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Madonna to be honored for top-grossing tour at Billboard Awards
Madonna to be honoured for top grossing tour at Billboard Awards
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Madonna will be honoured at the Billboard Music Awards show this month for her 2012 MDNA tour, the high grossing concert tour of the year, organizers of the awards show said on Wednesday. The singer will accept the Top Touring Artist award at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 19th for the tour that grossed more than $305 million from 88 sold-out shows and attracted an audience of 2.2 million people. "A cultural icon, Madonna is one of the most successful and influential entertainers of all time and was recently named Billboard's Top Money Maker of 2012," Billboard said in a statement. The chart-topping singer holds numerous other Billboard awards, including the record for the most top 10 singles (38). In addition to her music, Madonna is also an avid art collector. On Tuesday she sold a 1921 painting by the French artist Fernand Leger, "Trois Femmes a la Table Rouge," for $7.16 million to raise money for the non-profit Ray of Light Foundation, to fund girls' education in poor countries. The mother of four, including two adopted children from Malawi, is planning to build 10 schools in the African nation.
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Good onya M! RIP 1958-2016 Prince RIP 1947-2016 David Bowie | |
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Congrats Madge....Now to tell the TRUTH I think this is the First time ANY awards show ever gave an Award for Best Grossing Tour...LOL...I know Tina Turner is saying "Where are my past Awards?" | |
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I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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Yea agree....
Congrads to Madonna but I am pretty sure Tina has the highest grossing tour. But Madge and MJ are definitly top 5. | |
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"The most expensive tickets on the market and a still sizeable fanbase award goes to Madonna" | |
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Bingo. | |
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There isn't anything wrong with that though. People of her stature will always charge what they can get away with. | |
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It is all good. If folks want 2 pay those prices..........so be it. | |
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I think this award is for the higest grossing tour of 2012 | |
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Nothing wrong with it,at all this is a business,after all.
Many other Old School artists (Barbra Streisand,The Rolling Stones,etc) also charge a fortune for their tickets.If fans are willing to pay,there's no problem with that. | |
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Yup. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Top 10 highest grossing tours of all time:
Michael's highest-grossing tours on the list is the HIStory and Bad World Tours (Dangerous nowhere in the list). Tina's tours usually grossed between $100 and 150 million. | |
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MDNA Tour To Premiere on EPIX June 22 You CANNOT use the name of God, or religion, to justify acts of violence, to hurt, to hate, to discriminate- Madonna
authentic power is service- Pope Francis | |
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^^ what is EPIX? A cable channel? | |
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I wasnt referring to 2012, I was speaking generally since he mentioned Tina.Ive always known her to be the highest grossing but guess I was wrong. | |
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Yeah back in 2000, that could've been true but remember Madonna hadn't yet made a comeback to tours. After 2001, Tina's record diminished. | |
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SoulAlive said: ^^ what is EPIX? A cable channel? or satellite You CANNOT use the name of God, or religion, to justify acts of violence, to hurt, to hate, to discriminate- Madonna
authentic power is service- Pope Francis | |
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So what is the going rate for a Good Seat & a Nose Bleed seat? | |
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I'm surprised Garth Brooks didnt make the Top 10 at least once...And I thought The Bieber or Jonas boys would be up there... | |
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It was well worth the Good Seat price... "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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I hear you cuz when you LOVE an Entertainer you could care less about the Ticket price. I just think that Monster Rock Stars should give their Concert-goers a break when the World Economy is moving too slow...If you paid $300 for your Tickets it should be marked down to $150. a $150 ticket should be @ $75 and a regular $75 ticket should be $45.......Madge & The Stones have made more money than their Families will ever be able to enjoy. The Promoters will still make a Killing even with the marked down Tickets. One thing is for CERTAIN, no matter how BAD the Economy is people are still gonna Eat & go see Madge.... | |
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The fact that people are still paying those prices signals that they can afford to charge so much. The moment people really can't afford those prices, I'm sure they'll go down. These tours are run as a business. | |
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Henaz...I want you to think long & hard about something...Do you HONESTLY believe that 90% of Concert-Goers can afford a $100 ticket today? A lot of people are in debt but they're choosing to sacrifice something to buy that Ticket...Trust me on that....
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tours have become very profitable only in the last 10 years. | |
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It'd be interesting to adjust some of the older tours for inflation or even the amount of tickets sold on the tour. Things would look very different. | |
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Average price of concert ticket in 2008: $67.33
you can not compare concert tours in the 90s and today. it is incomparable. it's like comparing album sales now and then .... life changing. | |
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Isn't having one person being honored @ The BillBoard Awards enough? Then to get Madonna to try & steal Prince spotlight....
But Madonna is still working it just like Prince.... will ALWAYS think of like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. | |
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