Commercial Reception
Céline Dion set a record in the history of Canadian concerts, when she sold out all her Montreal shows in only a few minutes. After further shows being added, bringing the total to 11, Montreal's audience (with 20,995 in attendance at each show) became the largest on the tour with 227,616 spectators for a single city. Dion performed in Bell Centre 31 times since 1996.
Other Canadian concerts were sold out immediately, prompting second dates to be added in Edmonton, Vancouver and Winnipeg, and a third show added in Toronto.
In the United States, second dates were announced in New York City, Uniondale, Boston, and Newark.
According to data provided by Billboard, all the shows in the United States and Canada were sold out.
In the United Kingdom, tickets for Manchester and London were sold out in few minutes. Two new dates were added on the same day.
In Ireland 64,000 tickets for her Dublin concert, the largest single concert of the scheduled tour, were sold out in 3 hours.
Dion also sold out stadium audiences in South Africa, Netherlands (50,000) and Denmark (42,000).
A second concert date was added for Sydney, Australia after tickets were selling fast in this country.
On August 22, 2008 although a free concert (not a part of the Taking Chances Tour), Dion sang in front of her biggest crowd at a live concert, when she performed on the Plains of Abraham to help celebrate Quebec City's 400th Birthday. Tickets were distributed to 250,000 people.
Dion announced she would be playing at The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor on the February 7, 2008. Tickets sold out in a record 15 minutes with more than 125 people queuing the night before for tickets.
The performance at the Kansas City's Sprint Center became the highest-grossing concert in the arena's history with a gross of $1,661,827. The record has since been broken By Elton John and Billy Joel.
Dion's concert at the American Airlines Arena, set an attendance record, selling 17,725 tickets. Britney Spears broke that record two months later, performing for 18,644 people. However, although singing for a smaller audience, Dion grossed $2,247,233, while Spears managed to gross $1,972,928 only.
According to her official website, Dion became the top-selling performer for three venues: Montreal's Bell Centre, Kansas City's Sprint Center, and the New Orleans Arena. The latter concert grossed $1,829,331. The Montreal concerts grossed just over $30 million, making it one of the biggest concert events held at any arena in the world.
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