Just in time for the kickoff of their North American tour celebrating their 4x multi-platinum 2006 album “The Black Parade“, emo rockers My Chemical Romance have landed another assortment of gold and platinum single certifications for various singles from it. Those certifications denote the streaming/sales performance of those songs in the United States, with the following awards being handed down by the RIAA yesterday, July 11th.
“Welcome To The Black Parade” (7x platinum)
“Teenagers” (6x platinum)
“Famous Last Words” (2x platinum)
“Mama” (feat Liza Minelli (platinum)
“I Don’t Love You” (platinum)
“The Sharpest Lives” (gold)
“This Is How I Disappear” (gold)
“The End.” (gold)
“House Of Wolves” (gold)
The opening date of their tour celebrating that record launched yesterday at the T-Mobile Park in Seattle, WA. The setlist for that special performance ran as follows:
“The End.”
“Dead!”
“This Is How I Disappear”
“The Sharpest Lives”
“Welcome To The Black Parade”
“I Don’t Love You”
“House Of Wolves”
“Cancer” (with Kayleigh Goldsworthy)
“Mama”
“Sleep”
“Teenagers”
“Disenchanted”
“Famous Last Words”
“The End.”
“I’m Not Okay (l Promise)”
“Our Lady of Sorrows”
“The Ghost Of You”
“Give ‘Em Hell, Kid”
“Planetary (GO!)”
“Heaven Help Us”
“Bury Me In Black”
“Vampires Will Never Hurt You”
“Helena”
Several of the songs performed from “The Black Parade” featured reprised sections or new outros/intros, including a “dagger”-related outro on “Mama“, which the band had previously teased on social media ahead of time.
The set also played out across two different stages, with the non-“To The Black Parade” portion taking place on a more separate more intimate stage, removed from the conceptual overtones of that album and accompanying stage production for the main portion of the show. Remaining dates for the ‘Long Live The Black Parade Tour‘ include
07/18 San Francisco, CA – Oracle Park (feat. 100 gecs)
07/26 Los Angeles, CA – Dodger Stadium (feat. Wallows)
07/27 Los Angeles, CA – Dodger Stadium (feat. Wallows)
08/02 Arlington, TX – Globe Life Field (feat. Garbage)
08/09 East Rutherford, NJ – Metlife Stadium (feat. Death Cab For Cutie & Thursday)
08/15 Philadelphia, PA – Citizens Bank Park (feat. Alice Cooper)
08/22 Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre (feat. Pixies)
08/29 Chicago, IL – Soldier Field (feat. Devo)
09/07 Boston, MA – Fenway Park (feat. Idles)
09/13 Tampa, FL – Raymond James Stadium (feat. Evanescence)
The band will also be playing this year’s “Shaky Knees” festival in Atlanta, GA on September 20th. After that, early 2026 will see them out heading out for the below runs across Latin America and Asia:
01/22 Bogota, COL – Vive Claro Distrito Cultural
01/25 Lima, PER – Estadio Nacional
01/28 Santiago, CHL – Estadio Bicentenario Municipal de La Florida
01/29 Santiago, CHL – Estadio Bicentenario Municipal de La Florida
02/01 Buenos Aires, ARG – Estadio Tomas Adolfo Duco
02/05 Sao Paulo, BRA – Allianz Parque
02/06 Sao Paulo, BRA – Allianz Parque
02/13 Mexico City, MEX – Estadion GNP Seguros
02/14 Mexico City, MEX – Estadion GNP Seguros
04/18 Incheon, KOR – Paradise City Culture Park
04/22 Bangkok, THA – IMPACT Challenger Hall
04/25 Manilla, PHL – Philippine Arena
04/28 Singapore, SGP – Indoor Stadium
04/30 Kuala Lumpur, MYS – Bukit Jalil National Stadium
05/03 Jakarta, IDN – Hammersonic Festival
*A platinum album/single in the United States represents 1,000,000 units, while gold signifies 500,000 units. Outside of traditional physical/digital sales, the certifications factor in digital streams/downloads with 10 permanent track downloads counting as 1 unit and 1500 on-demand audio/video streams from a particular album also counting as as a unit.
