On November 24, 2014, the concert was streamed live from Bercy Arena in France. The tour additionally received positive response from reviewers, but some criticized it for being disjointed. Billboard also listed it as the ninth best concert tour of the year with 76 reported shows. At the end, ArtRave: The Artpop Ball grossed a total of $83 million from 920,088 sold tickets at the 74 reported performances. Gaga repeatedly placed within the top-ten of the Billboard Boxscore lists for the 2014 tour grosses. Negative reports about the tour's commercial performance were dismissed by Live Nation chairman Arthur Fogel. Tickets for several shows sold out immediately once available, prompting additional dates. The tour was produced by Live Nation, and promoted by Absolut Vodka in the United States and O 2 in the United Kingdom. They were also designed to accommodate minor changes in the show sequences. The lighting fixtures used for the concert were from Clay Paky and the main idea was to create an immersive rave experience with the lights. Costume designers and choreographers aspired to make a single, coherent show. Gaga's costumes in the show included one with tentacles, one with bejeweled wings, a rave-inspired outfit and a necklace made of marijuana leaves. The stage resembled a cave and consisted of two sections connected by catwalks made of translucent lucite, allowing the audience to move underneath the catwalks while still being able to watch the show.
The ArtRave tour was preceded by a performance at the South by Southwest music festival, which drew controversy due to a segment where an artist vomited on Gaga, and a seven-day residency at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan, New York.ĪrtRave's concept and name are derived from the similarly named release party for Artpop. The tour dates included cities where Gaga had canceled shows of her previous Born This Way Ball tour after suffering a hip injury. Supporting her third studio album Artpop (2013), the tour ran from to November 24, 2014. $83 million ($102.6 million in 2022 dollars) ĪrtRave: The Artpop Ball (stylized as artRAVE: the ARTPOP ball) was the fourth headlining concert tour by American singer Lady Gaga.
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