Madonna has now become the only woman to go on six tours that grossed more than $100 million each at the box office.
The 65-year-old’s celebratory tour, which was delayed last year due to her serious health crisis, turned out to be a thunderous financial triumph.
His series of 80 live concerts sold 1.1 million tickets to the tune of $225.4 million in revenue, according to the count. Billboard Score.
After premiering at London’s O2 Arena last October, the tour toured the world before concluding last Saturday with a free performance held on the world-famous Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.
Besides Madonna, the only other groups to have had six tours grossing more than $100 million are The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, U2 and The Eagles.
Madonna has become the only woman to go on six tours that grossed more than $100 million each at the box office; Pictured at her final Celebration Tour performance last weekend.
Their Celebration Tour toured the world before concluding last Saturday with a free performance held on the world-famous Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro (pictured).
The only other groups to have made six tours grossing more than $100 million are The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, U2 and The Eagles; Bruce photographed last year on a tour that exceeded $100 million.
Her latest concert is Madonna’s highest-grossing tour since her MDNA tour sold 2.2 million tickets for a gross of $305.2 million in 2012.
Material Girl’s most lucrative tour of all time was the Sticky & Sweet Tour in 2008 and 2009, which sold 3.5 million tickets for $407.7 million gross.
Madonna welcomed an estimated 1.6 million people to her free concert in Rio de Janeiro over the weekend, a record for a female artist.
Despite the wear and tear of seven grueling months on tour, Madonna made it through her grand finale with the help of a knee brace.
Their current tour began at London’s 02 Arena last October. after being postponed due to his shocking stay in the ICU that June.
In November, at the Accor Arena in Paris, Madonna finally revealed that she suffered lung and kidney failure during the life-threatening health scare.
‘They infected me with bacteria that no one knows about. And there is a 40% mortality rate,” he said, according to Sun.
The celebration tour was to begin in mid-July with a North American leg that would pass through more than 20 cities in the United States and Canada.
Madonna welcomed an estimated 1.6 million people to her free concert in Rio de Janeiro over the weekend (pictured), a record for a female artist.
Despite the wear and tear of seven grueling months on tour, Madonna made it through her grand finale with the help of a knee brace.
However, that leg had to be delayed after Madonna’s health suffered a sudden crisis that struck terror into the hearts of her global fan base.
She was confined to the ICU for several days after contracting what her manager announced was a “serious bacterial infection.”
a report in Online radars She sensationally alleged that she suffered acute septic shock and was revived with Narcan, which is normally used to treat overdoses.
In November, on stage in Paris, he said: “I was in the hospital. I was in the ICU. My lungs weren’t working, I wasn’t breathing on my own.’
She continued: ‘My kidneys were failing. I was infected by bacteria that no one knows about. And there is a 40% mortality rate.”
Madonna recalled: ‘When I woke up I saw all my children around me and I thought this is what will save me. My children will save me. I’m not the one who saved them.
Guy Oseary, who has been her manager since 2005 and was previously her business partner, rushed to her side when her health plummeted.
‘My manager came to see me and was crying next to me. I came home from the hospital two weeks later and no one knew when I would get better. “He said to me, ‘Do you want to go back on tour? Do you want your tour to happen?'” Madonna said.
Her latest concert is Madonna’s highest-grossing tour since her MDNA tour (pictured) sold 2.2 million tickets for a gross of $305.2 million in 2012.
Material Girl’s most lucrative tour of all time was the Sticky & Sweet Tour (pictured) in 2008 and 2009, which sold 3.5 million tickets for $407.7 million gross.
‘I was breathing oxygen through a cannula through my nose, I could barely get out of bed to walk to the bathroom and I said ‘give me two weeks to think about it’.
She reflected: ‘You know, I consider myself Wonder Woman. I think I can overcome anything, anything, but this time I was able to bring the will.’
Madonna added: ‘I had no strength. I had no energy, they took it away from me. So the two weeks went by and I still barely had any energy. I could have espressos, four Red Bulls. Nothing woke me up. I had no life force.’
However, her ‘children saved me,’ the Express Yourself singer reiterated. “They kept me going and I recovered faster than most people.”
Throughout her tour, she has touched the hearts of her fans by being repeatedly accompanied on stage by her four youngest children.
The pop superstar adopted David Banda, 18, Mercy James, 18, and her 16-year-old twins, Stella and Estere, from Namibia.
In addition to the four children she brought back from Africa, Madonna also has two older children whom she welcomed biologically.
She and a fitness trainer named Carlos León share a 27-year-old daughter named Lola, who has followed in her mother’s footsteps into the music business.
Madge then had Rocco, 23, with her husband, film director Guy Ritchie, to whom she was married from 2000 to 2008.
