As announced on Wednesday night’s top-rated American Idol performance show, the American Idols LIVE! Tour 2010 will visit KeyArena on August 20, 2010. Tickets for this year’s hotly anticipated American Idol Live! Tour will go on sale May 15 at ticketmaster.com.

America’s #1 show will make 49 stops this summer at a mix of top arenas and amphitheaters across North America giving fans a chance once again to catch their favorite “Idols” performing live in a town near them. The tour begins on July 1 at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit and runs through September 14 in Pittsburgh at the Consol Energy Center. The complete list of dates is below. As we gear up for the tour, there’s sure to be extensive tour discussions in the message boards, an interactive tour map, interviews with the Top 10, and more.

Simon Fuller, creator and executive producer of American Idol stated, “We are all looking forward to this year’s American Idol Live! Tour. This is always one of the highlights of the year. Each of the Idols have the chance to meet the people that voted for them and perform at incredible venues all over America, another special moment in their developing careers.”