List of Madonna concerts

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Madonna concerts
Madonna performing with a guitar in front of a standing microphone. She has wavy blond hair and wears a short black kaftan, a number of pink threads around her neck and long black boots.
Madonna performing on the Sticky & Sweet Tour (2008–09), which remains the highest-grossing concert tour by a female artist.
Concert tours11
One-off concerts19
Benefit concerts9
Music festivals7

American singer Madonna has performed on eleven concert tours, nineteen one-off concerts, nine benefit concerts, and three music festivals. Her 1985 debut concert tour, The Virgin Tour, was held 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, and earned $25 million.[2][3] 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.[4][5] In 1990, she embarked on the Blond Ambition World Tour, which was dubbed as the "Greatest Concert of the 1990s" by Rolling Stone.[6] BBC credited the tour with "invent[ing] the modern, multi-media pop spectacle".[7] In 1993, Madonna visited Israel and Turkey for the first time, followed by Latin America and Australia, with The Girlie Show World Tour.[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."[8]

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.[9][10] 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.[11] 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.[12]

Madonna's next tours broke world records, with the 2006 Confessions Tour grossing over US $194.7 million,[13] becoming the highest-grossing tour ever for a female artist at that time.[14] 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.[15] 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.[16] Her 2015–16 Rebel Heart Tour was an all-arena tour which grossed $169.8 million from 1.045 million attendance.[17]

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. Madonna remains the highest-grossing solo touring artist of all time, with over $1.5 billion earned from her concert tours throughout her career.[18] 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.[17] 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 Gross adj.
in 2020[20] 		Attendance Ref.
The Virgin Tour April 10, 1985 – June 11, 1985 Madonna
Like a Virgin 		North America 40 $5,000,000 $12,031,250 400,000 [1]
[21][22]
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 $56,949,326 1,317,663 [23]
[24]
Blond Ambition World Tour April 13, 1990 – August 5, 1990 Like a Prayer
I'm Breathless 		Asia
North America
Europe 		57 $62,700,000 $124,202,216 2,000,000 [25]
[26]
[27]
The Girlie Show World Tour September 25, 1993 – December 19, 1993 Erotica Europe
North America
South America
Asia
Oceania 		39 $70,000,000 $125,406,588 1,279,123 [28]
[29]
Drowned World Tour June 9, 2001 – September 15, 2001 Ray of Light
Music 		Europe
North America 		47 $75,000,000 $109,617,553 732,606 [30]
[31]
Re-Invention World Tour May 24, 2004 – September 14, 2004 American Life Europe
North America 		56 $124,790,787 $170,982,726 897,207 [32]
[33]
Confessions Tour May 21, 2006 – September 21, 2006 Confessions on a Dance Floor Europe
North America
Asia 		60 $194,754,447 $250,017,388 1,209,593 [34]
[35]
Sticky & Sweet Tour August 23, 2008 – September 2, 2009 Hard Candy Europe
North America
South America
Asia 		85 $411,000,000 $495,788,274 3,545,899 [15]
[36]
The MDNA Tour May 31, 2012 – December 22, 2012 MDNA Asia
Europe
North America
South America 		88 $305,158,362 $343,994,286 2,212,345 [37]
[38]
Rebel Heart Tour September 9, 2015 – March 20, 2016 Rebel Heart North America
Europe
Asia
Oceania 		82 $169,804,336 $183,107,088 1,045,479 [17]
Madame X Tour September 17, 2019 – March 8, 2020 Madame X North America
Europe 		75 $51,361,008 $51,989,400 179,289 [39]
[40]

One-off concerts[]

