Celebrity Tour


The Celebrity Tour was the fifth and final concert tour by the American boy band NSYNC. Promoting their final studio album, Celebrity, this is the second tour to showcase the album. The group stated that the tour would go "back to their roots", as they would be performing obscure songs from all three of their albums. The tour earned nearly $30 million.

Critical response

Many wrote of the band's oversimplification of the staging. Others felt the "in the round" staging ignored forty percent of the audience. Leah Greenblatt felt the show at the Rose Garden was "electric". She continues "Justin was quickly established as the star of the show — at least as far as the Jumbotron cameramen were concerned — with JC running a close second. Joey, Lance and Chris have all the moves down, but appear to be going through the motions at times; this is the JC and Justin Show, and the others seemed resigned to their supporting-player status". Kelefa Sanneh thought the show at the Continental Airlines Arena was entertaining given the pseudo-intimate vibe. She continues, "The group is getting older, and its audience is, too: the young woman in the 'Justin I'm legal' t-shirt may not have been misrepresenting herself. And this tour is clearly designed to emphasize the group's musical credibility. And yet NSYNC is still a boy band, which means its existence—and its self-image—depends on its ability to entertain screaming teenagers".

Personnel

NSYNC

The following setlist was obtained from the concert held on March 3, 2002, at the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.
  1. "Video Sequence"
  2. "Do Your Thing"
  3. "Bye Bye Bye"
  4. "It's Gonna Be Me"
  5. "Instrumental Sequence
  6. "For the Girl Who Has Everything"
  7. " A Little More Time on You"
  8. "Tearin' Up My Heart"
  9. "Video Sequence"
  10. "Celebrity"
  11. "Up Against the Wall"
  12. "Video Sequence"
  13. "She Loves You" / "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" / "Hey Jude"
  14. "Twist and Shout"
  15. "My Girl / "The Way You Do the Things You Do" / "I Can't Get Next to You"
  16. "Sailing"
  17. "Video Sequence"
  18. "Tell Me, Tell Me...Baby"
  19. "No Strings Attached"
  20. "This I Promise You"
  21. "Thinking of You "
  22. "I Want You Back"
;Encore:
  2. "Gone"
  3. "Girlfriend "
  4. "Pop"

    5. Shows

;Cancellations and rescheduled shows