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LOUD Tour: Live at the O2 (2012)

Where the lyrics of LOUD Tour: Live at the O2 take you, and where it was really made.

The DVD was filmed on the last three nights of the Loud Tour in London, yet it was not released until a full year later, in December 2012.

Key places

Filming at The O2 Arena (2012)

Live show The O2 Arena — The concert in this video was held at The O2 Arena in London. The last three London shows, held from 20 to 22 December 2011, were filmed for the release. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Second live long-form video by Barbadian singer Rihanna
• Released 13 December 2012 by SRP and Def Jam Recordings
• DVD and Blu-ray Disc featuring her concert at The O2 Arena, London, England
• Concert given as part of the Loud Tour (2011)
• Supports her fifth studio album Loud (2010)
• Directed by Nick Wickham; produced by Ciarra Pardo and Emer Patten
• Five sets, including the encore
• Songs from Loud and from earlier albums Good Girl Gone Bad (2007) and Rated R (2009)

Background

• Loud released in November 2010 and received generally positive reviews from most music critics
• Loud earned Rihanna a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for the lead single "Only Girl (In the World)"
• Loud Tour: Rihanna's third worldwide and fourth overall tour
• Tour officially announced 9 February 2011, when North American dates were revealed
• Rihanna performed 10 shows in London's O2 Arena during the tour
• Outside North America: two legs in Europe and one in South America

Recording

• The final three sold-out shows in London, held 20–22 December 2011, were filmed
• Rihanna announced the filming through her official Twitter account for a concert DVD due in 2012
• Editor of the video: Guy Harding
• Release staggered by country: Germany on 14 December 2012; Portugal and Spain on 17 December; Canada, Italy and the United States the following day
• Official trailer posted on her YouTube channel on 6 December 2012

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Career beginnings

• Robyn Rihanna Fenty, born February 20, 1988 in Saint Michael, Barbados
• Signed with Def Jam Recordings in 2005 after an audition for Jay-Z and Antonio "L.A." Reid
• Debut album Music of the Sun (2005) and A Girl Like Me (2006) both reached the US Billboard 200 top ten
• "SOS" became her first US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single

Peak pop era

• Good Girl Gone Bad (2007) marked a shift to dance-pop and R&B and is her best-selling album, with about nine million copies sold
• "Umbrella", "Take a Bow" and "Disturbia" each topped the Billboard Hot 100
• Rated R (2009), Loud (2010), Talk That Talk (2011) and Unapologetic (2012) followed
• Unapologetic was her first US Billboard 200 number-one album

Later career

• Moved from Def Jam to Roc Nation; Anti (2016) became her second US number-one album
• Headlined the Super Bowl LVII halftime show in February 2023, the most-watched halftime show in history
• Has released sporadic singles since 2016 and acted in films including Battleship (2012), Ocean's 8 (2018) and Smurfs (2025)
• Sales estimated above 250 million records

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Debuted within the top ten on over ten national music video charts
• Most successful in France and Belgium (Wallonia), where it peaked at number two
• Peaked at number eleven on the US Billboard Music Video Sales chart, debuting there at the same position

Records

• Flemish Belgian Music DVD Chart: debuted at number 12 (week of 22 December 2012), rose to number six the next week, peaked at number three on 19 January 2013
• Wallonian Belgian Music DVD Chart: debuted at number three (week of 29 December 2012), peaked at number two on 19 January 2013
• French Music DVD Chart: debuted and peaked at number two
• Swiss Music DVD Chart: peaked at number three
• Dutch Music DVD Chart: peaked at number seven
• Czech Music DVD Chart: debuted at number 12, peaked at number five in late January 2013
• UK Music Video Chart: peaked at number eight
• Irish Music DVDs Chart: number nine
• Australian Music DVD Chart: peaked at number eight
• US Billboard Music Video Sales: debuted and peaked at number 11

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Filmed at the last three outsold shows of the Loud Tour in London; the filming was announced on Rihanna's official Twitter account
• The deluxe edition of Unapologetic (November 2012) contained First Look footage from the Loud Tour, titled Loud Tour Live at the O2 Arena
• The director of the tour, Jamie King, created the "Le Sex Shoppe" section after seeing online pictures of Rihanna visiting a sex shop in Australia
• During the final set, the piano levitated while Rihanna sat on top of it
• The show ends with "We Found Love", with red confetti flying around the stage

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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