Sphere Entertainment’s (SPHR) spectacular performance venue Sphere Las Vegas has already hosted some of the biggest entertainers in the world since opening Sept. 29, 2023, with its first headliner U2 for its U2/UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere residency.
U2 performed 40 sold-out shows on its residency at the 18,600-seat Sphere, which ended on March 2, 2024, and generated a whopping $244.5 million in ticket sales.
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Sphere next presented a quick, mini-residency featuring popular jam band Phish performing four sold-out shows April 18-21, 2024. Sphere and Phish have not indicated whether the band will return for another residency.
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An appropriate follow-up to Phish came on May 16, 2024, when the ultimate jam band Dead & Company launched its Dead Forever residency for 30 sold-out shows ending on Aug. 10, 2024.
Legendary rock band the Eagles followed the jam band with the launch of their Sphere residency on Sept. 20, 2024, and has extended the engagement to 32 shows with the last scheduled show on April 12, 2025. That date might be the final show of the residency as two bands have signed on for residencies following the last Eagles concert.
Dead & Company has signed up to resume their residency at Sphere for 18 more shows overlapping the Eagles, beginning on March 20, 2025.
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The popular jam band revealed a new run of shows in March, April, and May that features its current band lineup of original Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, along with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti, and Jay Lane.
Dead & Company will perform six shows in each month of March, April, and May, finishing on May 17.
Country music has not yet debuted on the Sphere stage, as the first four bands to take the stage have been rock bands. But that will change starting in May 2025, as a huge star will launch Sphere’s first country residency.
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Fans might think the obvious candidates to be the first Sphere country performer could be Garth Brooks, George Strait, Carrie Underwood, or maybe Miranda Lambert. Not so.
Sphere, however, picked another huge star to be its first country residency.
Kenny Chesney performs in New York City. (Photo by D Dipasupil/FilmMagic)
Sphere Las Vegas signs Kenny Chesney for residency
Country superstar Kenny Chesney has signed to be the next Sphere Las Vegas residency as he brings his “full-tilt brand of American music” to the spectacular entertainment venue, adjacent to The Venetian, in May and June 2025.
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“When we started talking about all of the possibilities playing Sphere offered, I was all in,” Chesney said in a Jan. 16 statement.
“Just the idea of 4D technology and the impossibly dialed-in sound raises the experience for No Shoes Nation, literally immersing them in music, visuals, sound and being together. To me, this is going to be a whole new way of rocking the fans, and I can’t wait,” Chesney said.
The eight-time Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year brings his Kenny Chesney Live at Sphere Las Vegas residency to the venue on May 22, 24, 25, 28, 30, and 31, June 4, 6, 7, 11, 13, and 14, 2025.
Fans can sign up for presale tickets, which go on sale Jan. 21 at 10 a.m. Pacific time, at KennyChesney.com. Tickets go on sale to the general public at Ticketmaster.com on Jan. 31 at 10 a.m. Pacific.
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