List of Madonna concerts
American singer Madonna has performed on eleven concert tours, nineteen one-off concerts, nine benefit concerts, and three music festivals. Madonna has been nicknamed by some media reports as the "Queen of concerts" or "Queen of touring", recognizing her "years-deep into the touring game" and stage shows.[1][2] As of 2022, Madonna remains the highest-grossing female touring artist in the reports of Pollstar and Billboard Boxscore.
Madonna concerts | |
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Concert tours | 11 |
One-off concerts | 19 |
Benefit concerts | 9 |
Music festivals | 7 |
Her 1985 debut concert tour, The Virgin Tour, was held in North America only and went on to collect more than US $5 million.[3] In 1987 she performed on the worldwide Who's That Girl World Tour, which visited Europe, North America and Japan, and earned $25 million.[4][5] 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.[6][7] In 1990, she embarked on the Blond Ambition World Tour, which was dubbed as the "Greatest Concert of the 1990s" by Rolling Stone.[8] BBC credited the tour with "invent[ing] the modern, multi-media pop spectacle".[9] In 1993, Madonna visited Israel and Turkey for the first time, followed by Latin America and Australia, with The Girlie Show.[5] 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."[10]
Madonna did not tour again until the Drowned World Tour in 2001. She played 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.[5] 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.[11][12] 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.[13] 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.[14]
Madonna's next tours broke world records, with the 2006 Confessions Tour grossing over US $194.7 million,[15] becoming the highest-grossing tour ever for a female artist at that time.[16] 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.[17] In 2012, The MDNA Tour completed as the tenth highest-grossing tour of all time with US $305 million, the second highest for among female artists at the time, only behind the Sticky & Sweet Tour.[18] Her 2015–16 Rebel Heart Tour was an all-arena tour which grossed $169.8 million from 1.045 million attendance.[19]
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.[19] In the 2022 Pollstar report, Madonna appeared as the female artist with the most tickets sold with 11.6 million worldwide.[20] During the London stop of her 2006 Confessions Tour, Madonna became the first performer to be inducted into the Wembley Arena Square of Fame.[21]
Concert tours
Title | Date | Associated album(s) | Continent(s) | Shows | Gross | Gross adj. in 2021[22] |
Attendance | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Virgin Tour | April 10, 1985 – June 11, 1985 | Madonna Like a Virgin |
North America | 40 | $5,000,000 | $12,597,463 | 400,000 | [3] [23][24] |
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 | $59,629,467 | 1,317,663 | [25] [26] |
Blond Ambition World Tour | April 13, 1990 – August 5, 1990 | Like a Prayer I'm Breathless |
Asia North America Europe |
57 | $62,700,000 | $130,047,402 | 2,000,000 | [27] [28] [29] |
The Girlie Show | September 25, 1993 – December 19, 1993 | Erotica | Europe North America South America Asia Oceania |
39 | $70,000,000 | $131,308,454 | 1,279,123 | [30] [31] |
Drowned World Tour | June 9, 2001 – September 15, 2001 | Ray of Light Music |
Europe North America |
47 | $75,000,000 | $114,776,358 | 732,606 | [32] [33] |
Re-Invention World Tour | May 24, 2004 – September 14, 2004 | American Life | Europe North America |
56 | $124,790,787 | $179,029,489 | 897,207 | [34] [35] |
Confessions Tour | May 21, 2006 – September 21, 2006 | Confessions on a Dance Floor | Europe North America Asia |
60 | $194,754,447 | $261,783,668 | 1,209,593 | [36] [37] |
Sticky & Sweet Tour | August 23, 2008 – September 2, 2009 | Hard Candy | Europe North America South America Asia |
