The Black Parade World Tour
| Tour by My Chemical Romance | |
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| Associated album | The Black Parade | 
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| Start date | February 22, 2007 | 
| End date | May 9, 2008 | 
| No. of shows | 133 | 
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| My Chemical Romance concert chronology | |
The Black Parade World Tour was a concert tour by American rock band My Chemical Romance in support of their third studio album, The Black Parade (2006). The tour began on February 22, 2007, in Manchester, New Hampshire and concluded on May 9, 2008, in New York City. 133 shows were a part of the tour, with locations spanning across five different continents, ranging from cities such as the aforementioned New York City to Buenos Aires and Moscow.
For most of the tour, My Chemical Romance would play The Black Parade in its entirety dressed up as an alter-ego marching band named after the album. After playing the album in its entirety, the band would then play a selection of songs from their previous albums. These shows saw extensive use of theatrics and additional stage elements, such as pyrotechnics and blimps that would rise over the stage. Shows throughout the tour would follow this format until October 7, 2007, when the "Black Parade" persona was "killed off" in Mexico City. After that point, the band would no longer play the album in its entirety, but would continue to support it through other shows with more varied set lists.
The tour received positive reviews from journalists, who highlighted the theatrical elements of the shows as well as the performances of the band, specifically front man Gerard Way. According to the Billboard Boxscore, the tour generated an average of $183,600 in revenue per show, with an average of 5,415 tickets sold per date. The October 7 show was later released as the live album The Black Parade Is Dead! in 2008. In 2021, Kerrang! ranked it as one of the best concert tours of all time. A second concert tour themed around The Black Parade, Long Live The Black Parade, is set to begin and take place throughout 2025.