Evolve World Tour

The Evolve World Tour^[1] (stylized as ƎVOLVE World Tour) was the third concert tour by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons in support of their third studio album Evolve (2017). The tour began on September 26, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona and concluded on November 18, 2018, in Mexico City.^[2]

Evolve World Tour

World tour by Imagine Dragons
The band performing in Sydney, Australia in May 2018
Location	North America Asia Europe South America Oceania
Associated album	Evolve
Start date	September 26, 2017 (2017-09-26)
End date	November 22, 2019 (2019-11-22)
Legs	14
No. of shows	136
Imagine Dragons concert chronology

Background

Imagine Dragons conducted two previous tours, their Night Visions Tour and Smoke + Mirrors Tour, supporting their first two albums, released in 2012 and 2015. Following the release of two singles, "Believer" and "Thunder" in early 2017, the band released their third studio album, Evolve, in June 2017. In May, the band had announced the Evolve Tour in support of the album.^[3] On September 18, 2017 they announced 23 further dates, extending the tour to Europe.^[4] The Tour began on September 26, 2017.^[5] K. Flay was the opening act for their first US tour leg and their UK and Europe shows.^[6] In December, the band announced six shows in Australia and New Zealand.^[7] Singer-songwriter Grace VanderWaal was the opening act in the tour's 2018 summer leg in North America.^[8]

Set list

North America Leg 1

This set list is from the concert on September 26, 2017, in Phoenix.^[9]

1. "I Don't Know Why"
2. "It's Time"
3. "Gold"
4. "Whatever It Takes"
5. "I'll Make It Up to You"
6. "Mouth of the River"
7. "Demons"
8. "Yesterday"
9. "Start Over"
10. "Rise Up"
11. "Dancing in the Dark"
12. "Second Chances"
13. "It Comes Back to You"
14. "Bleeding Out"
15. "Dream"
16. "Thunder"
17. "On Top of the World"
18. "I Bet My Life"
19. "Radioactive"

Encore

20. "Believer"
21. "Walking the Wire"

Asia

This set list is from the concert on January 7, 2018, in Singapore.^[10]

1. "I Don't Know Why"
2. "It's Time"
3. "Gold"
4. "Whatever It Takes"
5. "I'll Make It Up to You"
6. "Mouth of the River"
7. "Yesterday"
8. "Start Over"
9. "Demons"
10. "Rise Up"
11. "On Top of the World"
12. "Bleeding Out"
13. "Amsterdam"
14. "The Fall"
15. "Dream"
16. "Thunder"
17. "Believer"
18. "Walking the Wire"
19. "Radioactive"

Europe Leg 1

This set list is from the concert on February 24, 2018, in Birmingham.^[11]

1. "I Don't Know Why"
2. "It's Time"
3. "Gold"
4. "Whatever It Takes"
5. "I'll Make It Up to You"
6. "Mouth of the River"
7. "Yesterday"
8. "Start Over"
9. "Demons"
10. "Rise Up"
11. "On Top of the World"
12. "I Bet My Life"
13. "It Comes Back to You"
14. "Warriors" / "Bleeding Out"
15. "Thunder" (with K.Flay)
16. "Believer"

Encore

17. "Walking the Wire"
18. "The Fall"
19. "Radioactive"

South America

This set list is from the concert on March 22, 2018, in Rio de Janeiro.^[12]

1. "I Don't Know Why"
2. "Believer"
3. "It's Time"
4. "Gold"
5. "Whatever It Takes"
6. "I'll Make It Up to You"
7. "Mouth of the River"
8. "Yesterday"
9. "Start Over"
10. "Demons"
11. "Rise Up"
12. "On Top of the World"
13. "Thunder"
14. "Walking the Wire"
15. "The Fall"
16. "Radioactive"

North America Leg 2

This set list is from the concert on July 30, 2018, in Wichita.^[13]

