# Jam of the Year World Tour

The Jam of the Year World Tour was a concert tour which took place from January 1997 to January 1998 visiting cities all across the United States and Canada. This tour took place in support of Prince's 19th studio album, Emancipation released in November 1996.
This is one of Prince's most notable tours and is also Prince's first tour in North America after he changed his name in 1993.

## Background

After wrapping up his performances at the Blaisdell Arena on his Gold Tour to promote his 17th studio album, The Gold Experience, Prince was due to embark on a North American Leg of the tour in March 1996 with The Time, D'Angelo and Tony Rich. However, due to the fact that Prince was working on Emancipation and quickly putting out projects to hurry and get out of his 1992 Warner Bros. deal, he cancelled the tour. He fired everyone from the New Power Generation at the time and made a completely new configuration of the band. In July 1996, Prince released his 18th studio album, Chaos and Disorder which marked to be his final album to complete the requirements under his Warner Bros. contract.
In November 1996, Prince released his 19th studio album Emancipation and announced that he was going on a world tour. He said due to the fact that the Warner Bros. contract doesn't end until December 31, 1999, the tour would continue until the year 2000 so that he wouldn't have to return to the studio. He quickly broke that promise with the release of the de facto Prince album, Newpower Soul by the New Power Generation leading him to change the title of the tour in February 1998.
The world tour was planned to start overseas in Sweden in June 1997 however, all those concerts were cancelled due to reasons unknown. Prince was also supposed to start promo for Emancipation with one-off concerts all across the world planning to come to Brazil, Italy, Germany, England, Spain, France & Netherlands but all further plans were cancelled. Rumors that Prince also planned to headline the 1997 Super Bowl XXXI Halftime Show at the Louisiana Superdome however none of those plans materialized, either.
However, in December 1996, Prince announced that he was going to do public warm-up shows for his band in support of his charity, Love 4 One Another. It was named the Love 4 One Another Charities Tour, and it started on January 7, 1997, at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania. Tickets went on sale just three days before the first show and sold out almost immediately. All of the proceeds made from the tour went to his charity. In July 1997, almost 2 weeks before the first show of the Jam of the Year World Tour began, tickets were put on sale on July 10 for the first round of shows for the official tour. The first date of the tour started on July 21 in Clarkston, Michigan at the Pine Knob Music Center.

## Set list
### January to June 1997

This set list on represents the show on January 7, 1997 in Upper Darby, this does not represent the setlist for the remainder of the tour.
* "Jam of the Year"
* "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing" (includes "Rock 'N' Roll is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis)" instrumental coda)
* "Purple Rain"
* "17 Days"
* "Get Yo Groove On" (includes an interpolation of "Six")
* "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"
* "Face Down"
* "The Cross"
* "One of Us"
* "Do Me, Baby" (includes snippets of "Adore", "Insatiable", "Scandalous", "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?")
* "Sexy M.F." / "If I Was Your Girlfriend" (includes "♥ or $" instrumental)
* "The Ride"
* "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?"
* "Take Me With U" / "Raspberry Beret"
* "Mr. Happy"

#### Encore

* "Sleep Around"
* "Johnny"

### July 1997 to January 1998

This set list on represents the show on July 23, 1997 in Wantagh, this does not represent the setlist for the remainder of the tour.
* "Jam of the Year"
* "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing" (includes "Rock 'N' Roll is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis)" instrumental coda)
* "Purple Rain"
* "Little Red Corvette"
* "Get Yo Groove On" (includes an interpolation of "Six")
* "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"
* "Face Down"(includes "777-9311" instrumental)
* "The Cross"
* "One of Us"
* "Do Me, Baby" (includes snippets of "Adore", "Insatiable", "Scandalous", "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?")
* "Sexy M.F." / "If I Was Your Girlfriend" (includes "♥ or $" instrumental)
* "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?"
* "Take Me With U" / "Raspberry Beret" (includes "Mr. Happy" instrumental coda)

