Madonna’s Touring Career By The Numbers

Madonna’s “Celebration Tour” is just the latest feather in Madonna’s plumage-festooned hall of fame live hat. She is easily one of the greatest touring acts of all time and her data bears this out. She’s mounted 12 major tours over the course of her 40-year career and grossed a jaw-dropping $1.61 billion selling more than 12.6 million tickets over 650 shows, according to Pollstar Boxoffice reports, with six tours over $100 million. Transcendent performances, a deep and sustained connection with fans, innovative concepts, brilliant collaborations, fantastical production and speaking her unvarnished forward-thinking truths while advocating for the disenfranchised are some of the hallmarks of Madonna’s incredible record-setting career that did nothing less than change the world for the better. Here is an overview of Madonna’s 12 tours.