Madonna announces summer tour
Capital of Tennessee (Billboard) - Madonna's upcoming enlistment testament set out Aug 23 in Cardiff, Cymru, and will number 50 to 60 shows, Billboard.com has learned.
Details of the circuit, produced globally by Live Carry Nation, testament be announced later on Th (May 8).
Billed as the Sticky and Sweet tour, Madonna's trek in support of her chart-topping Warner Bros. release "Hard Candy" -- which debuted Wed (Crataegus oxycantha 7) in the No. 1 status on the Billboard 200 -- will play stadiums in the United Kingdom and Europe through the end of Sept. Arenas and a "handful" of stadiums in 16 North American markets will follow in October and Nov, with the period from late Nov through December devoted to stadiums in United Mexican States and South U.S.A..
Madonna's last trey world tours grossed nearly $400 trillion combined. Her 2006 Confessions tour is, at $194 jillion, the top-grossing circuit ever by a female creative person.
The upcoming circuit is the first major demonstration of the multifaceted 10-year grapple between Madonna and Be Land, valued in published reports at $120 meg.
"The reality is she's delivered her last album to Warner Bros., and it's a smash, which is great for everybody," Chester Alan Arthur Fogel, chair of global medicine for Survive Nation, told Hoarding.com. "We now take a tremendous opportunity with a tremendous artist to do completely kinds of newly and innovative things on many different levels, and this go will be the commence of that rollout."
The tour follows a familiar Mary touring pattern in that it visits a express number of markets in a four-month time frame, with multi-night stands in john Major cities.
Ticket sales event details will be announced Thursday, along with a presale through Live Nation's corporate sponsorship married person Citi. Fogel said that ticket prices testament be "basically the lapp as they've been the yesteryear deuce tours," which means chiefly in the $55-$350 mountain chain.
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