WorldWired Tour

WorldWired Tour
World tour by Metallica
Promotional poster for the tour
Location
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • South America
Associated albumHardwired... to Self-Destruct
Start dateFebruary 6, 2016
End dateAugust 25, 2019
Legs13
No. of shows159
Box office$416.9 million[1]
Metallica concert chronology

The WorldWired Tour was a concert tour by American heavy metal band Metallica in support of their tenth studio album Hardwired... to Self-Destruct, which was released on November 18, 2016. It is also their first worldwide tour after the World Magnetic Tour six years earlier.

Background

The tour started on October 26, 2016, in Puerto Rico, followed by four more dates on the Latin American tour.

A performance at the 59th annual Grammy Awards on February 12, 2017, was also a part of the tour.[2]

In 2018, the WorldWired Tour reached another $67.9 million from 37 shows, 24 in Europe and 13 in North America. The tour has grossed $426.9 million, from 139 concerts three years since it began in 2016 and now is the ninth highest-grossing tour of all time.[3][4][5]

The tour ended on August 25, 2019, in Mannheim, Germany.[6] The band had plans to continue the tour in late 2019 and early 2020, but the tour dates in Australia were cancelled because of issues James had with alcohol, while the South American leg was postponed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[7][8]

Set list

The following set list was performed at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, and is not intended to represent all of the shows on tour.[9]

  1. "Hardwired"
  2. "Atlas, Rise!"
  3. "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
  4. "The Memory Remains"
  5. "The Unforgiven"
  6. "Now That We're Dead"
  7. "Moth Into Flame"
  8. "Wherever I May Roam"
  9. "Halo on Fire"
  10. "Hit the Lights"
  11. "Sad but True"
  12. "One"
  13. "Master of Puppets"
  14. "Fade to Black"
  15. "Seek & Destroy"

Encore

  2. "Blackened"
  3. "Nothing Else Matters"
  4. "Enter Sandman"

Kirk/Rob doodle

In 2017, Kirk Hammett and Rob Trujillo began to cover songs written by artists from the region in which the concert was being performed.[10]

