The Circle Tour

The Circle Tour was a worldwide concert tour in 2010 by American rock band Bon Jovi to promote their 11th studio album The Circle (2009).^[2] The tour started in North America and progressed to Europe, South America, Asia and Australia. It included a 12-night run at the O2 Arena in London and four nights in East Rutherford, New Jersey to celebrate the opening of the Meadowlands Stadium. The tour was the #1 top-grossing concert tour for 2010 in the United States.

The Circle Tour

World tour by Bon Jovi
Promotional poster for 2010 São Paulo concert
Location	North America, Europe, South America, Asia, Oceania
Associated album	The Circle
Start date	February 11, 2010
End date	December 19, 2010
Legs	6
No. of shows	52 in North America 15 in Europe 7 in Latin America 9 in Oceania 2 in Asia 85 in total
Box office	US $201.1 million ($289.97 in 2024 dollars)[1]
Bon Jovi concert chronology

Bon Jovi also played a free performance for fans and former season ticket holders of the Jon Bon Jovi-owned arena football team The Philadelphia Soul on March 24, 2010, a few hours before the band's show at Philadelphia's Wachovia Center. The band ended the first year of the tour in Australasia, playing two shows in New Zealand and eight shows in Australia.^[3]

Background

Bon Jovi started the stadium leg of the 2010 Circle Tour by playing the inaugural show at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Three sold-out shows on May 26, 27, and 29 prompted the addition of another tour date at the venue at the start of the second North American leg on July 9.

The band played a free performance for fans and former season ticket holders of the Jon Bon Jovi-owned arena football team The Philadelphia Soul on March 24, a few hours before the band's show at Philadelphia's Wachovia Center. On June 7 they became the first band to play on the roof of the O₂ Arena in London, England. The performance was shown outside on a large screen with a PA system. Trained mountaineers helped the group to reach the top of the roof, which was 58 meters above the ground.

The tour featured a circle-shaped stage with five large robots, choreographed to move with the music and onstage production, which each had a 6' by 9' Nocturne/ Vidicon LED screen attached to their articulated arms. They were provided by RoboScreen and designed by Andy Flessas.^[4]

Opening acts

Bon Jovi held a contest, called SuperBAND Tonight, in which North American bands competed for a chance to perform as their opening act at some of the concerts.^[5] The winners were announced in a press release. More information can be found at: Bon Jovi's The Circle Tour Announces Winners of Contest.

• Dashboard Confessional supported the February, March, and some of the April dates.
• Fuel supported the Hersheypark Stadium show on May 19
• Kid Rock supported the O2 Arena shows on June 22, 23, 25 and 26.^[6][7]
• OneRepublic supported the O2 Arena shows on June 17, 19 and 20.^[7]
• Kid Rock supported on July 9, 15, 17, 20, 21, 24, 28, 30 and 31.^[6]
• Train was the special guest on the first night at the Meadowlands Stadium. Gavin DeGraw was the special guest for the second night, and OneRepublic was the special guest on the third.^[8]

Setlist

Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora on stage

1. Blood on Blood
2. We Weren't Born to Follow
3. You Give Love a Bad Name
4. Born to Be My Baby
5. Lost Highway
6. Whole Lot of Leavin'
7. When We Were Beautiful
8. Superman Tonight
9. We Got It Goin' On
10. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
11. Bad Medicine (with snippets of Shout)
12. It's My Life
13. Lay Your Hands on Me (Richie Sambora on lead vocals)
14. (You Want to) Make a Memory
15. Bed of Roses
16. I'll Be There For You
17. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night (acoustic)
18. Keep the Faith
19. Work for the Working Man
20. Who Says You Can't Go Home
21. Love's the Only Rule

Encore:

