The FutureSex/LoveShow was the third concert tour by American singer Justin Timberlake, launched in support of his second studio album, FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006). The tour began on January 8, 2007, in San Diego, with shows across North America, Europe, and Oceania. It concluded on December 6, 2007, in Abu Dhabi, comprising 121 shows. While Pink and Fergie served as the opening act for the North American leg, with the latter serving as the opening act for the European leg, Paris Wells served as the opening act for the Australian leg and Unklejam, Kenna, Natasha Bedingfield, and Esmée Denters for the European leg. It grossed a total of US$126.8 million, making it the third-highest-grossing concert tour of 2007.
SexyBack Dance Club A limited number of tickets were released, which gave fans access to a bar/club area around the stage known as the SexyBack Dance Club. There were two types of these tickets available: Seating and Standing. The seating tickets gave fans access to this area as well as a seat integrated into the stage itself. The standing tickets gave access to the same area without a seat.
Critical reception Rolling Stone editor Laura Checkoway, who attended the tour at the Madison Square Garden in April 2007, called the show "strictly grown and sexy" in her review. After attending the second Madison Square Garden date in August, Sia Michel from The New York Times thought "since his last tour, for 2002's multiplatinum Justified, he has learned how to project sex-symbol edge. During an ambitious, well-oiled spectacle of nearly three hours, this New Justin cursed, gyrated and mimicked bedroom acts with his lingerie-clad dancers." After attending the tour's Air Canada Centre show in August 2007, Jason MacNeil of Jam! gave it three-and-a-half stars out of five, and said that "while the set itself was identical to damn near every other show he's done on his current world tour, the two-hour-plus show has plenty of eye candy to keep even the casual fan interested".
Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly, who attended the tour's first ever show at the iPayOne Center in San Diego, gave it a B+ and said, "Though the show could have used some tightening (FutureSex needn't be performed in its entirety — here's to losing Losing My Way), when Timberlake locked into some James Brown-esque footwork, you didn't want it to end". After attending The O2, London date, musicOMH's Jonny Carey wrote, "Tonight proved that as well as being responsible for some of this decade's best pop moments, Justin Timberlake is among the best performers and will be continuing to headline venues of this stature for years to come."
Opening acts Pink (North America) (select dates) Fergie (North America & Europe) (select dates) Unklejam (Europe) (select dates) Kenna (Europe) (select dates) Natasha Bedingfield (Europe) (select dates) Esmée Denters (Europe) (select dates) Paris Wells (Australia) (selected dates)
Set list "FutureSex/LoveSound" "Like I Love You" "My Love" (contains excerpts from "Let Me Talk to You (Prelude)") "Señorita" "Sexy Ladies" "Until the End of Time" "What Goes Around... Comes Around" "Chop Me Up" "Rock Your Body" Medley: "Gone" "Take It from Here" "Last Night" "Damn Girl" "Summer Love" "Losing My Way" "Cry Me a River" "LoveStoned/I Think She Knows (Interlude)" "SexyBack" Encore "(Another Song) All Over Again"
Shows + List of North American concerts Date(2007) City Country Venue Opening act(s) Attendance(Tickets sold / total available) Revenue January 8 San Diego UnitedStates iPayOne Center Pink 12,526 / 12,526 $970,389 January 9 Anaheim Honda Center 14,863 / 14,863 $1,095,698 January 11 San Jose HP Pavilion 17,116 / 17,116 $1,320,326 January 12 Sacramento ARCO Arena 15,347 / 15,347 $1,045,967 January 14 Glendale Jobing.com Arena 14,645 / 14,645 $1,169,049 January 16 Los Angeles Staples Center N/A N/A January 17 Fresno Save Mart Center January 19 Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena January 27 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center January 30 Toronto Canada Air Canada CentrePink 19,041 / 19,041 $1,651,733 January 31 Montreal Bell Centre 17,091 / 17,091 $1,819,425 February 2 Washington, D.C. UnitedStates Verizon Center N/A N/A N/A February 3 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena February 6 Boston TD Banknorth Garden February 7 New York City Madison Square Garden February 18 Buffalo HSBC Arena February 19 Columbus Value City Arena February 22 Tampa St. Pete Times Forum February 24 Miami American Airlines Arena February 25 Sunrise BankAtlantic Center February 27 Atlanta Philips Arena Pink 16,638 / 16,638 $1,129,984 March 1 New Orleans New Orleans Arena 15,209 / 15,209 $826,084 March 3 Bossier City CenturyTel Center N/A N/A N/A March 4 Houston Toyota Center Pink 16,974 / 16,974 $1,243,420 March 5 Dallas American Airlines Center 17,418 / 17,418 $1,311,577 March 8 Omaha Qwest Center Omaha 12,535 / 12,535 $860,841 March 9 Ames Hilton Coliseum N/A N/A N/A March 10 Detroit Joe Louis Arena March 12 Rosemont Allstate Arena Pink 34,758 / 34,758 $2,532,272 March 13 March 15 Cincinnati US Bank Arena N/A N/A N/A March 16 Nashville Nashville Arena March 18 Charlottesville John Paul Jones Arena Pink March 19 Pittsburgh Mellon Arena N/A March 21 Uniondale Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum March 24 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena Pink 9,737 / 9,737 $713,850 March 26 Manchester Verizon Wireless Arena 10,127 / 10,127 $753,454 March 27 Philadelphia Wachovia Center 18,611 / 18,611 $1,308,817 March 29 East Rutherford Continental Airlines Arena N/A N/A N/A + List of European concerts Date(2007) City Country Venue Opening