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{{Short description|2012 concert tour by 2NE1}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}}

{{Infobox concert|

| concert_tour_name = New Evolution Global Tour

| artist = 2NE1

| album = Various

| image = New evolution poster.jpg

| image_size = 220

| image_caption = South Korean promotional handbill

| location = Asia
North America

| start_date = July 28, 2012

| end_date = December 1, 2012

| number_of_legs =

| number_of_shows = 15

| attendance = 180,000

| last_tour = Nolza!
(2011)

| this_tour = New Evolution Global Tour
(2012)

| next_tour = All or Nothing World Tour
(2014)

}}

New Evolution Global Tour was the second concert tour by South Korean girl group 2NE1. It saw shows in 15 shows across 7 countries in Asia and North America spanning from July to December 2012. The tour marked the first world tour by a Korean girl group, while its show at the Prudential Center in Newark marked the first time a Korean artist held a solo arena concert in the United States.

The tour received positive reviews from music critics, who praised the production, the group's energy, and performance. It attracted approximately 180,000 attendees in total. YG Entertainment released a live album DVD of the Seoul concerts in December 2012, followed by a Japanese version of the Yokohama concerts in March 2013.

Background

The New Evolution Global Tour was officially announced on June 13, 2012 through the YG Family website.{{cite magazine |last1=Benjamin |first1=Jeff |title=2NE1 Invades America: Behind the Scenes With the K-Pop Phenomenon |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/photos/live/480302/2ne1-invades-america-behind-the-scenes-with-the-k-pop-phenomenon |magazine=Billboard |language=en |date=August 23, 2012 |access-date=2020-12-04}} Marking the first world tour by a Korean girl group, the announcement revealed that the group would hold concerts throughout Asia, North America and Europe.{{cite web |date=2012-06-13 |title=2NE1, First Korean Group To Hold World Tour |url=https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/contents_view.htm?lang=e&menu_cate=enternews&id=&board_seq=177682 |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=KBS World |language=en}}

The tour kicked off at the Olympics Gymnastics Stadium in Seoul on July 28 and 29, following the group's "I Love You" promotions.{{cite news |last=Hong |first=Grace Danbi |title=Second Round of Ticket Sales for 2NE1's 'New Evolution' To Start |url=http://enewsworld.mnet.com/enews/contents.asp?idx=8958 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216111448/http://enewsworld.mnet.com/enews/contents.asp?idx=8958 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 16, 2013 |accessdate=January 31, 2013 |newspaper=enewsWorld |date=July 3, 2012 |agency=CJ E&M}} The tour was originally set to conclude on December 8 in Kuala Lumpur, however the concert was cancelled due to unresolved technical issues and ended instead on December 1 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Production

Three-time winner of the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography, Travis Payne, served as the main director for production and choreography, along with Divinity Roxx (who previously worked on Beyonce's world tour) and Michael Cotten (who worked on production design for the Olympic Games). Beatrice Chia-Richmond served as the creative director and concert organizer.{{cite web |title=2NE1's Global Tour 2012 – New Evolution Hits Malaysia |url=http://www.mtvasia.com/news/60n055/2ne1s-global-tour-2012-new-evolution-hits-malaysia |website=MTV Asia |date=October 19, 2012}}

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The stages were transformed into a theme park, a club, a sporting arena, and a fantasy world which incorporated use of giant inflatable props, conveyor belts, and a video wall—where it simulated a rollercoaster ride during CL and Minzy's performance of "Please Don't Go".{{cite web |last1=Ureta |first1=Angela Blardony |date=8 December 2012 |title=Review: 2NE1 bigger than Psy? |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/12/08/12/review-2ne1-bigger-psy |access-date=2020-12-05 |website=ABS-CBN News |language=en}}{{cite web |last1=Lieu |first1=Ning |date=December 1, 2012 |title=Review: 2NE1 New Evolution Global Tour 2012 Singapore |url=https://www.herworld.com/life/review-2ne1-new-evolution-global-tour-2012-singapore/ |access-date=2020-12-05 |website=Her World Singapore}} The tour costumes were designed by long-time fashion collaborator Jeremy Scott.

