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Leave it to Madonna<\/strong><\/a> to go out with a bang \u2026 that\u2019s how you\u2019d have to describe the insane scene in Brazil when she closed out her world tour with more than a million people in the sand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A reported 1.6 million Madonna lovers turned out for the free concert on Rio de Janeiro\u2019s famed Copacabana Beach \u2026 and it was a total spectacle. At one point, the massive crowd actually got in sync enough to take over singing \u201cLike A Virgin.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The final night of Madge\u2019s 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 \u2026 which was a measly 130,000 for her 1987 Paris show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n She\u2019s following in some legendary footsteps in the Rio sand \u2026 in similar fashion, the Rolling Stones<\/strong><\/a> rocked the same beach with 1.2 million fans in 2006, and Rod Stewart<\/strong><\/a> performed the largest free rock concert ever in 1994 when 4 million people turned out for his New Year\u2019s Eve show.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Remember, Madonna\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n