Faye Wong's Comeback Tour 2010–12 Explained

Concert Tour Name:	Faye Wong Comeback Tour 2010–2012
Artist:	Faye Wong
Start Date:	29 October 2010
End Date:	9 June 2012
Number Of Shows:	46
Last Tour:	No Faye! No Live! Tour (2003–2005)
This Tour:	Faye Wong Comeback Tour (2010–2012)

The Comeback Tour (Chinese: 巡唱) was a concert tour in Asia by Chinese recording artist Faye Wong, marking her return to public performance after several years of concentrating on her family.

Background

She began her return in February 2010, performing at the CCTV New Year's Gala watched by over 700 million people, covering Li Jian's ballad "Legend".^[1] Later in July 2010, she first announced a series of comeback concerts starting from 29 October 2010 onwards, namely 5 in Beijing and another 5 in Shanghai. To satisfy huge overseas market demand, she declared to have more concerts in other cities of Mainland China, Taipei in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and also Singapore.^[2]

Despite her lengthy absence, interest in the concert tickets was overwhelming: in Mainland China tickets worth nearly 200 million yuan (US$29 million) were taken up in just 10 days^[3] while in Taiwan the computerized ticketing system crashed due to excessive traffic, and 90 percent of the tickets were sold within two hours after it was restored.^[4] The story repeated itself in Hong Kong,^[5] with 93% of the tickets gone in one morning and 2 ticketing phone lines added to the 3 existing one, to catch up with the huge demand.^[6]

Setlists

• Faye performed 23 songs for all the concerts except Hong Kong and Zhengzhou, where she performed 24 tracks.
• The intro music of this concert tour was partly extracted from a song called "Vainly Like Dreams (浮华若梦)", which is performed by Kubert Leung, who is also the music director of the tour.^[7]
• The music of the interludes were re-composed and partly extracted from a few Faye's songs, namely "Heart Sutra (心经)", "Dream Lover (梦中人)", "The Cambrian Age (寒武纪)" and "Flower of Paradise (彼岸花)".^{[8] [9] [10]}
• The song "Heart Sutra" was not performed live by Faye but rather played as the background music to end the concert. However, this was not done for the first 5 concerts held in Beijing. In fact it was only started since the Shanghai concert, with the original intention of giving condolences to the casualties in the fire accident on 15 November 2010.^[11] But, there was an exception to this for the last two concerts held in Zhengzhou, where Faye performed "Heart Sutra" live after the usual ending song "Flower of Paradise".^[12]
• The table below only lists down the songs performed live by Faye for all the 46 concerts, excluding the interlude music and songs mentioned previously. The symbol * serves as the key to note the first appearance of the said song in this concert tour.

Tour dates

The theme of the concert tour was "Four Seasons and Reborn".

Date! scope="col" style="width:9em;"

City	Country	Venue	Attendance
29 October 2010	Beijing^[13]	China	Wukesong Arena	50,000^[14]
30 October 2010
31 October 2010
5 November 2010
6 November 2010
19 November 2010	Shanghai^[15]		Mercedes-Benz Arena	—
20 November 2010
26 November 2010
27 November 2010
28 November 2010
21 January 2011	Taipei^[16]	Taiwan	Taipei Arena	33,000^[17]
22 January 2011
23 January 2011
4 March 2011	Hong Kong^[18]	China	AsiaWorld–Arena	—
5 March 2011
6 March 2011
10 March 2011
11 March 2011
13 May 2011	Guangzhou^[19]		Guangzhou International Sports Arena	26,000^[20]
14 May 2011
27 May 2011	Nanjing^[21]		Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium	—
28 May 2011
2 July 2011	Changsha^[22]		Hunan International Convention & Exhibition Center	—
3 July 2011
26 August 2011	Wuhan^[23]		Wuhan Sports Center Stadium	20,000^[24]
27 August 2011
29 October 2011	Singapore^[25]		Singapore Indoor Stadium	6,500^[26]
6 November 2011	Kuala Lumpur^[27]	Malaysia	Axiata Arena	—
26 November 2011	Harbin^[28]	China	HICEC Gymnasium	—
27 November 2011
9 December 2011	Chengdu^[29]		Chengdu Sports Centre	—
10 December 2011
23 December 2011	Xi'an^[30]		Qujiang International Convention and Exhibition Center	—
24 December 2011
18 February 2012	Chongqing^[31]		Chongqing Olympic Sports Center	—
19 February 2012
31 March 2012	Kunming^[32]		New Asia Sports City	—
1 April 2012
20 April 2012	Xiamen^[33]		Xiamen International Convention & Exhibition Center	—
21 April 2012
12 May 2012	Dalian^[34]		Jinshitan Jinshi Cultural Plaza	—
13 May 2012
23 May 2012	Hefei^[35]		Binhu International Convention Center	—
24 May 2012
8 June 2012	Zhengzhou^[36]		Henan Provincial Stadium	—
9 June 2012