Critical reception

The tour received positive reviews from music critics. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times ranked the concert at the Prudential Center in New Jersey number two in their list of the best concerts of the year, deeming 2012 "the year K-pop arrived" in the form of arena shows into the United States.{{cite web |last1=Pareles |first1=Jon |last2=Caramanica |first2=Jon |last3=Ratliff |first3=Ben |last4=Chinen |first4=Nate |title=Pop's Big Nights (Published 2012) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/arts/music/the-best-concerts-of-2012-as-seen-by-times-critics.html |website=The New York Times |date=December 26, 2012}} Reviewing the same concert, Jeff Benjamin of Billboard remarked that "This important show is the latest in a series of happenings that have allowed 2NE1 to emerge as one of the leaders (if not the leader) of the K-pop movement in America."

Writing for The Korea Times, Kwaak Je-yup praised the group's vocals, energy, and choreography, and commented that the production of the concert was "consistently excellent".{{cite web |last1=Kwaak |first1=Je-yup |title=2NE1 triumph in year's most thrilling concert |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2024/12/398_116241.html |website=The Korea Times |access-date=15 December 2024 |language=en |date=30 July 2012}} SSTV stated that tour were some of the best concerts among any girl group,{{cite web |last1=Park |first1=Soo-ji |title=투애니원, 군더더기 없는 알찬 공연...'더욱 진화된 2NE1 |url=http://sstv.tvreport.co.kr/index.html?page=news%2Fflypage&cid=34&nid=147852 |website=SSTV |language=ko |date=23 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222091528/http://sstv.tvreport.co.kr/index.html?page=news%2Fflypage&cid=34&nid=147852 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |access-date=2020-12-04 |url-status=dead}} while Newsis commented the tour was reminiscent of a summer rock festival and "the performance was more complete than anything else".{{cite web |author1=Lee Jae-hoon |title=[초점]2NE1 콘서트, 록페스티벌 방불케하다 |trans-title=[Focus] 2NE1 Concert, Reminiscent of a Rock Festival |url=https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=003&aid=0004634574 |website=Newsis |via=Naver |language=ko |date=July 30, 2012 |access-date=2020-12-04}} My Daily wrote that the tour "raised the quality of domestic concerts to a new level".{{cite web |last1=Choi |first1=Ji-ye |title=2NE1 월드투어, 국내 콘서트의 가능성을 끌어 올리다 |trans-title=2NE1 World Tour Raises the Level of Domestic Concerts

|url=https://m.entertain.naver.com/article/117/0002255031 |website=My Daily |via=Naver |access-date=15 December 2024 |language=ko |date=2012-07-30}}

Commercial performance

2NE1 became the first K-pop group to be listed on the Billboard Boxscore list, placing at number 29 with their Los Angeles concert with a total of $653,716 in revenue. In Taipei, the show grossed NT$28.9 million ($1 million) in revenue.

Set list

Main set

{{Div col}}

  1. "I Am the Best"
  2. "Fire"
  3. "Clap Your Hands"
  4. "I Don't Care" (Reggae Mix Ver.)
  5. "Don't Stop the Music"
  6. Club DJ (CL solo)
  7. "Don't Cry" and "You & I" (Bom solo)
  8. "Follow Me"
  9. "Please Don't Go" (CL & Minzy)
  10. "Pretty Boy"
  11. Dance (Minzy Solo)
  12. "Kiss" (Dara Solo)
  13. "It Hurts"
  14. "Lonely"
  15. "In the Club"
  16. "Stay Together"
  17. "I Love You"
  18. "Ugly"
  19. "Let's Go Party"
  20. "Scream"
  21. "Hate You"
  22. "Go Away"
  23. "Can't Nobody"

Encore

  1. "I Don't Care"
  2. "I Am the Best (Remix)"

{{div col end}}

Shows

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|+List of tour dates

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! scope="col" style="width:9.5em;"| Country

! scope="col" style="width:18em;"| Venue

! scope="col" style="width:9.5em;"| Attendance

! scope="col" style="width:8.5em;"| Revenue

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | July 28, 2012

| rowspan="2" | Seoul

| rowspan="2" | South Korea

| rowspan="2" | Olympic Gymnastics Arena

| rowspan="2" | 20,000{{cite web|date=29 July 2012|title=월드스타 2NE1, 2만 블랙잭과 함께한 광란의 2시간(종합)|trans-title=World Star 2NE1, 2 hours of madness with 20,000 Blackjacks (Total)|url=https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=213&aid=0000230863 |access-date=2020-12-04 |website=TV Report|language=ko|via=Naver }}

| rowspan="2" |—

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | July 29, 2012
scope="row" style="text-align:center" | August 17, 2012

| Newark

| rowspan="2" | United States

| Prudential Center

| 10,000Citations for Prudential Center attendance:

  • {{cite web |last1=Greenburg |first1=Zack O'Malley |title=Bigger Than Psy: 2NE1 And The Future Of K-Pop |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2012/10/16/bigger-than-psy-2ne1-and-the-future-of-k-pop/?sh=274bb1edc87f |website=Forbes|language=en |date=16 October 2012}}
  • {{cite web |last1=Yun |first1=Tan Kee |title=Are 2NE1 bigger than Psy? |website=AsiaOne |url=https://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Showbiz/Story/A1Story20121031-380697.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105204636/https://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Showbiz/Story/A1Story20121031-380697.html |archive-date=November 5, 2012 |date=November 1, 2012}}

|—

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | August 24, 2012

| Los Angeles

| Nokia Theatre L.A. Live

| 6,680{{cite web |title=2NE1 ranked 29 on Billboard Boxscore |url=https://sg.news.yahoo.com/2ne1-ranked-29-billboard-boxscore-210756747.html |website=Yahoo! News Singapore |language=en-SG |date=September 15, 2012|access-date=September 15, 2012}}

|$653,716

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | August 31, 2012

| rowspan="3" |Osaka

| rowspan="9" |Japan

| rowspan="3" |Osaka-jō Hall

| rowspan="9" | 120,000{{Cite web |last= |date=2012-10-19 |title=투애니원, 첫 월드투어로 20만 관객 동원 |trans-title=2NE1's first world tour expected to mobilize 200,000 spectators |url=https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/001/0005883278?sid=103 |access-date=2022-06-10 |website=Yonhap News Agency |publisher=Naver |language=ko}}

| rowspan="3" |—

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | September 1, 2012
scope="row" style="text-align:center" | September 2, 2012
scope="row" style="text-align:center" | September 7, 2012

| rowspan="2"|Nagoya

| rowspan="2"|Nippon Gaishi Hall

| rowspan="2" |—

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | September 8, 2012
scope="row" style="text-align:center" | September 11, 2012

| rowspan="2"|Yokohama

| rowspan="2"|Yokohama Arena

| rowspan="2" |—

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | September 12, 2012
scope="row" style="text-align:center" | September 29, 2012

| rowspan="2"|Saitama

| rowspan="2"|Saitama Super Arena

| rowspan="2" |—

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | September 30, 2012
scope="row" style="text-align:center" | November 16, 2012

| Taipei

| rowspan="1"| Taiwan

| Taipei Arena

| 8,500{{cite web |date=November 17, 2012 |title=2NE1 首次登台魅力無法擋 |trans-title=2NE1's debut charm is irresistible |url=http://kpopn.com/2012/11/17/153063/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121121130223/http://kpopn.com/2012/11/17/153063/ |archive-date=November 21, 2012 |access-date=2022-01-20 |website=Kpopn |language=zh-TW}}

|$1,000,000{{Cite web |last= |date=2012-11-17 |title=2NE1動感攻蛋 吸金2890萬 － 4人輪流個人秀 勁歌熱舞high翻8500名粉絲 - 自由娛樂 |trans-title=2NE1 earned 28.9 million in revenue--the four of them took turns singing and dancing in solo shows and attracted 8,500 fans |url=https://ent.ltn.com.tw/news/paper/631184 |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=Liberty Times Net |language=zh-TW}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | December 1, 2012

| colspan="2"|Singapore

| Singapore Indoor Stadium

| 8,200{{cite web |title=2NE1 attracted 8,200 Fans In Singapore New Evolution Global Tour 2012 |url=https://www.superadrianme.com/event-2/2ne1-attracted-8200-fans-in-singapore-new-evolution-global-tour-2012/ |website=SuperAdrianMe |date=2 December 2012}}

|—

colspan="4" | Total

! 180,000{{cite web |title=[텐아시아] 가요권력 재편…이수만·양현석 양강체제로 |url=https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=015&aid=0002823817 |website=Hankyung |access-date=16 August 2023 |language=ko |date=2013-01-30 |via=Naver }}