22. Runaway
23. Wanted Dead or Alive
24. Livin' on a Prayer

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Opening act	Attendance	Revenue
North America
February 11, 2010	Honolulu	United States	Blaisdell Arena	Kings of Spade Mike Corrado Band	15,291 / 15,291	$1,496,330
February 12, 2010
February 19, 2010	Seattle		KeyArena	Dashboard Confessional	26,917 / 26,917	$2,412,550
February 20, 2010
February 22, 2010	San Jose		HP Pavilion at San Jose		14,244 / 14,244	$1,361,125
February 24, 2010	Glendale		Jobing.com Arena		13,973 / 13,973	$1,416,502
February 26, 2010	Anaheim		Honda Center		27,024 / 27,024	$2,654,472
February 27, 2010
March 2, 2010	Sacramento		ARCO Arena		14,337 / 14,337	$1,187,851
March 4, 2010	Los Angeles		Staples Center		16,698 / 16,698	$1,737,009
March 6, 2010	Las Vegas		MGM Grand Garden Arena		14,803 / 14,803	$2,666,025
March 8, 2010	Denver		Pepsi Center		14,934 / 14,934	$1,314,691
March 9, 2010	Omaha		Qwest Center Omaha		14,980 / 14,980	$1,122,623
March 11, 2010	Wichita		Intrust Bank Arena		13,675 / 13,675	$1,064,673
March 13, 2010	Fargo		Fargodome		22,398 / 22,398	$1,515,395
March 15, 2010	Kansas City		Sprint Center		15,792 / 15,792	$1,318,327
March 17, 2010	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills	Dashboard Confessional Kid Rock	18,663 / 18,663	$1,326,375
March 19, 2010	Montreal	Canada	Bell Centre	Dashboard Confessional	37,526 / 37,526	$4,024,240
March 20, 2010
March 23, 2010	Philadelphia	United States	Wachovia Center		36,697 / 36,697	$3,421,575
March 24, 2010
March 26, 2010	Uncasville		Mohegan Sun Arena		20,324 / 20,324	$2,444,366
March 27, 2010
March 29, 2010	Washington, D.C.		Verizon Center		17,287 / 17,287	$1,860,756
April 7, 2010	Saint Paul		Xcel Energy Center	Select Three Four Forty Alison Scott	32,574 / 32,574	$2,768,554
April 8, 2010
April 10, 2010	Dallas		American Airlines Center	The Dallahachie Boys The Zack King Band	33,032 / 33,032	$3,352,099
April 11, 2010
April 13, 2010	Tulsa		BOK Center	Dashboard Confessional	17,053 / 17,053	$1,276,475
April 15, 2010	Atlanta		Philips Arena		16,510 / 16,510	$1,815,719
April 17, 2010	Tampa		St. Pete Times Forum		18,298 / 18,298	$1,777,817
April 18, 2010	Sunrise		BankAtlantic Center		17,808 / 17,808	$1,803,620
April 21, 2010	Nashville		Bridgestone Arena		15,925 / 15,925	$1,623,900
April 22, 2010	Charlotte		Time Warner Cable Arena		16,913 / 16,913	$1,499,578
May 19, 2010	Hershey		Hersheypark Stadium	Fuel	24,956 / 24,956	$1,691,915
May 26, 2010	East Rutherford		New Meadowlands Stadium	Train Gavin DeGraw OneRepublic Kid Rock	206,099 / 206,099[a]	$21,386,437[a]
May 27, 2010
May 29, 2010
Europe
June 4, 2010	Madrid	Spain	Ciudad del Rock	—	—	—
June 5, 2010	Scheveningen	Netherlands	Royal Beach
June 7, 2010	London	England	The O2 Arena	OneRepublic Kid Rock	187,696 / 187,696[b]	$18,178,036[b]
June 8, 2010
June 10, 2010
June 11, 2010				OneRepublic
June 13, 2010				OneRepublic Kid Rock
June 16, 2010	Paris	France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	OneRepublic	15,906 / 15,906	$1,395,370
June 17, 2010	London	England	The O2 Arena	OneRepublic Kid Rock	[b]	[b]
June 19, 2010
June 20, 2010
June 22, 2010
June 23, 2010
June 25, 2010
June 26, 2010
North America
July 9, 2010	East Rutherford	United States	New Meadowlands Stadium	Train Gavin DeGraw OneRepublic Kid Rock	[a]	[a]
July 11, 2010	Saratoga Springs		Saratoga Performing Arts Center	Soraia	14,625 / 14,625	$998,776