Tour dates

List of 2016 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
Date (2016) City Country Venue Opening act Attendance Revenue
February 6 San Francisco United States AT&T Park Cage the Elephant 41,119 / 43,681 $4,341,114
August 20 Minneapolis U.S. Bank Stadium Avenged Sevenfold
Volbeat 		48,492 / 48,492 $5,158,790
September 24[a] New York City Central Park — — —
September 27 Webster Hall
October 22[b] Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre
October 23[b]
October 26 San Juan Puerto Rico Coliseo de Puerto Rico Zafakon 13,039 / 13,641 $1,368,148
October 29 Quito Ecuador Parque Bicentenario Basca — —
November 1 Bogota Colombia Hipódromo de Los Andes Victimized 23,434 / 29,255 $2,145,370
November 3 Guatemala City Guatemala Estadio Cementos Progreso Metal Requiem — —
November 5 San Jose Costa Rica Estadio Nacional Heresy 32,934 / 33,953 $2,216,090
November 18 London England House of Vans — — —
November 29 Toronto Canada The Opera House
December 15 Los Angeles United States The Fonda Theatre
December 17 Oakland Fox Oakland Theatre 2,800 / 2,800 $165,550
List of 2017 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]
Date (2017) City Country Venue Opening act Attendance Revenue
January 11 Seoul South Korea Gocheok Sky Dome Babymetal — —
January 15 Shanghai China Mercedes-Benz Arena — 8,670 / 8,670 $1,178,308
January 18 Beijing LeSports Center Lang Lang — —
January 20 Hong Kong AsiaWorld–Arena —
January 22 Singapore Singapore Indoor Stadium
February 3 Copenhagen Denmark Royal Arena Hatesphere 59,266 / 59,266 $6,292,736
February 7 I'll Be Damned
February 9 Defecto
February 12[c] Los Angeles United States Hollywood Palladium — — —
March 1 Mexico City Mexico Foro Sol Iggy Pop 197,745 / 197,745 $9,744,945
March 3
March 5
March 25[d] São Paulo Brazil Autódromo José Carlos Pace Rancid
Cage the Elephant 		— —
March 31[e] Buenos Aires Argentina Hipódromo de San Isidro
April 1[f] Santiago Chile O'Higgins Park
May 10 Baltimore United States M&T Bank Stadium Avenged Sevenfold
Volbeat 		55,705 / 55,705 $5,970,421
May 12 Philadelphia Lincoln Financial Field Volbeat 49,722 / 53,836 $5,421,187
May 14 East Rutherford MetLife Stadium Avenged Sevenfold
Volbeat 		46,941 / 51,468 $5,196,437
May 17 Uniondale Nassau Coliseum Volbeat 14,941 / 14,941 $2,198,951
May 19 Foxborough Gillette Stadium 47,778 / 48,905 $6,095,723
May 21[g] Columbus Mapfre Stadium Volbeat, Biffy Clyro 29,962 / 30,000 $3,960,421
June 4 St. Louis Busch Stadium Volbeat
Local H 		38,778 / 43,366 $4,192,393
June 7 Denver Sports Authority Field at Mile High Avenged Sevenfold
Volbeat 		57,955 / 58,913 $5,884,163
June 9 Newton Iowa Speedway — —
June 11 Houston NRG Stadium 46,720 / 51,023 $4,854,471
June 14 San Antonio Alamodome Avenged Sevenfold
Local H 		45,343 / 49,271 $4,527,655
June 16 Arlington AT&T Stadium 45,860 / 48,348 $4,247,778
June 18 Chicago Soldier Field 51,041 / 52,360 $5,313,715
July 5 Orlando Camping World Stadium Avenged Sevenfold
Volbeat 		49,961 / 53,163 $5,613,708
July 7 Miami Gardens Hard Rock Stadium 42,168 / 45,433 $4,163,523
July 9 Atlanta SunTrust Park 39,024 / 41,246 $4,531,443
July 12 Detroit Comerica Park 40,573 / 43,159 $4,501,650
July 14[h] Quebec City Canada Plains of Abraham — — —
July 16 Toronto Rogers Centre Avenged Sevenfold
Volbeat 		51,018 / 51,018 $6,934,370
July 19 Montreal Parc Jean-Drapeau 29,218 / 34,375 $3,258,580
July 29 Pasadena United States Rose Bowl Avenged Sevenfold
Gojira 		63,285 / 63,285 $6,684,282
August 4 Glendale University of Phoenix Stadium 52,926 / 54,881 $5,246,586
August 6 San Diego Petco Park 43,491 / 44,916 $4,846,411
August 9 Seattle CenturyLink Field 47,175 / 56,082 $4,944,489
August 12[i] San Francisco Golden Gate Park — — —
August 14 Vancouver Canada BC Place Avenged Sevenfold
Gojira 		31,075 / 31,075 $3,405,806
August 16 Edmonton Commonwealth Stadium 44,502 / 44,502 $6,223,238
September 2[j] Copenhagen Denmark Royal Arena Aphyxion
September 4 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome Kvelertak 33,498 / 33,498 $2,773,774
September 6
September 8 Paris France AccorHotels Arena 36,765 / 36,765 $3,659,706
September 10
September 12 Lyon Halle Tony Garnier 16,062 / 16,062 $1,526,828
September 14 Cologne Germany Lanxess Arena 36,326 / 36,326 $3,850,043
September 16
October 22 London England The O2 Arena 39,976 / 41,130 $4,245,290
October 24
October 26 Glasgow Scotland SSE Hydro 12,748 / 12,748 $1,382,510
October 28 Manchester England Manchester Arena 19,423 / 19,423 $2,038,870
October 30 Birmingham Genting Arena 14,811 / 14,811 $1,585,316
November 1 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis 45,242 / 45,242 $4,411,706
November 3
November 9 San Francisco United States AT&T Park — — —
List of 2018 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue[28][34][35][36][37][38]
Date (2018) City Country Venue Opening act Attendance Revenue
February 1 Lisbon Portugal Altice Arena Kvelertak 18,248 / 18,248 $1,695,417
February 3 Madrid Spain WiZink Center 33,894 / 33,894 $3,686,603
February 5
February 7 Barcelona Palau Sant Jordi 17,438 / 17,438 $1,726,177
February 10 Turin Italy Pala Alpitour 14,728 / 14,728 $1,303,943
February 12 Bologna Unipol Arena 29,453 / 29,453 $2,791,531
February 14
February 16 Mannheim Germany SAP Arena 14,208 / 14,208 $1,557,877
March 27 Herning Denmark Jyske Bank Boxen 14,906 / 14,906 $1,924,626
