Madonna performs historic show in Brazil, the biggest of her career. The singer's free show on Copacabana beach broke a record, with 1 million people. See the best moments

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The singer's free show on Copacabana beach broke a record, with 1.6 million people. See the best moments

May 4, 2024, made pop culture history. Twelve years after the last show here, we finally had a new show from Madonna in Brazil to call ours. Check out all the details about the queen of pop's visit to Brazil and the main moments on the biggest dance floor in the world. 68335f

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Singer prepared a great show to celebrate forty years of her career (Photo: Disclosure)

Announced in January 2023, the The Celebration Tour could be considered the queen of pop's biggest tour. With dates confirmed for North America and Europe in its first stage, the singer performed memorable songs from her entire 40-year career in energizing shows. 

However, Madonna She was itted to the ICU for five days thanks to a widespread infection and outside outlets even said that she could die at any time due to the severity of the case. This caused the beginning of the The Celebration Tour had to be postponed by four months. On October 14, 2023, she began the show schedule for the biggest tour of her career.

In North America and Europe, the singer sang in forty cities (Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation

The idea of ​​the tour, as the name suggests, is to celebrate the artistic journey of Madonna, going through all the hits released during this time. Inspired by Broadway plays, the singer talks about important moments in her life, such as her arrival in New York with just 35 dollars, her open for the LGBTQIA+ community and more.

It can be said that the show, as well as Madonna in all her years of career, she is very bold. Practically all the acts are very sensual and show a singer who is free and has no worries about what she is doing.

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Singer chose the city of Rio de Janeiro to end her biggest tour (Photo: Disclosure)

The year 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the creation of Itaú and the bank, in partnership with Heineken, took care of financing the event. After many rumors, it was confirmed that the last show of The Celebration Tour would take place on Copacabana beach, free of charge. 

The show was announced as the only visit of The Celebration Tour to Latin America and this was the queen of pop's great return to Brazilian lands after more than 12 years, when she ed through here with The MDNA Tour

During the show, she explained that, for several years, she had tried to bring shows from previous tours to Brazil and the rest of Latin America, but there were no venues available to meet demand. So, Copacabana beach was an ideal space. 

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The singer was excited about the almost three-hour show (Photo: Pablo Porciuncula/AP)

Before the queen of pop took the stage, the DJ Diplo was responsible for the opening show. After Madonna gave her performance, Brazilian DJ Pedro Sampaio ended the night of partying with a real hit show on Leme beach. 

The assembly of the stage began in the last week of April and its total structure was 812 m², 18 meters high, along with three walkways, which were 2,40 meters high from the ground. The main walkway was 22 meters long and the other two were 20 meters long each. To this entire structure, a 6.000-meter aluminum floor, which could around 120 tons, was placed under the stage. 

Madonna performs historic show in Brazil, the biggest of her career. The singer's free show on Copacabana beach broke a record, with 1 million people. See the best moments
Stage is bigger than the one used by Madonna on the official tour (Photo: Disclosure)

O Copacabana Palace was essential for this show to work: a bridge between the stage and the luxurious hotel in Rio de Janeiro was set up so that the singer and her team could move between the locations.

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Audience estimate was exceeded by 100 thousand people (Photo: Fabio Motta/Rio City Hall)

Official data from RioTur confirm that 1,6 million people watched Madonna's show on May 4th. Tourists and residents from across the state of Rio de Janeiro began to gather around 20 pm.

O Government of Rio de Janeiro says that the financial return from the singer's visit to the state exceeded R$300 million and approximately 150 national and international tourists were in Rio, and 96% of the city's hotel sector was occupied.

Madonna performs historic show in Brazil, the biggest of her career. The singer's free show on Copacabana beach broke a record, with 1 million people. See the best moments
Government of RJ confirms positive balance after becoming queen of pop (Photo: Disclosure)

the show of Madonna in Copacabana she made history by winning the biggest audience for a women's show of all time. The queen of pop managed to sur Diana Ross, who had an audience of 1,3 million people in 1983 in the United States.

