List of Madonna live performances
Madonna concerts | |
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Madonna performing during the Rebel Heart Tour (2015–2016). After completion, it grossed $169.8 million, extending Madonna's record as the highest-grossing solo touring artist. | |
Concert tours | 10 |
One-off concerts | 17 |
Benefit concerts | 9 |
Music festivals | 5 |
Award shows | 22 |
American singer Madonna has performed on ten concert tours, seventeen one-off concerts, nine benefit concerts, five music festivals and twenty-two award shows. Her 1985 debut concert tour, The Virgin Tour, was based in North America only and went on to collect more than US $5 million.[1] In 1987 she performed on the worldwide Who's That Girl World Tour, which visited Europe, North America and Japan. It was critically appreciated for Madonna's showmanship and "exquisite" dresses.[2][3] She embarked on the Blond Ambition World Tour in 1990, which Don Shewey of Rolling Stone called "the best tour of [the year]".[4] The performances featured Madonna simulating masturbation during "Like a Virgin".[5] Officials in Toronto threatened to arrest her unless she removed the masturbation sequence, and in Italy, the Pope called for a boycott.[3] In 1993, Madonna visited Israel and Turkey for the first time, followed by Latin America and Australia, with The Girlie Show World Tour. Madonna opened the show dressed as a whip-cracking dominatrix, surrounded by topless dancers of both sexes.[3] 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."[6]
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.[3] 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.[7][8] 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.[9] 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.[10]
Madonna's next tours broke world records, with the 2006 Confessions Tour grossing over US $194.7 million,[11] becoming the highest-grossing tour ever for a female artist at that time.[12] This feat was surpassed in 2008 with the Sticky & Sweet Tour, which went on to become the highest-grossing tour ever by a solo artist, and the second highest-grossing tour of all time, with approximately US $408 million in ticket sales.[13] In 2012, The MDNA Tour became the second highest-grossing tour among female artists, only behind the Sticky & Sweet Tour, grossing over US $305 million.[14] Her 2015–16 Rebel Heart Tour was an all-arena tour which grossed $169.8 million from 1.045 million attendance.[15]
Madonna has embarked on four promotional tours for the release of her studio albums Music (2000), American Life (2003), Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) and Hard Candy (2008). She appeared at charity concerts like Live Aid (1985), Live 8 (2005) and Live Earth (2007), and headlined the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show in 2012, which at that time was the most-watched halftime show in history. Madonna remains the highest-grossing solo touring artist of all time, with over $1.4 billion earned from her concert tours throughout her career.[16] As of 2016, Billboard Boxscore ranked her as the third highest-grossing touring act of all time, with over $1.31 billion in concert gross since 1990, behind only The Rolling Stones ($1.84 billion) and U2 ($1.67 billion).[15] Madonna also remains the only woman in history with two solo concerts attended by 100,000 people; her Who's That Girl World Tour's concert in Parc de Sceaux, Paris, drew over 130,000 audience, whereas her Girlie Show World Tour's concert in Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, drew over 120,000 audience.[17][18] During the London stop of her 2006 Confessions Tour, Madonna became the first performer to be inducted into the Wembley Arena Square of Fame.[19]
Concert tours
Title | Date | Associated album(s) | Continent(s) | Shows | Gross | 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 | N/A | [1] [20] |
The Virgin Tour setlist
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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 | N/A | [21] [22] |
Who's That Girl World Tour setlist
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Blond Ambition World Tour | April 13, 1990 – August 5, 1990 | Like a Prayer I'm Breathless |
Asia North America Europe |
57 | $62,700,000 | N/A | [4] [23] |
Blond Ambition World Tour setlist
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The Girlie Show World Tour | September 25, 1993 – December 19, 1993 | Erotica | Europe North America South America Asia Oceania |
39 | $70,000,000 | N/A | [24] [25] |
The Girlie Show World Tour setlist
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Drowned World Tour | June 9, 2001 – September 15, 2001 | Ray of Light Music |
Europe North America |
47 | $75,000,000 | 732,606 | [26] [27] |
Drowned World Tour setlist
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Re-Invention World Tour | May 24, 2004 – September 14, 2004 | American Life | Europe North America |
56 | $124,790,787 | 896,787 | [28] [29] |
Re-Invention World Tour setlist
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Confessions Tour | May 21, 2006 – September 21, 2006 | Confessions on a Dance Floor | Europe North America Asia |
60 | $194,754,447 | 1,209,593 | [30] [31] |
Confessions Tour setlist
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Sticky & Sweet Tour | August 23, 2008 – September 2, 2009 | Hard Candy | Europe North America South America Asia |
85 | $407,713,266 | 3,545,899 | [13] |
