Never Gone Tour

The Never Gone Tour is the sixth headlining concert tour by American boy band, the Backstreet Boys. The tour was launched in support of their fifth studio album, Never Gone (2005). It is the last BSB tour with all five members of the group, as Kevin Richardson left the band shortly after the tour concluded on June 23, 2006. However, Richardson permanently returned to the band on April 29, 2012.[1]

Never Gone Tour
Tour by Backstreet Boys
Promotional poster for the tour
Associated albumNever Gone
Start dateJuly 22, 2005 (2005-07-22)
End dateFebruary 2, 2006 (2006-02-02)
Legs3
No. of shows80
Backstreet Boys concert chronology

The tour grossed an estimated $49.5 million within 79 tour dates.

Opening acts

Setlist

The following setlist was obtained from the concert held on August 26, 2005, at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona.[5] It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

  • "Video Sequence"
Act 1
  1. "The Call"
  2. "My Beautiful Woman"
  3. "More than That"
  4. "Climbing the Walls"
  5. "Shape of My Heart"
  • "Video Sequence" (contains elements of "Don't Want You Back")
Act 2
  1. "The One"
  2. "I Still..."
  3. "I Want It That Way"
  4. "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely"
  5. "Larger than Life"
  6. "Siberia"
Act 3
  1. "All I Have to Give"
  2. "As Long As You Love Me"
  3. "I'll Never Break Your Heart"
  4. "Just Want You to Know"
  5. "Crawling Back to You"
  6. "Quit Playing Games (with My Heart)"
  • "Video Sequence" (contains elements of "Never Gone")
Act 4
  1. "Weird World"
  2. "Drowning"
  3. "Incomplete"
Encore
  1. "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)"

Tour dates
Date City Country Venue
North America[6]
July 22, 2005 West Palm Beach United States Sound Advice Amphitheatre
July 23, 2005 Tampa Ford Amphitheatre
July 24, 2005 Duluth The Arena at Gwinnett Center
July 26, 2005 Cleveland Tower City Amphitheater
July 27, 2005 New York City Radio City Music Hall
July 29, 2005 Atlantic City Etess Arena
July 30, 2005 Wantagh Tommy Hilfiger at Jones Beach Theater
July 31, 2005 Holmdel Township PNC Bank Arts Center
August 2, 2005 Toronto Canada Molson Amphitheatre
August 3, 2005 Clarkston United States DTE Energy Music Theatre
August 4, 2005 Darien Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
August 6, 2005 Bristow Nissan Pavilion
August 7, 2005 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center
August 9, 2005 Hartford Meadows Music Theatre
August 10, 2005 Portland Cumberland County Civic Center
August 12, 2005 Hershey Star Pavilion
August 13, 2005 Camden Tweeter Center
August 14, 2005 Mansfield Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
August 16, 2005 Cincinnati Riverbend Music Center
August 17, 2005 Burgettstown Post-Gazette Pavilion
August 19, 2005 Chicago Charter One Pavilion
August 20, 2005 Minneapolis Target Center
August 21, 2005 Bonner Springs Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
August 23, 2005 Loveland Budweiser Events Center
August 25, 2005 Irvine Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
August 26, 2005 Phoenix Dodge Theatre
August 27, 2005 Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Events Center
August 30, 2005 Concord Chronicle Pavilion
August 31, 2005 Wheatland Sleep Train Amphitheatre
September 2, 2005 Ridgefield The Amphitheater at Clark County
September 3, 2005 Vancouver Canada General Motors Place
September 4, 2005 Kelowna Prospera Place
September 5, 2005 Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome
September 7, 2005 Winnipeg MTS Centre
September 10, 2005 Kitchener Kitchener Memorial Auditorium
September 11, 2005 London John Labatt Centre
September 12, 2005 Ottawa Corel Centre
September 13, 2005 Montreal Bell Centre
Europe[7]
September 28, 2005 Stockholm Sweden Stockholm Globe Arena
September 29, 2005 Oslo Norway Oslo Spektrum
October 2, 2005 Helsinki Finland Hartwall Areena
October 4, 2005 Aalborg Denmark Gigantium
October 5, 2005 Hamburg Germany Color Line Arena
October 6, 2005 Dresden Messehalle
October 8, 2005 Stuttgart Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
October 9, 2005 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion
October 10, 2005 Milan Italy FilaForum
October 12, 2005 Rotterdam Netherlands Ahoy Rotterdam
October 13, 2005 Mannheim Germany SAP Arena
October 14, 2005 Munich Olympiahalle
October 16, 2005 Berlin Max-Schmeling-Halle
October 17, 2005 Oberhausen König Pilsener Arena
October 18, 2005 Brussels Belgium Forest National
October 20, 2005 London England Wembley Arena
October 21, 2005
October 23, 2005 Dublin Ireland Point Theatre
October 25, 2005 Manchester England Manchester Evening News Arena
October 26, 2005 Birmingham NEC Arena
October 29, 2005 Hanover Germany TUI Arena
October 30, 2005 Cologne Kölnarena
October 31, 2005 Freiburg Messehalle
November 2, 2005 Bologna Italy PalaMalaguti
November 5, 2005 Nuremberg Germany Messehalle
November 8, 2005 Badalona Spain Palau Municipal d'Esports
November 9, 2005 Madrid Palacio de Deportes
November 11, 2005 Lisbon Portugal Pavilhão Atlântico
Asia[8]
January 7, 2006 Tokyo Japan Tokyo Dome
January 8, 2006
January 10, 2006 Nagoya Nagoya Rainbow Hall
January 12, 2006 Osaka Osaka Dome
January 14, 2006 Seoul South Korea Olympic Gymnastics Arena
January 16, 2006 Beijing China Capital Indoor Stadium
January 18, 2006 Shanghai Shanghai Indoor Stadium
January 20, 2006 Quezon City Philippines Araneta Coliseum
January 22, 2006 Bangkok Thailand Impact Arena
January 24, 2006 Kallang Singapore Singapore Indoor Stadium
Australia[9]
January 28, 2006 Brisbane Australia Brisbane Entertainment Centre
January 30, 2006 Sydney Sydney Entertainment Centre
February 1, 2006 Adelaide Adelaide Entertainment Centre
February 2, 2006 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena

Box office score data
Venue City Tickets sold / Available Gross revenue
Molson Amphitheatre Toronto 15,880 / 15,880 (100%) $577,006[10]
Bell Centre Montreal 11,191 / 12,000 (93%) $563,801[10]
Point Theatre Dublin 8,148 / 8,148 (100%) $405,384[11]
Brisbane Entertainment Centre Brisbane 4,866 / 5,232 (93%) $314,608[12]
Sydney Entertainment Centre Sydney 9,000 / 9,000 (100%) $581,585[13]
Adelaide Entertainment Centre Adelaide 4,689 / 6,500 (72%) $291,103[14]
Rod Laver Arena Melbourne 11,000 / 11,000 (100%) $682,982[13]
TOTAL 64,774 / 67,760 (96%) $3,416,469

References
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  7. Sources for tour dates in Europe:
  8. Sources for tour dates in Asia:
  9. "BACKSTREET BOYS - NEVER GONE TOUR". Frontier Touring Company. December 2005. Archived from the original on October 5, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
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