Rainbow World Tour

Rainbow World Tour

Tour by Mariah Carey
220px Mariah Carey's Rainbow Tour book
Associated album	Rainbow
Start date	February 14, 2000
End date	April 18, 2000
Legs	3
Number of shows	6 in Europe 4 in Asia 9 in North America 19 in total
Mariah Carey concert chronology

The Rainbow World Tour was a concert tour in 2000 by American recording artist Mariah Carey, and supports her ninth studio album Rainbow. The trek started in Europe on February 14, in Antwerp, Belgium, also an itinerary that included North America and ended on April 18, in Toronto.

Background

The Rainbow Tour marked Carey's first tour in the U.S. in seven years since her 1993 Music Box Tour garnered a flurry of bad initial reviews. In addition to visiting more European countries, Carey also visited Singapore for the first time. During this tour, Carey debuted new songs from the Rainbow album such as: "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)", "Heartbreaker", "Thank God I Found You" and much more, including some of her biggest hits. Once again, longtime friend Trey Lorenz was featured as a backup singer.

Critical response

The tour received generally mixed reviews, especially in the United States. Of the debut American performance at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Variety said: "Mariah Carey's show begs for either simplicity or coherency." Of the United Center performance, and reflecting that this was the first time Mariah was scantily clad touring, The Chicago Sun-Times said that Carey had "been transformed from a wannabe Whitney to a wannabe Britney," and called her approach to concert performance "difficult to fathom" considering she was "the only artist to have scored a No. 1 hit in every year of the '90s, selling some 125 million records worldwide."

Set list

1. "Rainbow" / "Petals" (Video Introduction)
2. "Emotions"
3. "My All"
4. "Dreamlover"
5. "X-Girlfriend"
6. "Vulnerability"
7. "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
8. "Without You"
9. "Make It Happen"
10. "Thank God I Found You"
11. "Fantasy"
12. "Always Be My Baby"
13. "Crybaby"
14. "Close My Eyes"
15. "Petals"
16. "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)"
17. "Heartbreaker"
18. "Honey"
19. "Vision of Love"
20. "Rainbow (Interlude)"
21. "Hero"
22. "Butterfly" (Outro)

Shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, amount of available tickets, and gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Opening act	Attendance	Revenue
Europe
February 14, 2000	Antwerp	Belgium	Sportpaleis	N/A	N/A	N/A
February 17, 2000	Milan	Italy	Fila Forum
February 20, 2000	Cologne	Germany	Kölnarena
February 23, 2000	Paris	France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
February 26, 2000	London	United Kingdom	Wembley Arena
February 29, 2000	Madrid	Spain	Palacio de Deportes
Asia
March 4, 2000	Osaka	Japan	Osaka Dome	N/A	N/A	N/A
March 7, 2000	Tokyo		Tokyo Dome
March 9, 2000
March 13, 2000	Singapore	Singapore	Singapore National Stadium
North America
March 16, 2000	Los Angeles	United States	Staples Center	Da Brat	15,627 / 15,627	$990,648
March 18, 2000	Paradise		Thomas & Mack Center		13,591 / 13,591	$681,068
March 21, 2000	San Jose		San Jose Arena		13,999 / 13,999	$862,170
March 25, 2000	Chicago		United Center		14,892 / 14,892	$848,156
March 29, 2000	Miami		American Airlines Arena	N/A	N/A	N/A
April 1, 2000	Atlanta		Philips Arena
April 11, 2000	New York City		Madison Square Garden	Da Brat	14,870 / 14,870	$1,066,413
April 13, 2000	Boston		Fleet Center	N/A	N/A	N/A
April 18, 2000	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre
Total					72,979 / 72,979	$4,448,455

Personnel

Band

• Vernon Black
• Keyboards: Eric Daniels
• Sam Simms
• Gregory Gonaway
• Marco Oliveria
• Michael McKnight
• Background & featured vocalist: Trey Lorenz
• Background vocals: Melonie Daniels, MaryAnn Tatum, Tracy Harris