The River Tour (2016)

This article is about the tour in support of The Ties That Bind: The River Collection. For Springsteen's 1980–1981 tour, see The River Tour.

The River Tour
Tour by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Associated albumThe Ties That Bind: The River Collection
Start dateJanuary 16, 2016
End dateFebruary 25, 2017
Legs4
No. of shows47 in North America
28 in Europe
14 in Oceania (Summer '17 tour)
89 in Total
Box office$306.5 million[1][2]
Bruce Springsteen concert chronology

The River Tour[3] was a concert tour by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in support of Springsteen's 2015 The Ties That Bind: The River Collection box set and in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Springsteen's 1980 album, The River.[4] The River Tour ended in September 2016. Subsequently, the Summer '17 tour in Australia and New Zealand continued the tour using the same promotional image from the original legs.[5]

The River Tour was the top grossing worldwide tour of 2016, pulling in $268.3 million globally, and was the highest-grossing tour since 2014 for any artist.[6] Springsteen and the E Street Band also hold the biggest boxscore for 2016, with the May 27 and 29 shows at Dublin's Croke Park taking in $19,228,100 from 160,188 attendance for two sellout shows.[7]

The tour marked the first tour in two years for Springsteen and the E Street Band. All shows on the first North American leg of tour and some shows from the second leg featured a full-length sequential performance of The River album. Other shows featured a large part of the album, albeit not always in album order.[8] Many of the shows lasted over three and a half hours with around 33 songs performed. Springsteen's show on September 7, 2016, at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia clocked in at 4 hours and 4 minutes, his longest show in the United States and the second-longest ever in his career, at two minutes shy of his 2012 show in Helsinki.[9]

The tour was attended by many notable celebrities including; Snoop Dogg (LA show) Aimee Soller (KFC Yum! Centre) Matt Damon (Albany Show)

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  2. ^ "2017 Mid Year Top 100 Worldwide Tours" (PDF). pollstar.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 19, 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  3. ^ Kreps, Daniel (December 4, 2015). "Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Set The River Tour For 2016". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
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  6. ^ "Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé post top-grossing tours of 2016". Los Angeles Times. December 30, 2016. Archived from the original on April 4, 2023. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
  7. ^ "Bruce Springsteen Manager Jon Landau Talks 'The River' Tour, Forthcoming 'Expansive' Solo Album". billboard.com. July 21, 2016. Archived from the original on July 22, 2016. Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  8. ^ Springsteen, Bruce (September 12, 2016). "ANNOUNCING TOUR DATES IN AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND". brucespringsteen.net. Archived from the original on March 10, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
  9. ^ "Springsteen breaks concert length record yet again in Philly; see the setlist". September 8, 2016. Archived from the original on September 8, 2016. Retrieved September 8, 2016.