Madonna took the stage to put on a real show at around 22:45 pm. The show lasted until the early hours of the morning of the 5th and lasted 02:15 am. Fans and irers of the queen of pop saw a true step back in time through Madonna's forty-year career. There is no denying that Madonna's show in Copacabana went down in history: the performance became the queen of pop's biggest show in of attendance. 

The singer's previous biggest audience was around 130 people at the Parc de Sceaux, in Paris, , during the “Who's That Girl World Tour” in 1987 — sured by more than 10 times with the show in Brazil.

Talking about those who saw the show from home, the show Madonna in Brazil it brought the biggest audience to Globo in six years, reaching 22,5 points in Rio de Janeiro. In São Paulo, the audience was 14,1 points, increasing the band's average by 13% compared to the last two Saturdays. 

On the National Television , the broadcast recorded 14,3 points, the highest audience on Saturdays since March 2023.

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The show started with Nothing Really Matters, a song from the album Ray of Light released in 1998 that represents a more psychedelic and somber phase, responsible for giving the singer her only Grammy for Best Pop Album. Check it out:

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Soon afterwards, an emotional tribute to the people who died after being diagnosed with HIV put a pause on the party. The music Live To Tell was chosen to open this more melodic block and, very emotional, the singer cried after this performance. 

During the performance, photos of famous Brazilians such as Renato Russo and Cazuza and other international personalities who also died from complications from the disease were shown to the public on the big screens. 

The show was lively again with the presentation of Hung Up, a song featured on the album Confessions on a Dancefloor. As this part of Madonna's career was very focused on seeking sexual freedom, this part of the show was the least dressed possible: just a nightgown and a robe. 

Special dances for New York's LGBTQIA+ community were also ed by Madonna during The Celebration Tour show. Songs like Human Nature e Crazy for you were essential for the night, but it was in Vogue that the dancers gave a real show to the public and guests. 

Like a Virgin was ed in a very special way with a mashup of Billie Jean, by Michael Jackson, in a shadow presentation. 

The last part of the show brought the party atmosphere back to Copacabana, when a more futuristic Madonna closed the performance. Hits like Bitch I'm Madonna e Give Me All Your Luvin they rocked the audience until the end. 

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Madonna performs historic show in Brazil, the biggest of her career. The singer's free show on Copacabana beach broke a record, with 1 million people. See the best moments
Madonna performs historic show in Brazil, the biggest of her career

The singer Anitta was invited to the performance competition during the Vogue presentation. The Brazilian sat next to the queen of pop as a judge for the show's special moment. 

Ester, Madonna's daughter who is just 11 years old, gave a real show when she danced in the style voguing, which emerged in New York's underground scene in the 1970s and became popular in the 80s. The Vogue clip, released in the 90s, also became a reference for the LGBTQIA+ movement.

During the performance of Music, Pabllo Vittar took the stage alongside Madonna to turn the show into a true party. The performance of this song was even more incredible with the participation of young rhythmists from samba schools across the state of Rio de Janeiro, under the command of Pretinho da Serra. 

the beautiful island and Don't tell me had the presence of his son David Banda on guitar. Previously, daughter Mercy James played piano in bad-girl.

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Show should be released on a streaming platform at some point (Photo: Disclosure)

Until this article was written, the presentation was not available on any streaming platform. But we that the show was professionally recorded by Rede Globo, so the broadcaster, until now, is the only one that has the rights to show the show's presentation. The Celebration Tour Brazil. The show is expected to be released on balloon play.

But if you missed the presentation on TV, you can watch the rebroadcast on multishow. The subscription channel has already scheduled two broadcasts: one on Saturday, 11/05, at 22:30 pm, and another on Sunday, 12/05, from 20:XNUMX pm. On the same day and time, Globoplay will also rebroadcast the queen of pop's show for its subscribers.

Meanwhile, it's worth watching the best moments from Madonna's show in Brazil in this 11-minute video, published by Multishow on its channel YouTube:

What did you think of Madonna's show in Rio de Janeiro? What's your favorite moment from the performance? Tell us Comment!

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