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Rebel Heart Tour
Rebel Heart Tour

The Rebel Heart Tour is the tenth tour by American-singer Madonna and it started in September 9, 2015 and it ended in March 20, 2016.
Rebel Heart Tour Poster
Rebel Heart Tour
Year(s) 2015-2016
Legs 5
Dates 81
Guest(s) Diplo
Amy Schumer
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The Rebel Heart Tour is the tenth concert tour by American recording artist Madonna launched in support of her thirteenth studio album, Rebel Heart. It has begin in Montreal, Canada with two shows on September 9-10, 2015 at the Ball Centre and it ended in March 20, 2016 in Brisbane, Australia at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.

Background[]

To promote her twelfth studio album, MDNA, Madonna embarked on The MDNA Tour, which visited the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, but did not go to Australia or eastern Asia. The tour was a commercial success with a total gross was $305.2 million ($313.52 million in 2015 dollars) from 88 sold-out shows, becoming the tenth highest-grossing tour of all time. After the MDNA era, Madonna worked on her thirteenth studio album, Rebel Heart, throughout 2014. However, after hackers released demo versions of her recording sessions to the internet, Madonna responded by releasing the album for pre-order. Numerous news outlets started reporting about the supporting concert tour for Rebel Heart. Italian newspaper Torino Today reported Madonna planning on returning to Turin on November 20 and 21, 2015, with the tour. Canadian newspapers, La Presse and Le Journal de Montréal reported that Madonna's tour dates in Quebec City and Montreal had been decided. According to them, Madonna would be inaugurating a new arena in Quebec City, while the shows in Montreal would happen at the Bell Center.

The tour was formally announced on March 1, 2015 on Madonna's official website. Titled Rebel Heart Tour, it was initially scheduled to begin on August 29, 2015, from Miami and continue throughout Europe and end on December 20, 2015, in Glasgow, Scotland. According to Billboard, Rebel Heart would be an all-arena tour, and would visit cities where Madonna has not performed before. They assumed a total of 25–30 shows in North America and 20–25 shows in Europe, with additional dates being revealed later on. The tour will visit Australia and New Zealand in early 2016,and will be the singer's first visit to Australia in more than 20 years, having last toured there with The Girlie Show World Tour in 1993, and her first time in New Zealand. Philippines was added to the tour itinerary, for two performances at SM Mall of Asia in February 2016.

Rebel Heart Tour is led by Live Nation Entertainment's Global Touring Division, helmed by Arthur Fogel. It is Madonna's fifth collaboration with Live Nation, with more than $1 billion ($1.03 billion in 2015 dollars) in Boxscore grosses, and 7.8 million tickets sold for 289 shows from her previous ventures with the company. Fogel commented that the leak had helped in bring more attention to Madonna's music and it was a positive scenario for the world tour. "It's kind of strange how it all came about, but it certainly hasn't been a negative in terms of getting people engaged with the new music. Anything that helps put it out there is good, even if it happens in a weird way," he concluded.

Setlist:[]

Act 1 - Joan of Arc / Samurai

Revolution (Intro Interlude) (contains excepts of #secretprojectrevolution)
1. Iconic
2. Bitch I'm Madonna
3. Burning Up (Rock version)
4. Holy Water / Vogue
5. Devil Pray

Act 2 - Rockabilly Meets Tokyo

Messiah (Dance - Interlude)
6. Body Shop
7. True Blue (Acoustic)
8. Deeper and Deeper
9. Heartbreak City / Love Don't Live Here Anymore
10. Like a Virgin (Den54 mix) (Contains excerpts of Heartbeat, Erotica and elements of the Blonde Ambition tour version)

Act 3 - Latin / Gypsy

S.E.X. (Interlude) (Contains elements of Justify My Love) (contains visual elements of the Erotica music video)
11. Living for Love (Offer Nissim Living for Drums Mix) (contains excerpts of #secretprojectrevolution)
12. La Isla Bonita
13. Dress You Up / Into the Groove / Everybody / Lucky Star
14. Who's That Girl (Acoustic)
15. Ghosttown
16. Like a Prayer
17. Rebel Heart

Act 4 - Party / Flapper

Illuminati (Interlude) (contains excepts of #secretprojectrevolution)
18. Music
19. Candy Shop (Contains elements of Give It 2 Me)
20. Material Girl
21. La Vie En Rose (Cover)
22. Unapologetic Bitch

Act 5 - Encore

23. Holiday

Stage[]

Madonna, Rebel Heart Tour, Bell Center, Olympus Stylus 1, Montréal, 10 September 2015 (121) (21162637909)

The stage of the tour consisted of a long cross-shaped walkway and a final heart-shaped.

The large main stage was set to reach the end of each side of the arenas where they carry out the horizontally concert with a long walkway extending from the center towards the end of heart-shaped space. In the middle of the walkway there was a small circular stage where the runways are extended. In order to facilitate Madonna and her dancers appearing at any time on stage, there were openings along the entire length of the stage and paths to disappear under the structure at the end of each song. At the bottom of the main stage were three large screens showing videos made reproduced and at the same time, being divided could be displaced, along with two background vocalists singer and band on each side of the stage. Stufish, who had previously developed structures The MDNA Tour, enlisted for the realization of stage Rebel Heart Tour. Perpendicular structures emanating from the middle of the track, designed by Stufish, allowed Madonna and her dancers reach a wider audience.

