Renaissance World Tour

Adapted from the tour credits listed on Beyoncé’s website and press coverage of the show, this setlist represents the opening night setlist performed on May 10, 2023 in Stockholm. Variations to the setlist over the course of the concert run are noted below.

Opening Act
“The Signboard” video introduction

1. “Dangerously in Love 2”
2. “Flaws and All” (contains elements of “Adventures in the Land of Music”)
3. “1+1” / “I’m Goin’ Down”
4. “I Care”

Act I – Renaissance
“Opera Intro” and “Loop the Sample” interludes (contain samples of “Energy” and “Where U At?”)

5. “I’m That Girl” (contains elements of “Apeshit”)
6. “Cozy” (contains elements of “Get With U (Riot Mix)”)
7. “Alien Superstar” (contains elements of “Sweet Dreams”)
8. “Lift Off” (contains elements of “What is Time”)

“7/11” (Les Twins dance break)

Act II – Motherboard
“Motherboard” interlude (contains elements of “Can You Feel It”)

9. “Cuff It” / “Cuff It (Wetter Remix)” (contains interpolations of “A Night to Remember” and “Love You Down”)
10. “Energy” (contains elements of “End of Time”)
11. “Break My Soul” / “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix) (contains elements of “Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)”)

Act III – Opulence
“Opulence” interlude (contains elements of “No Angel”, “Jack Your Body” and “Let No Man Put Asunder”)

12. “Formation”
13. “Diva” (contains elements of “Countdown” and “Just Wanna Rock”)
14. “Run the World (Girls)”
15. “My Power” (contains elements of “Tanzania”, “Alright” and “Pusherman”)
16. “Black Parade”
17. “Savage (Remix)” (contains elements of “Yoncé” and “Still Tippin'”)
18. “Partition”

Act IV – Anointed
“Anointed” interlude (contains samples of “Yoncé”, “To Mend a Broken Heart” and “Family Feud”)

19. “Church Girl” (contains elements of “Ego,” “Party” and “Pass the Courvoisier, Part II”)
20. “Get Me Bodied”
21. “Before I Let Go” (contains elements of “Freakum Dress”)
22. “Rather Die Young”
23. “Love On Top” (contains elements of “I Want You Back”)
24. “Crazy in Love”

“Band Jam” instrumental outro (“Work It Out”, “Green Light”, and “Freedom”)

Act V – Anointed Part II
“Love Hangover” (background singers intermission)

25. “Plastic Off the Sofa”
26. “Virgo’s Groove” / “Naughty Girl” (contains elements of “Be With You,” “Rocket”, “Cater 2 U”, “Signs”, “Speechless”, “Say My Name”, and “Dance for You”)
27. “Move” (contains elements of “Move Ya Body” and “Free Mind”)
28. “Heated” (contains elements of “Pussy on Fire” and “Into You”)

“Already” (Les Twins dance break; contains samples of “Say Yeah” and “Run Risk” by Braintear Spookie)

Act VI – Memories Run Through My Wires
“Memories Run Through My Wires” interlude (contains elements of “Kitty Kat”, “William Tell Overture”, “Kitty Klap (MikeQ Remix)”, “***Flawless”, “Virgo’s Groove”, “Find Your Way Back”, “Nuclear”, “End of Time”, and “Heard About Us”)

29. “Thique” (contains elements of “Toxic”)
30. “All Up in Your Mind”
31. “Drunk in Love”

Act VII – Mind Control
“Mind Control” interlude (contains elements of “Ghost”, “Haunted”, “Bootylicious”, “Jumpin’, Jumpin'”, and “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”)

32. “America Has a Problem”
33. “Pure/Honey” / “Blow”

Ballroom dance break

34. “Summer Renaissance” (contains elements of “Mystery of Love”)

TOUR FACTS:
The Renaissance World Tour broke ticket sales records worldwide. The tour may break the record for the biggest tour in music history, according to Bloomberg, and has already become both the highest-grossing tour by a female artist in history in 2023, and the highest-grossing tour by a black artist in history. Forbes estimated that the tour could gross up to $2.4 billion, while Rolling Stone described the tour as “one of the most in-demand concerts in recent memory”. The Root deemed the tour’s demand as “wild” and “unprecedented” for female artists and black artists.