#### Encore

* "Girls & Boys" / "Erotic City"
* "Sleep Around"
* "Baby I'm A Star" / "1999"

## Tour dates

List of 1997 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets and gross revenue :
| Date | City | Country | Venue | Attendance | Revenue |
| January 7 | Upper Darby Township | United States | Tower Theater | 3,006 / 3,006 | $150,300 |
| January 8 | Boston | United States | Roxy | 1,300 / 1,300 | N/A |
| January 10 | Washington, D.C. | United States | DAR Constitution Hall | 3,700 / 3,700 | N/A |
| January 11 | New York City | United States | Roseland Ballroom | 3,000 / 3,000 | $150,000 |
| January 13 | Detroit | United States | State Theater | 3,000 / 3,000 | N/A |
| January 18 | Birmingham | United States | Boutwell Memorial Auditorium | 6,000 / 6,000 | $180,000 |
| January 19 | Atlanta | United States | Atlanta Live | 2,500 / 2,500 | $75,000 |
| February 16 | Honolulu | United States | Blaisdell Arena | 7,900 / 7,900 | $322,583 |
| April 11 | Hollywood | United States | Pantages Theatre | 2,500 / 2,500 | $162,500 |
| April 19 | San Jose | United States | Event Center at San Jose University | 13,000 / 14,600 | $520,000 |
| April 20 | San Jose | United States | Event Center at San Jose University | 13,000 / 14,600 | $520,000 |
| April 28 | Phoenix | United States | America West Arena | 8,298 / 8,298 | $331,920 |
| April 29 | San Diego | United States | RIMAC Arena | 5,000 / 5,000 | $207,500 |
| May 17 | Cleveland | United States | CSU Convocation Center | 5,000 / 5,000 | $200,000 |
| May 18 | Louisville | United States | Louisville Gardens | 6,800 / 6,800 | N/A |
| June 5 | Toronto | Canada | The Warehouse | 2,206 / 2,206 | $84,225 |
| June 6 | Montreal | Canada | Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier | 2,980 / 2,980 | $142,295 |
| June 21 | Moline | United States | The Mark of the Quad Cities | 5,207 / 5,207 | $182,245 |
| June 22 | Noblesville | United States | Deer Creek Music Center | 12,201 / 12,201 | $369,080 |
| June 27 | St. Louis | United States | Kiel Center | 13,756 / 13,756 | $619,020 |
| June 28 | Chicago | United States | United Center | 17,943 / 17,943 | $1,121,438 |
| July 21 | Clarkston | United States | Pine Knob Music Center | 14,542 / 14,542 | $908,875 |
| July 23 | Wantagh | United States | Jones Beach Theater | 9,550 / 10,541 | $573,000 |
| July 25 | Boston | United States | FleetCenter | 11,761 / 15,705 | $627,253 |
| July 26 | Philadelphia | United States | CoreStates Center | 12,382 / 14,938 | $693,392 |
| August 1 | Landover | United States | USAir Arena | 15,324 / 15,324 | $970,520 |
| August 2 | Charlotte | United States | Charlotte Coliseum | 20,179 / 20,179 | $908,055 |
| August 3 | Atlanta | United States | Coca-Cola Lakewood Amphitheatre | 14,790 / 15,500 | $709,920 |
| August 5 | Oklahoma City | United States | Myriad Convention Center | 14,460 / 15,283 | N/A |
| August 8 | San Antonio | United States | Alamodome | 12,882 / 12,882 | $837,330 |
| August 9 | Dallas | United States | Coca-Cola Starplex Amphitheatre | 15,937 / 16,533 | $852,630 |
| August 10 | Houston | United States | The Summit | 14,789 / 14,789 | N/A |
| August 13 | Lafayette | United States | Cajundome | 9,554 / 10,680 | N/A |
| August 15 | Miami | United States | Miami Arena | 12,000 / 12,000 | N/A |
| August 18 | Raleigh | United States | Hardee's Walnut Creek Amphitheatre | 12,193 / 14,000 | $589,328 |
| August 20 | Jackson | United States | Mississippi Coliseum | 5,063 / 5,063 | $227,835 |
| August 22 | Nashville | United States | Nashville Arena | N/A | N/A |
| August 23 | Memphis | United States | Pyramid Arena | 14,423 / 15,978 | $697,111 |
| September 13 | Buffalo | United States | Marine Midland Arena | 15,872 / 15,872 | $767,147 |
| September 14 | Wallingford | United States | Oakdale Theatre | 5,000 / 5,000 | $433,333 |
| September 16 | Holmdel Township | United States | PNC Bank Arts Center | 17,219 / 17,219 | $947,045 |
| September 19 | Dayton | United States | Ervin J. Nutter Center | N/A | N/A |
