Play Tour

Play Tour is the debut concert tour headlined by Spanish singer Aitana to promote her debut album Spoiler. The tour began on June 22, 2019 in Murcia and has visited bullrings, parks, amphitheatres and arenas. An extension to the tour, title + Play Tour, was added on February 7, 2020 and was set to begin on May 23, 2020 in Valencia and to conclude on December 20 at the WiZink Center in Madrid comprising 37 concerts. However, on May 29, the singer announced the cancellation of the remaining tour stops.[1] The Barcelona concert was recorded for the live album Play Tour: En Directo (2020).

This article is about the 2019 tour by Aitana. For the 2021–2022 concert residency by Katy Perry, see Play (concert residency).
Play Tour
Tour by Aitana
Associated albumsSpoiler
Start dateJune 22, 2019 (2019-06-22)
End dateDecember 21, 2019 (2019-12-21)
Legs1
No. of shows
  • 28 in Europe
  • 28 in total
Aitana concert chronology

Background

At the beginning of 2019, Aitana hinted a solo tour via social media. On March 1, 2019, Aitana announced through her social media, her participation at the 2019 Cap Roig Festival, which made her fans think that her highly anticipated solo tour might only be a festival one. Those rumors increased when, six days later, the singer announced her headlining gig at the 2019 Universal Music Festival. On March 14, 2019, the singer was interviewed at the 2019 Premios Dial red carpet. There, she announced that her first solo tour would begin around summer. This will be her first headlining tour as her 2018 OT 2017 in concierto concert tour was a joint one with her Operación Triunfo mates. She also let the press know that she had no clue of what the dates were; that her record label was still planning the tour's route, In late March, she announced four intimate acoustic shows sponsored by Los40, which she called a "pre-tour familiar shows". On April 4, Aitana finally announced through her social media that her debut tour would be called "Play Tour" and that it would promotion her 2018 EP Tráiler, as well as her first studio album, which was released in June 2019. Its first 12 dates were announced that same day, Aitana's Play Tour began on June 22, 2019 at the Plaza de Toros, in Murcia. On June 3, Aitana announced her biggest concert to date at the Palau Sant Jordi, Spain's largest indoor arena which sold-out in less than five hours.[2] This concert, as well as the Granada and the October show in Madrid were recorded for the tour documentary included in the album reissue Spoiler: Re-Play.[3]

In December 2019, Aitana announced that an extension of the tour would be revealed earlier next year.[4] Thus, on February 7, 2020 she announced the second part of it, which she named + Play Tour (in reference to her single "+") and revealed its first 6 dates.[5] It was set to begin on May 23, 2020 at Valencia's bullring but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This concert was set to take place on May 30 but was advanced due to unknown reasons even though fans believe that the reason of the date change is the coincidence with a Miriam Rodríguez (fellow friend of Aitana) show in the city and then moved to September 13.[6] Thus, the extension is set to begin on June 12 in Almería. More national and international dates will be announced throughout the year.

On May 29, 2020, Aitana announced that all the "+ Play Tour" dates besides de Madrid December concert were cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic.[7] A new tour will be programmed for 2021. The remaining tour date in Madrid was reschudeled to December 7, 2021 as part of her new tour. The decision was announced on October 27.[8]

Critical and commercial reception

Different newspapers and music professionals have reviewed the singer's debut concert tour. They all agree that it is a "true musical party starring one of the best voices in the country" and that "the Catalan singer is able to show in her show, energy and feeling embraced in pope bases and melodies that pass through different genres, all of them under the umbrella of a mainstream sound, either in its more urban layer or in its more melodic themes where the Artist proves to have a special voice color".[9][10]

The tour's most attended show to date was the August 22nd show in Fuengirola which attracted over 11,500 fans to the Marenostrum Castle Park, an outdoor venue with a makeshift amphitheatre. When the tickets for the October shows in Madrid and Barcelona were made available on August 21, 2019, both sold-out in less than a day.[11] Therefore, more tickets were released to meet the demand. Almost every show of the tour surpasses the 75% of attendance. When tickets for the final show in the WiZInk Center were released on February 14, 2020, over 80% of the tickets were sold in less than a day, which pushed the singer and her team to expand the ticket offer.

Recordings

Every tour stop had its own mini documentary, which was less than two minutes long. Those were posted on YouTube some time after the concert took place and follows Aitana backstage, walking down the city, getting ready and performing.[12] At the end of the tour's first leg, multiple shows were recorded in order to make an extense tour special documentary. This one was included in the Spoiler reissue, Spoiler: Re-Play, released exclusively in physical editions on December 20, 2019.[13] This documentary in particular includes footage from the arena shows in Madrid, Barcelona and Granada, which took place between October and December of that year.

