List of Girls' Generation concert tours

Girls' Generation performs at Madison Square Garden in October, 2010.

South Korean girl group Girls' Generation (Hangul: 소녀시대; So Nyeo Si Dae), known as Shoujo Jidai in Japan, have embarked on three concert tours across Asia, playing to more than 500,000 people. They embarked on their first tour, Into The New World Tour in November 2009, which then continued into 2010. Their next tour, The First Japan Tour in support of their first Japanese studio album Girls' Generation was played to more than 300,000 people, and saw two sold-out audiences at the Saitama Super Arena to a combined audience of 74,000 people. The group followed up the success of their Japan tour by embarking on their eponymously titled third tour, the Girls' Generation Tour and had the group perform in Hong Kong for the first time. The group toured Japan for the second time, in 2013, with a total of 20 stops on their Second Japanese Tour.[1] In addition to their own songs, the group perform cover versions of their favorite artists, such as Britney Spears.[2]

In addition to their own headlining tours, the group has participated in three SMTown tours, two of which have been worldwide. The first was SMTown Live '08, and the following SMTown Live '10 World Tour saw the group (along with fellow SMTown acts) become the first Asian singers in history to reach the top 10 on the US Billboard Concert Boxcore chart.[3] The group also performed on SMTown Live World Tour III, which stopped in the United States, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia.

Headlining tours

Year Title Duration Shows
2009–2010 Girls' Generation The 1st Asia Tour 'Into The New World' December 19–20, 2009 & February 27–28, 2010 (South Korea)
April 17, 2010 (China)
October 16 & 17, 2010 (Taiwan) 		7
The Into The New World Tour was Girls' Generation's first headlining tour. The tour was announced in November, 2009,[4] and tickets were sold-out within 3 minutes of being put on sale.[5]
2011 The First Japan Arena Tour May 31–July 18, 2011 (Japan) 14
The group embarked on their first nationwide Japanese tour starting originally on May 18, 2011, with a total of seven initial stops.[6] The tour was postponed because of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and then commenced on May 31, 2011. Due to overwhelming demand, seven more stops were added for a total audience of 300,000.[7] The tour covered Osaka, Saitama, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagoya, and Fukuoka with total of fourteen performances.[8]
2011–2012 2011 Girls' Generation Tour July 23 & 24, 2011 (South Korea)
September 9–11, 2011 (Taiwan)
December 9 & 10, 2011 (Singapore)
January 15, 2012 (Hong Kong)
February 12, 2012 (Thailand) 		9
The eponymously titled "2011 Girls' Generation Tour" was the group's 2nd word tour. The tour commenced with two performances in Seoul, and continued to Taiwan where they played three back-to-back record breaking performances. The Bangkok date on February 12, 2012, saw the group break a Thai record for the fastest selling concert in history. The tour also saw the group perform in Hong Kong for the first time.[9]
2013 Girls & Peace: 2nd Japan Tour February 9–April 21, 2013 (Japan) 20
The group's second Japanese tour was announced on August 31, 2012, with ticket applicability starting September 12, 2012. The tour covered 20 stops.[10] They performed to over 200,000 people across seven Japanese cities.[1]
2013–2014 2013 Girls' Generation World Tour ~Girls & Peace~ June 8 & 9, 2013 (South Korea)
July 20 & 21, 2013 (Taiwan)
September 14, 2013 (Indonesia)
October 12, 2013 (Singapore)
November 9 & 10, 2013 (Hong Kong)
January 11, 2014 (Thailand)
February 15, 2014 (Macau) 		10
The tour was announced on April 26, 2013, with two dates in Seoul at the Olympic Arena. The tour is the 3rd world tour by Girls' Generation.[11]
2014 Girls' Generation Japan 3rd Tour 2014 April 26 – July 13, 2014 (Japan) 17
Girls' Generation's 3rd Japanese tour was announced on November 29, 2013. The tour covered 17 stops.[12]
2014 Girls' Generation 'The Best Live' at Tokyo Dome December 9, 2014 (Tokyo, Japan) 1
Girls' Generation held a special concert at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan with an audience of 55,000.[13]
2015–2016 Girls' Generation 4th Tour – 'Phantasia' November 21 & 22, 2015 (South Korea)
December 12–24, 2015 (Japan)
January 30 & 31, 2016 (Thailand)
April 16, 2016 (Indonesia)
May 7 & 8, 2016 (Taiwan) 		13
Girls' Generation's 4th concert tour was announced on October 16, 2015.[14] On August 11, 2015, a separate tour in Japan was announced to take place in December 2015.[15] On November 17, 2015 it was announced on Girls' Generation's official Japanese fanclub website that the separate Japan tour announced in August 2015 would be title Girls' Generation 4th Tour -Phantasia- in Japan and the tour dates already announced would be apart of their 4th tour.[16]

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