Madonna - The Celebration Tour

[AlphaMale]

Contrary to what I said before seems that also Lisbon sale is going strong

It's not very usual here to sell out in one day. But it will eventually.

[autumnwind]

It's not very usual here to sell out in one day. But it will eventually.

Great result.

[autumnwind]

So New York. LA, Paris and London are the cities with the most dates ( 4 each)

She is doing great in big cities. Relevant as far as the big tour goes.

[AlphaMale]

Great result.

And with the highest prices ever for a concert, said by the promoter himself.

[autumnwind]

61 shows till now. Not all of them have gone on sale, so we should expect more shows added. If this is her biggest tour, like several publications stated, then a second leg through Mexico and SA is a given. Then maybe Oceania and Asia and a final leg in selected cities in NA and Europe.

This is exactly what I'm hoping for at the moment.

[autumnwind]

I assume this tour won't be her last big tour. If this tour will get to become a huge success, she will upgrade and challenge herself again and do another big tour. She's an innovator. And we still have 50th anniversary lol.

[Artoo]

I assume this tour won't be her last big tour. If this tour will get to become a huge success, she will upgrade and challenge herself again and do another big tour. She's an innovator. And we still have 50th anniversary lol.

She’ll be 75 if she does a 50th tour in 2033, which is still younger than a lot of the older acts that are touring now.

[autumnwind]

She’ll be 75 if she does a 50th tour in 2033, which is still younger than a lot of the older acts that are touring now.

Lol yes.
we all know the queen is the original material girl and smells money and business better than anyone. She will never let her given fortune just slip away to the dust. Never in her dictionary. Thanks for her. Lol

[Yoshie]

That is completely incorrect.

1. There are no direct DLR trains from Tower Hill/Tower Gateway to Greenwich Peninsula.

2. The DLR service doesn’t cover Greenwich Peninsula at all (direct or not).

I wonder if he meant North Greenwich? I think I'll settle for one of the Southwark Premier Inns or the Travelodge. My friend told me that they're both close to Southwark Station, which goes straight to North Greenwich.

[autumnwind]

Again, with this tour, I realize how lucky we madonna fans are. She's still healthy and alive. Survived so well. At this point of our life and age, she gives us something thrilling and reignites our passion and stanism towards her show and music.
we are so lucky fans. We still have our ultimate queen both healthy and passionate. She wants to keep evolving. And challenge against what the society wants an old female artist to do .
thank God for her throne. I can't be happier for her as a fan nowadays.

[Forreal]

It's not very usual here to sell out in one day. But it will eventually.

Oh good to know!!

anyway they could easily add 1 more date, till oct-nov they have all the time to sell out

[oneofone]

I wonder if he meant North Greenwich? I think I'll settle for one of the Southwark Premier Inns or the Travelodge. My friend told me that they're both close to Southwark Station, which goes straight to North Greenwich.

North Greenwich or Greenwich Peninsula, The DLR doesn’t go there.

There is a Travelodge in Woolwich Arsenal as well with a number of buses going to the O2 (journey time around 20 mins).

[Lookingfornews81]

I wonder if he meant North Greenwich? I think I'll settle for one of the Southwark Premier Inns or the Travelodge. My friend told me that they're both close to Southwark Station, which goes straight to North Greenwich.

Yes Southwark to North Greenwich via Jubilee line. 15 minutes

[Lookingfornews81]

So New York. LA, Paris and London are the cities with the most dates ( 4 each)

Paris has only 3 shows (for now)

[Artoo]

I wonder if he meant North Greenwich? I think I'll settle for one of the Southwark Premier Inns or the Travelodge. My friend told me that they're both close to Southwark Station, which goes straight to North Greenwich.

North Greenwich is the only tube station to serve The o2, and oneofone is correct, you cannot take a direct DLR there. You have to swap at Canary Wharf and change trains, but only for one additional stop. It’s very easy.

It’s worth noting that the Jubilee line (which is the only underground line at North Greenwich) also runs all night on Saturdays.

However it might be best to move transport and hotel questions to PM, so as not to overtake the thread.

[Artoo]

Madonna Celebration Tour Sells Out New York, London, Paris in Minutes – Billboard

The Queen of Pop’s return to touring was a thunderous success this morning, with more than 23 concerts added to the 37 dates already announced for Madonna‘s The Celebration Tour thanks to massive fan demand.

