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The Born This Way Ball: Tickets & Dates

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Depending of the venue, different type of tickets are available but include type possibility: standing also known as General Admission (GA) and seated (these tickets usually have a section name or letter with a row number). Only the general admission tickets are eligible to be part of the Monster Pit (see the Monster Pit tab).

Tour package

For the tour, Live Nation created three packages with a different seating or General Admission option. Each package came with a Lady Gaga merchandise item, a collectible laminate and onsite VIP host.

Package 1.0 (Asia, Oceana, Europe, Africa, South America)

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Package 2.0 (North America)

For the first time, Gaga hold a pre-sale for her fans through Little Monsters for the North American dates. Fans had to click "Join" on the date they wanted to attend and received a pre-sale code via email. This particular pre-sale was held before any of the other pre-sale such as the Citi® Cardmember Presale.

In April of 2012, Gaga revealed on Twitter that the tour would consist of 110 shows. Additionnally 9 more dates were added for a total of 119 shows. Due to a hip injury, the final 21 shows of the tour were cancelled and the tour ended with 98 concerts. The tour is Lady Gaga's second longest tour behind the Monster Ball 2.0 which had 166 dates. The Monster Pit on 17 shows was not used because of safety and space issues.

The Born This Way Ball marks the Gaga's first tour in all continents, except Antarctica:

• 80 shows accross Asia, Oceania, Europe, North and South America, Africa and Europe in 2012.
• 18 shows in North America accross Canada and United States in 2013. Initiallly, 39 shows were planned.

After roughly each three consecutive months on tour, a break was scheduled lasting between a week to a full month.

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The first and second legs for the Born This Way Ball were announced the following day, revealing that Gaga would perform concerts in countries such as South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore.Additional dates as part of the Australasia leg were added on February 15, 2012.

In the first few weeks, the tour was met with controversy in some religiously strict countries. This lead to the cancellation of the scheduled show on June 3, 2012 at Gelora Bung Karno Stadiumin in Jakarta, Indonesia.

European leg was announced in March 2012, which consisted of twenty-one dates over a period of two months, initiating in Bulgaria while concluding in Spain.

Dates for Latin America were announced on August 6, 2012 via Twitter. There were two dates in North America and four in South America, with more to be added.

The last announced 21 dates of the tour had been cancelled due to Gaga requiring surgery to repair a labral tear in her right hip cause by the repetitive movements of her performances.

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Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Ball World Tour Announces Complete North American Tour Details

LOS ANGELES , Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Today, 5-time Grammy Award winner LADY GAGA and Live Nation Global Touring have revealed complete details for North American leg of her The Born This Way Ball World Tour!  Following overwhelming ticket sales and sold out shows throughout Europe , Australia , New Zealand and Asia , The Born This Way Ball will continue in 2013 visiting 25 cities in North America including performances in New York , Los Angeles , Chicago , and Toronto.  In this brand new tour, Gaga performs her latest album Born This Way as well as music from both The Fame and The Fame Monster. The Born This Way Ball began on April 27 th , 2012 in Seoul, South Korea . Tickets for North America go on-sale beginning Friday, September 21 st at www.LiveNation.com . 

Pollstar’s 2012 Mid Year report ranks the Born This Way Ball as the top grossing tour by any female artist worldwide this year. About the show, the Hong Kong Daily News wrote “Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Ball is effortlessly brilliant in both the visual and musical sense,” while Seoul Daily said that with her “splendid and unprecedented stage, she is the absolute queen of pop!” The UK’s Daily Telegraph called the Ball “quite spectacular,” while affirming that “Lady Gaga occupies pole position as the 21 st century’s ultimate pop star.”

“The Haus of Gaga and I have worked for months conceiving a spectacular stage,” said Mother Monster. “The Born This Way Ball is an Electro-Metal Pop-Opera; the tale of the Beginning, the genesis of the Kingdom of Fame. How we were birthed and how we will die celebrating.”