| September 20 | Pittsburgh | United States | Civic Arena | N/A | N/A |
| September 21 | Baltimore | United States | Baltimore Arena | N/A | N/A |
| September 24 | Calgary | Canada | Canadian Airlines Saddledome | 9,659 / 13,171 | $508,160 |
| September 26 | Vancouver | Canada | General Motors Place | N/A | N/A |
| September 27 | George | United States | The Gorge Amphitheatre | 11,611 / 13,500 | $711,173 |
| September 28 | Portland | United States | Rose Garden | 10,868 / 13,110 | $594,117 |
| October 1 | Sacramento | United States | ARCO Arena | 9,500 / 9,500 | $522,500 |
| October 2 | Fresno | United States | Selland Arena | 7,993 / 9,450 | $386,328 |
| October 4 | West Valley City | United States | The E Center | N/A | N/A |
| October 5 | Greenwood Village | United States | Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre | 16,130 / 16,130 | $833,383 |
| October 10 | Mountain View | United States | Shoreline Amphitheatre | 15,449 / 17,989 | $803,348 |
| October 11 | Los Angeles | United States | Hollywood Bowl | 17,172 / 17,172 | $1,167,696 |
| October 12 | Irvine | United States | Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre | 14,785 / 14,785 | $1,002,916 |
| October 24 | Las Vegas | United States | MGM Grand Garden Arena | 13,766 / 13,766 | $1,032,450 |
| October 25 | Phoenix | United States | Desert Sky Pavilion | N/A | N/A |
| October 28 | Albuquerque | United States | Tingley Coliseum | N/A | N/A |
| October 29 | Las Cruces | United States | Pan American Center | 12,000 / 13,000 | N/A |
| October 31 | Mobile | United States | Mobile Civic Center | N/A | N/A |
| November 2 | Austin | United States | Frank Erwin Center | 7,108 / 11,282 | $331,707 |
| November 4 | Columbia | United States | Carolina Coliseum | 6,000 / 6,000 | $290,000 |
| November 5 | Lexington | United States | Rupp Arena | 18,976 / 18,976 | $887,128 |
| November 6 | Knoxville | United States | Thompson-Boling Arena | 10,493 / 11,614 | $507,162 |
| November 8 | Greensboro | United States | Greensboro Coliseum | N/A | N/A |
| November 9 | Cincinnati | United States | The Crown | N/A | N/A |
| December 8 | Fargo | United States | Fargodome | 13,114 / 17,000 | N/A |
| December 10 | Minneapolis | United States | Target Center | 29,000 / 29,000 | $957,290 |
| December 11 | Minneapolis | United States | Target Center | 29,000 / 29,000 | $957,290 |
| December 13 | Cedar Rapids | United States | Five Seasons Center | 6,232 / 8,500 | $207,713 |
| December 14 | Omaha | United States | Omaha Civic Auditorium | N/A | N/A |
| December 16 | Ames | United States | Hilton Coliseum | N/A | N/A |
| December 17 | Milwaukee | United States | Bradley Center | N/A | N/A |
| December 18 | Grand Rapids | United States | Van Andel Arena | 12,076 / 12,076 | $414,569 |
| December 27 | Auburn Hills | United States | The Palace of Auburn Hills | 16,012 / 16,012 | $693,799 |
| December 30 | Dallas | United States | Reunion Arena | N/A | N/A |
| December 31 | Houston | United States | Compaq Center | 14,389 / 15,201 | $620,490 |
List of 1998 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets and gross revenue :
| Date | City | Country | Venue | Attendance | Revenue |
| January 2 | New Orleans | United States | Lakefront Arena | 7,285 / 7,471 | $253,737 |
| January 3 | Little Rock | United States | Barton Coliseum | N/A | N/A |
| January 4 | Kansas City | United States | Kemper Arena | N/A | N/A |
| January 5 | Evansville | United States | Roberts Municipal Stadium | 8,300 / 10,719 | $289,089 |
| January 8 | Atlanta | United States | Fox Theater | 13,359 / 13,359 | $667,905 |
| January 9 | Atlanta | United States | Fox Theater | 13,359 / 13,359 | $667,905 |
| January 10 | Atlanta | United States | Fox Theater | 13,359 / 13,359 | $667,905 |
| January 13 | Tampa | United States | Ice Palace | 12,494 / 13,000 | $408,096 |
| January 22 | Oakland | United States | The Arena in Oakland | 12,114 / 12,114 | $545,130 |