March 29 Hamburg Germany Barclaycard Arena 14,415 / 14,415 $1,577,360
March 31 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle 15,811 / 15,811 $1,776,415
April 2 Prague Czech Republic O2 Arena 19,221 / 19,221 $2,367,157
April 5 Budapest Hungary Budapest Sports Arena 13,485 / 13,485 $1,325,678
April 7 Stuttgart Germany Schleyerhalle 29,291 / 29,291 $3,334,047
April 9
April 11 Geneva Switzerland Palexpo 20,914 / 20,914 $2,534,956
April 26 Munich Germany Olympiahalle 14,706 / 14,706 $1,639,676
April 28 Kraków Poland Tauron Arena 19,751 / 19,751 $2,190,452
April 30 Leipzig Germany Arena Leipzig 12,185 / 12,185 $1,378,421
May 2 Oslo Norway Telenor Arena 24,836 / 24,836 $2,300,122
May 5 Stockholm Sweden Ericsson Globe 32,990 / 32,990 $2,903,553
May 7
May 9 Helsinki Finland Hartwall Arena 28,589 / 28,589 $2,651,938
May 11
September 2 Madison United States Kohl Center Jim Breuer 16,137 / 16,137 $1,995,140
September 4 Minneapolis Target Center 17,873 / 17,873 $2,407,742
September 6 Lincoln Pinnacle Bank Arena 14,950 / 14,950 $1,825,630
September 8 Grand Forks Alerus Center 16,970 / 16,970 $1,912,505
September 11 Sioux Falls Denny Sanford Premier Center 12,018 / 12,018 $1,494,540
September 13 Winnipeg Canada Bell MTS Place 17,129 / 17,129 $1,913,053
September 15 Saskatoon SaskTel Centre 16,874 / 16,874 $1,922,719
October 6[k] Austin United States Zilker Park — —
October 13[k]
October 16 Milwaukee Fiserv Forum 17,091 / 17,091 $2,185,835
October 18 Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena 18,502 / 18,765 $2,359,924
October 20 State College Bryce Jordan Center 15,588 / 15,588 $1,919,035
October 22 Charlotte Spectrum Center 17,718 / 17,718 $2,085,875
October 25 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 18,545 / 18,545 $2,163,595
October 27 Buffalo KeyBank Center 18,542 / 18,542 $2,290,542
October 29 Albany Times Union Center 15,661 / 15,661 $1,936,231
November 26 Las Vegas T-Mobile Arena 19,032 / 19,032 $2,551,915
November 28 Boise Taco Bell Arena 11,868 / 12,719 $1,454,270
November 30 Salt Lake City Vivint Smart Home Arena 16,215 / 16,215 $2,026,905
December 2 Spokane Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena 12,854 / 12,916 $1,597,670
December 5 Portland Moda Center 18,273 / 18,273 $2,285,680
December 7 Sacramento Golden 1 Center 16,591 / 16,591 $2,069,225
December 9 Fresno Save Mart Center 14,854 / 14,854 $1,855,485
List of 2019 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue[39][40][41]
Date (2019) City Country Venue Opening act Attendance Revenue
January 18 Tulsa United States BOK Center Jim Breuer 17,612 / 17,612 $2,195,900
January 20 North Little Rock Verizon Arena 17,432 / 17,859 $1,679,923
January 22 Birmingham Legacy Arena 17,462 / 18,003 $1,713,460
January 24 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 16,340 / 16,340 $2,213,550
January 28 Raleigh PNC Arena 20,052 / 20,052 $2,409,015
January 30 Cincinnati U.S. Bank Arena 16,587 / 17,070 $2,060,625
February 1 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena 18,515 / 18,515 $2,463,702
February 28 El Paso Don Haskins Center 12,546 / 12,546 $1,558,320
March 2 Lubbock United Supermarkets Arena 14,653 / 14,653 $1,813,730
March 4 Wichita Intrust Bank Arena 15,187 / 15,187 $1,648,058
March 6 Kansas City Sprint Center 18,535 / 18,535 $2,047,000
March 9 Louisville KFC Yum! Center 21,657 / 21,657 $2,531,895
March 11 Indianapolis Bankers Life Fieldhouse 17,068 / 17,068 $2,129,940
March 13 Grand Rapids Van Andel Arena 11,692 / 11,692 $1,421,960
May 1 Lisbon Portugal Estádio do Restelo Ghost
Bokassa 		39,931 / 39,931 $3,732,160
May 3 Madrid Spain Valdebebas 69,897 / 70,000 $6,781,467
May 5 Barcelona Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys 51,799 / 53,760 $5,285,919
May 8 Milan Italy SNAI San Siro Hippodrome 47,427 / 47,500 $3,992,522
May 10 Zürich Switzerland Letzigrund 46,349 / 47,226 $5,671,665
May 12 Paris France Stade de France 74,889 / 76,183 $6,917,057
June 8[l] Slane Ireland Slane Castle Ghost
Stiff Little Fingers
Bokassa
Fangclub 		71,122 / 78,824 $8,194,075
June 11 Amsterdam Netherlands Johan Cruyff Arena Ghost
Bokassa 		50,576 / 50,576 $5,151,429
June 13 Cologne Germany RheinEnergieStadion 41,460 / 42,021 $4,267,243
June 16 Brussels Belgium King Baudouin Stadium 49,039 / 49,039 $5,243,080
June 18 Manchester England Etihad Stadium 40,473 / 42,154 $4,510,011
June 20 London Twickenham Stadium 51,819 / 52,244 $6,080,657
July 6 Berlin Germany Olympiastadion 68,452 / 68,452 $6,745,329
July 9 Gothenburg Sweden Ullevi 63,348 / 63,348 $4,668,092
July 11 Copenhagen Denmark Telia Parken 44,944 / 45,698 $4,811,332
July 13 Trondheim Norway Granåsen 38,794 / 38,794 $4,348,793
July 16 Hämeenlinna Finland Kantolan Tapahtumapuisto 55,519 / 55,519 $5,330,615
July 18 Tartu Estonia Raadi Airfield 59,099 / 59,099 $4,791,241
July 21 Moscow Russia Luzhniki Stadium 61,546 / 63,505 $6,073,606
August 14 Bucharest Romania Arena Națională 48,725 / 48,800 $3,567,074
August 16 Vienna Austria Ernst-Happel-Stadion 54,176 / 54,765 $5,347,522
August 18 Prague Czech Republic Letňany Airport 73,555 / 73,658 $6,494,648
August 21 Warsaw Poland PGE Narodowy 53,877 / 53,877 $4,829,962
August 23 Munich Germany Olympiastadion 68,117 / 68,315 $6,805,574
August 25 Mannheim Maimarktgelände 64,017 / 64,045 $5,917,606
Total 4,139,154 / 4,139,154 (100%) $422,667,717

