Nikki Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 (updated thanks to our friend LORI!) Madonna Louise Ciccone popularly known as Madonna takes the number one spot on this list with a total gross of $801 million. Madonna holds a Guinness book of world record as the best selling female recording artist of all times. She has sold over 300 million records worldwide. It took her 248 shows only in the past decade to gross over $1 billion 244 shows were sold out boosting the total attendance to 6,387,124 people. She has had 4 successful tours in the past decade namely; Re-Invention World Tour in 2004, Confessions Tour in 2006, Sticky and Sweet Tour in 2008/9 and The MDNA Tour in 2012. Her latest tour (MDNA) performed the best grossing $305.2 million. She clearly deserves to be Number 1 in this list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsaacHarris Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 She clearly deserves to be Number 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raf Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 There will be no one like her again. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stijn Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 I'm not worthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeMySoul Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samo Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 The media NEVER reports articles like this. Instead it's always negative when it comes to Madonna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lori Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 That figure is wrong. She grossed more than a billion in the past 10 years. RIT - $125M CT - $194.7M S&S - $408M MDNA - $305.2 TOTAL - $1,032,900,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerGirl Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Only the Queen <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samo Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 The funny thing is Madonna has had SINGLE tours that grossed more than Janet or Mariah's touring careers COMBINED! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikki Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 That figure is wrong. She grossed more than a billion in the past 10 years. RIT - $125M CT - $194.7M S&S - $408M MDNA - $305.2 TOTAL - $1,032,900,000 oh wait.. really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pabl0114 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Top album sales? top touring act? No wonder she's desperate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeMySoul Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 just a desperate irrelevant has been Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samo Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 The funny thing is that Madonna was also the 4th biggest selling album artist worldwide of the 2000s and the second female after Britney. She was also the top selling singles artist in the US for the entire 2000s decade according to Billboard She's so desperate and irrelevant though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat.Guy Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Ugh, she's over. Sit your wrinkled ass down, Madge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCD Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 There will be no one like her again. Ever. Accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXL Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 The funny thing is that Madonna was also the 4th biggest selling album artist worldwide of the 2000s and the second female after Britney 2000 MUSIC 15m copies 2001 GHV2 7m copies 2003 American Life 5m copies 2005 COADF 10m copies 2006 I'm Going To Tell you a Secret 1m copies 2007 Confessions Tour 1.3m copies 2008 Hard Candy 4m copies 2009 Celebration 2m copies 2012 MDNA 1.8m copies Total 47m copies sold between 2000 and 2012 Age: 42-54 Eat it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXL Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 And that's without counting single sales The Music album singles plus Hung Up, Sorry and 4M have been pretty fucking huge worldwide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samo Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 And that's without counting single sales The Music album singles plus Hung Up, Sorry and 4M have been pretty fucking huge worldwide[/ quote And that's not including her back catalogue sales either, which should bring her total to at least 50 million from 2000 on. What other '80s artist can do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXL Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 And that's without counting single sales The Music album singles plus Hung Up, Sorry and 4M have been pretty fucking huge worldwide And that's not including her back catalogue sales either, which should bring her total to at least 50 million from 2000 on. What other '80s artist can do that? Olivia? Janet? Prince? Belinda? Suzane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolidayGuy Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Saw a posting on some news outlet- it had M at No. 3 with the same total, behind No. 2 U2 and No. 1 the Rolling Stones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samo Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 ^ you forget Cyndi, oh wait Cyndi couldn't even sell that much during her 80s peak, let alone the 2000s Haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolidayGuy Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 This was the Billboard info when it did the list, which has the same info for M:http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/266415/top-touring-artists-of-the-decade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick00 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I hope that the next tour will be just as huge as the previous tours even though the MDNA tour received a lot of negative feedback from the general public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madonnasuperfan01 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Not surprised, she's the Queen after all. It's still sad to think that her accomplishments will be universally acclaimed only after her death. People are still so negative and ignorant about her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick00 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Not surprised, she's the Queen after all. It's still sad to think that her accomplishments will be universally acclaimed only after her death. People are still so negative and ignorant about her. I really hope your wrong on this, but unfortunately you might be correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXL Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 This was the Billboard info when it did the list, which has the same info for M: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/266415/top-touring-artists-of-the-decade This list comprises data from the 2000-2009 period for all artists involved Madonna has raked in $800m from DWT till S&S included She has raked in $1,1bn between 2001 and 2012, adding MDNA's $300m figure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genevieve Vavance Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 we're so fortunate to live in the same timeframe as her, it's true there'll never anyone like her again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic_system Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 1. Madonna – Total gross: $801,299,671Madonna Louise Ciccone popularly known as Madonna takes the number one spot on this list with a total gross of $801 million. Madonna holds a Guinness book of world record as the best selling female recording artist of all times. She has sold over 300 million records worldwide. It took her 248 shows only in the past decade to gross over $800 million. 244 shows were sold out boosting the total attendance to 6,387,124 people. She has had 4 successful tours in the past decade namely; Re-Invention World Tour in 2004, Confessions Tour in 2006, Sticky and Sweet Tour in 2008/9 and The MDNA Tour in 2012. Her latest tour (MDNA) performed the best grossing $305.2 million. She clearly deserves to be Number 1 in this list. http://www.therichest.com/expensive-lifestyle/money/the-money-in-music-top-10-touring-artists-of-the-decade/10/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Django Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Already posted, but still, irrelevantdonna being irrelevant. The rest would kill to be that irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADUSTIO Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Queen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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