Tree: Live Tour 2014 Explained

Concert Tour Name:Tree: Live Tour 2014
Border:yes
Artist:Tohoshinki
Location:Japan
Album:Tree
Number Of Shows:29
Last Tour:
(2013)
This Tour:Tree: Live Tour 2014
(2014)
Next Tour:
(2014 - 15)

Tree: Live Tour 2014 (stylized as Tohoshinki Live Tour 2014 ~TREE~), also known as the Tree Tour, was the seventh Japanese concert tour (eleventh overall) by South Korean pop duo Tohoshinki, and was launched in support of their seventh Japanese studio album Tree (2014). It was first announced by the duo in November 2013, during the last show of their fanclub event tour, The Mission II. The theme of the tour was the Tree of Life, in which Tohoshinki, two beings born from the tree of life, use their spirit to save humanity from darkness.

The Tree Tour kicked off in Yokohama on April 22, 2014 and visited a total of ten cities and eleven venues in Japan. It concluded on June 22, 2014 in Osaka. Over 600,000 people attended the tour.[1]

Background

On November 23, 2013, Tohoshinki held their fanclub event tour The Mission II at the Saitama Super Arena, where they performed several songs from their last two albums and interacted with fans. At the end of the show, Tohoshinki revealed their plans to embark on a new nationwide tour in 2014.[2] Following the duo's unveil, twenty-six dates for their tour were announced by their record label Avex Trax, but the name of the tour was not officially revealed until January 2014, when Tohoshinki announced the release of their seventh Japanese album, Tree.[3]

Unlike the duo's previous, which visited all five of Japan's major concert domes including the Nissan Stadium, the Tree Tour visited smaller concert halls and arenas. The duo stated that they wanted to perform in smaller venues in order to have better interactions with their audience.[4] The Tree Tour began with three shows in the Yokohama Arena in April 2014.

On February 24, 2014, three additional dates were announced, extending the tour's shows at Tokyo Dome and Osaka Dome to four days each,[5] making Tohoshinki the first non-Japanese band to hold concerts at the Tokyo Dome for three years in a row.[6] On March 20, the tour's official website and merchandise were launched.

Setlist

This setlist is representative of the first show in Yokohama. It does not represent all dates throughout the tour.

  1. "Champion"
  2. "SCREAM"
  3. "Disvelocity"
  4. "Cheering"
    1. "Breeding Poison"
    2. "B.U.T (BE-AU-TY)"
  5. "I love you"
    1. "Wedding Dress"
  6. "Hide & Seek"
  7. "Crazy Crazy Crazy"
  8. "Good Days"
  9. "Over" (Changmin solo)
  10. "Shout Out!" (Yunho solo)
  11. "Spellbound" (Japanese version)
  12. "Something" (Japanese version)
  13. "Why? (Keep Your Head Down)" (Japanese version)
  14. "Easy Mind"
  15. "Humanoids" (Japanese version)
  16. "TREE OF LIFE"
Encore:
  1. "miss you"
  2. "Sweat"
  3. "OCEAN" / "Somebody to Love"
  4. "Good-bye for Now"

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, venue, and attendance
DateCityVenueAttendance
April 22, 2014YokohamaYokohama Arenarowspan="3"
April 23, 2014
April 24, 2014
April 28, 2014NagoyaNippon Gaishi Hallrowspan="3"
April 29, 2014
April 30, 2014
May 3, 2014MiyagiSekisui Heim Super Arenarowspan="2"
May 4, 2014
May 7, 2014SapporoMakomanai Sekisui Heim Ice Arenarowspan="2"
May 8, 2014
May 11, 2014NiigataToki Messerowspan="2"
May 12, 2014
May 16, 2014EchizenSun Dome Fukuirowspan="2"
May 17, 2014
May 20, 2014TokyoTokyo Dome220,000[7]
May 21, 2014
May 23, 2014
May 24, 2014
May 27, 2014OsakaOsaka-jō Hallrowspan="2"
May 28, 2014
June 4, 2014FukuokaMarine Messe Fukuokarowspan="3"
June 5, 2014
June 6, 2014
June 11, 2014HiroshimaHiroshima Green Arenarowspan="2"
June 12, 2014
June 18, 2014OsakaKyocera Dome Osakarowspan="4"
June 19, 2014
June 21, 2014
June 22, 2014
Total~600,000

