Her highest-grossing tour to date, it was staged in support of her seventh studio album, Renaissance The tour comprised 56 shows, beginning on May 10, , in Stockholm , Sweden , and concluding on October 1, , in Kansas City, Missouri.
The stage consisted of a giant screen with a large "portal" in its center, and featured sculptures, robotic arms and ultraviolet technology. According to official figures provided by Billboard Boxscore, the tour broke ticket sales records worldwide in , becoming both the seventh-highest-grossing concert tour and the highest-grossing tour by a female artist of all time that year, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as well the highest-grossing tour of all time by a black artist.
It also achieved the three highest monthly tour grosses in history and ranked at number one on the Top Tours Year End list. The tour boosted both local and national economies and was a sociocultural phenomenon. Alongside the announcement of the tour, it was also announced that a public on-sale for the North American leg would initially not happen, with all initial ticket sales for the leg using Ticketmaster 's Verified Fan system. In addition, all the cities in the North American leg of the tour would be split into three different registration groups that would all have different registration periods and on-sale times.
Jay Peters of The Verge noted that this spreading out of demand appeared to be an attempt by Ticketmaster to prevent an incident identical to the Ticketmaster fiasco of Taylor Swift 's Eras Tour that had occurred less than three months earlier, in which the website crashed during the Verified Fan presale.
Peters questioned how effective the strategy would be since people could sign up for each of the registration groups instead of just one. Senate hearing it sparked, [ 19 ] the Senate Judiciary Committee tweeted from their official Twitter account, "We're watching, Ticketmaster," in reference to the Renaissance World Tour ticketing.
