http://www.billboard.com/...xscore.jsp

[Edited 11/26/08 0:36am]

LOL yeah.. Madonna's a total sellout!

Madonna's Sticky and Sweet Tour continues to be an enormous success.Billboard Boxscore has published the official and confirmed concert stats (grosses,attendance) for the recent North American concerts in New York City,Toronto,Chicago,Montreal,Vancouver,Oakland,Boston and East Rutherford.

These 16 North American concerts posted in Billboard Boxscore have grossed $45,878,544 and attracted an audience of 285,596 people.Added with the $116,029,569 in grosses and 939,990 people from the European leg of the tour,the tour has so far grossed an incredible $161,908,113 and played to an audience of 1,225,586 people.There are still at least 25 shows remaining to be reported to Billboard Boxscore.Although the tour is not over yet,it has already exceeded the 1,210,294 people that attended the Confessions Tour in 2006.This tour will easily outgross the solo artist record-breaking $194,754,447 Confessions tour gross.With one of the biggest worldwide selling albums of the year,a huge hit single,and a phenomenally successful tour,Madonna is still a colossally successful and relevent music star.

SoulAlive said:

FUCK. can anybody compete with that globally?

xperience319 said:

Yeah those figures are astonishing.

wow she's still got it.

This is exactly why mj needs to come back, he could outdo those figures, not sure about now though I hope I'm proven wrong. I'm really happy for Madonna though and I was at the show as well and liked it.

Good for her. She’s one of the hardest working women in show business.

WWWWOOOOOW!

She killed every artist touring right now.

alphastreet said:

Michael could easily have a big,successful tour if he chose to.

according to the World music awards she's the biggest selling American Artist in the world

At the 20th annual World Music Awards held in Monaco, Monte Carlo last night, Madonna won an award for the best selling American artist worldwide this year. Madonna was not there to accept her award because she was busy performing her Sticky & Sweet Tour in Las Vegas this weekend. This World Music award is in recognition for Madonna's album Hard Candy having the highest global sales for an artist from the United States this year.

Congratulations to Madonna!

F.Y.I. Hard Candy is currently the 3rd best selling album worldwide this year.

2008's BEST SELLERS TO DATE (source: http://www.worldwidealbums.net/ )

Coldplay Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends 5.728.000 5.922.400
Duffy Rockferry 3.758.000 3.884.320
Madonna Hard Candy 3.094.500 3.206.180
Soundtrack Mamma Mia! 2.890.000 2.964.240
Lil Wayne Tha Carter III 2.889.000 2.990.240
Metallica Death Magnetic 2.857.000 2.857.000
Jack Johnson Sleep Through The Static 2.575.000 2.674.760
AC/DC Black Ice 2.453.000 2.453.000
Michael Jackson Thriller (25th Anniversary Reissue) 2.238.500 2.324.060
Mariah Carey E=MC2 1.844.500 1.916.020

I really can’t even imagine Michael doing a tour such as this. Maybe it’s because he hasn’t done a world tour in 20 years or because I can’t imagine he’d be up to the demand.

JackieBlue said:

the demand is there. the question is whether he is healthy enough to do a tour.

ehuffnsd said:

Yeah, I meant the physical demand. It’s just hard for me to imagine.

JackieBlue said:

11 years!

PatrickS77 said:

he hasn't toured the us since 88.

Have the Australian shows been confirmed yet? I also heard that she wants to do a few shows in Japan,which would extend the tour until January.

Whatever... he has done a world tour 11 years ago, which hit more countries than he had ever hit before, including the US, and did spectacular business doing so!

SoulAlive said:

nope not happening. If it does i'll let you put whatever you want in my sig

Amazing numbers indeed! Let's hope she sold out the big venues of San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston, Detroit & Miami as well!

does she still mime / sing awefull alot?

anyway i think the stones top that as a band , those motherF***** have grossed enormous amounts of money the last something years

ehuffnsd said:

She's had a good year.

LiveToTell86 said:

For her,stadiums are harder to sellout but I heard she's been doing okay.

Btw,when Isaw her in Oakland two weeks ago,both shows were completely soldout.There were even people sitting in the "obstructed view" seats in the highest level...almost behind the stage! She could have easily soldout a third show here in the Bay Area (which she actually did in 2004).

nice

MikeMatronik said:

hey Mike,I'm glad that you finally got to see Madonna in concert.It took awhile but she finally made it to your area

New boxscore numbers. She sold out the whole North American leg, yes, even Detroit: