Beyonce Formation World Tour: 37-song setlist revealed, featuring 'Purple Rain' and Lemonade tracks
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Your support makes all the difference.It's got to be a tough job being Beyoncé in preparation for her Formation World Tour, having to choose between which of her 8 billion hits to play for global audiences. The easiest answer: all of them!
The musician launched the tour at Miami's Marlins Park on 27 April, with the setlist revealing an epic 37-song beast of a show, incorporating swathes of material from each of Queen Bey's eras; including a mash-up of "Drunk in Love" and Kendrick Lamar's "Swimming Pools", as well as the Fifty Shades of Grey remix of "Crazy in Love" with elements of Destiny Child's "Bootylicious".
Opening just a few days after her surprise drop of new album Lemonade, the tour incorporates eight tracks from her dose of new material: "Hold Up", "Freedom", "Sorry", "Don't Hurt Yourself", "All Night", "Daddy Lessons", and "Formation".
Setlist for Formation World Tour
Formation
Sorry
Bow Down / Tom Ford
Run the World (Girls)
Mine
Baby Boy / Standing on the Sun
Hold Up
Countdown
Me, Myself and I
Runnin’
All Night
6 Inch
Don’t Hurt Yourself (with elements of “Freakum Dress”)
Ring the Alarm
Lost Yo Mind / I Been On / Independent Woman / Naughty Girl
Diva
Flawless (Remix)
Feeling Myself (Nicki Minaj cover)
Yoncé
7/11
Drunk in Love (with elements of “Swimming Pools”)
Partition
Rocket
Hip Hop Star
Daddy Lessons
Single Ladies
Purple Rain (Prince cover)
Crazy in Love (2014 Remix) (with elements of “Bootylicious”)
Naughty Girl
Party
Blow
Sweet Dreams
Die With You
Freedom
Survivor (Destiny’s Child song)
End of Time / Grown Woman (Mashup)
Halo
Obviously, this setlist is entirely subject to change as the tour progresses; it'll be interesting to see whether her tribute to Prince, with "Purple Rain" featuring during the concert, was a one-off moment or will become an integrated part of the tour.
The show ended with a performance of "Halo", dedicated to her husband Jay Z; of particular interest after themes running throughout Lemonade seemed to suggest he may have been involved in an affair.
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