DVD

Tohoshinki Live Tour 2014: Tree
Type:video
Artist:Tohoshinki
Cover:Tohoshinki tree tour DVD coverart.jpg
Border:yes
Recorded:April  - June 2014
Length:201 minutes
Language:Japanese
Label:Avex Trax
Director:Masato Yoshikiawa
Prev Year:2014

Tohoshinki Live Tour 2014 ~TREE~ is a live DVD concert film by South Korean pop duo Tohoshinki, released on August 27, 2014 in Japan. The DVD was filmed during the duo's seventh Japan-wide concert tour Tree, which ran from April to June 2014. The tour stopped by ten cities and visited eleven different venues in Japan, including the Tokyo Dome and Kyocera Dome Osaka, rounding up to a total of 29 shows.

History

The DVD documents the live performances during the tour's four-day stop at the Tokyo Dome, between May 20 and 24, 2014. It was released in three separate editions; a 2-DVD standard edition, a 3-DVD limited edition, and a Blu-ray. The limited edition also includes a third DVD, which features backstage interviews, behind-the-scene footage, a tour documentary, an MC digest segment, and an additional photobook pamphlet.

Chart performance

Live Tour 2014: Tree debuted at number one on the Oricon DVD Chart, selling 104,000 copies on the first week of release.[8] It was Tohoshinki's fifth DVD release to debut at number-one in Japan. The Blu-ray edition also debuted at number one on the Oricon Blu-ray Chart, selling 18,000 copies on the first week.

The following week, both the DVD and the Blu-ray fell to number three. The DVD stayed charted in the top ten for four consecutive weeks. It ultimately charted for 13 weeks and sold 116,000 units in Japan,[9] becoming the eleventh best-selling DVD of the year.[10] The Blu-ray edition stayed charted for six weeks, selling 20,000 copies.[11]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
Oricon Music DVD Chart1
Oricon Music Blu-ray Chart1

Sales

ReleasedOricon chartPeakDebut week salesSales totalChart run
August 27, 2014Weekly Music DVD Chart1104,213 115,90313 weeks
Weekly Music Blu-ray Chart118,53720,3946 weeks

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
JapanAugust 27, 2014DVD and Blu-rayAvex Trax
Taiwan[12] September 26, 2014DVDAvex Taiwan

Personnel

Credits are taken from the DVD's liner notes.

Main

Band and performers

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Soompi . TVXQ sets new records with Japan tours, over 2 million concertgoers . 2014-06-22 . 2014-06-23.
  2. Web site: We are TVXQ . THE MISSION II IN SAITAMA: BIGEAST FAN CLUB MEETING . 2013-11-23 . 2014-03-03.
  3. Web site: . Tohoshinki's Official Website . 2014-01-10 . Japanese.
  4. News: The Daily Focus . Kwak, Min-gu . TVXQ's dream stage . 2014-01-15 . 2014-04-01 . Korean.
  5. Web site: . Tokhoshinki's Official Website . 2014-03-03 . Japanese.
  6. News: Mwave . TVXQ to Launch 'TVXQ Live Tour 2014~TREE~' in Japan Today . 2014-04-22 . 2014-04-22.
  7. News: Osen via Naver . TVXQ's Tokyo Dome concert draws 220,000 people . 2014-05-27 . 2014-11-09 . Korean.
  8. News: Allkpop . TVXQ's 'LIVE TOUR 2014 TREE' DVD charts at #1 on the Oricon Weekly DVD Chart . 2014-09-03 . 2015-01-31.
  9. Web site: . 東方神起 LIVE TOUR 2014 TREE 初回生産限定 . Tohoshinki Live Tour TREE (First press limited edition) . 2015-01-31 . Japanese.
  10. News: Tokyo Hive . 2014 Oricon Yearly Music DVD Ranking TOP50 . 2014-12-20 . 2015-01-31.
  11. Web site: . 東方神起 LIVE TOUR 2014 TREE . Tohoshinki Live Tour TREE . 2015-01-31 . Japanese.
  12. Web site: 東方神起 2014巡迴演唱會 ~神起樹語~ (3DVD) . Tohoshinki 2014 Concert Tour ~Words of the Tree~ (3DVD) . 2014-09-23 . 2015-01-31 . Chinese.