Selena Gomez: The Revival Tour

Selena Gomez kicked off her newest tour on May 6th, in Las Vegas, looking amazing and sounding even better. 

 

After releasing some exciting news July 21st, 2015, on Instagram about her most recent album: Revival, Selena Gomez indicated the release date to be October 9th. The album debuted at number one on the U.S Billboard 200, with over 85,000 pure album sales and first week earnings of 117,000 units. Doing so, it became her second consecutive number one album, after Stars Dance. In February, the RIAA certified Revival gold, denoting 500,000 album equivalent units (including album sales and streaming) sold in the U.S.

Releasing Good For You, Same Old Love (both reaching number five) and Hands To Myself (charting at number seven) as a single was nothing but good news for Selena. Revival is now her first record to achieve such success in her career, housing multiple top 10 singles in the United States.

 

Once announcing a tour for the album on Instagram, Selena started rehearsals and preparation right away, making sure to put on the best show she possibly could for her fans. “I haven’t toured for two years, and there’s such a difference when you perform music that you created,” the 23-year-old singer said, speaking to EW. "Singing songs that represent everything I am is just the best feeling in the world." The tour kicked off May 6th, in Vegas, playing to thousands of fans, with a set list of twenty songs. Selena Gomez mentions what she will and won’t perform on her new tour—and what she won’t leave home without.

Hands To Myself

 

“For all of my songs, I’ve got my full band, and everybody is just bringing a different flavour to everything that we’ve done. All the songs have their own charms to them. None of it really sounds like the record. ‘Hands to Myself’ definitely changed the most."

Good For You

 

“We had to speed it up; it was a little slower. We added more support with a guitar [in] the middle to pick up the pace. But it sounds beautiful.”

Come & Get It

 

 “I love Stargate more than anything, but it’s very difficult for me to perform live. It’s not my song. To me, it sounds like a Rihanna reject. I’m currently in the middle of figuring out what it’s going to sound like. I’m working with Stargate on the new album—they did ‘Same Old Love’ with me—and we’ve created such an awesome relationship. That was just in the beginning. I was so young. I was wanting a hit: ‘I don’t know if I need a hit, but maybe I do so people can respect me?’ I’m grateful what [‘Come & Get It’] did for me, so it’d be stupid not to acknowledge it.”

Who Says

 

“That song [makes me] cry to this day because I know what it did for me when I was 16 singing that song to kids on their dads’ shoulders. That’s when I recognized I had influence on a generation: ‘Who says you’re not perfect? Who says you’re not beautiful? Who says you’re not worth it?’”

The Heart Wants What It Wants

 

“There are things that I can’t do. I won’t be performing this on this tour because I don’t want to. It’s like when you smell a scent and it takes you back to a place that maybe wasn’t the best place. That stuff is a little bit more difficult.”

Love You Like A Love Song

 

“That was produced by Rock Mafia, who I’ve known since I was 14. They produced the first single I ever released, which was ‘Tell Me Something I Don’t Know’ for a TV movie I did. They’ve been with me forever. They know my tone and they know where I can go. [‘Love You Like a Love Song’] was the first time I felt like it was my sound. When you hear it, it’s my song. That was such a great moment for me. We did an even cooler version for the tour. There’s nothing that brings me more joy than to go back and visit that.”

The Revival Tour will end in December with 46 shows in North America, 22 in Europe, 7 in Asia with a total of 75 shows (4 legs).

 

After her opening show, rocking it with thousands of fans, Selena Gomez decided to hold an after-party in Vegas with a few friends, celebrating one of the biggest tours in her career so far, and making it one of the best nights of her life. It's more than just a survival, this is her Revival.

 

 

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