85 | $411,000,000 | $519,120,987 | 3,545,899 | [17] [38] |
The MDNA Tour | May 31, 2012 – December 22, 2012 | MDNA | Asia Europe North America South America |
88 | $305,158,362 | $360,183,293 | 2,212,345 | [39] [40] |
Rebel Heart Tour | September 9, 2015 – March 20, 2016 | Rebel Heart | North America Europe Asia Oceania |
82 | $169,804,336 | $191,724,446 | 1,045,479 | [19] |
Madame X Tour | September 17, 2019 – March 8, 2020 | Madame X | North America Europe |
75 | $51,361,008 | $54,436,117 | 179,289 | [41] [42] |
One-off concerts
Date | Event | City | Performed song(s) | Ref. |
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October 13, 1983 | Madonna promotional show (Camden Palace) |
London |
|
[43] |
February 14, 1998 | Ray of Light promotional show (Roxy NYC) |
New York City |
|
[44] |
November 5, 2000 | Music promotional show (Roseland Ballroom) |
|
[45] | |
November 29, 2000 | Music promotional show (Brixton Academy) |
London |
|
[46] |
April 22, 2003 | Madonna: On Stage and on the Record (MTV Studios) |
New York City |
|
[47] |
April 23, 2003 | American Life promotional show (Tower Records) |
|
[48] | |
April 30, 2003 | Absolut Madonna (RTL Studio) |
Cologne |
|
[49] |
May 9, 2003 | American Life promotional show (HMV Oxford Circus) |
London |
|
[50] |
November 15, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show (KOKO) |
|
[51] | |
November 19, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show (G-A-Y) |
|
[52] | |
December 7, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show (Studio Coast) |
Tokyo |
|
[53] |
April 30, 2008 | Hard Candy promotional show (Roseland Ballroom) |
New York City |
|
[54] |
May 6, 2008 | Hard Candy promotional show (Olympia) |
Paris |
|
[55] |
May 10, 2008 | Hard Candy promotional show (Mote Park) |
Maidstone | [56] | |
February 2, 2012 | Super Bowl XLVI halftime show (Lucas Oil Stadium) |
Indianapolis |
|
[57] |
March 10, 2016 | Madonna: Tears of a Clown (Forum Theatre) |
Melbourne |
|
[58] |
November 7, 2016 | Hillary Clinton campaign concert (Washington Square Park) |
New York City |
|
[59] |
May 7, 2018 | Met Gala (Metropolitan Museum of Art) |
|
[60] | |
June 30, 2019 | Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC (Pier 97, Hudson River Park) |
|
[61] | |
April 30, 2022 | Maluma hometown concert
(Atanasio Girardot Sports Complex) |
Medellín |
|
[62] |
June 24, 2022 | NYC Pride March | New York City |
|
[63] |
Benefit concerts
Date | Event | City | Performed song(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
July 13, 1985 | Live Aid | Philadelphia |
|
[64] |
April 27, 1998 | Rock for the Rainforest | New York City |
|
[65] |
January 16, 2005 | Tsunami Aid | "Imagine" | [66] | |
July 2, 2005 | Live 8 | London |
|
[67] |
November 18, 2005 | Children in Need 2005 |
|
[68] | |
July 7, 2007 | Live Earth |
|
[69] | |
January 22, 2010 | Hope for Haiti Now | New York City | "Like a Prayer" | [70] |
December 2, 2016 | Madonna: Tears of a Clown (Raising Malawi Gala) |
Miami |
|
[71] |
July 26, 2017 | Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Gala | Saint-Tropez |
|
[72] |
Music festivals
Date | Event | City | Performed song(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
February 22, 1995 | Sanremo Music Festival | Sanremo | "Take a Bow" (with Babyface) | [73] |
February 24, 1998 | Sanremo Music Festival | Sanremo | "Frozen" | [74] |
April 30, 2006 | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival | Indio |
|
[75] |
May 10, 2008 | BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend | Maidstone |
|
[76] |
March 25, 2012 | Ultra Music Festival | Miami | "Girl Gone Wild" (as a guest during Avicii's act) | [77] |
April 12, 2015 | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival | Indio |
|
[78] |
May 18, 2019 | Eurovision Song Contest | Tel Aviv |
|
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