Taking Chances World Tour

Taking Chances World Tour
World tour by Celine Dion
	Promotional poster for the tour
Location	Africa; Asia; Oceania; Europe; North America;
Associated album	D'elles; Taking Chances;
Start date	14 February 2008
End date	26 February 2009
Legs	5
No. of shows	9 in Africa; 10 in Asia; 5 in Oceania; 35 in Europe; 72 in North America; 131 total;
Box office	US $279.2 million ($397.94 million in 2023 dollars)
Celine Dion concert chronology
	; A New Day...; (2003–07); ; Taking Chances World Tour; (2008–09); ; Celine; (2011–19);

The Taking Chances World Tour was the ninth concert tour by French Canadian singer Céline Dion, in-support of her thirteenth French-language and 22nd studio album, D'elles (2007), as well as her tenth English-language and 23rd studio album, Taking Chances (2007). The tour marked Dion’s return to performing on a global scale, after five successful years with her groundbreaking Las Vegas residency, A New Day.... It was also her first concert tour in nine years, following her Let's Talk About Love World Tour (1998/99).

Taking Chances was, indeed, an ambitious tour; kicking-off with nine shows across five cities in South Africa, the tour saw Dion performing for fans in Dubai, Tokyo, Osaka, Macau, Seoul, Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur before visiting five cities in Australia—with further planned shows in Beijing, New Zealand, Qatar and Turkey being canceled for various unforeseen reasons. The tour then visited cities across Europe for 2½ months before embarking on a full, six-month-long North American tour, including three stops in Mexico and a sold-out show in San Juan, Puerto Rico.^[2] Pollstar announced the tour’s total gross to be US$279.2 million, making it 2008-2009’s fourth highest-grossing tour by a solo artist, and one of the highest-grossing tours of the 2000s.

^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved 29 February 2024.
^ "La tournée mondiale de Céline Dion 2008–2009 – 5 continents – 85 villes – 101 spectacles" (Press release) (in French). CNW Group. 7 November 2007. Archived from the original on 7 November 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2007..

[inflation-US-1] 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved 29 February 2024.

[pr-2] "La tournée mondiale de Céline Dion 2008–2009 – 5 continents – 85 villes – 101 spectacles" (Press release) (in French). CNW Group. 7 November 2007. Archived from the original on 7 November 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2007..

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