Madonna closed her Celebration Tour in style with her final concert as she rehearsed before performing in front of 1.5 million fans on Copacabana beach in Brazil on Saturday, making it the biggest concert of her career.
The Queen of Pop, 65, looked incredible as she took to the stage in lace lingerie and a tiny plaid miniskirt, revealing her underwear underneath during a raunchy routine.
Then, in the saucy show, she got close to a handsome backup dancer as she sang some of her most iconic hits.
Despite being just hours before the record-breaking crowd arrived, Madonna was as confident as ever on stage, strutting alongside a series of colorfully dressed dancers.
Billed as “the largest dance floor in the world,” the show in front of the Belmond Copacabana Palace hotel does not require fans to obtain tickets, while Brazil’s TV Globo broadcasts the concert live, according to Rolling Stone.
Madonna, 65, closed her Celebration Tour in style with her final concert which she rehearsed before performing before 1.5 million fans on Copacabana beach in Brazil on Saturday, making it the biggest concert of her career.
The Queen of Pop looked incredible as she took to the stage in lace lingerie and a tiny plaid miniskirt, revealing her underwear underneath during a racy routine.
Then, in the saucy show, she got close to a handsome back-up dancer as she sang some of her most iconic hits.
The local mayor’s office has prepared an operation equivalent to that used for New Year’s celebrations in Copacabana, one of the most famous in the world and which usually attracts around a million people.
The concert will only be broadcast locally in Brazil. Fans outside of Brazil can live stream the big event online via a cable streaming service that broadcasts TV Globo or via a Virtual Private Network (VPN).
Copacabana Beach has been the site of numerous concerts over the years, including Rod Stewart who had 4 million attendees at his concert in 1994, while the Rolling Stones reportedly had a crowd of 1.5 million in 2006.
Madonna kicked off her first retrospective tour at the O2 Arena in London, England, on October 14, and continued touring Europe until early December.
He would eventually open the American leg of the tour in New York City on December 13 and then take the show to the rest of the United States and Canada until an April 15 concert in Austin, Texas.
From there, the pop superstar took the tour to Mexico City for a five-night tour at the Palacio de los Deportes that ended on April 26.
After having last week off to prepare for the end of the Celebration Tour in Rio de Janeiro, Madonna is now preparing for what is expected to be the largest audience she has ever played to during her illustrious career.
The Celebration Tour not only pays tribute to her long history of hit songs, Madonna also uses the platform to tell the story of how she became a global pop icon after arriving in New York City in 1978 with just $35 in her pocket. .
Despite being just hours before the record-breaking crowd arrived, Madonna was as confident as ever on stage, strutting alongside a series of colorfully dressed dancers.
Madonna’s tour has been full of raunchy escapades (pictured on stage on Friday)
Billed as “the largest dance floor in the world,” the show in front of the Belmond Copacabana Palace hotel does not require fans to obtain tickets, while Brazil’s TV Globo broadcasts the concert live.
Copacabana Beach has been the site of numerous concerts over the years, including Rod Stewart who had 4 million attendees at his concert in 1994, while the Rolling Stones reportedly had a crowd of 1.5 million in 2006.
It would be five years until she released her self-titled debut album in 1983, which took her to the top of the pop world with hits like Everybody, Holiday, Borderline, Luck Star and Burning Up.
Throughout her illustrious career, the Bay City, Michigan native has released 14 studio albums, the most recent being Madam X in 2019.
Her retrospective tour came on the heels of her remix album, Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones, which marks Madonna with 50 number one songs on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, the most number ones of any artist on any Billboard chart. .
With sales of more than 300 million records worldwide, Madonna is the best-selling female artist of all time.
She is also the mother of six children, including her four adopted children, David, 18, Mercy, 18, and twins Stella and Estere, 11, as well as two biological children: Rocco, 23, from her marriage to her ex-husband and filmmaker Guy. Ritchie, 55, and Lourdes, 27, whom she shares with her ex-partner and actor Carlos León, 57.