!N/A

= Cancelled shows =

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! scope="col" style="width:9.5em;"| City

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! scope="col" style="width:16.5em;"| Venue

! scope="col" style="width:14em;"| Reason

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | November 24, 2012

| Jakarta

| Indonesia

| Mata Elang International Stadium

| rowspan="2"|Unresolved technical issues{{cite web |last1=Yeo |first1=Natalie |url=http://www.mtvasia.com/news/2ne1-global-tour-2012-new-evolution-in-my-cancelled/|title=2NE1 Global Tour 2012 - New Evolution in Malaysia Cancalled |website=MTV Asia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529210602/http://www.mtvasia.com/news/2ne1-global-tour-2012-new-evolution-in-my-cancelled/ |archive-date=29 May 2016 |date=30 November 2012}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | December 8, 2012

| Kuala Lumpur

| Malaysia

| Malawati Stadium

Personnel

Broadcast and recordings

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| italic_title = no

| name = 2012 2NE1 Global Tour: New Evolution (Live in Seoul)

| type = live

| artist = 2NE1

| cover = 2NE1NewEvolutionLive.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|2012|12|04}}

| recorded = July 2012

| venue =

| studio =

| genre =

| length = {{Duration|m=58|s=52}}

| label = YG

| producer = Teddy Park, e.knock

| prev_title = Collection

| prev_year = 2012

| next_title = Crush

| next_year = 2014

}}

2012 2NE1 Global Tour: New Evolution (Live in Seoul) is the second live album of South Korean girl group 2NE1. The album was released on December 4, 2012, by YG Entertainment. The live album sold 10,613 copies in South Korea, while in Japan, it sold 6,000 copies.{{cite web | title=オリコンランキング情報サービス「you大樹」 | url=http://ranking.oricon.co.jp | publisher=Oricon| language=Japanese |url-access=subscription | accessdate=February 4, 2018}}

The album was recorded during the group's first world tour New Evolution during their Seoul dates on July 28 and 29 at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena.{{cite web | url=http://www.allkpop.com/article/2012/12/2ne1s-live-cd-from-new-evolution-in-seoul-to-be-released | title=2NE1's live CD from 'New Evolution in Seoul' to be released | publisher=allkpop | date=December 4, 2012 | accessdate=August 26, 2013}}

=Track listing=

{{Track listing

| headline =

| extra_column =

| total_length = 54:53

| all_writing =

| all_lyrics =

| all_music =

| writing_credits =

| lyrics_credits =

| music_credits =

| title1 = I Am the Best (Live)

| note1 = 내가 제일 잘 나가

| length1 = 3:32

| title2 = Fire (Live)

| length2 = 3:43

| title3 = Clap Your Hands (Live)

| note3 = 박수쳐

| length3 = 4:08

| title4 = I Don't Care (Reggae Remix) [Live]

| length4 = 3:57

| title5 = Don't Stop the Music (Live)

| length5 = 4:15

| title6 = It Hurts (Slow) [Live]

| note6 = 아파 (Slow)

| length6 = 4:55

| title7 = Lonely (Live)

| length7 = 4:16

| title8 = In the Club (Live)

| length8 = 5:01

| title9 = Stay Together (Live)

| length9 = 3:33

| title10 = I Love You (Live)

| length10 = 6:01

| title11 = Ugly (Live)

| length11 = 3:30

| title12 = Hate You (Live)

| length12 = 3:19

| title13 = Go Away (Live)

| length13 = 3:52

| title14 = Can't Nobody (Live)

| length14 = 4:50

}}

References

{{reflist}}

External links

  • [http://www.yg-2ne1.com 2NE1 official site]

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