Notes and References

1. http://www.china.org.cn/2010-02/16/content_19429954.htm Faye Wong, Tigers highlight CCTV Spring Festival gala
2. http://english.sina.com/entertainment/p/2010/1029/345900.html Faye Wong kicks off comeback concert in Beijing
3. Web site: Faye Wong turns on the charm. 4 August 2010. 7 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110615154604/http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=13446. 15 June 2011. usurped.
4. News: 18 October 2010 . Faye Wong Concert Crashes Taiwan Ticket System . . https://archive.today/20130124174600/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iOV84l6fweZs9uaswzcl-01hgPkA?docId=CNG.ebe1370d5b04284bfd73b740cea78e82.481 . dead . 24 January 2013 . 12 November 2010.
5. Web site: Faye Wong returns to Hong Kong . Asia Pacific Arts . 3 August 2011 . 25 April 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140209141139/http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/article@apa?faye_wong_returns_to_hong_kong_16496.aspx . 9 February 2014 . dead .
6. http://china.org.cn/arts/2010-12/31/content_21652275.htm Faye Wong adds 4 More Cities to her Comeback Tour
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQNOZouhyt0 Faye Wong 王菲 2010巡唱 第九场 20101127 Part 01 of 25 Opening + 雪中莲 – YouTube
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtNnT84XN0Y Faye Wong 王菲 2010巡唱 第九场 20101127 Part 11 of 25 过场音乐 – YouTube
9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqATgSQaQSo Faye Wong 王菲 2010巡唱 第九场 20101127 Part 17 of 25 过场音乐 – YouTube
10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adRCmEzCfQg Faye Wong 王菲 2010巡唱 第九场 20101127 Part 22 of 25 过场音乐 – YouTube
11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsz4GXf8ftA 【中視新聞991122】王菲獻唱心經 悼上海火災遇難者 – YouTube
12. Web site: 王菲 – 心經 [王菲2012巡唱%5D 鄭州站 2012 06.09 (最終站最後安可曲) |website=YouTube].
13. http://www.228.com.cn/zhuanti/wf/index.html 王菲演唱会订票_永乐票务_王菲2010北京演唱会门票_王菲2010上海演唱会门票_北京演唱会演出票_上海演唱会门票
14. Web site: '菲'上半空唱《天空》. "Fei" sings "Sky" in mid-air . Sina Entertainment . 29 April 2024 . zh . 2010-10-30.
15. http://ent.qq.com/zt2010/faye2010/ 王菲2010巡唱官网_腾讯娱乐_腾讯网
16. Web site: 王菲2011巡唱台北站 . 25 April 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130914050234/http://www.inmusicgroup.com/concert/faye.php . 14 September 2013 . dead .
17. Web site: 2010-10-20 . 王菲台北个唱门票速销九成 网上售票系统瘫痪-搜狐音乐 . Tickets for Faye Wong's solo concert in Taipei sold out so fast that 90% of the online ticketing system crashed . 2024-04-29 . Sohu Music . zh.
18. http://urbtix.cityline.com.hk/internet/action/event.do?actionFwd=eventDetail&event=13584 http://urbtix.cityline.com.hk
19. Web site: 永樂票務 . 25 April 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110909142440/http://www.228.com.cn/gz/product/detail-38353.html . 9 September 2011 . dead .
20. Web site: 王菲红发造型广州开唱 少说多唱不返场(图) . Faye Wong's red-haired style starts singing in Guangzhou, talks less, sings more and never returns (photo) . Sina Entertainment . 29 April 2024 . zh . 14 May 2011.
21. http://www.damai.cn/ticket_22997.html 大麥票務
22. http://www.damai.cn/ticket_23858.html 大麥票務
23. http://www.damai.cn/ticket_27165.html 大麥票務
24. Web site: 王菲个唱出场费 被曝超千万 . Faye Wong's singing performance fee was revealed to be over 10 million . Sina Entertainment . 29 April 2024 . zh . 2011-06-15.
25. News: http://showbiz.omy.sg/Showbiz/E-News/Story/OMYStory201102251510-225182.html. zh:王菲10月狮城开唱 票价400元破记录？. zh. 25 February 2011. 24 June 2020. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110301014414/http://showbiz.omy.sg/Showbiz/E-News/Story/OMYStory201102251510-225182.html. 1 March 2011. 陈. 秋雁.
26. Web site: Brereton-Fukui . Natasha . Faye Wong Returns . Wall Street Journal . 29 April 2024 . 2011-11-04 . Performing in front of 6,500 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
27. Web site: LifeTV.com.my . 25 April 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120305205839/http://www.lifetv.com.my/node/31094 . 5 March 2012 . dead .
28. http://www.damai.cn/ticket_25844.html 大麥票務
29. http://www.damai.cn/ticket_22998.html 大麥票務
30. Web site: 永樂票務 . 25 April 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120128020122/http://www.228.com.cn/bj/product/detail-46346.html . 28 January 2012 . dead .
31. http://www.damai.cn/ticket_32494.html 大麥票務
32. http://www.damai.cn/ticket_33288.html 大麥票務
33. http://www.damai.cn/ticket_33231.html 大麥票務
34. http://www.228.com.cn/ticket-3453029.html 永樂票務
35. http://www.damai.cn/ticket_36323.html 大麥票務
36. http://www.228.com.cn/ticket-2464214.html 永樂票務