Madonna concerts | |
---|---|
Concert tours | 12 |
One-off concerts | 19 |
Benefit concerts | 9 |
Music festivals | 7 |
American singer Madonna has performed on twelve concert tours, nineteen one-off concerts, nine benefit concerts, and three music festivals. Madonna has been nicknamed by some publications as the "Queen of Concerts" or "Queen of Touring", recognizing her "years-deep involvement in the touring game" and stage shows. [1] [2] Once the highest-grossing female touring artist according to Billboard Boxscore and Pollstar, [3] [4] Madonna remains one of the highest-grossing live touring acts.
Her 1985 debut concert tour, The Virgin Tour, was held in North America only and went on to collect more than US $5 million. [5] In 1987 she performed on the worldwide Who's That Girl World Tour, which visited Europe, North America and Japan, and earned $25 million. [6] [7] One of the tour's shows in Paris in front of 130,000 fans was the largest paying concert audience by a female artist at the time and remains the largest crowd of any concert in French history. [8] [9] In 1990, she embarked on the Blond Ambition World Tour, which was dubbed the "Greatest Concert of the 1990s" by Rolling Stone. [10] BBC credited the tour with "invent[ing] the modern, multi-media pop spectacle". [11] In 1993, Madonna visited Israel and Turkey for the first time, followed by Latin America and Australia, with The Girlie Show. [7] A review in Time by Sam Buckley said: "Madonna, once the Harlow harlot and now a perky harlequin, is the greatest show-off on earth." [12]
Madonna did not tour again until the Drowned World Tour in 2001. She played the guitar and her costumes included a punkish tartan kilt and a geisha kimono. Some critics complained that the show concentrated on material from her most recent albums, but generally, the response was favorable. [7] She grossed more than US $75 million with summer sold-out shows and eventually played in front of 730,000 people throughout North America and Europe. [13] [14] The Drowned World Tour was followed by the 2004 Re-Invention World Tour. Madonna was inspired to create the tour after taking part in an art installation called X-STaTIC PRo=CeSS, directed by photographer Steven Klein. [15] Billboard awarded Madonna the "Backstage Pass Award" in recognition of having the top-grossing tour of the year, with ticket sales of nearly US $125 million. [16]
Madonna's next tours broke world records, with the 2006 Confessions Tour grossing over US $194.7 million, [17] becoming the highest-grossing tour ever for a female artist at that time. [18] This feat was surpassed in 2008 with the Sticky & Sweet Tour, which at the time, became the highest-grossing tour ever by a solo artist, and the second highest-grossing tour of all time, with approximately US $411 million in ticket sales. [19] In 2012, The MDNA Tour was completed as the tenth highest-grossing tour of all time with US $305 million, the second highest among female artists at the time, only behind the Sticky & Sweet Tour. [20] Her 2015–16 Rebel Heart Tour was an all-arena tour which grossed $169.8 million from 1.045 million attendance. [21]
Madonna has embarked on several promotional concerts to promote her studio albums, as well as performing award shows and benefit concerts like Live Aid (1985), Live 8 (2005) and Live Earth (2007). In 2012, she headlined the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, which at that time was the most-watched halftime show in history. According to Billboard Boxscore, Madonna grossed over $1.31 billion in concert ticket sales between 1990 and 2016; she first crossed a billion gross with The MDNA Tour. Overall, Madonna ranks third, with just The Rolling Stones ($1.84 billion) and U2 ($1.67 billion) ahead of her. [21] During the London stop of her 2006 Confessions Tour, Madonna became the first performer to be inducted into the Wembley Arena Square of Fame. [22]
Title | Date | Associated album(s) | Continent(s) | Shows | Gross | Gross
adj. in 2023 [23] |
Attendance | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Virgin Tour | April 10, 1985 – June 11, 1985 |
Madonna Like a Virgin |
North America | 40 | $5,000,000 | $14,164,604 | 400,000 [a] |
[5] [24] [25] |
Who's That Girl World Tour | June 14, 1987 – September 6, 1987 |
True Blue Who's That Girl |
Asia North America Europe |
38 | $25,000,000 | $67,047,452 | 1,317,663 |
[26] [27] |