Date Event City Performed song(s) Ref.
October 13, 1983 Madonna promotional show
(Camden Palace) 		London
[41]
February 14, 1998 Ray of Light promotional show
(Roxy NYC) 		New York City
  • "Sky Fits Heaven"
  • "Shanti/Ashtangi"
  • "Ray of Light"
 [42]
November 5, 2000 Music promotional show
(Roseland Ballroom)
[43]
November 29, 2000 Music promotional show
(Brixton Academy) 		London
  • "Impressive Instant"
  • "Runaway Lover"
  • "Don't Tell Me"
  • "What It Feels Like for a Girl"
  • "Holiday"
  • "Music"
 [44]
April 22, 2003 Madonna: On Stage and on the Record
(MTV Studios) 		New York City
  • "American Life"
  • "Hollywood"
  • "Nothing Fails"
  • "X-Static Process"
  • "Like a Prayer"
 [45]
April 23, 2003 American Life promotional show
(Tower Records)
  • "American Life"
  • "X-Static Process"
  • "Mother and Father"
  • "Hollywood"
  • "Like a Virgin"
  • "American Life"
 [46]
April 30, 2003 Absolut Madonna
(RTL Studio) 		Cologne
  • "American Life"
  • "Hollywood"
  • "Music"
 [47]
May 9, 2003 American Life promotional show
(HMV Oxford Circus) 		London
  • "American Life"
  • "Hollywood"
  • "Nothing Fails"
  • "X-Static Process"
  • "Mother and Father"
  • "Like a Prayer"
  • "Don't Tell Me"
 [48]
November 15, 2005 Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show
(KOKO)
  • "Hung Up"
  • "Get Together"
  • "I Love New York"
  • "Let It Will Be"
  • "Everybody"
 [49]
November 19, 2005 Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show
(G-A-Y)
  • "Hung Up"
  • "Get Together"
  • "I Love New York"
  • "Let It Will Be"
  • "Everybody"
  • "Jump"
 [50]
December 7, 2005 Confessions on a Dance Floor promotional show
(Studio Coast) 		Tokyo
  • "Hung Up"
  • "Get Together"
  • "I Love New York"
  • "Let It Will Be"
  • "Everybody"
 [51]
April 30, 2008 Hard Candy promotional show
(Roseland Ballroom) 		New York City
[52]
May 6, 2008 Hard Candy promotional show
(Olympia) 		Paris
  • "Candy Shop"
  • "Miles Away"
  • "4 Minutes"
  • "Hung Up"
  • "Give It 2 Me"
  • "Music"
 [53]
May 10, 2008 Hard Candy promotional show
(Mote Park) 		Maidstone [54]
February 2, 2012 Super Bowl XLVI halftime show
(Lucas Oil Stadium) 		Indianapolis
[55]
March 10, 2016 Madonna: Tears of a Clown
(Forum Theatre) 		Melbourne
[56]
November 7, 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign concert
(Washington Square Park) 		New York City
[57]
May 7, 2018 Met Gala
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
[58]
June 30, 2019 Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC
(Pier 97, Hudson River Park)
[59]

Benefit concerts[]

Date Event City Performed song(s) Ref.
July 13, 1985 Live Aid Philadelphia
[60]
April 27, 1998 Rock for the Rainforest New York City
[61]
January 16, 2005 Tsunami Aid "Imagine" [62]
July 2, 2005 Live 8 London
  • "Like a Prayer"
  • "Ray of Light"
  • "Music"
 [63]
November 18, 2005 Children in Need 2005
[64]
July 7, 2007 Live Earth
[65]
January 22, 2010 Hope for Haiti Now New York City "Like a Prayer" [66]
December 2, 2016 Madonna: Tears of a Clown
(Raising Malawi Gala) 		Miami
  • "Send In the Clowns"
  • "Like It or Not"
  • "Toxic"
  • "I'm So Stupid"
  • "Beautiful Stranger"
  • "Easy Ride"
  • "American Life"
  • "Don't Tell Me"
  • "Express Yourself"
  • "Holiday"
 [67]
July 26, 2017 Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Gala Saint-Tropez
[68]

Music festivals[]

Date Event City Performed song(s) Ref.
February 22, 1995 Sanremo Music Festival Sanremo "Take a Bow" (with Babyface) [69]
February 24, 1998 Sanremo Music Festival Sanremo "Frozen" [70]
April 30, 2006 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Indio
[71]
May 10, 2008 BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend Maidstone
[72]
March 25, 2012 Ultra Music Festival Miami "Girl Gone Wild" (as a guest during Avicii's act) [73]
April 12, 2015 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Indio
  • "Human Nature"
  • "Hung Up" (as a guest during Drake's act)
 [74]
May 18, 2019 Eurovision Song Contest Tel Aviv

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