The tour topped the May Boxscore report with a “massive” gross of $154 million, with Beyoncé being the first woman to achieve this in four years. According to Billboard Boxscore, the Renaissance World Tour earned $127.6 million over 11 shows between July 8–30, claiming the largest one-month sum for any artist since the Boxscore archives began in the mid-1980s. In August 2023, the Renaissance World Tour grossed $179.3 million, making it the highest one-month gross for tours, replacing its previous record.

The tour dominated the Year-End Billboard Boxscore Top Tours chart, claiming the highest position. generating an astounding $570.5M in revenue and attracting an impressive audience of 2.7M people across 55 shows; it also became the seventh-highest-grossing concert tour of all time and the highest-grossing concert tour by a woman in 2023 since the Boxscore archives, breaking the previous record of Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour. As of August 31, 2023, Live Nation Entertainment reported that the Renaissance World Tour has grossed $579 million, becoming Beyoncé’s highest-grossing tour, surpassing the previous The Formation World Tour, the highest-grossing tour for both an R&B artist and a black female artist. In addition, the Renaissance World Tour was Live Nation’s top-grossing tour of 2023 and a major driver of its record revenue.

TOUR PHOTOS:

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ADDITIONAL NOTES

• The “Memories Run Through My Wires” section was performed only at the opening night show in Stockholm, the third show in Atlanta, and the shows in Inglewood, Houston, New Orleans and Kansas City. This section was omitted from all other concerts.
• Beginning with the May 20, 2023, show in Edinburgh, Scotland, Beyoncé incorporated elements of the remix of “America Has a Problem” featuring Kendrick Lamar in her performance of the song.
• Beginning with the May 26, 2023, show in Paris, France, Beyoncé’s daughter Blue Ivy Carter occasionally joined the stage to dance to “My Power” and “Black Parade”. She was subsequently named a dancer in the official tour credits.
• Beginning with the May 29, 2023, show in London, England, Beyoncé performed a cover of “River Deep – Mountain High” by Ike & Tina Turner, following “I Care”, as a tribute to Tina following her death.
  • This song was shortened from the second Warsaw concert on June 28, 2023 to the end of the tour.
• At the June 21, 2023, show in Hamburg, Germany, Beyoncé sang part of “My Power” acapella as a tribute to the recently deceased Andre Jose Marshall II, brother of the tour’s dance co-captain Amari Marshall, who only appeared onstage for this segment of the show to dedicate a dance solo to him after a moment of silence.
• At the second shows in Warsaw, Poland on June 28, 2023, and in Washington D.C on August 6, “Rather Die Young” and “Love on Top” were not performed.
• Beginning with the July 29, 2023, show in East Rutherford, elements of “Delresto (Echoes)” were incorporated into the “Renaissance” interlude.
• During the show in Glendale on August 24, 2023, there was a malfunction of the sound system during “Alien Superstar”. Beyoncé left the stage and the concert stopped for 10 minutes, after which Beyoncé restarted the song wearing a new outfit.
• At the September 4, 2023, show in Inglewood, Beyoncé spotted old friend Tia Mowry in the audience, blew her a kiss, and then spontaneously interpolated a portion of “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” from Mowry’s childhood girl group Voices into “1+1”. Later that same evening, Diana Ross joined the Pure Honey singers onstage for their performance of “Love Hangover” and led the audience in singing “Happy Birthday” to Beyoncé. Kendrick Lamar also joined Beyoncé onstage to perform his verse on the “America Has a Problem” remix.
• At the September 23 and 24, 2023, shows in Houston, Megan Thee Stallion joined Beyoncé onstage to perform “Savage Remix”.

FILM
On October 1, 2023, the concert film Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé was announced. Incorporating highlights from the full run of the tour and documentary footage of the development of both the Renaissance’s album and spectacle, the film was first premiered privately at Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Los Angeles for invited guests on November 25, and then premiered publicly at Leicester Square Theater on November 30. It released in theaters worldwide on December 1.