The Born This Way Ball is Lady Gaga’s first tour since the release of her album Born This Way (Streamline/Konlive/Interscope), which has sold nearly 6 million copies worldwide since its release in May 2011 . The album is the follow-up to back-to-back Grammy Award-winning albums 2009’s The Fame Monster , and 2008’s The Fame . Combined, The Fame and The Fame Monster have sold 15 million albums worldwide, while Lady Gaga’s hit singles have combined sales of over 90 million worldwide.

Gaga was named Forbes’ Most Powerful Woman in the World 2011 and was included in Time’s annual “The 2010 Time 100” list of the most influential people in the world. With over 2.2 billion combined views of all her videos online, Lady Gaga is one of the biggest living people on Facebook with over 53 million ‘likes’ and is #1 on Twitter with nearly 30 million followers. She has also recently launched her own social network just for fans, LittleMonsters.com. Lady Gaga is the only artist in the digital era to top the 5 million sales mark with her first two hits.

Fans will have first access to ticket presales via LittleMonsters.com on Tuesday, Sept. 18 th . To receive an access code for this exclusive presale, sign up for free at LittleMonsters.com and RSVP to the concert that you wish to attend.

Citi® is the official credit card of the US leg of The Born This Way Ball. Citi® cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Wednesday, Sept. 19 th at 10am through Citi’s Private Pass® Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com .

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Lady Gaga Reveals ‘Born This Way Ball’ Tour Design

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Lady Gaga has revealed the stage plan for her forthcoming Born This Way Ball tour , which is schedule to launch later this year and run through 2013. In a tweet posted at midnight last night, the singer showed off a black and white drawing of the stage, which includes a medieval castle in the staging, along with an enclosed runway through the audience which resembles the stage plan for U2 ‘s Elevation and Vertigo tours.

According to Gaga, the enclosed area will be called the Monster Pit and will be reserved for fans with general admission tickets who “waited all night” and are “dressed to Ball.” “Every night Haus of Gaga will choose fans from the Monster Pit to come back stage and meet me!” Gaga wrote. “These tickets are NOT more expensive.”

Gaga has not yet announced dates for the tour, but has been teasing fans on Twitter with tiny bits of information regarding its staging and setlist in recent weeks.

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Lady Gaga Announces ‘Born This Way Ball’ Tour

Lady Gaga unveiled dates today for her Born This Way Ball tour in Southeast Asia/Australia and those shows will be followed by the rest of the world including dates in Europe, Latin America and Nort…

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Lady Gaga unveiled dates today for her Born This Way Ball tour in Southeast Asia/Australia and those shows will be followed by the rest of the world including dates in Europe, Latin America and North America.

Live Nation Global Touring CEO Arthur Fogel and his team will steer the tour, as they did the bulk of the “Monster Ball” tour of 2010-2011, which grossed $188 million from 167 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore.

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“Monster Ball” put Gaga – no. 84 on Billboard’s recent “Power 100” list — on the map as a major, arena-plus level touring artist, and demand to see her remains very high. Given that she won’t return to tour North America until next year, those markets will be fresh, though it is likely she could play most cities in North America tomorrow and do sellout business.

Over the past day, Gaga has leaked news about the tour on Twitter , including the unveiling of a bizarre poster that portrays the ball as a campy, medieval-meets-the-80’s kingdom. In it, Gaga not only reigns supreme in the clouds, but she’s also in her castle with a half-woman, half-keytar anatomy.

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Also on Feb. 7 Gaga unveiled a sketch of what the star calls ‘The Monster Pit,’ a general admission area she says “Little Monsters unlock it when they arrive to the arena or stadium.” That area is reserved for fans “who have arrived first, waited all night, + dressed to ‘Ball.'”

The tour’s first leg will hit Southeast Asia and Japan through early June, encompassing 15 shows at stadiums and arenas. Gaga will then play about 15 shows in Australia, ending in July. Beyond that, current plans call for her to tour Europe in August, followed by Latin America towards the end of the year, and then North America in Q1 2013, beginning in January and running into March.

“The ‘Born This Way Ball’ will perform 110 shows around the world,” she announced on Wednesday afternoon.

