Madonna beats record
The singer Madonna has broken with its recently closed tour “Sticky and Sweet ‘record collection of a tour for a solo singer, in amassing 280 million dollars.
The singer of “Material Girl” and exceed the record $ 260 million it achieved with “Confessions Tour” in 2006, which had risen as the most successful female singer live.
According to a communique from the promoter of the concerts of the artist, Live Nation, published on its website, these figures are the result of the 2,350,282 tickets sold in the 58 concerts that have toured the compound with which Madonna has promoted his album “Hard Candy.”
“Sweet and Sticky (Sticky and Sweet)” rounded out his tour yesterday with a final concert in Sao Paulo (Brazil), which closed a journey begun in Cardiff (Wales) on August 23 and in which the artist has glory in stage designs of Givenchy, Jean Paul Gaultier and Arianne Philips.
After touring Europe with appointments in Seville and Valencia, took the leap to the United States, Canada, Mexico and South America, where their concerts in Chile, Brazil and Argentina-country to which he devoted a surprise “Do not cry for me Argentina “- has sold a total 650,000 entries.
Furthermore, in concert in Zurich on August 30, the artist became more direct power to call in the history of Switzerland, to gather 72,000 people.
Madonna, who turned 50 years this year, lived during a media tour of the divorce proceedings with her second husband, Guy Ritchie, and has signed a contract to become a millionaire the image of the Louis Vuitton fashion.
But above all, in 2008 once again demonstrates its true global appeal as a performer live, “the communique says Arthur Fogel, director of the department of world tours of Live Nation.
Other records that the “queen of pop” has broken with this tour is $ 12 million collected in a single concert at Wembley Stadium in London, and 23 concerts with all tickets sold at Madison Square Garden in New York who has joined since 2001.
“Sweet and Sticky”, in which the artist combined new songs such as “4 minutes” and “Give It 2 Me” with his career as a classic “Vogue” or “beautiful island”, is the eighth concert tour by Madonna and has not raised as it happened with their performances “Blond Ambition” and “Confession Tour” angry reactions from the conservative sectors.
Despite the new record for the artist and “Hard Candy” debuted at number 1 in 37 countries, sales of this album, produced by Timbaland, Justin Timberlake and Pharrell Williams, have not yet passed the 4 million copies worldwide, making it one of the biggest failures of the business career of Madonna.
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