Justin Bieber's leaked tour rider demands private jets, luxury cars and gourmet food named after his songs

In dire need of jets: Justin Bieber's alleged tour rider has leaked
In dire need of jets: Justin Bieber's alleged tour rider has leaked Credit: Action Press/REX/Shutterstock

Part of the sadistic fun of being an international pop star is making the wackiest, weirdest requests while touring the world and watching as groups of footmen, their souls slowly dying from fetching Mariah Carey a flight of doves, are forced to bend to your every will.

It's the closest thing to medieval savagery in the pop world, a tradition that has made it okay for Britney Spears to insist on a framed photograph of Princess Diana when performing in London, or Kanye West to demand a freshly-ironed carpet to cure it of its bumps.

Having gone viral over the past few days, Justin Bieber's reported rider for his upcoming concert in India isn't too bonkers on the pop star scale (see: Metallica's one-time request for relentless quantities of bacon), but the sheer volume of rules, demands and requests is staggering.

Sourced from a music journalist based in Mumbai, there is no confirmation as to whether Bieber's rider is legit, or how said journalist got his hands on it -- but it remains an intriguing (if unverified) peak into the needs and desires of the Sorry singer.

Amongst Bieber's demands are a convoy of 10 luxury sedans and two buses, a ping pong table and sofa set, a private Jacuzzi, three floors of redecorated hotel rooms, a private lift, a personal (specifically female) masseuse, aromatic oils and incense sticks for his daily Yoga rituals, beauty products, clothing, fresh flowers, an organic turkey and a private jet and helicopter on permanent stand-by.

And, in something to rival Mariah Carey's apparent request to have her hit records played whenever she enters a room, Bieber reportedly requires a gourmet chef willing to prepare five dishes per day, all of which must be "renamed after his popular songs."

But in a testament to Bieber's transformation from squeaky-clean teen with a bad haircut into a swaggering monkey-menacing gremlin, the rider for his 2010 tour, leaked by The Smoking Gun five years ago, was a decidedly less flamboyant affair. His requests for mixed nuts, herbal teas and gummy candy were so dull that it lead to MTV offering advice on how Bieber could potentially spice it up. Oh, what MTV hath wrought.

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