Cancelled and postponed shows

List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason for cancellation
Date City Country Venue Reason
October 17, 2019 Perth Australia Optus Stadium Cancelled due to Hetfield's recovery from addiction[42][43][44]
October 20, 2019 Adelaide Adelaide Oval
October 22, 2019 Melbourne Marvel Stadium
October 24, 2019
October 26, 2019 Sydney ANZ Stadium
October 29, 2019 Brisbane Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre
October 31, 2019 Auckland New Zealand Mount Smart Stadium
November 2, 2019

Personnel

Notes

  1. ^ The concert on September 24, 2016, in New York City was part of the Global Citizen Festival.[18]
  2. ^ a b The concerts on October 22 and October 23, 2016, in Mountain View were part of the 30th Annual Bridge School Benefit.[19]
  3. ^ The concert on February 12, 2017, in Los Angeles, was part of the Citi Sound Vault concert series.[31]
  4. ^ The concert on March 25, 2017, in São Paulo was part of Lollapalooza Brazil.
  5. ^ The concert on March 31, 2017, in Buenos Aires was part of Lollapalooza Argentina.
  6. ^ The concert on April 1, 2017, in Santiago was part of Lollapalooza Chile.
  7. ^ The concert on May 21, 2017, in Columbus was part of the Rock on the Range festival.
  8. ^ The concert on July 14, 2017, in Quebec City was part of the Quebec City Summer Festival.
  9. ^ The concert on August 12, 2017, in San Francisco was part of the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival.
  10. ^ The concert on September 2, 2017, in Copenhagen was originally scheduled on February 5, 2017 but it was rescheduled due doctor's orders.[32][33]
  11. ^ a b The concerts on October 6 and October 13, 2018, were part of the Austin City Limits Music Festival.
  12. ^ The concert on June 8, 2019, in Slane was part of the Slane Festival.

