A lot more than a million tunes admirers collected at Brazil’s legendary Copacabana seashore to confirm their enjoy to Madonna in excess of the weekend.
The “Get into the Groove” and “Vogue” pop diva concluded her occupation-spanning Celebration Tour with a bang around the weekend, managing admirers in Rio de Janeiro to a absolutely free beach concert on Saturday. “This truly transpired,” the singer reminisced in an Instagram video clip shared Sunday.
The Instagram clip reveals an aerial check out of attendees assembling on the sandy Brazilian strip, which stretches additional than 2 miles together the coast. When some lovers danced on the seaside, other people hosted house parties in close by beachfront residences and motels, the Associated Press described.
“This put is magic,” the 65-year-previous singing icon stated throughout her show, which also highlighted appearances from Brazilian artists Anitta and Pabllo Vittar.
An estimated 1.6 million persons gathered for Madonna’s Celebration Tour finale, Brazilian outlet G1 reported, citing Rio City Hall’s tourism company. The celebration was also broadcast on Brazilian network Tv Globo. Even in advance of a million-additionally followers descended on Copacabana in excess of the weekend, Madonna declared in late March that her send-off would be her “biggest gig however.”
“The display will be free of charge of charge as a thank you to her supporters for celebrating extra than 4 a long time of her music above the class of the epic world run of the tour,” her web-site stated.
Saturday’s concert broke Madge’s individual attendance document — 130,000 fans at Paris’ Parc des Sceaux in 1987 — by extra than tenfold. Madonna also bested the record formerly held by the Rolling Stones’ 2006 Copacabana live performance, which drew 1.5 million people today.
”@Madonna would make background in Rio tonight marking the major at any time standalone live performance for any artist, with about 1.6 million enthusiasts attending as she closes The Celebration Tour,” Reside Nation announced on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday.
Madonna’s Celebration Tour released in October, months immediately after she was hospitalized for a bacterial infection final June. The Grammy winner brought her headline-creating tour to Inglewood’s Kia Forum for various nights in March.
Instances critic Mikael Wood wrote that the singer’s Celebration Tour “was curiously limited on joy.”
“A pop live performance is a theater of identity and craft, not a single of plot or character development,” he additional. “But a narrative this messy wanted far more razzle-dazzle.”
The Affiliated Press contributed to this report.