“The last tour established her as a major act worldwide and I believe this tour will be an extension of that, particularly considering we’re going to territories she’s never been in, like Southeast Asia and Latin America,” Fogel told Billboard.

Gaga has posted a photo, showing 11 tour dates , on Twitter. More coming soon.

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One of the great pop singles of 2011, Lady Gaga’s liberating ‘Born This Way’ single cemented her icon status.

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After years of singing in local New York City clubs, Lady Gaga officially emerged with 2008’s debut album The Fame . Featuring chart-topping hits “Just Dance” and “Poker Face,” the singer re-energized the pop scene with her quirky outfits and ear for catchy dance melodies. But it was in 2011 that Lady Gaga transitioned from showstopping pop star to burgeoning pop culture icon – thanks to her sophomore album Born This Way . Gaga’s love for dance-pop remained at the album’s core, but she pushed boundaries by incorporating themes of religion, feminism, and sexuality. Borrowing inspiration from acts like Bruce Springsteen , Madonna , Whitney Houston, Iron Maiden , and KISS , she put a modern spin on the fearlessness of 80s glam metal, pop, and house music.

There are a handful of special moments on Born This Way , from the autobiographical “Marry The Night” to the honky-tonk love ballad “You and I.” But the album’s pillar is its eponymous lead single. Lady Gaga has been an LGBTQ+ advocate since the beginning of her career, and “Born This Way” was further proof.

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“I want to write my this-is-who-the-fuck-I-am anthem, but I don’t want it to be hidden in poetic wizardry and metaphors. I want it to be an attack, an assault on the issue because I think, especially in today’s music, everything gets kind of washy sometimes and the message gets hidden in the lyrical play,” Gaga told Billboard in 2011. “Harkening back to the early 90s, when Madonna, En Vogue, Whitney Houston, and TLC were making very empowering music for women and the gay community and all kind of disenfranchised communities, the lyrics and the melodies were very poignant and very gospel and very spiritual and I said, ‘That’s the kind of record I need to make. That’s the record that’s going to shake up the industry.’”

It was a sentiment that was sorely needed. The LGBTQ+ community continues to fight for fundamental human rights to this day, but they had an even tougher fight back in 2011. Same-sex marriage was still banned at the time, only becoming legal country-wide in 2015. And the simple acknowledgment of the transgender community in a major pop song was nearly unheard of as well.

The song courted controversy for different reasons, though. “Born This Way”’s similarities to Madonna’s 1989 hit “Express Yourself” were immediately pointed out. Madonna called Gaga’s track “reductive” and performed a cheeky mash-up of the two during 2012’s MDNA tour.

Nonetheless, “Born This Way” has grown into an unshakable anthem for Lady Gaga. The single’s resonance reflected on the charts: it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and made history as the fastest-selling song on iTunes at the time. It also took home Best Female Video and Best Video With a Message at the MTV VMAs and Best Video and Best Song at the MTV Europe Music Awards. The Born This Way album, meanwhile, scored three Grammy nominations: Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Pop Solo Performance for “You and I.”

Since “Born This Way,” Gaga has, of course, released plenty of music. She’s also transitioned into acting, winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her role in 2015’s American Horror Story: Hotel and starred alongside Bradley Cooper in 2018’s A Star Is Born . Their “Shallow” duet from the film’s soundtrack won an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA, and Golden Globe Award.

In 2021, West Hollywood Mayor Lindsey P. Horvath declared May 23 (the album’s release date) as Born This Way Day and granted Lady Gaga a key to the city. “ Born This Way , my song and album, were inspired by Carl Bean, a gay black religious activist who preached, sung, and wrote about being ‘Born This Way.’ Notably, his early work was in 1975, 11 years before I was born,” Gaga explained. “Thank you for decades of relentless love, bravery, and a reason to sing. So we can all feel joy, because we deserve joy. Because we deserve the right to inspire tolerance, acceptance, and freedom for all.”

Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” appeared on 2018’s Now That’s What I Call Music 20th Anniversary , alongside other pop smashes like Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” and Katy Perry ’s “Firework”. Looking for more stories behind music’s biggest hits? Check out the Now! That’s What I Call Music page .

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