The Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour

The Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour was the ninth concert tour by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. The tour was featured prominently in the singer's docu-series Mariah's World.[1]

The Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour
Tour by Mariah Carey
Start dateMarch 15, 2016 (2016-03-15)
End dateNovember 26, 2016 (2016-11-26)
Legs4
No. of shows
  • 22 in Europe
  • 4 in Africa
  • 2 in Latin America
  • 3 in North America
  • 31 total
Box office$6,768,754 (10 Reported Shows)
Mariah Carey concert chronology

The tour kicked off with a show at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland on March 15, 2016 and concluded with a show at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii on November 26, 2016.[2] The tour saw Carey play six venues across Great Britain and various others across Europe, as well as several dates in Africa. The Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour is Carey's first tour to visit the European region in 13 years, the last being the Charmbracelet World Tour in 2003.[3] It is also her first tour to visit Hawaii in almost two decades.

The tour's set list was noted by fans for including songs rarely or never before performed by Carey, such as "Loverboy", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" and "When You Believe".

Set list
  1. "Fantasy" (contains elements of the Def Club Mix and Bad Boy Fantasy remix)
  2. "Emotions"
  3. "My All" (Classic Club Mix)
  4. "Always Be My Baby"
  5. "I'll Be There" (with Trey Lorenz)
  6. "Rock With You" (Interlude) (performed by Trey Lorenz)
  7. "Touch My Body"
  8. "I Know What You Want" / "Obsessed" / "It's Like That" / "Shake It Off" / "Loverboy"
  9. "Heartbreaker" (Desert Storm Remix)
  10. "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
  11. "One Sweet Day" (with Daniel Moore II and Trey Lorenz)
  12. "When You Believe"
  13. "Hero"
  14. "We Belong Together"
  15. "Without You"
  16. "Butterfly Reprise" (Outro)
Notes
  • "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" was not performed on select dates.
  • "One Sweet Day" was not performed in Luxembourg and Munich. It was eventually cut from the set list on November 8.
  • "Rainbow" was performed in Oslo.
  • "Can't Let Go" was performed in Kraków.
  • In Cape Town, Carey performed "Fly Like a Bird" in place of "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)".
  • During shows in Durban and Johannesburg, "Don't Forget About Us" replaced "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)". It was later permanately done for shows in Honolulu.
  • On November 8, "Breakdown" and "Honey" were added to the set list.
  • During shows in Mexico, "Babydoll" and "I Still Believe" were performed.
  • Starting on November 23, "Vision of Love", "Infamous", and "#Beautiful" were added to the set list; the latter two being performed with Jussie Smollett. Additionally, "I'll Be There" and "Without You" were no longer performed.
  • During the final show in Honolulu, "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was played as the outro.

Shows
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 Attendance Revenue
Leg 1 — Europe[4][5][6][7]
March 15, 2016 Glasgow Scotland SSE Hydro 3,506 / 3,835 $311,091
March 17, 2016 Leeds England First Direct Arena — —
March 18, 2016 Manchester Manchester Arena 9,055 / 9,960 $843,966
March 20, 2016 Birmingham Barclaycard Arena 8,470 / 9,458 $764,454
March 21, 2016 Cardiff Wales Motorpoint Arena — —
March 23, 2016 London England The O2 Arena 15,189 / 16,076 $1,412,500
March 26, 2016 Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg Rockhal 4,500 / 6,500 —
March 29, 2016 Copenhagen Denmark Forum Copenhagen —
March 31, 2016 Oslo Norway Oslo Spektrum
April 2, 2016 Stockholm Sweden Ericsson Globe
April 4, 2016 Helsinki Finland Hartwall Arena
April 6, 2016 Tallinn Estonia Saku Suurhall
April 7, 2016 Riga Latvia Arēna Rīga
April 9, 2016 Kaunas Lithuania Žalgiris Arena
April 11, 2016 Kraków Poland Tauron Arena
April 13, 2016 Cologne Germany Lanxess Arena
April 14, 2016 Munich Olympiahalle
April 16, 2016 Milan Italy Mediolanum Forum 5,393 / 5,393 $471,929
April 18, 2016 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion 4,007 / 9,500 $284,757
April 19, 2016 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle — —
April 21, 2016 Paris France AccorHotels Arena 9,458 / 11,612 $866,591
April 23, 2016 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome — —
Leg 2 — Africa[4]
April 26, 2016 Cape Town South Africa Cape Town Stadium 14,420 / 15,817 $518,723
April 29, 2016 Durban Moses Mabhida Stadium 18,403 / 19,135 $570,866
May 1, 2016 Johannesburg Ticketpro Dome 20,014 / 21,203 $1,195,806
May 2, 2016
Leg 3 — North America[4][8]
November 8, 2016 Mexico City Mexico Arena Ciudad de Mexico 11,054 / 11,054 $331,489
November 9, 2016 Monterrey Arena Monterrey — —
November 23, 2016 Honolulu United States Neal S. Blaisdell Arena — —
November 25, 2016
November 26, 2016
Total 130,469 / 147,543 (88%) $7,572,172

Cancelled shows
List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason of cancellation
Date City Country Venue Reason
March 27, 2016 Brussels Belgium Forest National 2016 Brussels bombings[9]
October 28, 2016 Buenos Aires Argentina GEBA Jorge Newbery "Promoter negligence"[10]
October 30, 2016 Santiago Chile Movistar Arena
November 1, 2016 São Paulo Brazil Allianz Parque
November 4, 2016 Curitiba Pedreira Paulo Leminski
November 5, 2016 Porto Alegre Estádio Beira-Rio

Personnel
  • James "Big Jim" Wright – musical director
  • Daniel Moore II - keyboards
  • Derrieuz Edgecombe – keyboards
  • Lance Tolbert - bass
  • Joshua Baker – drums
  • Trey Lorenz – background vocals
  • Mary Ann Tatum – background vocals
  • Takeytha Johnson – background vocals

Source:[11]

References
  1. Pollstar 2016 Mid Year Special Features
  2. "MARIAH ANNOUNCES TOUR OF LATIN AMERICA".
  3. "Mariah Carey Announces Sweet Sweet Fantasy 2016 European Tour". Billboard. 14 December 2015. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  4. "Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour". MariahCarey.com. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  5. Box score:
  6. "Mariah Carey en retard à la Rockhal: voici pourquoi". L'essentiel. Retrieved March 4, 2022.
  7. "Mariah on the road..." mariah-charts-and-saless Webseite! (in German). Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  8. "Mariah Carey confirma shows no Brasil, em novembro". O Estado de S. Paulo. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  9. Colin Stutz (March 25, 2016). "Mariah Carey Cancels Brussels Show Due to Safety Concerns". Billboard. Retrieved March 25, 2016.
  10. "Mariah Carey Cancels Most of Her Latin America Tour". Billboard. 26 October 2016.
  11. "The Mariah Network".
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