The Earth Tour: 21 Nights in London


The Earth Tour: 21 Nights in London was a concert residency at the O2 arena in London by American recording artist Prince that commenced on 1 August 2007 and concluded on 21 September 2007. Tickets for all 21 nights were sold-out.
The residency was announced at a press conference on 8 May 2007. It was nominally in support of his recently released Planet Earth album which had been distributed in the UK for free with copies of The Mail on Sunday newspaper on 15 July 2007, although the performances themselves primarily concentrated on earlier hits. Tickets for the concerts were priced at £31.21, echoing the title of Prince's 2006 album 3121.
The show featured Prince and his band playing "in the round" on a stage in the shape of Prince's iconic Love Symbol #2 in the centre of the arena, surrounded by the audience. The set list changed nightly as Prince used code-words to direct his band to his next song choice on the fly. The concerts were followed by an after-party held at the neighbouring IndigO2 venue, also housed within the O2 facility, and which often saw Prince continue to perform, although these appearances were not guaranteed.
The Earth Tour remains the longest residency to have been held at the venue. The total audience attendance at the concerts was over 351,000.

Set list

Opening night set list
  1. UK Music Hall of Fame video intro
  2. "Purple Rain"
  3. "Girls & Boys"
  4. "Satisfied"
  5. "Cream"
  6. "U Got the Look"
  7. "Shhh"
  8. "Musicology"
  9. "I Feel for You"
  10. "Controversy"
  11. "What a Wonderful World"
  12. "Somewhere Here on Earth"
  13. "Lolita"
  14. "Black Sweat"
  15. "Kiss"
  16. "If I Was Your Girlfriend"
  17. "Pink Cashmere"
  18. "7"
  19. "Come Together"
  20. "Take Me with U"
  21. "Guitar"
  22. "Planet Earth"
  23. "Crazy"
  24. "Nothing Compares 2 U"
  25. "Let's Go Crazy"
  26. "Little Red Corvette"
  27. "Raspberry Beret"
  28. "Sometimes It Snows in April"
  29. "Get on the Boat"
  30. "A Love Bizarre"
  31. "Sexy Dancer"/"Le Freak"

    Band lineup

Shows

DateAttendanceRevenue
August 1, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
August 3, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
August 4, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
August 7, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
August 10, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
August 11, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
August 14, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
August 17, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
August 18, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
August 24, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
August 25, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
August 28, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
August 31, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
September 1, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
September 6, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
September 9, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
September 12, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
September 13, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
September 16, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
September 20, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
September 21, 2007351,527 / 351,527$22,052,026
Total351,527 / 351,527 $22,052,026