Blond Ambition World Tour | April 13, 1990 – August 5, 1990 |
Like a Prayer I'm Breathless |
Asia North America Europe |
57 | $62,700,000 | $146,225,471 | 2,000,000 [a] |
[28] [29] [30] |
The Girlie Show | September 25, 1993 – December 19, 1993 | Erotica | Europe North America South America Asia Oceania |
39 | $70,000,000 | $147,643,400 | 1,279,123 |
[31] [32] |
Drowned World Tour | June 9, 2001 – September 15, 2001 |
Ray of Light Music |
Europe North America |
47 | $75,000,000 | $129,054,689 | 732,606 |
[33] [34] |
Re-Invention World Tour | May 24, 2004 – September 14, 2004 | American Life | Europe North America |
56 | $124,790,787 | $201,300,995 | 897,207 |
[35] [36] |
Confessions Tour | May 21, 2006 – September 21, 2006 | Confessions on a Dance Floor | Europe North America Asia |
60 | $194,754,447 | $294,349,904 | 1,209,593 |
[37] [38] |
Sticky & Sweet Tour | August 23, 2008 – September 2, 2009 | Hard Candy | Europe North America South America Asia |
85 | $411,000,000 | $583,700,326 | 3,545,899 |
[19] [39] |
The MDNA Tour | May 31, 2012 – December 22, 2012 | MDNA | Asia Europe North America South America |
88 | $305,158,362 | $404,990,573 | 2,212,345 |
[40] [41] |
Rebel Heart Tour | September 9, 2015 – March 20, 2016 | Rebel Heart | North America Europe Asia Oceania |
82 | $169,804,336 | $215,575,222 | 1,045,479 | [21] |
Madame X Tour | September 17, 2019 – March 8, 2020 | Madame X | North America Europe |
75 | $51,361,008 | $61,208,042 | 179,289 |
[42] [43] |
The Celebration Tour | October 14, 2023 – May 4, 2024 | Various | Europe North America South America |
81 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Date | Event | City | Venue | Performed song(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
October 13, 1983 | Madonna promotional show | London | Camden Palace |
|
[44] |
February 14, 1998 | Ray of Light promotional show | New York City | Roxy NYC |
|
[45] |
November 5, 2000 | Music promotional show | Roseland Ballroom |
|
[46] | |
November 29, 2000 | Music promotional show | London | Brixton Academy |
|
[47] |
April 22, 2003 | Madonna: On Stage and on the Record | New York City | MTV Studios |
|
[48] |
April 23, 2003 | American Life promotional show | Tower Records |
|
[49] | |
April 30, 2003 | Absolut Madonna | Cologne | RTL Studio |
|
[50] |
May 9, 2003 | American Life promotional show | London | HMV Oxford Circus |
|
[51] |
November 15, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show | KOKO |
|
[52] | |
November 19, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show | G-A-Y |
|
[53] | |
December 7, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show | Tokyo | Studio Coast |
|
[54] |
April 30, 2008 | Hard Candy promotional show | New York City | Roseland Ballroom |
|
[55] |
May 6, 2008 | Hard Candy promotional show | Paris | Olympia |
|
[56] |
May 10, 2008 | Hard Candy promotional show | Maidstone | Mote Park | [57] | |
February 2, 2012 | Super Bowl XLVI halftime show | Indianapolis | Lucas Oil Stadium |
|
[58] |
March 10, 2016 | Madonna: Tears of a Clown | Melbourne | Forum Theatre |
|
[59] |
November 7, 2016 | Hillary Clinton campaign concert | New York City | Washington Square Park |
|
[60] |
May 7, 2018 | Met Gala | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
|
[61] | |
June 30, 2019 | Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC | Pier 97, Hudson River Park |
|
[62] | |
April 30, 2022 | Medallo en el Mapa ( Maluma hometown concert) | Medellín | Estadio Atanasio Girardot | [63] | |
June 24, 2022 | NYC Pride March | New York City | Terminal 5 |
|
[64] |
Date | Event | City | Performed song(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
February 22, 1995 | Sanremo Music Festival | Sanremo | " Take a Bow" (with Babyface) | [74] |
February 24, 1998 | Sanremo Music Festival | Sanremo | " Frozen" | [75] |
April 30, 2006 | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival | Indio |
|
[76] |
May 10, 2008 | BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend | Maidstone |
|
[77] |
March 25, 2012 | Ultra Music Festival | Miami | " Girl Gone Wild" (as a guest during Avicii's act) | [78] |
April 12, 2015 | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival | Indio |
|
[79] |
May 18, 2019 | Eurovision Song Contest | Tel Aviv |
|
There were the business things: the fantastic success of the "Like a Virgin" tour which played to nearly 400,000 fans in twenty-seven cities with Beastie Boys as the supporting band.
