janet (1993), The Velvet Rope (1997) and Unbreakable. A number of songs selected for the concert set list, along with corresponding imagery depicted on stage, address racism, white supremacy, homophobia, fascism, xenophobia, domestic violence, and police brutality.[3]
The first concert took place on September 7, 2017, in Lafayette, Louisiana at the Cajundome arena. Proceeds from the September 9, 2017 concert at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas were donated to relief efforts supporting evacuees of Hurricane Harvey; Jackson met with Houston mayor Sylvester Turner and evacuees at the George R. Brown Convention Center prior to the performance.[4] The first leg of the tour concluded with a concert at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia on December 17, 2017.
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- ^ Desiree Murphy (August 17, 2017). "EXCLUSIVE: Janet Jackson's Creative Director Gil Duldulao Talks Tour Secrets & Singer's Enviable Post-Baby Bod". Entertainment Tonight. Archived from the original on September 9, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
- ^ Danielle Kwateng-Clark (September 8, 2017). "Janet Jackson 'Snatched Wigs' At First State Of The World Tour". Essence. Archived from the original on September 11, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
- ^ Joi-Marie McKenzie (September 10, 2017). "Janet Jackson breaks down in tears at Houston tour stop". ABC News. Archived from the original on September 24, 2022. Retrieved September 11, 2017.