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05.05.2024 - 09:09 / deadline.com
Madonna has brought her tour to a close with a free concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, in front of a reported 1.6million fans.
It was the final night of her retrospective tour, marking her four decades in pop, which she has been taking around the world since last October.
AP News reported that she began the show telling the crowd: “Here we are in the most beautiful place in the world. This place is magic.”
Madonna began her show with her 1998 song Nothing Really Matters, and performed many of her hits including Like a Virgin, Hung Up and Like a Prayer. She was also joined on stage by Brazilian artists Anitta and Pabilo Vittar.
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Rio’s tourism agency said that 1.6million people attended the concert on the famous city beach, where huge events have taken place in the past. The Rolling Stones performed there to 1.2 million fans in 2006, and Rod Stewart gave the biggest free rock concert in history there in 1994, drawing 4million people (although more than a few may have been there for the annual New Year’s Eve fireworks extravaganza). Madonna’s previous largest live concert crowd was 130,000 fans in Paris in 1987.
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Madonna has made a country choir’s dreams come true, sharing their video performing one of her hits with her 19.8million followers on Instagram.
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Madonna made history while gracing the shores of Rio de Janeiro with a monumental free concert on the iconic Copacabana beach. The event, which drew fans from around the globe, solidified Madonna’s status as a musical icon and a cultural phenomenon.What truly set this performance apart was Madonna’s commitment to spectacle and reinvention.
Madonna wrapped up her ‘Celebration’ tour with the largest show of her career to 1.6million people at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.The show featured a career-spanning 26-song setlist with guest appearances from two Brazilian musicians – Anitta joined for ‘Vogue’, while Pabllo Vittar guested on the tour debut of ‘Music’.“Rio, here we are, in the most beautiful place in the world, with the ocean, the mountains, Jesus,” Madonna told the crowd, referring to the city’s famous Christ the Redeemer statue. “Magic.”According to Reuters, many attendees had waited for hours or even days to secure a good spot, while others watched from boats or beachfront apartments.The free concert – Madonna’s first show in Brazil since 2012 – took place at a venue that had previously played host to huge shows from the likes of The Rolling Stones in 2006, while Rod Stewart broke the world record for the most-attended concert of all time when he performed there in front of 4.2million people in 1994.Check out footage of the gig and the full setlist below:madonna performing ‘music’ with pabllo vittar in rio pic.twitter.com/Uy22XKgRDP— 2000s (@PopCulture2000s) May 5, 2024.@pabllovittar just won the #MadonnaInRio jackpot.
Copacabana beach Saturday night, turning Rio de Janeiro’s vast stretch of sand into an enormous dance floor teeming with a multitude of her fans.It was the last show of The Celebration Tour, her first retrospective, which kicked off in October in London.The “Queen of Pop” began the show with her 1998 hit “Nothing Really Matters.”Huge cheers rose from the buzzing, tightly packed crowd, pressed up against the barriers.Others held house parties in brightly lighted apartments and hotels overlooking the beachfront.Helicopters and drones flew overhead, and motorboats and sailboats anchored off the beach filled the bay.“Here we are in the most beautiful place in the world,” Madonna, 65, told the crowd. Pointing out the ocean view, the mountains and the Christ the Redeemer statue overlooking the city, she added: “This place is magic.”Madonna performed her classic hits, including “Like A Virgin” and “Hung Up.” For the introduction to “Like A Prayer,” her head was completely covered in a black cape, a rosary gripped in her hands.The star paid an emotional tribute to “all the bright lights” lost to AIDS as she sang “Live to Tell,” with black and white photos of people who died from the illness flashing behind her.Later, she was joined on stage by Brazilian artists Anitta and Pabllo Vittar.Rio spent the last few days readying itself for the performance.An estimated 1.6 million people attended the show, G1 reported, citing Rio City Hall’s tourism agency.That is more than 10 times Madonna’s record attendance of 130,000 at Paris’ Parc des Sceaux in 1987.Madonna’s official website hyped the show as the biggest ever in her four-decade career.In recent days, the buzz was palpable.
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