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Chart Listings: MDNA closes with $305M; enters all-time top10
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Yes my country stan HARD
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
June 3-4, 2012
$8,053,500
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MDNA Tour Poised To Be Among Highest Grossing Of ALL TIME
Huffington Post, 07/17/2012
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Madonna has taken in $50 million from the first three weeks of her MDNA tour. And with 70 more shows left, the Material Girl is on track to gross more than $450 million from ticket sales alone. This will make her current tour one of the most successful of all time.
"This is one of the biggest tours we have seen … ever," one concert promoter told me. "She is playing some of the biggest venues around the world and selling them out ... It’s putting other summer tours, including J.Lo's first tour, to shame. What is so impressive about these numbers is she’s playing far fewer shows than previous tours by the Rolling Stones, Cher and Lady Gaga, and grossing more."
U2 holds the current record for the top-grossing tour for its 2009-2011 360° tour, when the band played 110 shows and grossed $736,421,586.
The No. 2 record is held by the Rolling Stones, who grossed $558,255,524 in 2006-2007 with the Bigger Bang tour, involving 144 shows. AC/DC stands at No. 3 for the Black Ice world tour, from 2008 to 2010.
It appears that Madonna might soon knock AC/DC off that spot.
The first 14 MDNA tour concerts all sold out, leading to the massive hauls below.
May 31, Tel Aviv, Israel:
$4,339,876
June 3-4, 2012
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: $8,053,500
June 7,
Istanbul:
$6,219,598
June 12,
Rome:
$2,835,542
June 14,
Milan:
$5,624,570
June 16, Florence, Italy:
$4,252,680
June 20-21, Barcelona, Spain: 3,893,274
June 24,
Coimbra, Portugal:
$3,156,022
June 28-30,
Berlin:
$3,679,378
July 2, Copenhagen, Denmark:
$2,980,465
July 4, Gothenburg, Sweden: 4,510,807
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3rd Highest Grossing Tour of all-time
1st Highest Grossing Tour of all-time for a solo act
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Are we sure she will outgross the S&S by a quite big margin (AC/DC's tour grossed almost $40M more than it) even without the Australian(/Asian??) leg? So far, the tour isn't performing as well as the latest, but I understand many important dates still have to happen/be reported.
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Originally posted by Sahn
New reports today!
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I'm updating in a minute
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Madonna, Martin Solveig
Ziggo Dome
Amsterdam, Netherlands
July 7-8, 2012
$3,777,245
29,172 /
29,172
2 /
2
$215.05, $55.30
Live Nation Global Touring/Mojo Concerts
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Madonna, Martin Solveig
Stade Roi Baudouin
Brussels, Belgium
July 12, 2012
$3,676,447
36,778 /
36,778
1 /
1
$182.99, $54.90
Live Nation Global Touring/Live Nation Belgium
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Madonna, Martin Solveig
Lanxess Arena
Cologne, Germany
July 10, 2012
$1,775,841
14,489 /
14,489
1 /
1
$203.38, $55.47
Live Nation Global Touring/MLK Concerts
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Originally posted by HausOfA-M
Are we sure she will outgross the S&S by a quite big margin (AC/DC's tour grossed almost $40M more than it) even without the Australian(/Asian??) leg? So far, the tour isn't performing as well as the latest, but I understand many important dates still have to happen/be reported.
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Even if it doesn't it's the best of the year and one of her most Iconic up there with Blond Ambition, the fact that Europe is in a Crisis right now is affecting it's chance to surpass S&S. Anyway she's kicking major butt!
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So that make so far $58.7 million with only 18 dates!!
MDNA Tour
Tooo bad the Australia dates wouldnot be addes she could do at least 20 million with those dates!
Can´t wait for Paris & London grosses
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Originally posted by Swag
Even if it doesn't it's the best of the year and one of her most Iconic up there with Blond Ambition, the fact that Europe is in a Crisis right now is affecting it's chance to surpass S&S. Anyway she's kicking major butt!
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Yeah I know I was just replying to you stating:
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3rd Highest Grossing Tour of all-time
1st Highest Grossing Tour of all-time for a solo act
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as if it was a fact, when in reality we still don't know if she will top the S&S (which I think she will).
By the way, the OP is updated
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Yeah I know I was just replying to you stating:
as if it was a fact, when in reality we still don't know if she will top the S&S (which I think she will).
By the way, the OP is updated
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Yay!
I was just interpreting the Huffington Post's projections that why I included the source.
Anyway I'm satisfied either way, this era has ben much more than I ever expected tbh.
Edit: sorry I first used a wrong smiley it was supposed to be the YAY one lol
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The latest box scores are kinda underwhelming. S&S was averaging over 4 million per show.
Since Australia is cancelled, I don't know if this will cross 300 million with only 80some dates.
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The latest box scores are kinda underwhelming. S&S was averaging over 4 million per show.
Since Australia is cancelled, I don't know if this will cross 300 million with only 80some dates.
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Europe's economy is **** right now, and things are only getting worse, I know, I live here. Just compare her numbers of UAE (no pun intended) she made 8 mill of Abu Dhabi alone, a simple reflection of their economy.
The scores would only be underwhelming if someone else was making more money in Europe.
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I really don't know what's the point of complaining at this point of time. She has played only 20% of all the scheduled shows. It was known beforehand that the European leg will not generate as much revenue as S&S. But this might be compensated by the North American part of the tour. More shows and higher ticket prices. So at this point it's rather useless to think what could be.
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She won't break her own record or even past 300 million if she doesn't do a second leg of this tour after South America. Just my two cents.
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She won't break her own record or even past 300 million if she doesn't do a second leg of this tour after South America. Just my two cents.
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Isn't is funny that we always say she should go here and there yet we really have no idea how it is to be on the road that long and performing around 80 shows during 8 months or so.
Honestly most of us would die probably.
Maybe she really cancelled Australia because she knows she will be too tired to get through this. She knows her limits. Of course in her ambition to never show anyone that she is a human being too and just as weak and vulnerable as the average Joe she would never make an official statement saying this very truth.
Seems like for all in here, Madonna's bound to perform disappointingly these days- when compared against herself, that is.
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I don't think North America will give her HUGE numbers aside from the obvious big city dates (NYC).
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As long as she doesn't cancel her Phoenix date, i'm fine..
I can care less about the gross i just wan't to see the queen live and have a good time
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Again I am really sorry for the Australian fans but I was very surprised when I heard that she would be on tour for 8 straight months doing more than 80 shows without any substantial stop. She never did anything like that, not even when she was younger. Plus, this is a very physically demanding show.
The mistake was to let people believe that she would do it and in regard to this I do believe that the intention was there. Maybe what happened is that with more than 5 months still ahead of her she realized that it would be just too much to travel to Australia after Argentina. Plus, going just to Australia would not be profitable enough and they would have had to add more dates in Asia to make the trip worthy, thus further extending the tour.
At the end of the day, Madonna is just a human being.
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Yes my country stan HARD
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
June 3-4, 2012
$8,053,500
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yes UAE loves MADONNA
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Originally posted by Hazzard
She won't break her own record or even past 300 million if she doesn't do a second leg of this tour after South America. Just my two cents.
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Your dramatic two cents, as usual.
Do you realize there are 87 dates so far? LN reported 350M two months ago , excluding Australia and several SA dates that were announced recently (Buenos Aires, Sao Pablo, Mexico, Medellin).
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I don't think North America will give her HUGE numbers aside from the obvious big city dates (NYC).
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The North American leg was 95% sold out according to LN two months ago... And we know the tickets aren't exactly cheap, she'll do fine.
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