Nearly 300 people spent the night in the open in Rio de Janeiro in order to be the first to buy a ticket to the concert that Madonna will next December 14 in this city, whose sales began today.

The first row came at seven o’clock on Sunday, despite the fact that revenues can be purchased via the internet and also for sale at the box office only planned to begin at noon today, as reported by the news portal O Globo newspaper.

Fans of the pop artist slept in the street with mattresses, bags and blankets to cope with the austral winter of Rio de Janeiro, where thermometers marked about 17 degrees centigrade temperature unusually warm in the city.

The organization of the three concerts that will offer the artist in Brazil opened a register prior to the sale of tickets via internet in which he had scored until last Friday 160,000 people.

Of these, 50,000 applied for tickets for the concert at the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro and 110,000 for the two that Madonna plans to give 18 and Dec. 20 at the Morumbi stadium in Sao Paulo.

The actual sale over the Internet began at midnight on Sunday, Monday and the website where the tickets are offered today experienced delays in access due to the large number of persons attempting to gain one of the coveted 75,000 tickets available for Rio de Janeiro.

Ticket prices for the show carioca of the tour “Sweet and Sticky”, with which Madonna is promoting the 11th studio album of his career, ranging between 180 and 600 reals (between 110 and 367 dollars), The world tour of Madonna began last month in Cardiff, capital of Wales.

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