On the Loose Tour

On the Loose Tour was the third tour by American singer-songwriter Sheryl O'Sullivan. It supported her fifth studio album On the Loose (2015). Unlike her previous tour, the tour was presented by Live Nation. A promotional poster of the tour was released on October 16, 2015 with dates for Oceania, Africa, Asia, Europe and North American concerts dates. By the great demand and the dates of the tour being sold out in few minutes, prompted supporters to add more dates. The tour broke attendance records in many cities, incluiding in In Tokyo, Japan, in two concerts dates, O'Sullivan perfomed a record-breaking crowd 388,586, which grossed $41.7 million, and London, where first 158,000 tickets have sold out in less than two minutes. At 2016 Guinness Book of World Records for selling 3.8 million tickets in a single day.

The tour's production was designed by architect Mark Fisher and stage and lighting designer Peter Morse, while the show was directed by Paul Monte (famously known for his work with Whitney Houston). The tour had a 360 degrees configuration in circle format, having also a custom helicopter made especially so that she could introduce and leave the stage, being set up so that it was more in the center of the stadium field than usual. The tour had 122 production teams, about fifteen dancers and a total of twenty musicians. The tour began on March 30, 2016 in Adelaide, Australia at Adelaide Oval, and ended on October 12, that same year in San Diego, California at SDCCU Stadium. After her premiere performance, the tour received generally positive reviews from critics. Some described it as most entertaining show and praised her stage presence. Billboard entertainment magazine called it one of the best tours of the last ten years, while Entertainment Weekly published an article about the tour, where she praised the O'Sullivan's vocal evolution and her performance on stage.

It was the highest-grossing tour of 2016, according to Pollstar's annual year end tour chart, and the 12th highest-grossing concert tour of all-time, grossing $377,657,597 from 76 shows with an audience of 4,545,885 fans. The tour become the second highest-grossing tour by a female artist, and the 9th highest-grossing tour of all time. The tour was documented with intersperses of backstage footage, under the name On the Loose: The Tour was released on November 24, 2016.

Set list

 * 1) "What Ya Waiting For?"
 * 2) "On the Loose"
 * 3) "Surrender"
 * 4) "Get Out of My Mind"
 * 5) "Love Island"
 * 6) "Megaphone"
 * 7) "Hush"
 * 8) "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
 * 9) "Heal the Heartbreaker"
 * 10) "Starlight"
 * 11) "Pocketful of Love"
 * 12) "Soldier Boy"
 * 13) "Odds Are Against Us"
 * 14) "Get On My Feet"
 * 15) "Nobody Compares"
 * 16) "All My Love"
 * 17) "Powerless"
 * 18) "Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)"
 * 19) "Petals on the Wind"
 * 20) "Fallin'"