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Madonna concerts | |
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Concert tours | 12 |
One-off concerts | 19 |
Benefit concerts | 9 |
Music festivals | 7 |
American singer Madonna has performed on twelve concert tours, nineteen one-off concerts, nine benefit concerts, and three music festivals. Madonna has been nicknamed by some publications as the "Queen of Concerts" or "Queen of Touring", recognizing her "years-deep involvement in the touring game" and stage shows. [1] [2] Once the highest-grossing female touring artist according to Billboard Boxscore and Pollstar, [3] [4] Madonna remains one of the highest-grossing live touring acts.
Her 1985 debut concert tour, The Virgin Tour, was held in North America only and went on to collect more than US $5 million. [5] In 1987 she performed on the worldwide Who's That Girl World Tour, which visited Europe, North America and Japan, and earned $25 million. [6] [7] One of the tour's shows in Paris in front of 130,000 fans was the largest paying concert audience by a female artist at the time and remains the largest crowd of any concert in French history. [8] [9] In 1990, she embarked on the Blond Ambition World Tour, which was dubbed the "Greatest Concert of the 1990s" by Rolling Stone. [10] BBC credited the tour with "invent[ing] the modern, multi-media pop spectacle". [11] In 1993, Madonna visited Israel and Turkey for the first time, followed by Latin America and Australia, with The Girlie Show. [7] A review in Time by Sam Buckley said: "Madonna, once the Harlow harlot and now a perky harlequin, is the greatest show-off on earth." [12]
Madonna did not tour again until the Drowned World Tour in 2001. She played the guitar and her costumes included a punkish tartan kilt and a geisha kimono. Some critics complained that the show concentrated on material from her most recent albums, but generally, the response was favorable. [7] She grossed more than US $75 million with summer sold-out shows and eventually played in front of 730,000 people throughout North America and Europe. [13] [14] The Drowned World Tour was followed by the 2004 Re-Invention World Tour. Madonna was inspired to create the tour after taking part in an art installation called X-STaTIC PRo=CeSS, directed by photographer Steven Klein. [15] Billboard awarded Madonna the "Backstage Pass Award" in recognition of having the top-grossing tour of the year, with ticket sales of nearly US $125 million. [16]
Madonna's next tours broke world records, with the 2006 Confessions Tour grossing over US $194.7 million, [17] becoming the highest-grossing tour ever for a female artist at that time. [18] This feat was surpassed in 2008 with the Sticky & Sweet Tour, which at the time, became the highest-grossing tour ever by a solo artist, and the second highest-grossing tour of all time, with approximately US $411 million in ticket sales. [19] In 2012, The MDNA Tour was completed as the tenth highest-grossing tour of all time with US $305 million, the second highest among female artists at the time, only behind the Sticky & Sweet Tour. [20] Her 2015–16 Rebel Heart Tour was an all-arena tour which grossed $169.8 million from 1.045 million attendance. [21]
Madonna has embarked on several promotional concerts to promote her studio albums, as well as performing award shows and benefit concerts like Live Aid (1985), Live 8 (2005) and Live Earth (2007). In 2012, she headlined the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, which at that time was the most-watched halftime show in history. According to Billboard Boxscore, Madonna grossed over $1.31 billion in concert ticket sales between 1990 and 2016; she first crossed a billion gross with The MDNA Tour. Overall, Madonna ranks third, with just The Rolling Stones ($1.84 billion) and U2 ($1.67 billion) ahead of her. [21] During the London stop of her 2006 Confessions Tour, Madonna became the first performer to be inducted into the Wembley Arena Square of Fame. [22]
Title | Date | Associated album(s) | Continent(s) | Shows | Gross | Gross
adj. in 2023 [23] |
Attendance | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Virgin Tour | April 10, 1985 – June 11, 1985 |
Madonna Like a Virgin |
North America | 40 | $5,000,000 | $14,164,604 | 400,000 [a] |
[5] [24] [25] |
Who's That Girl World Tour | June 14, 1987 – September 6, 1987 |
True Blue Who's That Girl |
Asia North America Europe |
38 | $25,000,000 | $67,047,452 | 1,317,663 |
[26] [27] |
Blond Ambition World Tour | April 13, 1990 – August 5, 1990 |
Like a Prayer I'm Breathless |
Asia North America Europe |
