TOUR2008

June 17, 2008

Madonna European support revealed

by Kev Geoghegan

Radio 1 music reporter

Robyn on stage at Maidstone, Kent

Robyn has been announced as the support act for Madonna's European tour dates.

The Swedish popstar will join the material girl on the Sticky & Sweet tour throughout August and September.

The ladies shared the bill recently at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Maidstone, Kent on 10 May.

Robyn almost stole the show, appearing with a band dressed as toy soldiers.

She said: "I'm very excited about sharing a stage with her."

Madonna has sold nearly one million tickets to date for her shopws across Europe and north America.

Robyn will play the following dates:

Nice Stade Charles Ehrmann (26 August)

Zurich Military Airfield Dubendorf (30 August)

Amsterdam Arena (2 September)

Dusseldorf LTU Arena (4 September)

Frankfurt Commerzbank Arena (09 September)

Lisbon Parque da Bela Vista (14 September)

Vienna Danube Island (23 September)

Athens Olympic Stadium (27 September)

The support on the UK legs of the tour in Cardiff and London have not been announced yet.

June 16, 2008

CHART DATE: 06/16/2008

LAST UPDATE: 06/16/2008 15:56:10

NOW IN: 50.64%

LW TW artist / album label power index

-- 1 LIL WAYNE UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 417,941

THA CARTER III

-- 2 PLIES SLIP-N-SLIDE 140,692

DEFINITION OF REAL

2 3 NOW 28 CAPITOL 81,679

VARIOUS ARTISTS

5 4 JOURNEY FRONTIERS 69,695

REVELATION

3 5 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 69,418

HERE I STAND

1 6 DISTURBED REPRISE 55,807

INDESTRUCTIBLE

-- 7 N.E.R.D. INTERSCOPE 48,272

SEEING SOUNDS

6 8 ASHANTI UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 22,681

DECLARATION

12 9 LEONA LEWIS J RECORDS/RMG 22,600

SPIRIT

-- 10 MONTGOMERY GENTRY SBMG NASHVILLE 21,820

BACK WHEN I KNEW IT ALL

11 16 MARIAH CAREY ISLAND/IDJMG 16,516

E=MC2

15 40 MADONNA WARNER BROS. 8,882

HARD CANDY

41 41

June 9, 2008

CHART DATE: 06/09/2008

LAST UPDATE: 06/09/2008 09:44:40

NOW IN: 30.57%

LW TW artist / album label power index

-- 1 NOW 28 CAPITOL 105,687

VARIOUS ARTISTS

-- 2 DISTURBED WARNER BROS. 89,847

INDESTRUCTABLE

-- 3 JOURNEY FRONTIERS 61,311

REVELATION

1 4 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 57,915

HERE I STAND

-- 5 ASHANTI UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 30,336

DECLARATION

-- 6 WEEZER GEFFEN 28,420

WEEZER (RED ALBUM)

3 7 3 DOORS DOWN UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 19,805

3 DOORS DOWN

-- 8 JEWEL BIG MACHINE 19,517

PERFECTLY CLEAR

5 9 LEONA LEWIS J RECORDS/RMG 16,776

SPIRIT

14 10 TOBY KEITH UME/SHOW DOG 15,936

35 BIGGEST HITS

7 14 MARIAH CAREY ISLAND/IDJMG 12,301

E=MC2

6 26 DUFFY MERCURY 7,209

ROCKFERRY

10 30 MADONNA WARNER BROS. 6,738

June 9, 2008

CHART DATE: 06/09/2008

LAST UPDATE: 06/09/2008 09:14:29

NOW IN: 28.66%

LW TW artist / album label power index

-- 1 NOW 28 CAPITOL 104,975

VARIOUS ARTISTS

-- 2 DISTURBED WARNER BROS. 88,375

INDESTRUCTABLE

-- 3 JOURNEY FRONTIERS 61,311

REVELATION

1 4 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 56,746

HERE I STAND

-- 5 ASHANTI UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 30,336

DECLARATION

-- 6 WEEZER GEFFEN 27,123

WEEZER (RED ALBUM)

3 7 3 DOORS DOWN UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 19,387

3 DOORS DOWN

-- 8 JEWEL BIG MACHINE 18,424

PERFECTLY CLEAR

5 9 LEONA LEWIS J RECORDS/RMG 16,147

SPIRIT

14 10 TOBY KEITH UME/SHOW DOG 15,936

35 BIGGEST HITS

10 32 MADONNA WARNER BROS. 5,999

HARD CANDY

*edit* We only post the Top 10 until the final update *edit*

May 12, 2008

CHART DATE: 05/12/2008

LAST UPDATE: 05/12/2008 08:48:30

NOW IN: 31.22%

LW TW artist / album label power index

-- 1 NEIL DIAMOND COLUMBIA 35,667

HOME BEFORE DARK

-- 2 TOBY KEITH SHOW DOG/UNIVERSAL NASH 33,642

35 BIGGEST HITS

2 3 MARIAH CAREY ISLAND/IDJMG 28,882

E=MC2

3 4 LEONA LEWIS J RECORDS/RMG 26,197

SPIRIT

1 5 MADONNA WARNER BROS. 21,740

HARD CANDY

-- 6 CLAY AIKEN RCA/RMG 20,269

ON MY WAY HERE

-- 7 DIERKS BENTLEY CAPITOL NASHVILLE 18,095

GREATEST HITS 2003-2006

18 8 GEORGE STRAIT MCA NASHVILLE 14,451

TROUBADOUR

-- 9 GAVIN DEGRAW J RECORDS/RMG 13,995

GAVIN DEGRAW

-- 10 JOSH GROBIN REPRISE 12,746

AWAKE LIVE

May 11, 2008

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May 8, 2008

Madonna Announces Summer Tour

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Madonna's 'Hard Candy' Is No. 1 In U.K.

