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Funhouse Tour: Live in Australia (2009)

Where the lyrics of Funhouse Tour: Live in Australia take you, and where it was really made.

The DVD sold so fast in Australia that its debut sales were more than 11 times platinum, the fastest selling DVD in Australian history.

Key places

Shows recorded at the Sydney Entertainment Centre (2009)

Recording site Sydney Entertainment Centre — The album contains the July 17 and 18, 2009 shows from the Funhouse Tour, recorded at this venue in Sydney. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there: See the map for directions.

Album story

Overview

• Funhouse Tour: Live in Australia is a live album by American pop singer Pink
• Released on DVD, Blu-ray, and as a separate live album audio version
• Contains the 17 and 18 July 2009 shows of the Funhouse Tour
• Recorded at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney, Australia
• Released 14 October 2009 by LaFace Records
• DVD running time is about 155 minutes
• CD version has twelve tracks plus one bonus track
• CD tracks include Bad Influence, Ave Mary A, and Bohemian Rhapsody, a Queen cover

Background

• Documents the Funhouse Tour, one of Pink's stadium-scale tours
• Show concept credited to P!nk
• Musicians: Paul Mirkovich on keyboards, backing vocals and musical direction
• Justin Derrico on lead guitar, Eva Gardner on bass, Kat Lucas on rhythm guitar and keyboards
• Stacy Campbell and Jenny Douglas-McRae on backing vocals
• Mark Schulman on drums and cello
• Credits list five dancers and one aerialist alongside the band
• Korean Wikipedia introduces the album as a record by Pink released through LaFace Records

Recording

• Filmed at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on 17 and 18 July 2009
• Recorded by Chris Madden
• Mixed at South Beach Studios in Miami, Florida
• Mixed by Femio Hernandez and Tom Lord-Alge
• DVD audio options are Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com · it.wikipedia.org · ko.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Disc 1

Disc 2

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Alecia Beth Moore-Hart (born September 8, 1979), known as Pink, is an American singer and songwriter from Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
• At 15, she formed the R&B group Choice with two other teenage girls; the group signed with LaFace Records but disbanded in 1998.
• Pink then began her solo career with LaFace Records.

Career

• Debut album Can't Take Me Home (2000) reached No. 26 on the Billboard 200 and sold over four million copies worldwide.
• Missundaztood (2001) became her best-selling record with more than 13 million copies, and its single "Get the Party Started" was a worldwide hit.
• "Lady Marmalade" (with Christina Aguilera, Mýa and Lil' Kim) gave her first US No. 1 single and her first Grammy.
• Later albums include Try This (2003), I'm Not Dead (2006), Funhouse (2008), The Truth About Love (2012), Beautiful Trauma (2017), Hurts 2B Human (2019) and Trustfall (2023).
• The Truth About Love and Beautiful Trauma topped the Billboard 200; "Raise Your Glass" and "Just Give Me a Reason" were number-one Billboard Hot 100 hits.
• Pink has sold more than 135 million records worldwide and has won three Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards and seven MTV Video Music Awards.
• Her Summer Carnival tour became the second-highest grossing concert tour by a woman.

Members

• Pink performs as a solo artist; the group Choice and Basic Instinct were earlier groups she was part of.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

Records

• The DVD became the fastest selling in Australian history, debuting with sales of more than 11 times platinum
• The Australian DVD was certified 31 times platinum in the DVD section, and the album entry lists 32 times platinum for Australia
• The DVD stayed at number one on the ARIA DVD chart for 19 consecutive weeks
• Spanish Wikipedia says about 170,000 copies sold during the Australian pre-sale
• Spanish Wikipedia calls it the best-selling music DVD in Australian history
• Spanish Wikipedia gives 28 platinum certifications and about 420,000 copies sold in Australia alone
• Spanish Wikipedia notes that 12 of the 24 songs performed were included on the live album
• The two sources give different certification numbers, so the figures stay as reported by each page

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The album draws on two nights, 17 and 18 July 2009, of the same tour in Sydney.
• Spanish Wikipedia says about 170,000 copies were sold during the pre-sale in Australia.
• Discogs credits the show concept to P!nk herself.
• The DVD debuted with sales of more than 11 times platinum, which made it the fastest selling DVD in Australian history.
• Of the 24 songs performed on the tour in Sydney, 12 were included on the live album.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

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