57 | $62,700,000 | $146,225,471 | 2,000,000 [a] |
[28] [29] [30] |
The Girlie Show | September 25, 1993 – December 19, 1993 | Erotica | Europe North America South America Asia Oceania |
39 | $70,000,000 | $147,643,400 | 1,279,123 |
[31] [32] |
Drowned World Tour | June 9, 2001 – September 15, 2001 |
Ray of Light Music |
Europe North America |
47 | $75,000,000 | $129,054,689 | 732,606 |
[33] [34] |
Re-Invention World Tour | May 24, 2004 – September 14, 2004 | American Life | Europe North America |
56 | $124,790,787 | $201,300,995 | 897,207 |
[35] [36] |
Confessions Tour | May 21, 2006 – September 21, 2006 | Confessions on a Dance Floor | Europe North America Asia |
60 | $194,754,447 | $294,349,904 | 1,209,593 |
[37] [38] |
Sticky & Sweet Tour | August 23, 2008 – September 2, 2009 | Hard Candy | Europe North America South America Asia |
85 | $411,000,000 | $583,700,326 | 3,545,899 |
[19] [39] |
The MDNA Tour | May 31, 2012 – December 22, 2012 | MDNA | Asia Europe North America South America |
88 | $305,158,362 | $404,990,573 | 2,212,345 |
[40] [41] |
Rebel Heart Tour | September 9, 2015 – March 20, 2016 | Rebel Heart | North America Europe Asia Oceania |
82 | $169,804,336 | $215,575,222 | 1,045,479 | [21] |
Madame X Tour | September 17, 2019 – March 8, 2020 | Madame X | North America Europe |
75 | $51,361,008 | $61,208,042 | 179,289 |
[42] [43] |
The Celebration Tour | October 14, 2023 – May 4, 2024 | Various | Europe North America South America |
81 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Date | Event | City | Venue | Performed song(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
October 13, 1983 | Madonna promotional show | London | Camden Palace |
|
[44] |
February 14, 1998 | Ray of Light promotional show | New York City | Roxy NYC |
|
[45] |
November 5, 2000 | Music promotional show | Roseland Ballroom |
|
[46] | |
November 29, 2000 | Music promotional show | London | Brixton Academy |
|
[47] |
April 22, 2003 | Madonna: On Stage and on the Record | New York City | MTV Studios |
|
[48] |
April 23, 2003 | American Life promotional show | Tower Records |
|
[49] | |
April 30, 2003 | Absolut Madonna | Cologne | RTL Studio |
|
[50] |
May 9, 2003 | American Life promotional show | London | HMV Oxford Circus |
|
[51] |
November 15, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show | KOKO |
|
[52] | |
November 19, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show | G-A-Y |
|
[53] | |
December 7, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show | Tokyo | Studio Coast |
|
[54] |
April 30, 2008 | Hard Candy promotional show | New York City | Roseland Ballroom |
|
[55] |
May 6, 2008 | Hard Candy promotional show | Paris | Olympia |
|
[56] |
May 10, 2008 | Hard Candy promotional show | Maidstone | Mote Park | [57] | |
February 2, 2012 | Super Bowl XLVI halftime show | Indianapolis | Lucas Oil Stadium |
|
[58] |
March 10, 2016 | Madonna: Tears of a Clown | Melbourne | Forum Theatre |
|
[59] |
November 7, 2016 | Hillary Clinton campaign concert | New York City | Washington Square Park |
|
[60] |
May 7, 2018 | Met Gala | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
|
[61] | |
June 30, 2019 | Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC | Pier 97, Hudson River Park |
|
[62] | |
April 30, 2022 | Medallo en el Mapa ( Maluma hometown concert) | Medellín | Estadio Atanasio Girardot | [63] | |
June 24, 2022 | NYC Pride March | New York City | Terminal 5 |
|
[64] |
Date | Event | City | Performed song(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
February 22, 1995 | Sanremo Music Festival | Sanremo | " Take a Bow" (with Babyface) | [74] |
February 24, 1998 | Sanremo Music Festival | Sanremo | " Frozen" | [75] |
April 30, 2006 | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival | Indio |
|
[76] |
May 10, 2008 | BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend | Maidstone |
|
[77] |
March 25, 2012 | Ultra Music Festival | Miami | " Girl Gone Wild" (as a guest during Avicii's act) | [78] |
April 12, 2015 | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival | Indio |
|
[79] |
May 18, 2019 | Eurovision Song Contest | Tel Aviv |
|
There were the business things: the fantastic success of the "Like a Virgin" tour which played to nearly 400,000 fans in twenty-seven cities with Beastie Boys as the supporting band.
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: |work=
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help)
A lo largo de más de cuatro meses, Madonna desgranó su dieciocho temas en Japón, Norteamérica y Europa, actuando ante más de dos millones de personas
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