act(s) Attendance(Tickets sold / total available) Revenue April 24 Belfast Northern Ireland Odyssey Arena Timbaland 18,098 / 18,098 $1,593,147 April 25 April 27 Sheffield England Hallam FM Arena TimbalandUnkle Jam 16,975 / 16,975 $1,550,518 April 28 April 30 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena 15,951 / 15,951 $1,112,380 May 1 May 3 Glasgow Scotland Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre 26,821 / 26,821 $2,545,988 May 4 May 5 May 8 Birmingham England NEC Arena TimbalandUnkle JamKenna 34,877 / 34,877 $2,755,695 May 9 May 11 May 14 Manchester Manchester Evening News Arena 31,858 / 31,858 $2,742,102 May 15 May 19 Nottingham Nottingham Arena 9,770 / 9,770 $920,118 May 22 Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy N/A N/A May 23 May 25 Stuttgart Germany Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle May 26 Munich Olympiahalle May 28 Frankfurt Festhalle Frankfurt May 29 Mannheim SAP Arena June 1 Milan Italy DatchForum June 2 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion June 4 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle June 6 Berlin Germany Max-Schmeling-Halle June 7 Leipzig Arena Leipzig June 9 Hamburg Color Line Arena June 10 Cologne Kölnarena June 12 Lyon France Halle Tony Garnier June 13 Dortmund Germany Westfalenhallen June 16 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam Arena June 19 Stockholm Sweden Stockholm Globe Arena June 21 Oslo Norway Oslo Spektrum June 23 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadium Esmée DentersNatasha Bedingfield 55,041 / 55,041 $4,094,782 June 25 Gothenburg Sweden Scandinavium N/A N/A N/A June 27 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis June 30 Dublin Ireland RDS Arena Fergie50 Cent 59,501 / 59,501 $4,875,285 July 1 July 4 London England The O2 Arena Esmée Denters 79,742 / 79,742 $7,346,893 July 5 July 7 July 8 July 10 + List of North American concerts Date(2007) City Country Venue Opening act(s) Attendance(Tickets sold / total available) Revenue August 6 Memphis UnitedStates FedExForum N/A N/A August 7 Duluth The Arena at Gwinnett Center August 10 Boston TD Banknorth Garden August 11 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena August 13 East Rutherford Continental Airlines Arena Fergie 17,587 / 17,587 $1,301,664 August 15 New York City Madison Square Garden 36,546 / 36,546 $2,784,912 August 16 August 18 Montreal Canada Bell Centre 19,599 / 19,599 $2,026,805 August 20 Toronto Air Canada Centre 34,991 / 34,991 $3,375,692 August 21 August 25 Winnipeg MTS Centre 28,482 / 28,482 $2,168,471 August 26 August 28 Edmonton Rexall Place 17,360 / 17,360 $1,356,265 September 1 Las Vegas UnitedStates Mandalay Bay Events Center 19,810 / 19,810 $1,843,632 September 2 September 5 Vancouver Canada General Motors Place 18,620 / 18,620 $1,765,608 September 7 Portland UnitedStates Rose Garden N/A N/A N/A September 8 Tacoma Tacoma Dome September 16 Los Angeles Staples Center Fergie 48,886 / 48,886 $4,216,926 September 17 September 19 September 23 San Jose HP Pavilion Kenna 13,771 / 13,771 $1,157,917 September 25 Sacramento ARCO Arena N/A N/A N/A
+ List of Oceania and UAE concerts Date(2007) City Country Venue Opening act(s) Attendance(Tickets sold / total available) Revenue October 27 Brisbane Australia Brisbane Entertainment Centre 25,752 / 26,330 $2,985,210 October 28 October 31 Sydney Acer Arena Paris Wells 58,788 / 58,788 $6,484,819 November 1 November 3 Adelaide Adelaide Entertainment Centre N/A N/A N/A November 5 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena 62,306 / 62,306 $6,295,577 November 6 November 9 Perth Burswood Dome Paris Wells 38,496 / 38,496 $3,724,237 November 10 November 13 Sydney Acer Arena November 17 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena N/A November 18 November 23 Auckland New Zealand Vector Arena Paris Wells 34,382 / 35,514 $3,502,719 November 24 November 26 December 6 Abu Dhabi UnitedArabEmirates Emirates Palace, West Park N/A N/A N/ATotals for entire tour 1,086,646 / 1,088,356 $94,280,248
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Broadcast and recordings In May 2007, it was announced that Timberlake signed a deal with the HBO network to broadcast the live concert. Timberlake previously appeared on an HBO special, which aired the *NSYNC Live From Madison Square Garden concert in 2000. FutureSex/LoveShow was taped on the second night at the Madison Square Garden on August 16, 2007. The footage was broadcast by HBO on September 3, 2007, and later on September 6 due to demand. On November 20, 2007, a two-disc edition of FutureSex/LoveShow: Live from Madison Square Garden was released on DVD and Blu-ray formats that were sold exclusively by the retailer Best Buy. The release included extra footage, including a song-by-song commentary by Timberlake and pre- and post-show clips.
In 2008, the broadcast earned Timberlake an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Picture Editing For A Special (Single Or Multi-Camera). For Timberlake's performance of "What Goes Around... Comes Around" at the Madison Square Garden, Josh Tyrangiel of Time magazine ranked it second on its list of top ten live performances in 2007. Tyrangiel writes, "It's a little on the long side, but Timberlake earns this symphonic take on What Goes Around from his HBO special." On October 31, 2007, Billboard magazine announced the finalists for the 2007 Billboard Touring Awards, which was based on actual box-office performance from January 1, 2007, to September 30, 2007. Timberlake was nominated in the categories Top Tour, Top Draw and Breakthrough Artist; he won the latter that was announced during the awards show on November 15, 2007.
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