Taking Chances World Tour
The Taking Chances World Tour was the ninth concert tour by French Canadian singer Céline Dion, in-support of her thirteenth French-language and 22nd studio album, D'elles (2007), as well as her tenth English-language and 23rd studio album, Taking Chances (2007). The tour marked Dion’s return to performing on a global scale, after five successful years with her groundbreaking Las Vegas residency, A New Day.... It was also her first concert tour in nine years, following her Let's Talk About Love World Tour (1998/99).
| Tour by Celine Dion | |
Promotional poster for the tour | |
| Associated album | |
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| Start date | 14 February 2008 |
| End date | 26 February 2009 |
| Legs | 5 |
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| Box office | US $279.2 million ($382.21 million in 2022 dollars) |
| Celine Dion concert chronology | |
Taking Chances was, indeed, an ambitious tour; kicking-off with nine shows across five cities in South Africa, the tour saw Dion performing for fans in Dubai, Tokyo, Osaka, Macau, Seoul, Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur before visiting five cities in Australia—with further planned shows in Beijing, New Zealand, Qatar and Turkey being canceled for various unforeseen reasons. The tour then visited cities across Europe for 2½ months before embarking on a full, six-month-long North American tour, including three stops in Mexico and a sold-out show in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Pollstar announced the tour’s total gross to be US$279.2 million, making it 2008-2009’s fourth highest-grossing tour by a solo artist, and one of the highest-grossing tours of the 2000s.