Queen of Pop Madonna also included Romania in her "Sticky and Sweet" tour aiming to promote her new multi Grammy-nominated album "Hard Candy."
Madonna’s "Sticky and Sweet tour," which reigns supreme by becoming the Number One Largest Grossing Tour in history by a solo artist, also includes European countries like Bulgaria, Hungary and Serbia, BBC News Online reported.
During the "Sticky and Sweet" tour, Madonna will perform both songs on her new album and old songs, like "Vogue", "Hung Up" and "Ray Of Light."
According to BBC, Madonna’s tour will reach cities like Milan, Barcelona and Munich, plus a series of confirmed concerts in London, Manchester, Werchter, Madrid, Hamburg, Talinn, Goteborg, Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki, Hamburg, Prague, Ljubljana and Warsaw. Madonna, who also plans concerts in Romania, Hungary, Russia and Serbia, will have a month full of concerts in August this year, across Central and Eastern Europe.
UK Trance DJ Paul Oakenfold will perform in the opening of all concerts.
Madonna said she is very excited to see places she has never been to or return to places she loves.
Madonna’s 58 shows in Europe, the US, Canada, Mexico and South America, as part of her “Sticky & Sweet” tour, played for a staggering 2,350,282 million fans and sold over &281.6 million in tickets.
Along with record-breaking ticket sales in South America with a total 650,000 tickets sold, the 'Sticky & Sweet' Tour sold 72,000 tickets at Zurich's Military Airfield Dubendorf - the largest audience ever assembled for a show in Switzerland.
In London, where she performed in front of 74,000 fans with over 12 million dollars in ticket sales, Madonna surpassed all previous records at both the old and new Wembley Stadiums. In New York City, Madonna's four sell-outs at Madison Square Garden shows added up to a record-breaking 23 sold out performances since 2001 at that venue - a record for most appearances for a single artist in this decade.
Madonna has been regarded as "one of the greatest pop acts of all time" and dubbed the "Queen of Pop" by various sources.
She is ranked by the Recording Industry Association of America as the best-selling female rock artist of the twentieth century and the second top-selling female artist in the United States with 63 million certified albums. Guinness World Records list her as the world's most successful female recording artist of all time and the top-earning female singer in the world with an estimated net worth of $490 million, having sold over 200 million records worldwide.
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