Madonna Fetes 'Hard Candy' With Free NYC Show

Madonna Confirms Deal With Live Nation

May 08, 2008, 12:00 AM ET

Ray Waddell

Madonna's upcoming tour will begin Aug. 23 in Cardiff, Wales, and will include between 50-60 shows total, Billboard.com has learned. Details of the tour, produced globally by Live Nation, will be announced later today (May 8).

Billed as the Sticky and Sweet tour, Madonna's trek in support of her current chart-topping Warner Bros. release "Hard Candy" -- which debuted atop the Billboard 200 yesterday -- will play stadiums in the U.K. and Europe until the end of September, arenas and a "handful" of stadiums in 16 markets in North America in October and November, and then stadiums in Mexico and South America late November-December.

"I'm thrilled to be involved in another worldwide Madonna extravaganza," Arthur Fogel, chairman of global music for Live Nation, tells Billboard.com. Fogel has helmed Madonna's last three world tours, which grossed almost $400 million combined. Her 2006 Confessions tour is, at $194 million, the top-grossing tour ever by a female artist.

The upcoming tour is the first major manifestation of the multi-faceted

10-year deal between Madonna and Live Nation, valued in published reports at $120 million.

"The reality is she's delivered her last album to Warner Bros., and it's a smash, which is great for everybody," Fogel says. "We now have a tremendous opportunity with a tremendous artist to do all kinds of new and innovative things on many different levels, and this tour will be the start of that rollout."

The tour follows a familiar Madonna touring blueprint in that it visits a limited number of markets in a four-month time frame, with multi-night stands in major cities. Ticket on-sale details will be announced today, along with a presale through Live Nation's corporate sponsorship partner Citi. Fogel says ticket prices will be "basically the same as they've been the past two tours," which means primarily in the $55-$350 range.

May 7, 2008

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May 5, 2008

CHART DATE: 05/05/2008

LAST UPDATE: 05/05/2008 15:00:46

NOW IN: 45.86%

LW TW artist / album label power index

-- 1 MADONNA WARNER BROS. 120,912

HARD CANDY

2 2 LEONA LEWIS J RECORDS/RMG 42,961

SPIRIT

1 3 MARIAH CAREY ISLAND/IDJMG 41,689

E=MC2

-- 4 LYFE JENNINGS COLUMBIA 36,461

LYFE CHANGE

-- 5 DEF LEPPARD ISLAND/IDJMG 28,009

SONGS FROM THE SPARKLE LOUNGE

-- 6 ROOTS DEF JAM/IDJMG 22,264

RISING DOWN

5 7 NOW 27 SBMG/COMMERICAL MUSIC GRP 19,041

VARIOUS ARTISTS

10 8 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 15,646

TAYLOR SWIFT

8 9 GEORGE STRAIT MCA NASHVILLE 14,739

TROUBADOUR

22 10 COLBIE CAILLAT UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 11,827

May 1, 2008

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/articl...t_id=1003796943

First Day Sales Put Madonna On Track For 7th No. 1

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Mariah, Madonna Make Billboard Chart history

April 30, 2008, 6:40 PM ET

Keith Caulfield, L.A.

Madonna is on track to net her seventh No. 1 album on next week's Billboard 200 with "Hard Candy," based on first-day sales measured by the Nielsen SoundScan Building Chart released Wednesday afternoon (April 30).

Unweighted sales for the Warner Bros. album from the Building Chart's panel of reporters through the close of business Tuesday, April 29, stood at 100,000.

Among all female artists, only Barbra Streisand has earned more No. 1s -- with eight. Currently, Madonna, Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson are all tied for the second most, with six apiece.

Late last year, Chris Brown's "Exclusive" posted a first day number of

107,000 and finished the week with 294,000. However, sources close to the Madonna project indicate that with much of "Hard Candy's" first-day figure driven by iTunes sales, its full sales week could end up closer to the range of 225,000-250,000.

Madonna's last studio effort, 2005's "Confessions on a Dance Floor," started at No. 1 with 350,000.

Billboard estimates the merchants who report to Nielsen SoundScan's Building Chart -- Trans World Entertainment, Best Buy, Circuit City, iTunes, Starbucks,Borders, Target, Anderson Merchandisers, and Handleman Co. -- comprise about 80% of all U.S. Album sales.

Leading the charge for "Hard Candy" is first single "4 Minutes," featuring Justin Timberlake, which peaked at No. 3 on The Billboard Hot 100 and spent two weeks at No. 1 on Hot Digital Songs. The download has sold 1 million copies to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan, including 185,000 for the week that ended April 27.

Madonna first rang the Billboard 200's bell when "Like a Virgin" reached No. 1 in late 1984. Since then, she's claimed No. 1s with "True Blue" (1986), "Like a Prayer" (1989), "Music" (2000), "American Life" (2003) and "Confessions."

She also owns a whopping five sets that peaked at No. 2 -- "I'm Breathless" (1990), "The Immaculate Collection" (1990), "Erotica" (1992), the soundtrack to "Evita" (1996) and "Ray of Light" (1998).

On the Wednesday Building Chart, Lyfe Jennings' new "Lyfe Change" (Columbia) was in second place with 25,000. Other new titles appearing in that preliminary list's top 10 include the Roots' "Rising Down" (Def Jam), Portishead's "Third" (Mercury), Def Leppard's "Songs From the Sparkle Lounge" (Island/UMe), Augustana's "Can't Love, Can't Hurt" (Epic) and Mudcrutch's self-titled album (Reprise).

May 1, 2008