On July 24, 2020, Aitana's first live album and DVD will be released in physical stores under the name Play Tour: En Directo. This one captures the singer's biggest concert yet, the Palau Sant Jordi gig in Barcelona.[14] On November 6, 2020, a short documentary titled "Play Tour: Detrás de las Luces" premiered on Movistar +.

Set list
  1. "Teléfono"
  2. "Stupid"
  3. "Mejor Que Tú"
  4. "Perdimos la Razón"
  5. "Barro y Hielo"
  6. "Las Vegas"
  7. "Arde"
  8. "Nada Sale Mal"
  9. "Presiento"
  10. "Someone Like You" (Adele cover)
  11. "Popcorn"
  12. "Cristal"
  13. "Chandelier" (Sia cover)
  14. "Issues" (Julia Michaels cover)
  15. "Bang Bang" (Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj cover)
  16. "Con la Miel en los Labios"
  17. "Hold"
  18. "Vas a Quedarte"
  19. "Me Quedo"
  20. "Procuro Olvidarte" (Alejandro Fernández cover)
  21. "Lo Malo"
Notes
  • During the show in Alicante, Aitana performed "Me Quedo" alongside Lola Índigo.
  • During the show in Alcalá de Henares, "Presiento" was performed alongside Morat.
  • During the September show in Seville, Aitana performed "Vas a Quedarte" alongside Antonio José.
  • During the Palacio Vistalegre show in Madrid, Aitana performed "Lo Malo" alongside Ana Guerra.
  • During the show in Barcelona, "Barro Y Hielo" was performed alongside Alfred García.

Tour dates
List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets, and amount of gross revenue
Date City Country Venue Attendance Revenue
Europe
June 22, 2019 Murcia Spain Plaza de Toros de Murcia 4,558 / 7,354 $213,464
June 29, 2019 Ourense Explanada de Expourense 3,098 / 3,410 $93,430
July 6, 2019 Palma Son Fusturet 3,615 / 5,090 $148,197
July 13, 2019 A Coruña Coliseum da Coruña 4,181 / 5,847 $216,420
July 19, 2019[lower-alpha 1] Sitges Jardins de Terramar 2,291 / 2,291 $124,005
July 23, 2019[lower-alpha 2] Valencia Jardins de Vivers 4,811 / 4,811 $216,172
July 26, 2019[lower-alpha 3] Gijón Escuela de la Marina Civil — —
July 27, 2019[lower-alpha 4] Santander Campa de la Magdalena 7,093 / 7,093 $176,340
July 31, 2019[lower-alpha 5] Madrid Teatro Real 1,756 / 1,756 $110,628
August 3, 2019[lower-alpha 6] Sanxenxo Maestral Auditorium — —
August 10, 2019 Alicante Plaza de Toros de Alicante 6,286 / 6,620 $309,458
August 18, 2019[lower-alpha 7] Calella de Palafrugell Cap Roig Festival 2,118 / 2,118 $102,157
August 22, 2019 Fuengirola Marenostrum Music Castle 11,785 / 14,052 $512,428
August 23, 2019[lower-alpha 8] Chiclana Poblado de Sancti Petri 4,107 / 4,519 $173,755
August 28, 2019[lower-alpha 9] Alcalá de Henares Palacio Arzobispal 4,042 / 4,042 $147,745
September 7, 2019 Ponferrada Auditorio Municipal 4,717 / 6,050 $117,925
September 11, 2019[lower-alpha 10] Albacete Caseta de los Jardinillos 4,836 / 5,022 $129,470
September 20, 2019[lower-alpha 11] Lorca Jardines de Lorca 8,917 / 8,917 $237,479
September 27, 2019 Seville Auditorio Rocío Jurado 8,151 / 8,151 $357,258
October 4, 2019 Córdoba Plaza de Toros de Córdoba 6,696 / 10,953 $277,032
October 6, 2019 Zaragoza Espacio City — —
October 11, 2019 Madrid Palacio Vistalegre 9,942 / 9,942 $497,654
October 26, 2019 Bilbao Bilbao Arena 6,629 / 6,875 $277,432
October 31, 2019[lower-alpha 12] Seville Cartuja Center 2,012 / 2,012 $50,572
November 3, 2019[lower-alpha 13] Barcelona Palau Sant Jordi 10,138 / 10,138 $502,846
December 14, 2019 Granada Palacio de los Deportes 7,511 / 7,511 $384,622
December 21, 2019 Tarragona Tarraco Arena Plaza — —
Total — —