1. "Radioactive"
2. "It's Time"
3. "Whatever It Takes"
4. "Yesterday"
5. "Natural"
6. "Walking the Wire"
7. "Next to Me"
8. "Shots"
9. "Every Breath You Take" (The Police cover)
10. "I'll Make It Up to You"
11. "Start Over"
12. "Rise Up"
13. "I Don't Know Why"
14. "Mouth of the River"
15. "Born to Be Yours"
16. "Amsterdam"
17. "I Bet My Life"

Encore

18. "Demons"
19. "Thunder"
20. "On Top of the World"
21. "Believer"

Tour dates

List of 2017 concerts, showing date, city, country, or district, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Opening act(s)	Attendance	Revenue
September 26, 2017	Phoenix	United States	Talking Stick Resort Arena	Grouplove K.Flay	12,551 / 12,977	$732,153
September 28, 2017	Chula Vista		Mattress Firm Amphitheatre		11,845 / 19,582	$496,612
September 29, 2017	Las Vegas		T-Mobile Arena		13,050 / 14,763	$775,536
October 1, 2017	Los Angeles		Hollywood Bowl		16,478 / 17,407	$1,074,797
October 3, 2017	Mountain View		Shoreline Amphitheatre		16,701 / 22,010	$508,469
October 4, 2017	Sacramento		Golden 1 Center		10,868 / 11,542	$702,517
October 6, 2017	Seattle		KeyArena		11,947 / 12,221	$687,749
October 8, 2017	Vancouver	Canada	Rogers Arena		12,846 / 12,846	$761,029
October 10, 2017	Edmonton		Rogers Place		12,847 / 12,847	$726,169
October 11, 2017	Calgary		Scotiabank Saddledome		11,461 / 11,461	$636,793
October 13, 2017	West Valley City	United States	USANA Amphitheatre		18,798 / 20,000	$525,754
October 14, 2017	Denver		Pepsi Center		12,445 / 13,109	$919,507
October 16, 2017	Saint Paul		Xcel Energy Center		14,688 / 15,086	$810,039
October 18, 2017	Chicago		United Center		13,072 / 14,351	$932,852
October 19, 2017	Detroit		Little Caesars Arena		12,697 / 14,704	$733,591
October 21, 2017	Cincinnati		U.S. Bank Arena		12,211 / 12,658	$694,327
October 23, 2017	Brooklyn		Barclays Center		12,600 / 13,100	$753,942
October 24, 2017	Newark		Prudential Center		10,649 / 12,152	$612,412
October 26, 2017	Quebec City	Canada	Videotron Centre		11,681 / 12,766	$640,158
October 27, 2017	Montreal		Bell Centre		14,951 / 14,951	$892,760
October 29, 2017	Boston	United States	TD Garden		12,658 / 13,159	$855,279
November 1, 2017	Buffalo		KeyBank Center		11,323 / 13,277	$628,074
November 2, 2017	Philadelphia		Wells Fargo Center		13,815 / 15,414	$896,200
November 4, 2017	Uncasville		Mohegan Sun Arena		5,634 / 7,769	$546,380
November 5, 2017	Washington, D.C.		Capital One Arena		13,465 / 14,042	$950,685
November 7, 2017	Atlanta		Philips Arena		11,112 / 11,482	$618,006
November 8, 2017	Charlotte		Spectrum Center		14,064 / 16,007	$717,245
November 10, 2017	Orlando		Amway Center		13,073 / 13,453	$836,703
November 12, 2017	Houston		Toyota Center		11,354 / 11,815	$786,289
November 13, 2017	Dallas		American Airlines Center		13,390 / 14,276	$845,281
November 16, 2017	Anaheim		Honda Center		12,078 / 12,693	$802,870

List of 2018 concerts, showing date, city, country, or district, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue^{[2][1][14][15][7][16][17]}

