Madonna top the list of top 25 tours of 2012:

 

1. MADONNA

Shows: 72

Sell Out Shows: 72

Total Attendance: 1,635,176

Total Gross: $228,406,085

 

*information up till November 9th.

Madonna kicked off her show last night with Express Yourself, she skipped the whole first section (Girl Gone Wild, Revolver, Gang Bang, Papa Don't Preach and I Don't Give A) due to her still not well, she did the show rather than cancel it.

 

Just one show left in Argentina on Saturday.

Madonna warns fans during Human Nature soundcheck in Chile

Congrats from Billboard Magazine

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WE LOVE LADY GAGA.

To MDNA Fans in Cordoba: "We have made it...it's the final show on Madonna's tour. I am very proud to be at this point with you all, and grateful for all the support from the fans who have traveled the world with this tour. I will be bringing pizza to the fans in line at the golden circle gate (Pista VIP) around 5pm today. I won't have any golden triangle wristbands with me, just want to say hello and thank you. Hope to see you there."

From Madonna's page on Facebook.

WE LOVE LADY GAGA.

Is that because she does cheap tickets in South America? Lmao I'm just kidding btw.

''We may not have electricity, but we have love''

For the first time ever, Madonna's final MDNA show in Cordoba last night suffered a major power outage that left the entire Kempes stadium in the dark for about one hour.

Power went off at the end of "Open Your Heat" but Madonna didn't it let her down and ended the song singing in a megaphone. Then the entire venue remained in the darkness with the exception of emergency lighting, and after technicians managed to get power back the show continued with "Vogue".

 

"Lost electricity at the show. First time that's happened but we made the best of it! #MDNAcordoba", Monte Pittman said on his Twitter, then later on during the long night posted a great picture from "Like a Prayer".

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"Crazy final show. 2 generators went down in the middle of the show. Challenges to the very end. But we did it so proud of the whole team", dancer Stephanie Nguyen commented.

 

"WOW..and thats a wrap for the MDNA tour!!...What a journey...My heart is full right now!!... Thanks Cordoba for making our last show a memorable one!! .. =0)) Love and Light xoxox", dancer Derrell Bullock also said.

 

Madonna's manager Guy Oseary also added a rather different picture to his collection of sound-check shots from the concert. "Thank you Madonna and fans for an experience of a lifetime!" he said.

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The final numbers are in, and Madonna's MDNA Tour has retained her box office form, clocking in at $305,158,363 gross with 2,212,345 in attendance over 88 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore.

The 2012 tour's final box office tally is enough to rank MDNA No. 10 all-time in tours as reported to Boxscore. This is Madonna's second time in the Boxscore Top 10 after her Sticky & Sweet Tour of 2008-09 ringed third all-time at $408 million, the highest ever for a solo artist.

The Confessions Tour came in at $194 million in 2006. All of these tours were produced by Live Nation's Global Touring division, headed by LNGT chairman Arthur Fogel, who offhandedly predicted to Billboard back in April that MDNA would end up a Boxscore Top 10 tour.

 

The latest update to the Billboard Boxscore included the final MDNA Tour shows in South America - three concerts in Argentina and one gig in Chile.

Attendance met projected capacity yet again and the tour wraps with all the concerts ranked as sold out.

 

Had MDNA played Australian stadiums, as was initially considered, the tour would have moved up a few notches up the all-time list. As it stood and as it stands, MDNA was the highest-grossing tour for 2012 according to Boxscore, making it Madonna's third time closing a year at the top of the box office heap, the others being 2009 and 2004. Madonna joined the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Bon Jovi as the only acts to be Billboard's highest-grossing tour twice in a three-year span, and MDNA gives Fogel and Live Nation their sixth top tour over the past 10 years.