Cancelled shows
List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and reason for cancellation
Date City Country Venue Reason
August 20, 2019[lower-alpha 14] Peñíscola Spain Recinto Deportivo Playa Sur Weather conditions[15]
June 2, 2020 Barcelona Real Club de Polo COVID-19 pandemic in Spain[16]
June 12, 2020 Almería Plaza de Toros
June 27, 2020[lower-alpha 15] Las Palmas Estadio Gran Canaria
July 18, 2020[lower-alpha 16] Marbella Cantera de Nagüeles
August 1, 2020 Palma Son Fusteret
August 7, 2020[lower-alpha 17] Chiclana Poblado de Sancti Petri
August 9, 2020[lower-alpha 18] Cambrils Parc del Pinaret
August 18, 2020[lower-alpha 19] Calella de Palafrugell Cap Roig Festival
September 4, 2020 Seville Auditorio Rocío Jurado
September 13, 2020[lower-alpha 20] Valencia Plaza de Toros
October 10, 2020 Murcia La Condomina
October 16, 2020 Bilbao Bilbao Arena
December 20, 2020 Madrid WiZink Center

Notes
  1. The concert on July 19, 2019 at the Jardins de Terramar in Sitges is part of the 2019 Festival Jardins de Terramar.
  2. The concert on July 23, 2019 at the Gran Fira de Valencia in Valencia is part of the 2019 Concerts de Vívers concert series.
  3. The concert on July 26, 2019 at the Parque Hermanos Castro in Gijón is part of the 2019 Gijón Life music festival.
  4. The concert on July 27, 2019 at the Campa de la Magdalena in Santander is part of the Magdalena en Vivo 2019.
  5. The concert on July 31, 2019 at the Teatro Real in Madrid is part of the 2019 Universal Music Festival.
  6. The concert on August 3, 2019 at the Maestral Auditorium in Sanxenxo is part of the 2019 Maestral Music Festival.
  7. The concert on August 18, 2019 in Girona is part of the 2019 Cap Roig Festival.
  8. The August 23, 2019 at the Poblado de Sancti Petri in Chiclana de la Frontera, is part of the 2019 Concert Music Festival.
  9. The August 28, 2019 concert at the Palacio Arzobispal in Alcalá de Henares, is part of the 2019 Conciertos de la Muralla concert series.
  10. The September 11, 2019 concert at the Caseta de los Jardinillos in Albacete, is part of the 2019 Feria de Albacete.
  11. The September 20, 2019 concert at the Jardines de Lorca in Lorca, is part of the 2019 Feria de Lorca.
  12. The concert on October 31, 2019 at the Cartuja Center in Seville, is part of the MTV Music Week supporting the 2019 MTV Europe Music Awards. Spanish rapper Don Patricio co-headlined the show.
  13. The November 3, 2019 concert at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona was scheduled to take place on October 18 but was postponed due to the 2019 Catalan general strike summoned due to the final statement of the trial of Catalonia independence leaders.
  14. The concert on August 20, 2019 at the Recinto Deportivo Playa Sur in Peñíscola was supposed to be part of the 2019 Peñíscola From Stage Festival.
  15. The June 27, 2020 at the Estadio Gran Canaria in Las Palmas, is part of the 2020 Sun&Stars Festival.
  16. The July 18, 2020 at the Cantera de Nagüeles in Marbella, is part of the 2020 Starlite Festival.
  17. The August 7, 2020 at the Poblado de Sancti Petri in Chiclana de la Frontera, is part of the 2020 Concert Music Festival.
  18. The concert on August 9, 2020 in Cambrils is part of the 2020 Cambrils International Music Festival.
  19. The concert on August 18, 2020 in Girona is part of the 2020 Cap Roig Festival.
  20. The September 13, 2020 concert at the Plaza de Toros in Valencia was scheduled to take place on May 23 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

References
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  3. Musical, El Rescate (2019-12-16). "Aitana publicará 'Spoiler Re-play', edición especial de su primer álbum con DVD". El Rescate Musical (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-04.
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  13. "Aitana: La reedición 'Spoiler Re-Play' solo se podrá adquirir en formato físico, no estará en ninguna plataforma digital, ni en Spotify, ni en Youtube". okdiario.com (in Spanish). 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  14. "Aitana publicará 'Play Tour: En directo' el próximo 24 de julio". okdiario.com (in Spanish). 2020-07-16. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
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  16. Festival, Caixabank Polo Music (2020-04-07). "¡ATENCIÓN! Comunicado importante: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ CaixaBank Polo Music Festival lamenta comunicar la cancelación de su segunda edición ¡Os esperamos a todos en 2021!pic.twitter.com/4oC8z0AxjR". @PoloMusicFest (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-04-10.
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