Sticky & Sweet Tour setlist[lower-alpha 1]
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The MDNA Tour | May 31, 2012 – December 22, 2012 | MDNA | Asia Europe North America South America |
88 | $305,158,362 | 2,212,345 | [33] [34] |
The MDNA Tour setlist
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Rebel Heart Tour | September 9, 2015 – March 20, 2016 | Rebel Heart | North America Europe Asia Oceania |
82 | $169,804,336 | 1,045,479 | [15] |
Rebel Heart Tour setlist[lower-alpha 2]
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One-off concerts
Date | Event | City | Performed song(s) |
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October 13, 1983 | Madonna promotional show (Camden Palace) |
London | |
February 14, 1998 | Ray of Light promotional show (Roxy NYC) |
New York City |
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November 5, 2000 | Music promotional show (Roseland Ballroom) |
New York City |
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November 29, 2000 | Music promotional show (Brixton Academy) |
London |
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April 22, 2003 | Madonna: On Stage and on the Record (MTV Studios) |
New York City |
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April 23, 2003 | American Life promotional show (Tower Records) |
New York City |
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April 30, 2003 | Absolut Madonna (RTL Studio) |
Cologne |
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May 9, 2003 | American Life promotional show (HMV Oxford Circus) |
London |
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November 15, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show (KOKO) |
London |
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November 19, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show (G-A-Y) |
London | |
December 7, 2005 | Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show (Studio Coast) |
Tokyo |
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April 30, 2008 | Hard Candy promotional show (Roseland Ballroom) |
New York City |
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May 6, 2008 | Hard Candy promotional show (Olympia) |
Paris |
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February 2, 2012 | Super Bowl XLVI halftime show (Lucas Oil Stadium) |
Indianapolis |
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March 10, 2016 | Madonna: Tears of a Clown (Forum Theatre) |
Melbourne |
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November 7, 2016 | Hillary Clinton campaign concert (Washington Square Park) |
New York City |
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May 7, 2018 | Met Gala (Metropolitan Museum of Art) |
New York City |
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Benefit concerts
Date | Event | City | Performed song(s) |
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July 13, 1985 | Live Aid | Philadelphia |
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April 27, 1998 | Rock for the Rainforest | New York City |
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January 16, 2005 | Tsunami Aid | New York City | "Imagine"[55] |
July 2, 2005 | Live 8 | London | |
November 18, 2005 | Children in Need 2005 | London | |
July 7, 2007 | Live Earth | London |
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January 22, 2010 | Hope for Haiti Now | New York | "Like a Prayer"[59] |
December 2, 2016 | Madonna: Tears of a Clown (Raising Malawi Gala) |
Miami |
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July 26, 2017 | Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Gala | Saint-Tropez |
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Music festivals
Date | Event | City | Performed song(s) |
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February 22, 1995 | Sanremo Music Festival | Sanremo | "Take a Bow" (with Babyface)[62] |
February 24, 1998 | Sanremo Music Festival | Sanremo | "Frozen"[63] |
April 30, 2006 | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival | Indio |
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May 10, 2008 | BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend | Maidstone |
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April 12, 2015 | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival | Indio |
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Award shows
Notes
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Book sources
- Batchelor, Bob; Stoddart, Scott (2007), The 1980s, ISBN 0-313-33000-X
- Bego, Mark (2000), Madonna: Blonde Ambition, Cooper Square Press, ISBN 0-8154-1051-4
- Clerk, Carol (2002), Madonnastyle, Omnibus Press, ISBN 0-7119-8874-9
- Cross, Mary (2007), Madonna: A Biography, ISBN 0-313-33811-6
- Fouz-Hernández, Santiago; Jarman-Ivens, Freya (2004), Madonna's Drowned Worlds, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., ISBN 0-7546-3372-1
- Guilbert, Georges-Claude (2002), Madonna As Postmodern Myth, McFarland, ISBN 0-7864-1408-1
- Morton, Andrew (2002), Madonna, Macmillan Publishers, ISBN 0-312-98310-7
- Rooksby, Rikky (2004), The Complete Guide to the Music of Madonna, Omnibus Press, ISBN 0-7119-9883-3
- Taraborrelli, Randy J. (2002), Madonna: An Intimate Biography, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-7432-2709-3
- Timmerman, Dirk (2007), Madonna Live! Secret Re-inventions and Confessions on Tour, Maklu Publications Inc, ISBN 9789085950028
- Voller, Debbi (1999), Madonna: The Style Book, Omnibus Press, ISBN 0-7119-7511-6