Madonna concerts | |
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![]() Collage depicting Madonna's eleven concert tours, beginning with 1985's the Virgin Tour and ending with the Madame X Tour (2019–2020) | |
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] Her Madame X Tour marked her first series of concerts in theaters since 1985, [22] while the Celebration Tour, which acted as Madonna's first retrospective show, became one of the world's fastest-selling concert tours. Billboard reported the tour to have grossed over $225.4 million from an audience of 1.1 million. [23] The final concert, a free concert in Rio de Janeiro, drew a crowd of over 1.6 million people, which became Madonna's largest crowd of her career and set records for the largest audience ever for a stand-alone concert and the largest all-time crowd for a female artist. [24]
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. [25]
Title | Date | Associated album(s) | Continent(s) | Shows | Gross | Gross adj. in 2024 [26] | Attendance | Ref. |
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The Virgin Tour | April 10, 1985 – June 11, 1985 | Madonna Like a Virgin | North America | 40 | $5,000,000 | $14,660,455 | 400,000 [a] | [5] [27] [28] |
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 | $69,430,677 | 1,317,663 | [29] [30] |
Blond Ambition World Tour | April 13, 1990 – August 5, 1990 | Like a Prayer I'm Breathless | Asia North America Europe | 57 | $62,700,000 | $151,349,740 | 2,000,000 [a] | [31] [32] [33] |
The Girlie Show | September 25, 1993 – December 19, 1993 | Erotica | Europe Asia North America South America Oceania | 39 | $70,000,000 | $152,833,979 | 1,279,123 | [34] [35] |
Drowned World Tour | June 9, 2001 – September 15, 2001 | Ray of Light Music | Europe North America | 47 | $75,000,000 | $133,683,474 | 732,606 | [36] [37] |
Re-Invention World Tour | May 24, 2004 – September 14, 2004 | American Life | North America Europe | 56 | $124,790,787 | $208,420,432 | 897,207 | [38] [39] |
Confessions Tour | May 21, 2006 – September 21, 2006 | Confessions on a Dance Floor | North America Europe Asia | 60 | $194,754,447 | $304,780,083 | 1,209,593 | [40] [41] |
Sticky & Sweet Tour | August 23, 2008 – September 2, 2009 | Hard Candy | Europe North America South America Asia | 85 | $411,000,000 | $604,406,806 | 3,545,899 | [19] [42] |
The MDNA Tour | May 31, 2012 – December 22, 2012 | MDNA | Asia Europe North America South America | 88 | $305,158,362 | $419,328,584 | 2,212,345 | [43] [44] |
Rebel Heart Tour | September 9, 2015 – March 20, 2016 | Rebel Heart | North America Europe Asia Oceania | 82 | $169,804,336 | $223,210,487 | 1,045,479 | [21] |
Madame X Tour | September 17, 2019 – March 8, 2020 | Madame X | North America Europe | 75 | $51,361,008 | $62,609,543 | 179,289 | [45] [46] |
The Celebration Tour | October 14, 2023 – May 4, 2024 | — | Europe North America South America | 81 | $225,400,000 | $225,400,000 | 1,127,658 | |
Date | Event | City | Venue | Performed song(s) | Ref. |
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October 13, 1983 | Madonna promotional show | London | Camden Palace | [47] | |
February 14, 1998 | Ray of Light promotional show | New York City | Roxy NYC |
| [48] |
November 5, 2000 | Music promotional show | Roseland Ballroom |
| [49] | |
November 29, 2000 | Music promotional show | London | Brixton Academy |
| [50] |
April 22, 2003 | Madonna: On Stage and on the Record | New York City | MTV Studios |
| [51] |
April 23, 2003 | American Life promotional show | Tower Records |
| [52] | |
April 30, 2003 | Absolut Madonna | Cologne | RTL Studio |
| [53] |
May 9, 2003 | American Life promotional show | London | HMV Oxford Circus |
| [54] |
November 15, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show | KOKO |
| [55] | |
November 19, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show | G-A-Y |
| [56] | |
December 7, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show | Tokyo | Studio Coast |
| [57] |
April 30, 2008 | Hard Candy promotional show | New York City | Roseland Ballroom |
| [58] |
May 6, 2008 | Hard Candy promotional show | Paris | Olympia |
| [59] |
February 5, 2012 | Super Bowl XLVI halftime show | Indianapolis | Lucas Oil Stadium |
| [60] |
March 10, 2016 | Madonna: Tears of a Clown | Melbourne | Forum Theatre |
| [61] |
November 7, 2016 | Hillary Clinton campaign concert | New York City | Washington Square Park |
| [62] |
May 7, 2018 | Met Gala | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| [63] | |
June 30, 2019 | Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC | Pier 97, Hudson River Park |
| [64] | |
April 30, 2022 | Medallo en el Mapa (Maluma hometown concert) | Medellín | Estadio Atanasio Girardot | [65] | |
June 24, 2022 | NYC Pride March | New York City | Terminal 5 |
| [66] |
Date | Event | City | Performed song(s) | Ref. |
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February 22, 1995 | Sanremo Music Festival | Sanremo | "Take a Bow" (with Babyface) | [76] |
February 24, 1998 | Sanremo Music Festival | Sanremo | "Frozen" | [77] |
April 30, 2006 | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival | Indio |
| [78] |
May 10, 2008 | BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend | Maidstone |
| [79] |
March 25, 2012 | Ultra Music Festival | Miami | "Girl Gone Wild" (as a guest during Avicii's act) | [80] |
April 12, 2015 | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival | Indio |
| [81] |
May 18, 2019 | Eurovision Song Contest | Tel Aviv |
| [82] |
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.
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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