The numbers involved in Madonna’s biggest and most significant tour ever!

Madonna finally takes a bow and takes to the stage to celebrate 40 years of hits and there are some pretty big numbers involved in getting her this far. Consider…

8800 – lighting cues
4400 – square ft. of stage, the largest for any Madonna tour
3700 – Amps of show power
3600 – Square ft. of projection imagery to the show. The most amount of video ever used in a Madonna show
330 – Million albums sold, still the best-selling female artist of all time
230 – Feet of combined length of catwalk that gets Madonna 105ft far into the venue
200 – Travelling crew – 25 in the costume department alone
80 – Tons of production equipment
78 – Shows
50 – Merchandice items including vintage recreations of iconic items from previous tours such as the Blond Ambition Bomber Jacket
45 – Wardrobe trunks
40 – Pairs of boxing gloves
30 – Feet off the ground Madonna is transported around the arena in an illuminated portal frame that acts as a time machine allowing her to move at 1.5ft per second, 80ft across and 130ft down the length of the arena designed to symbolize looking into the past, present and towards the future

24 – Onstage performers
17 – Archived costumes recreated
15 – Countries involved
14 – Spotlights for Madonna and over 600 intelligent lights to light the stage
13 – Culture shaping tour
8 – Number of tours partnering with director Jamie King
8 – Humidifiers in Madonna’s dressing room
6 – Sold out nights in London
4 – Decades of unstoppable hits – prepare to dance your ass off!
4 – of her children on stage
4 – Rehearsal venues
3 – Traveling mobile gyms
3 – Layered circular stage where the traditional main stage would be, inspired by the wedding cake of Madonna’s original VMA performance
3 – Physical therapists

But…

1 – Madonna

The Queen of Pop is back and ready to put on her most comprehensive show of hits from “Holiday” in 1983 to the present day. And with the promise that new music is on the horizon, ‘madame X’ is in town and reminding us all how she did it and how far we’ve all come with her. Vogue!

Celebrate 40 years of music with our Madonna Special here