Date	City	Country	Venue	Opening act(s)	Attendance	Revenue
January 6, 2018	Shah Alam	Malaysia	Malawati Stadium	—	—	—
January 7, 2018	Singapore		Singapore Indoor Stadium
January 9, 2018	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
January 11, 2018	Bangkok	Thailand	IMPACT Challenger
January 13, 2018	Hong Kong		AsiaWorld–Arena
January 15, 2018	Taipei	Taiwan	Nangang C3 Field
January 17, 2018	Shanghai	China	Mercedes-Benz Arena		12,184 / 12,184	$1,285,921
February 16, 2018	Antwerp	Belgium	Sportpaleis	K.Flay	20,272 / 21,372	$954,137
February 17, 2018	Esch-sur-Alzette	Luxembourg	Rockhal		5,849 / 5,849	$319,912
February 19, 2018	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Ziggo Dome		15,781 / 15,781	$834,999
February 22, 2018	Paris	France	AccorHotels Arena		14,884 / 15,694	$904,612
February 24, 2018	Birmingham	England	Genting Arena		13,616 / 14,481	$766,820
February 26, 2018	Dublin	Ireland	3Arena		12,475 / 12,475	$682,300
February 28, 2018	London	England	The O2 Arena		34,495 / 36,938	$2,042,709
March 1, 2018
March 3, 2018	Manchester		Manchester Arena		14,620 / 15,290	$770,043
March 4, 2018	Glasgow	Scotland	SSE Hydro		12,382 / 12,447	$630,650
March 16, 2018[lower-alpha 1]	Buenos Aires	Argentina	Hipódromo de San Isidro	—	—	—
March 17, 2018[lower-alpha 1]	Santiago	Chile	O'Higgins Park
March 20, 2018[lower-alpha 2]	Asuncion	Paraguay	Espacio Idesa
March 22, 2018	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	KM de Vantagens Hall	Plutão Já Foi Planeta	5,299 / 8,434	$343,243
March 24, 2018[lower-alpha 1]	São Paulo		Autódromo José Carlos Pace	—	—	—
April 3, 2018	Paris	France	AccorHotels Arena	K.Flay	15,868 / 16,063	$944,610
April 4, 2018	Bordeaux		Metropole Arena		10,952 / 10,952	$625,269
April 6, 2018	Barcelona	Spain	Palau Sant Jordi		16,990 / 16,990	$1,046,643
April 7, 2018	Madrid		WiZink Center		16,162 / 16,597	$1,209,697
April 9, 2018	Montpellier	France	Sud de France Arena		12,545 / 12,545	$736,025
April 10, 2018	Lyon		Halle Tony Garnier		14,385 / 14,385	$841,968
April 12, 2018	Munich	Germany	Olympiahalle		12,111 / 12,111	$789,692
April 13, 2018	Zürich	Switzerland	Hallenstadion		14,396 / 15,000	$750,424
April 15, 2018	Vienna	Austria	Wiener Stadthalle		14,228 / 14,228	$803,090
April 16, 2018	Prague	Czech Republic	O2 Arena Prague		16,710 / 16,710	$1,049,689
April 18, 2018	Oberhausen	Germany	König Pilsener Arena		11,141 / 11,308	$736,350
April 19, 2018	Frankfurt		Festhalle Frankfurt		11,490 / 11,490	$759,072
April 22, 2018	Hamburg		Barclaycard Arena		11,527 / 11,527	$760,966
April 25, 2018	Oslo	Norway	Oslo Spektrum		9,144 / 9,144	$543,125
April 26, 2018	Stockholm	Sweden	Ericsson Globe		13,895 / 13,895	$849,422
May 12, 2018	Perth	Australia	Perth Arena	The Temper Trap	11,091 / 11,666	$858,115
May 15, 2018	Melbourne		Margaret Court Arena		13,471 / 15,000	$1,005,927
May 16, 2018
May 18, 2018	Brisbane		Brisbane Entertainment Centre		9,299 / 9,447	$696,231
May 19, 2018	Sydney		Qudos Bank Arena		13,453 / 13,828	$963,942
May 21, 2018	Auckland	New Zealand	Spark Arena		9,865 / 10,500	$634,453
May 23, 2018	Wellington		TSB Bank Arena		5,635 / 5,635	$387,029
June 5, 2018	Hartford	United States	Xfinity Theatre	Grace VanderWaal	34,326 / 44,132	$1,597,485
June 6, 2018	Mansfield		Xfinity Center		—	—
June 8, 2018	Bangor		Darling's Waterfront Pavilion		14,350 / 14,350	$843,363
June 9, 2018	Holmdel		PNC Bank Arts Center		16,349 / 16,349	$968,630
June 11, 2018	Syracuse		Lakeview Amphitheater		16,833 / 17,118	$745,765
June 13, 2018	Toronto	Canada	Budweiser Stage		30,633 / 32,914	$2,711,244
June 14, 2018
June 16, 2018	Hershey	United States	Hersheypark Stadium		30,440 / 30,632	$1,520,568
June 17, 2018	Cuyahoga Falls		Blossom Music Center		20,733 / 20,867	$939,001
