After a year traveling the world, passing through three continents and nearly thirty countries to present his latest studio album, Olivia Rodrigo has closed his GUTS World Tour until 2025. The tour, which passed through Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona and in the WiZink Center in Madridstarted on February 23 in California (United States) and concluded on October 22 in Melbourne (Australia). But the break is momentary: the songs on the album will be heard again in March 2025when the performer will take to the stage again, this time in Chili, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia. In June, Rodrigo will officially say goodbye to the tour in Manchester.
The artist said goodbye to this year of music with a post on her social networks. “95 concerts, 22 countries and a few tattoos to match. I can’t put into words how lucky I feel to have been able to travel around the world playing these songs with a group of extraordinary people. I will never forget this experience and all the good memories we made on the road. Thank you very much to everyone who bought a ticket, sang, screamed and jumped with me. Sharing these nights with all of you has been a true honor,” he shared on his Instagram profile.
For anyone who couldn’t go to a concert, Rodrigo had a surprise in store. This October 29premieres in Netflix a documentary film about the tour of concerts that have taken her around the world this year. Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour not only recovers some of the most iconic moments of the showbut will also teach for the first time the behind the scenes. A perfect way to get to know the singer better and discover what happens before the stage lights come on.
Learnings from his first stadium tour
The GUTS World Tour it has been quite a global phenomenonespecially among young people. The magazine Rolling Stone came to consider the interpreter of bad idea right? as icon of his generation after the first concert of the tour in California. “Rodrigo consolidated his position in pop culture as an artist who defines a generation. Like a rock star. And like an idol full of energy who is just beginning her career,” journalist Tomás Mier explained at the time. show chronicle.
The concerts have been a great learning experience for the artist, who with her first album toured arenas much smaller than the current one. “This has been my first tour on big stages and I have learned a lot, not only about performing and taking care of myself, but also about being part of a team. It was so much fun having a little family on the road for so many months and I’m going to miss everyone so much. The only thing I can think of to do differently next time is not to pack too much luggage. “My luggage is bursting at the seams,” said the artist in a interview for the magazine Billboard.
The singer has confessed several times that unlike her first album, GUTS It was composed with the concert in mind: how she was going to move around the stage, who could accompany her, what movements could play with the music… Everything was on her mind since she started composing the songs. “I tried to make the concert feel like my own spin on a rock show. My dream was for people to jump and scream and be all sweaty at the end,” he explained to Billboard.
The profitability of the show
The truth is that the tour He started with doubts about his economic profitability. Unlike her first tour as a solo artist, Rodrigo is not alone on stage in GUTS World Tour. A dance troupe made up of a dozen girls accompany her, giving more dynamism to the show. The spectacular props that surround the concert are also striking: there is a moment in which Rodrigo climbs onto a giant crescent to sing the ballad. Logical.
Olivia Rodrigo flying above the audience on a moon during the presentation of “logical” on the “GUTS World Tour”. pic.twitter.com/Ia90HgKQGf
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To what extent could a concert of these characteristics be economically profitable? Now the official figures have completely cleared up the doubts: Rodrigo’s move turned out well. According to the magazine Billboardthe tour has raised at least $186.6 million. In fact, Olivia this year became the youngest solo artist to gross more than $180 million on her first stadium tour.
His first album, also a millionaire
Olivia Rodrigo has been reaping success after success since she landed in the industry. In May, his album SOUR became the most listened to album of the Spotify story from a female artist with a total of 12 billion views. The news did not surprise his fans. Rodrigo’s debut album includes such popular songs as Traitor, Deja Vu, Good 4 U, Happier either Favorite Crime. All of them exceed 1,000 million views on Spotify.
friendly reminder that olivia rodrigo doesn’t have a single song below 100 million streams with only her debut album and one sophomore single out pic.twitter.com/qdAZYkvclN
— miguel (@cowboyinwoods13) July 15, 2023
In 2021, SOUR not only did it become his cover letter in industry, but also in Grammy Awards. There he won the prize for best new artist, best pop vocal album and best pop solo performance. With its first 11 songs it also set the record for the longest debut album in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 of this 21st century. His second album GUTS It is not far behind either. The album’s lead single, vampireis already their most listened to song on Spotify with more than a billion views
friendly reminder that olivia rodrigo won 3 grammys, was named both woman of the year and entertainer of the year, and now sour is the first album in history to have all tracks reach at least 200 million streams. she is the MOMENT.pic.twitter.com/ADzdisniZz
— miguel (@cowboyinwoods13) July 25, 2022
Rodrigo’s career is unstoppable and his landing on Netflix is an obvious example of this. If yours are not halloween moviesthis weekend you can give this new documentary about the singer of obsessed.
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