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Lover

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Originally posted by LoveLiveMusic

Madonna Extends Record as Highest-Grossing Solo Touring Artist: $1.31 Billion Earned

Her recently completed Rebel Heart Tour earned $170 million & sold more than 1 million tickets.

With the wrap of Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour on March 20 in Sydney, the pop superstar solidifies her status as the highest-grossing solo touring artist in Billboard Boxscore history. Based on Billboard’s Boxscore archives that stretch back to 1990, her overall concert grosses reached $1.31 billion with the tour’s final show.

The Rebel Heart trek grossed $169.8 million from 1,045,479 tickets sold at 82 performances. The tour launched on Sept. 9, 2015, in Montreal, spanned over seven months and visited four continents. It hit 20 arenas in the U.S. and Canada through the end of October. A European run through 16 cities in 11 countries followed in November and December, and a second North American stint began in January. Seven Asian cities were on tap in February, and the tour’s final leg wrapped Down Under with a four-city sweep through Australia and New Zealand.

The Rebel Heart Tour’s top-grossing venue was the Saitama Super Arena in the Tokyo market with $9.6 million earned at sold out shows on Feb. 13 and 14. Top box office counts among the North American markets came at New York City’s Madison Square Garden with $5.2 million in sales on Sept. 16 and 17.

The diva first earned the top solo touring distinction in 2009 after the conclusion of her Sticky & Sweet tour. With the closing of that year-long run she became the highest-grossing solo artist and held that title until Bruce Springsteen surpassed her during his successful Wrecking Ball and High Hopes tours from 2012 through 2014. With the Rebel Heart Tour, however, she takes back the title.

Also, Madonna has been the highest-grossing female touring artist for the past 12 years. She staked that claim in 2004 with the wrap of her Re-Invention World Tour and has remained the top solo female concert headliner ever since.

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Also, Madonna has been the highest-grossing female touring artist for the past 12 years. She staked that claim in 2004 with the wrap of her Re-Invention World Tour and has remained the top solo female concert headliner ever since.

only THE queen of Pop.

Donquizote

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Originally posted by Reinvention

People are always stupid like that in Japan. Why Gaga only did a couple measly shows there, I'll never know. it's like hello you could do hell better off Japan and their monstrous population than hopeless Australia.

Her team must have overestimated Australian markets because of 23 years not going there blah blah blah. She should have spent more time in Asia though for next tour. I bet she could easily make 80 million from Asian shows alone

BradySpears

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Originally posted by Donquizote

Her team must have overestimated Australian markets because of 23 years not going there blah blah blah. She should have spent more time in Asia though for next tour. I bet she could easily make 80 million from Asian shows alone

THIS! I think it will be huge, Australia didn't care tbh. Too long of a wait imo.

LoveLiveMusic

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Originally posted by Donquizote

Her team must have overestimated Australian markets because of 23 years not going there blah blah blah. She should have spent more time in Asia though for next tour. I bet she could easily make 80 million from Asian shows alone

Yep. That was evident in the scheduling gaps already that they planned for an extra show in each city but it didn't pan out as planned.

But hey, so what she didn't do 5 shows in each city and didn't do stadiums or really change up the shows and give us songs no other city had gotten (Manchester holds that with Drowned World/Substitute For Love) it's just great that she FINALLY was true to her word that she's been saying at least since 2006.

Gangbaby

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Originally posted by Reinvention

People are always stupid like that in Japan. Why Gaga only did a couple measly shows there, I'll never know. it's like hello you could do hell better off Japan and their monstrous population than hopeless Australia.

That's true..Gaga even with artrave was able to sold out 2 stadium shows after the monstrous 3 shows with btwball that she grossed $18mil..she could easily do Tokyo dome, osaka dome, nagoya dome but not happened..Madonna still could have been used the stadium mode of the venue and not the arena..its 13000 more tickets per night but anyway

M-D-N-A

The number is kind of low comparing to her previous tours.

But I'm proud because I was able to attend two shows of this tour

After waiting for so long she finally visited Taiwan and Thailand

I was so happy to witness the Goddess of the Gay, The First Lady of Pop Music, The Beginning of Everything

Next tour please keep visiting us and do STADIUM Queen

samito

the number are low for her tbh

but im so happy i get to see her twice with this tour!

Tutankhamun

This is an arena tour y'all a mess for comparing that to S&S or MDNA.

ArtForFreedom

Wow fantastic numbers for such a scaled back show

M-D-N-A

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Originally posted by Tutankhamun

This is an arena tour y'all a mess for comparing that to S&S or MDNA.

