Will Madonna be able to beat the Rolling Stones and Rod Stewart’s record with her free concert in Copacabana?

Madonna will close his world tour “Celebration Tour”, which covers all phases of his career, in the most spectacular way possible. The diva announced that she will hold her biggest concert to date May 4th on the beaches of CopacabanaIn the Janeiro River.

The recital will be free and will serve as a thank you to all the fans who have accompanied her to celebrate her four decades of touring success. It will be Madonna’s first show in Brazil since 2012, and entry will be available to fans on a first-come, first-served basis on the day of the event.

The stage will be located in front of the Belmond Copacabana Palace Hotel and everything will be broadcast live on TV Globowhich is a sponsor together with Banco Itaú.

The records you want to break

Competitive by nature, Madonna knows full well that the famous Copacabana beach has been the scene of numerous gigantic events, including a 1994 Christmas Eve show starring Rod Stewart in front of more than 4 million people AND a Rolling Stones show in 2006 in front of 1.5 million fans on the beach.

This concert in Brazil will be the only one that Madonna will hold in South America on this tour which, for now, has taken her to Western European and North American countries.

His 2008 recital at the Maracaná Stadium had a total of 70 thousand people.

The organizers, who are providing details of the concert one by one, explained only this They will put 16 sound towers on the iconic beach to allow huge crowds to hear it.

Since the beginning of March, rumors about the concert began to spread like wildfire, fueled little by little by sponsors and possible guest artists, which caused an increase in hotel bookings on the recital dates.

Last Monday there was a press conference where everything was finally confirmed.

An interrupted tour

The “Celebration Tour” was announced in January 2023 with a star-studded promotional video and then It was suspended when the singer was rushed to hospital in June of that year with a “serious bacterial infection.”

The hospitalization caused the tour to be postponed from July to October, and the North American dates, originally scheduled to begin July 15 in Vancouver, were pushed back to this year.

Since launching in London in October, the Celebration tour has reached 14 countries and is currently heading towards its final dates in the US, with concerts in Houston, Atlanta, Tampa, Miami and Austin before heading to Mexico City for a series of five nights. at the end of April at the Palacio De Los Deportes.