July 12, 2010	Cuyahoga Falls		Blossom Music Center	Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes	14,065 / 14,065	$1,036,312
July 14, 2010	Calgary	Canada	Pengrowth Saddledome	Zoo Lion Kid Rock	15,859 / 15,859	$1,949,462
July 15, 2010	Edmonton		Commonwealth Stadium	Kid Rock	40,451 / 40,451	$2,811,477
July 17, 2010	Winnipeg		Canad Inns Stadium		36,865 / 36,865	$2,890,829
July 20, 2010	Toronto		Rogers Centre		85,494 / 85,494	$6,976,612
July 21, 2010
July 23, 2010	Louisville	United States	Churchill Downs	—	—	—
July 24, 2010	Foxborough		Gillette Stadium	Kid Rock	51,138 / 51,138	$4,418,585
July 28, 2010	Regina	Canada	Mosaic Stadium		33,070 / 33,070	$2,969,495
July 30, 2010	Chicago	United States	Soldier Field		95,959 / 95,959	$8,606,259
July 31, 2010
Latin America
September 24, 2010	Mexico City	Mexico	Foro Sol	Moderatto	44,124 / 44,124	$2,972,317
September 26, 2010	San José	Costa Rica	Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá	—	—	—
September 29, 2010	Lima	Peru	Estadio Universidad San Marcos	Jhovan	45,193 / 45,193	$3,415,764
October 1, 2010	Santiago	Chile	Estadio Nacional de Chile	Lucybell	46,983 / 46,983	$3,069,075
October 3, 2010	Buenos Aires	Argentina	River Plate Stadium	Los Tipitos	37,633 / 37,633	$4,222,698
October 6, 2010	São Paulo	Brazil	Estádio do Morumbi	Fresno	55,833 / 55,833	$5,537,022
October 8, 2010	Rio de Janeiro		Praça da Apoteose		15,529 / 32,400	$1,718,300
North America
October 15, 2010	Gulf Shores	United States	Gulf Shores Public Beach	—	—	—
November 9, 2010	Washington, D.C.		Late Show with David Letterman CBS	—	—	—
November 10, 2010	New York City		Times Square Best Buy	—	—	—
Asia
November 30, 2010	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome	—	60,313 / 60,313	$8,054,976
December 1, 2010
Oceania[9]
December 4, 2010	Wellington	New Zealand	Westpac Stadium	Black River Drive	18,692 / 18,692	$2,710,672
December 5, 2010	Auckland		Vector Arena	—	10,755 / 10,755	$1,756,427
December 7, 2010	Perth	Australia	Patersons Stadium	Village Kid	29,644 / 29,644	$4,620,178
December 10, 2010	Melbourne		Rod Laver Arena	The Scarlets	14,723 / 14,723	$3,558,135
December 11, 2010			Etihad Stadium		54,414 / 54,414	$8,139,185
December 14, 2010	Brisbane		Suncorp Stadium	The Smart	39,424 / 39,424	$6,113,852
December 17, 2010	Sydney		Sydney Football Stadium	October Rage	103,843 / 103,843	$15,502,107
December 18, 2010
December 19, 2010
Total					1,909,234 / 1,926,105	$201,100,000

Personnel

Bon Jovi

• Jon Bon Jovi – lead vocals, guitar, maracas for Keep the Faith and Bullet, tambourine for Hey God
• Richie Sambora – lead guitar, lead vocals for Lay Your Hands on Me, backing vocals, talk box
• Hugh McDonald – bass, backing vocals
• Tico Torres – drums, percussion, backing vocals for Love For Sale
• David Bryan – keyboards, backing vocals

Additional personnel

• Bobby Bandiera – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Jeff Kazee – Hammond organ, keyboards, backing vocals (one-off show in March and another show in June as a substitute for David Bryan who was attending the Tony Awards)

Notes

1. The score data is representative of the four shows in East Rutherford, New Jersey at the New Meadowlands Stadium on May 26, May 27, May 29, and July 9 respectively.
2. The score data is representative of the 12 shows in London, England at the O2 Arena from June 7 through June 26 respectively.