Drowned World Tour

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The Drowned World Tour was the fifth concert tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna in support of her seventh and eighth studio albums Ray of Light and Music. It was also her first tour in eight years, following The Girlie Show World Tour in 1993. The tour was supposed to start in 1999, but was delayed until 2001 as Madonna gave birth to her son, got married to Guy Ritchie, was working on Music, and was busy filming The Next Best Thing.

Background

After the success of their seventh studio album Ray of Light, Madonna said in a live interview with Larry King in January 1999. "I will make a film in April, The Next Best Thing, and then rehearse for a new tour and probably I will make up the new millennium concerts, New Year's Eve. The tour was later rescheduled for 2001 as Madonna in her own words" had been distracted by the idea of ​​having children and make movies. " In 1999, he began a serious relationship with Guy Ritchie. In 2000, she became pregnant with her son Rocco and released her eighth album Music. When Madonna finally decided to schedule a tour, time was short and had to prepare a show in three months. The tour was originally scheduled to start in the Kölnarena in Cologne, Germany, but the show was cancelled due to technical difficulties, resulting in 35,000 tickets were refunded. Her show of August 3 in the Continental Airlines Arena in New Jersey also have been cancelled because the singer suffered a slight illness. Therefore, the tour was reduced from 50-47 dates, and your boot took place in Barcelona, ​​with a massive presence of international media. The high demand and the sale of tickets for the first concert was so successful (18,000 tickets sold in just 5 minutes) that the singer had to offer a second concert in that city the next day.

The presentations of the tour were reduced to only cities in Europe and the United States. This decision caused some controversy among fans from around the world. The same problem repitiría tour in 2004, the Re-Invention Tour.

Madonna's fever arrived in London on April 25, where Madonna tickets sell its presentation in the stadium Earl's Court in record time - (six shows in six hours). Madonna made history by selling faster tickets at the stadium with 97 000 tickets sold, all tickets for the first show were sold in just 15 minutes, and the online site offering ticket sales received a million hits in the first ten minutes, while phones stadium received 30 million calls to purchase tickets.

The same happened in the rest of the tour, all tour dates were sold in minutes after tickets were on sale.

In the Billboard list of the 25 most collectors Tours United States, Madonna occupied six places:

• 03. - New York, United States.
• 04. - London, England.
• 05. - Los Angeles, United States.
• 08. - Las Vegas, United States.
• 22. - Paris, France.

Setlist:

Shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, amount of available tickets and gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Revenue
Europe
June 9, 2001	Barcelona	Spain	Palau Sant Jordi	36,136 / 36,136	$2,039,112
June 10, 2001
June 13, 2001	Milan	Italy	FilaForum	36,100 / 36,100	$3,926,815
June 14, 2001
June 15, 2001
June 19, 2001	Berlin	Germany	Max-Schmeling-Halle	43,455 / 43,455	$2,864,786
June 20, 2001
June 22, 2001
June 23, 2001
June 26, 2001	Paris	France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	68,000 / 68,000	$4,443,155
June 27, 2001
June 29, 2001
June 30, 2001
July 4, 2001	London	England	Earls Court	107,415 / 107,415	$8,734,149
July 6, 2001
July 7, 2001
July 9, 2001
July 10, 2001
July 12, 2001
North America
July 21, 2001	Philadelphia	United States	First Union Center	31,128 / 31,128	$3,382,485
July 22, 2001
July 25, 2001	New York City		Madison Square Garden	79,401 / 79,401	$9,297,105
July 26, 2001
July 28, 2001
July 30, 2001
July 31, 2001
August 2, 2001	East Rutherford		Continental Airlines Arena	16,457 / 16,457	$1,842,155
August 7, 2001[a]	Boston		Fleet Center	29,886 / 29,886	$3,503,520
August 8, 2001
August 10, 2001	Washington, D.C.		MCI Center	32,061 / 32,061	$3,472,148
August 11, 2001
August 14, 2001	Sunrise		National Car Rental Center	31,572 / 31,572	$3,603,573
August 15, 2001
August 19, 2001	Atlanta		Philips Arena	29,617 / 29,617	$3,553,444
August 20, 2001
August 25, 2001	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills	34,407 / 34,407	$4,127,533
August 26, 2001
August 28, 2001	Chicago		United Center	33,725 / 33,725	$3,743,830
August 29, 2001
September 1, 2001	Las Vegas		MGM Grand Garden Arena	29,587 / 29,587	$6,503,950
September 2, 2001
September 5, 2001	Oakland		Oakland Arena	31,195 / 31,195	$3,351,320
September 6, 2001
September 9, 2001	Los Angeles		Staples Center	61,464 / 61,464	$8,303,165
September 13, 2001
September 14, 2001
September 15, 2001[b]
Total				731,606 / 731,606	$76,792,245

Trivia

• Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the concert on September 11 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California was postponed until September 15, postponing the final show of the tour. Several million dollars from the profits of the last three shows in Los Angeles, were donated to the children and families of victims of the attacks.
• The second recital in Barcelona June 10 at the Palau Sant Jordi was recorded professionally, but has not yet seen the light in its entirety. fragments could be seen in the HBO special issue put before the concert. That second night brought some problems to Madonna, because there were problems with the screens and had to be false eyebrows during the geisha hand.
• Several changes were made to the final show: Madonna wore a kilt of the American flag during the opening segment of the show as a demonstration of patriotism, the closing of "Mer Girl" (part II) was changed to remove the shooting of a character (Madonna, however, left the weapon, hugged and left the stage together), and cannibalistic theme "The Funny Song" was removed.
• Also as a surprise to Madonna, on the date of the final concert, her husband, Guy Ritchie, appeared as coach lost at the end of the song "Beautiful Stranger" the Samurai during "Sky Fits Heaven" led jersies Lakers, all the dancers They participated in the section of the end of "Holiday" where usually only participated Madonna and her two background singers, and later the dancers comically refused to join Madonna at the end of "Music", leaving Madonna to do once she alone.
• The show used 100 tons of equipment, two Boeing 747 (to fly the team), eight trucks (to carry the team place to place), and 88 people on the tour production.
• Madonna took guitar lessons, so she could play guitar live during the show.
• No free ticket was given to a celebrity, so If wanted to see the show, It had to pay.
• The song "You'll See" was not performed in Detroit and other cities like Miami and Philadelphia.