Madonna Crushes Personal Concert Record with 1.6 Million Fans in Rio

Go away it to Madonna to exit with a bang … that is the way you’d have to explain the insane scene in Brazil when she closed out her world tour with greater than one million folks within the sand.

A reported 1.6 million Madonna lovers turned out for the free live performance on Rio de Janeiro’s famed Copacabana Seashore … and it was a complete spectacle. At one level, the large crowd truly bought in sync sufficient to take over singing “Like A Virgin.”

The ultimate evening of Madge’s tour, which bought off to a rocky begin final October, turned out to be a milestone for her. The ocean of Rio followers destroyed the earlier document for largest Madonna live performance … which was a measly 130,000 for her 1987 Paris present.

She’s following in some legendary footsteps within the Rio sand … in comparable vogue, the Rolling Stones rocked the identical seashore with 1.2 million followers in 2006, and Rod Stewart carried out the most important free rock live performance ever in 1994 when 4 million folks turned out for his New Yr’s Eve present.

Keep in mind, Madonna’s tour was supposed to begin final summer time, however needed to be postponed when she almost died from an an infection. She made a reasonably outstanding bounce again to launch the tour just a few months later.

The tour has had loads of highlights … together with a visitor look from Ricky Martin, who bought a little too aroused by the motion onstage.

There was additionally the evening … Madonna mistakenly advised a wheelchair-bound fan to face up and dance. Oops.