The singer Madonna has broken with its recently closed Sweet and Sticky tour record raising tour for a solo singer, andalusia amassing 280 million dollars.

The Material Girl singer well beyond the record $ 260 million it achieved in 2006 with Confessions Tour, 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 2 million 350 thousand 282 tickets sold in the 58 concerts that have toured the compound with which Madonna has promoted her album Hard Candy.

Sweet and Sticky (Sweet and Sticky) rounded off their tour with a final concert in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which ended a journey begun in Cardiff, Wales on August 23 and in which the artist has glory in the design stage 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 of 650 thousand entries.

Furthermore, in concert in Zurich on August 30, the artist became more direct power to call in the history of Switzerland, to bring together 72 thousand 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.

Sticky and Sweet, in which the artist combined new topics as 4 minutes and 2 Me Give it to her career as a classical Vogue and La Isla Bonita, is the eighth Madonna concert tour, and has not raised, as happened with their shows and Confession Blond Ambition Tour, angry reactions from the conservative sectors.

Despite the new record for the artist and that 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 around the world, making it one of the biggest failures of the business career of Madonna.

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