### Cancelled dates

List of cancelled concerts :
| Date | City | Country | Venue |
| January 14, 1997 | Pittsburgh | United States | A. J. Palumbo Center |
| January 15, 1997 | Hampton | United States | Hampton Convocation Center |
| January 17, 1997 | Fort Mill | United States | Charlotte Hornets Training Facility |
| January 20, 1997 | Tallahassee | United States | The Moon |
| January 22, 1997 | New Orleans | United States | Saenger Theatre |
| January 24, 1997 | University Park | United States | Moody Coliseum |
| January 25, 1997 | Hattiesburg | United States | University of Southern Mississippi |
| January 26, 1997 | Houston | United States | International Ballroom |
| May 22, 1997 | Montreal | Canada | Molson Centre |
| May 23, 1997 | Ottawa | Canada | National Arts Centre |
| June 3, 1997 | Stockholm | Sweden | Stockholm Olympic Stadium |
| June 5, 1997 | Oslo | Norway | Valle Hovin |
| June 7, 1997 | Berlin | Germany | Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark |
| June 10, 1997 | London | England | Wembley Stadium |
| June 12, 1997 | Frankfurt | Germany | Waldstadion |
| June 15, 1997 | Dublin | Ireland | Lansdowne Road |
| August 12, 1997 | New Orleans | United States | Lakefront Arena |
| August 26, 1997 | Hampton | United States | Hampton Coliseum |
| August 27, 1997 | Columbus | United States | Polaris Amphitheater |
| September 9, 1997 | Wallingford | United States | Oakdale Theatre |
| November 21, 1997 | Tuscalossa | United States | Coleman Coliseum |
| December 13, 1997 | Rochester | United States | Rochester Community War Memorial |
| December 28, 1997 | Baton Rouge | United States | Riverside Centroplex |
| December 29, 1997 | Shreveport | United States | Hirsch Memorial Coliseum |
| January 6, 1998 | Valley Center | United States | Kansas Coliseum |
| January 8, 1998 | Fort Wayne | United States | War Memorial Coliseum |
| January 9, 1998 | Charleston | United States | Charleston Civic Center |
| January 15, 1998 | Albany | United States | Pepsi Arena |
| January 16, 1998 | Worcester | United States | Worcester's Centrum Centre |
| January 21, 1998 | Las Vegas | United States | MGM Grand Garden Arena |
| January 24, 1998 | San Diego | United States | Cox Arena |