June 19, 2018	New York City		Madison Square Garden		13,977 / 13,977	$1,378,894
June 21, 2018	Clarkston		DTE Energy Music Theatre		14,793 / 14,793	$1,014,943
June 22, 2018	Noblesville		Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center		24,142 / 24,142	$1,105,961
June 24, 2018	Omaha		CenturyLink Center Omaha		13,806 / 13,806	$962,062
June 26, 2018	Sioux Falls		Denny Sanford Premier Center		10,683 / 10,683	$824,402
June 27, 2018[lower-alpha 3]	Milwaukee		American Family Insurance Amphitheater		22,106 / 22,106	$1,170,509
June 29, 2018	Saratoga Springs		Saratoga Performing Arts Center		22,106 / 22,106	$1,013,362
June 30, 2018[lower-alpha 4]	Camden		BB&T Pavilion		—	—
July 2, 2018	Bristow		Jiffy Lube Live		22,427 / 22,700	$910,791
July 3, 2018	Virginia Beach		Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater		19,455 / 19,456	$687,539
July 5, 2018	Raleigh		Coastal Credit Union Music Park		19,434 / 19,434	$729,148
July 7, 2018	Columbia		Colonial Life Arena		12,805 / 12,805	$897,574
July 8, 2018	Brandon		Brandon Amphitheater		7,144 / 7,144	$548,283
July 10, 2018	Nashville		Bridgestone Arena		13,176 / 17,272	$846,301
July 11, 2018	Maryland Heights		Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre		18,488 / 18,488	$721,680
July 13, 2018	Tinley Park		Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre		27,499 / 27,499	$1,445,974
July 14, 2018	Kansas City		Sprint Center		14,117 / 14,117	$932,195
July 16, 2018	Morrison		Red Rocks Amphitheatre		9,074 / 9,525	$841,973
July 18, 2018	Albuquerque		Isleta Amphitheater		14,791 / 15,166	$689,922
July 21, 2018	Inglewood		The Forum		28,860 / 28,860	$2,325,357
July 22, 2018
July 24, 2018	Concord		Concord Pavilion		11,868 / 11,868	$682,709
July 26, 2018	Bozeman		Bobcat Stadium		19,788 / 19,993	$1,395,539
July 28, 2018[lower-alpha 5]	Salt Lake City		Rice–Eccles Stadium		—	—
July 30, 2018	Wichita		Intrust Bank Arena		11,189 / 11,189	$696,480
August 1, 2018	Tulsa		BOK Center		12,271 / 12,649	$849,870
August 2, 2018	Austin		Austin360 Amphitheater		12,077 / 12,085	$743,684
August 4, 2018[lower-alpha 6]	The Woodlands		Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion		15,839 / 15,839	$818,732
August 5, 2018	New Orleans		Smoothie King Center		12,234 / 12,569	$871,386
August 7, 2018	Orange Beach		The Amphitheater at The Wharf		9,514 / 9,514	$626,812
August 9, 2018	West Palm Beach		Coral Sky Amphitheatre		18,979 / 19,138	$785,401
August 10, 2018	Tampa		MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre		18,395 / 18,397	$807,135
August 16, 2018[lower-alpha 7]	St. Pölten	Austria	Green Park	—	—	—
August 18, 2018	Hasselt	Belgium	Pukkelpop Festival
August 21, 2018	Maxéville	France	Zénith de Nancy	The Vaccines
August 22, 2018[lower-alpha 8]	Zürich	Switzerland	Zürich Openair	—
August 25, 2018	Arnhem	Netherlands	Gelredome	The Vaccines	31,805 / 31,805	$1,714,655
August 29, 2018	Moscow	Russia	Luzhniki Stadium		—	—
August 31, 2018	Kyiv	Ukraine	NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium
September 2, 2018	Istanbul	Turkey	Küçükçiftlik Park
September 4, 2018	Lisbon	Portugal	Altice Arena		18,844 / 19,064	$1,071,607
September 6, 2018[lower-alpha 9]	Milan	Italy	Area Expo	—	—	—
September 8, 2018	Madrid	Spain	DCODE Fest
September 9, 2018[lower-alpha 10]	Berlin	Germany	Olympiastadion
October 20, 2018	Frisco	United States	Toyota Stadium	—	—	—
November 7, 2018	Las Vegas		The Chelsea Ballroom
November 17, 2018	Monterrey	Mexico	Auditorio Citibanamex		7,534 / 7,534	$545,812
November 18, 2018[lower-alpha 11]	Mexico City		Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez		—	—
December 31, 2018	Las Vegas	United States	Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas

