Madonna Crushes Private Live performance Document with 1.6 Million Followers in Rio
Leave it to Madonna to go out with a bang … that’s how you’d have to describe the insane scene in Brazil when she closed out her world tour with more than a million people in the sand.
A reported 1.6 million Madonna lovers turned out for the free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s famed Copacabana Beach … and it was a total spectacle. At one point, the massive crowd actually got in sync enough to take over singing “Like A Virgin.”
The final night of Madge’s tour, which got off to a rocky start last October, turned out to be a milestone for her. The sea of Rio fans destroyed the previous record for largest Madonna concert … which was a measly 130,000 for her 1987 Paris show.
She’s following in some legendary footsteps in the Rio sand … in similar fashion, the Rolling Stones rocked the same beach with 1.2 million fans in 2006, e Rod Stewart performed the largest free rock concert ever in 1994 when 4 million people turned out for his New Year’s Eve show.
Lembrar-se, Madonna’s tour was supposed to start last summer, but had to be postponed when she nearly died from an infection. She made a pretty remarkable bounce back to launch the tour a few months later.
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The tour has had plenty of highlights … including a guest appearance from Ricky Martin, who got a little too aroused by the action onstage.
There was also the night … Madonna mistakenly told a wheelchair-bound fan to stand up and dance. Oops.
All in all, we’d say Madonna can take a bow … after pulling off the tour that almost didn’t happen at all.