References

  1. ^ Sources for overall tour gross:
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  4. ^ "Metallica Leads LIVE75 Chart, Def Leppard Breaks Through". Pollstar. September 13, 2019. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
  5. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 6, 2019. Retrieved May 19, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Metallica at Palastzelt Maimarktgelände in Mannheim". Metallica. Retrieved November 21, 2021.
  7. ^ "A Note from Lars, Kirk and Rob". Metallica. Retrieved November 21, 2021.
  8. ^ "South American Tour Dates Postponed". Metallica. Retrieved November 21, 2021.
  9. ^ "Metallica 2017 Set List Tracker: WorldWired Tour". Ultimate Classic Rock. May 13, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  10. ^ Grow, Kory (September 22, 2018). "Metallica: Inside Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo's Genre-Stretching Duets". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  11. ^ Sources for Warm-up dates:
  12. ^ Warm-up concerts boxscores:
  13. ^ Sources for tour dates in Latin America:
  14. ^ Sources for attendance in South America:
  15. ^ South American Boxscore:
  16. ^ Sources for Intimate/promo shows:
  17. ^ Intimate/promo shows Boxscore:
  18. ^ Craddock, Lauren (June 26, 2016). "Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Demi Lovato, Major Lazer & Metallica to Headline Global Citizen Festival". Billboard. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  19. ^ Childers, Chad (August 22, 2016). "Metallica Lead Neil Young's 2016 Bridge School Benefit". Loudwire. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  20. ^ Sources for tour dates in Asia:
  21. ^ "RETURN TO SHANGHAI". metallica.com. Archived from the original on April 19, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  22. ^ "WORLDWIRED TOUR TRAVELS TO COPENHAGEN". metallica.com. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  23. ^ "CELEBRATE GRAMMY WEEK WITH A LIVE SHOW IN LA". metallica.com. Archived from the original on February 17, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  24. ^ Sources for tour dates in Latin America:
  25. ^ Latin American Boxscore:
  26. ^ Sources for tour dates in North America:
  27. ^ North American Boxscore:
  28. ^ a b "THE WORLDWIRED TOUR CONTINUES IN EUROPE". metallica.com. Archived from the original on March 18, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  29. ^ "Current Boxscore". Billboard. November 7, 2017. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  30. ^ "Northern California Wildfire Relief Benefit Concert". Metallica. October 24, 2017. Archived from the original on October 25, 2017. Retrieved October 25, 2017.
  31. ^ Childers, Chad (January 30, 2017). "Metallica Playing 'Citi Sound Vault' Show at Hollywood Palladium on Grammy Night". Loudwire. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  32. ^ "FEBRUARY 5TH SHOW IN COPENHAGEN POSTPONED". metallica.com. Archived from the original on February 4, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  33. ^ Childers, Chad (February 5, 2020). "Metallica Postpone Copenhagen Show Due to James Hetfield's Health". Loudwire. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  34. ^ "Metallica je nový rekord O2 Areny: 20.174 diváků". April 3, 2018. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  35. ^ "Current Boxscore". Billboard. June 12, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  36. ^ "North America, Round Two!". Metallica. February 26, 2018. Archived from the original on February 27, 2018. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  37. ^ Sources for attendance in North America:
  38. ^ North American Boxscore:
  39. ^ Spurces for tour dates in Europe:
  40. ^ Sources for attendance in Europe:
  41. ^ European boxscores:
  42. ^ Langford, Jackson (March 8, 2019). "Metallica Announce 2019 Australian Tour With Slipknot". Music Feeds. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  43. ^ "Metallica postpones New Zealand tour while vocalist undergoes treatment for addiction". TVNZ. September 27, 2019. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  44. ^ Ziebell, Will (September 28, 2019). "Metallica cancel Australia, New Zealand tour as Hetfield enters rehab". Reuters. Retrieved March 26, 2020.