The Beyoncé stans won't buy this excuse tho

Bitch is getting on my nerve on Facebook right now

LoveLiveMusic

. A blooper reel for the tour.

https://www.facebook.com/madonnapose...3132758437225/

kwek_kwek

How much did she earn in Manila?

THEBEASTWITHIN

Here's the tea.
You do know U2 is, bar no one, the biggest touring act in the world, right?
You also know they came from the biggest world tour the world has ever known -the 360o Tour- right? It grossed a mere $700. 0++ MILLION

Ok, their last tour was an arena tour as well.
The tour had 76 dates and grossed $152. 0 million.
Have you seen anyone trying to come for them? Here's the answer :NO!
MADONNA'S numbers are great! End of story!
Bow to the biggest solo touring act ever and cut the crap!

Donquizote

Not people pretending 170 million gross from ARENA tour with 82 DATES to be bad

I can't with some fanbases. You wish your faves could

Reinvention

People will always just look at the final attempt and make attempts to drag. The facts are, the S&S tour could not be out-done. It was a once-off, ENORMOUS tour and was always kinda gonna be the magnum opus size and profit-wise. No matter how popular an artist is, there is only a certain amount people have, and are willing to pay, and people who recently spent $$ on Madonna are less likely to do so again. Economics.

Anyway, the Rebel Heart tour was a massive success, was critically acclaimed, fans loved it. The only controversy was about a few late starts, and I mean it is quite odd that she came on so late, so frequently, but the good thing is she came on, did the show of her life numerous times over, and I don't think anyone would say it wasn't worth the wait!

Tutankhamun

I'm just so happy that S&S happened. It was literally a stars-all-aligned moment for her. Strong momentum from Confessions, 4 Minutes, Stable WW economy, long break from South America etc.

M-D-N-A

Mess she was late 2 hours both in Taipei and Bangkok shows

The Second Coming

Glad she surpassed U2, queen

LoveLiveMusic

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Originally posted by M-D-N-A

The Beyoncé stans won't buy this excuse tho

Bitch is getting on my nerve on Facebook right now

The Formation World Tour and Sticky & Sweet Tour aren't even fair comparisons to one another since Formation World Tour is all stadiums across the 40 shows (24 in North America 16 in Europe), while the Sticky & Sweet Tour was a mix of both arenas and stadiums. 59 shows of 85 were stadiums however Madonna was using more European shows which were more GA and drives the price per ticket down. The 2009 leg which was all stadiums had an average ticket price of $137.70 but had an average attendance of 41,000 per show. Even in 2008 for North America she only did:

Vancouver - BC Place Stadium
San Diego - Petco Park
Los Angeles - Dodger Stadium
Houston - Minute Maid Park
Detroit - Ford Field
Miami Gardens - Dolphin Stadium
Mexico - Foro Sol (2 shows)

All but Mexico would be reserved seating so that's where she can charge the higher price point with VIP packages etc. you can see that when you compare it to a show like Houston where she played almost 2.5 times the audience over 2 shows in Mexico and if you doubled the show gross in Houston it would have been only $88,543 with 21,274 less attendance.

LoveLiveMusic

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Originally posted by THEBEASTWITHIN

Here's the tea.
You do know U2 is, bar no one, the biggest touring act in the world, right?
You also know they came from the biggest world tour the world has ever known -the 360o Tour- right? It grossed a mere $700. 0++ MILLION

Ok, their last tour was an arena tour as well.
The tour had 76 dates and grossed $152. 0 million.
Have you seen anyone trying to come for them? Here's the answer :NO!
MADONNA'S numbers are great! End of story!
Bow to the biggest solo touring act ever and cut the crap!

Could you imagine stan wars amongst rock fans instead of pop girls

Also, it comes into factor the return of profit when it comes to paying out for the show for lighting, equipment, crew etc. With a smaller stage it's probably easier than having to rig in into a stadium which probably isn't as readily equipped to have a concert. I read on ATRL that the 360 Tour would have to gross like let's say $200 million (although I think it was $300 million) to break even with production costs, which when you see the scale of that tour, I wouldn't even doubt it.

I went to the iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour and it was more scaled back with a mainstage, a long catwalk extending to the other end of the arena and then the LED screen bridge. Rebel Heart Tour I find was more focused on the play on the lighting of the stage and dancers, but she used more props this time. The MDNA Tour had the elaborate screens, the cubes, Paradise Motel, and the Golden Triangle had to be able to be configured to be longer or higher depending on the show.