List of 2019 concerts, showing date, city, country, or district, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Opening act(s)	Attendance	Revenue
May 24, 2019[lower-alpha 12]	Napa Valley	United States	Napa Valley Expo	—	—	—
May 25, 2019[lower-alpha 13]	New York City		Radio City Music Hall		5,902 / 5,902	$453,203
June 2, 2019	Florence	Italy	Visarno Arena	Jake Bugg Fil Bo Riva Birthh	—	—
August 4, 2019	Canton	United States	Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium	—	—	—
October 6, 2019[lower-alpha 14]	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Barra Olympic Park	—	—	—
November 1, 2019[lower-alpha 15]	Austin	United States	Circuit of the Americas	—	—	—
November 22, 2019[lower-alpha 16]	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh Street Circuit	—	—	—
Total					1,521,353 / 1,591,873 (95.57%)	$90,063,214

Cancelled shows

List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and reason for cancellation

Date	City	Country	Venue	Reason
October 21, 2018[lower-alpha 17]	Phoenix	United States	Steele Indian School Park	Festival cancellation[20]
July 13, 2019[lower-alpha 18]	Quebec City	Canada	Festival d'été de Québec	Weather conditions
August 18, 2019[lower-alpha 19]	Columbia	United States	Merriweather Post Pavilion[lower-alpha 20]	Festival cancellation

Notes

1. This concert was part of the Lollapalooza.
2. This concert was part of Asunciónico.
3. This concert was part of the 2018 Summerfest Grounds.
4. This concert was part of the Radio 104.5's 11th Birthday Show.
5. This concert was part of LOVELOUD 2018.
6. This concert was unexpectedly shortened due to lead singer Dan Reynolds not being able to sing after one of his vocal chords stopped moving.
7. This concert is part of the 2018 FM4 Frequency Festival.
8. This concert is part of the 2018 Zürich Openair.
9. This concert is part of the Milano Rocks 2018.
10. This concert is part of the Lollapalooza Berlin.
11. This concert is part of the Corona Capital.
12. This concert is part of BottleRock Napa Valley.
13. This concert is part of Northwell Health's Side By Side: A Celebration of Service.
14. This concert is part of Rock In Rio.
15. This concert is part of the 2019 Formula One United States Grand Prix Concert Series.^[18]
16. This concert is part of the Diriyah ePrix.^[19]
17. This concert was supposed to be a part of Lost Lake Festival.
18. This concert was supposed to be a part of Festival d'été de Québec.
19. This concert was supposed to be a part of Woodstock 50.
20. This concert was supposed to be take place at Watkins Glen International.

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