Only a handful of tickets are still available — the tour is 98% sold out — after fans bought up 600,000 tickets in a matter of hours to see Madonna’s retrospective run in North America and Europe. Additional shows were added today in Los Angeles, Montreal, Boston and beyond to meet the demand.

“It was a huge day for Madonna and a massive success thanks to her fans,” says Arthur Fogel, Madonna’s long-time promoter with Live Nation.

In total, 51 shows went on sale today, with 35 of the shows completely sold out by 5 p.m. EST. Fogel and Madonna’s team added a fourth New York show after the first three sold out in 15 minutes and two additional London shows after the first two concerts at the 02 Arena sold out in 20 minutes. Tickets to see Madonna’s Paris shows sold out in under seven minutes, while her Amsterdam date sold out in 10 minutes.

Fogel says additional dates will be announced for Europe next week before presales begin for ten North American shows that were not part of today’s sale. Presales for The Celebration Tour dates in Denver, Phoenix, Atlanta and more begin Jan. 23, with the general public onsale scheduled for Jan. 27.

Billboard.

[Marchum]

I hope Britney shows up in LA. Would be such an iconic moment!

[UnapologeticKenny]

BIllboard also has an article where they talk about how much money she can make with this tour. They used mostly Rebel Heart Tour as reference plus Elton John's increase in tickets price (from 2018 to his latest tour), and they mention something in the range of 107 million to 140 million.

Just from NA and Europe, obviously.

[Sebastian]

Isn't it weird she'a doing Denmark and Sweden but not Finland and Norway? Maybe she'll do more European countries in another leg.

[SerbianInLA]

I am pretty sure this is her last big tour. Let's face it guys, she's (normally) not moving as she used to, which is understandable for her age, but if there was a GH Tour to be done, this was THE moment. She may do smaller venue tours a la Madame X to support her new material, but stadiums and arenas hardly. If she uses grillz and starts using old gimmicks, not to mention singing which needs to be top notch (as much as possible), press won't spare her. In all these recent videos, in Medellin with Maluma, on Eurovision, even parts of Madame X Tour I've started thinking about how will a big production tour look for her. The last arena tour she did at this point was RHT (I went to see it and loved it), and she was both vocally and physically very invested. What scares me is that I don't see that passion nor willingness for this project. Yes, we are talking about a big tour, I just spent over a $1000 for it, but will she deliver? After the tour she'll take a break, and probably either release her 15th album (that in all honesty unless it's COADF 2 nobody but us will care for), or start working on a film.

Another scary thing is - I hope she doesn't incorporate any of these dreadful Frozen remixes on the tour trying to be "cool". Because her perception of what's "cool" and "in" is very different from the rest of the world these days.

They had all these dates booked of course, they were just going by demand. The demand is there, I think these are one of her most expensive tickets that I've ever heard of, but they did in a way market it as her "this is it" tour and people went for it. The announcement video with grillz and Amy Schumer was dreadful.

South America is definitely happening in 2024. So even without adding anything on top of these dates, 70+ is a given.

NA cities I think she'll add some more dates on are: Toronto or Montreal, DC and quite possibly even 5th LA and 3rd Las Vegas.

It's Europe that needs like 10 more dates.

Since it's called Celebration, I assume the following songs are definitely included:

1. "Like A Virgin"
2. "Material Girl"
3. "Like A Prayer"
4. "La Isla Bonita"
5. "Into the Groove"
6. "Holiday"
7. "Music"
8. "Hung Up"
9. "Vogue"
10. "Celebration"

That's more or less half of our set list.

The ones I think she'll add:

1. "Ray of Light"
2. "Lucky Star"
3. "Papa Don't Preach"
4. "Express Yourself"
5. "Justify My Love"
6. "Human Nature"
7. "Take A Bow" (if she wants to add a ballad it's this or "Live to Tell")
8. "4 Minutes" (because she kind of has to, it's her last huge hit)

and that leaves us with 2-3 more songs...

Without interludes her tours usually have 19-21 songs:

1. Madame X - 20
2. Rebel Heart - 21
3. MDNA - 19
4. S&S - 19
5. Confessions - 19
6. Re-Invention - 20
7. Drowned World - 20