One of the main features of the stage is a complex machine, like structure, which allowed the whole scenario become mobile and take many shapes and sizes throughout the show. It consists of a video screen high resolution [28 ft × 16 ft (8.5 m × 4.9 m)], which was interchangeable on the main stage as soil and creating a raised platform [8 feet (2.4 m)] or a vertical wall that can be tilted from zero to 90 degrees in less than half a minute, also used as an angular wall to show dancers swaying back and forth. Specially designed for bungee jumping, join the top edge of the machine a long spears, which allows performers perform stunts. They also were able to go under screens that act as walls.

Shows[]

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

Date City Country Venue Opening act Attendance Revenue
Leg 1 — North America
September 9, 2015 Montreal Canada Bell Centre Diplo 26,468 / 26,468 $3,420,984
September 10, 2015
September 12, 2015 Washington, D.C. United States Verizon Center Sleepy Tom 13,271 / 13,271 $2,014,706
September 16, 2015 New York City Madison Square Garden Amy Schumer 28,371 / 28,371 $5,230,985
September 17, 2015
September 19, 2015 Barclays Center 14,258 / 14,258 $2,789,910
September 21, 2015 Quebec City Canada Videotron Centre Sleepy Tom 13,051 / 13,051 $1,078,608
September 24, 2015 Philadelphia United States Wells Fargo Center Michael Diamond 10,544 / 10,544 $1,434,010
September 26, 2015 Boston TD Garden 12,780 / 12,780 $1,941,750
September 28, 2015 Chicago United Center 14,026 / 14,026 $2,522,365
October 1, 2015 Detroit Joe Louis Arena Kaytranada 12,852 / 12,852 $1,206,431
October 3, 2015 Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall Michael Diamond 9,498 / 9,498 $1,522,061
October 5, 2015 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 26,603 / 26,603 $3,416,646
October 6, 2015
October 8, 2015 Saint Paul United States Xcel Energy Center 11,449 / 11,449 $1,190,535
October 11, 2015 Edmonton Canada Rexall Place Lunice 26,093 / 26,093 $3,310,026
October 12, 2015
October 14, 2015 Vancouver Rogers Arena Kaytranada 12,153 / 12,153 $1,227,073
October 17, 2015 Portland United States Moda Center Michael Diamond 13,695 / 13,695 $2,004,420
October 19, 2015 San Jose SAP Center at San Jose 12,862 / 12,862 $2,298,815
October 22, 2015 Glendale Gila River Arena 10,393 / 10,393 $1,307,510
October 24, 2015 Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena Lunice 12,787 / 12,787 $3,524,113
October 27, 2015 Inglewood The Forum Michael Diamond 13,207 / 13,207 $2,852,095
October 29, 2015 San Diego Valley View Casino Center 10,574 / 10,574 $1,606,935
Leg 2 — Europe
November 4, 2015 Cologne Germany Lanxess Arena Mary Mac 25,952 / 25,952 $2,748,071
November 5, 2015
November 7, 2015 Prague Czech Republic O2 Arena Rejjie Snow 33,408 / 33,408 $3,001,142
November 8, 2015
November 10, 2015 Berlin Germany Mercedes-Benz Arena Idris Elba

Mary Mac

23,588 / 23,588 $2,638,597
November 11, 2015
November 14, 2015 Stockholm Sweden Tele2 Arena Mary Mac 39,338 / 39,338 $3,482,634
November 16, 2015 Herning Denmark Jyske Bank Boxen Mary Mac 12,263 / 12,263 $1,000,551
November 19, 2015 Turin Italy Pala Alpitour Mary Mac 34,752 / 34,752 $3,694,172
November 21, 2015
November 22, 2015
November 24, 2015 Barcelona Spain Palau Sant Jordi Lunice 28,104 / 28,104 $2,312,846
November 25, 2015
November 28, 2015 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis 19,315 / 19,315 $2,135,032
November 29, 2015 Mannheim Germany SAP Arena 10,883 / 10,883 $1,213,890
December 1, 2015 London England The O2 Arena Rejjie Snow 28,670 / 28,670 $4,861,403
December 2, 2015
December 5, 2015 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome Lunice 30,023 / 30,023 $3,559,122
December 6, 2015
December 9, 2015 Paris France Bercy Arena 30,817 / 30,817 $3,868,967
December 10, 2015
December 12, 2015 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion 11,306 / 11,306 $1,773,189
December 14, 2015 Manchester England Manchester Arena Rejjie Snow 14,177 / 14,177 $2,342,186
December 16, 2015 Birmingham Barclaycard Arena 12,119 / 12,119 $1,863,342
December 20, 2015 Glasgow Scotland The SSE Hydro 9,665 / 9,665 $1,574,416
Leg 3 — North America
January 6, 2016 Mexico City Mexico Palacio de los Deportes Lunice 31,696 / 31,696 $4,537,609
January 7, 2016
January 10, 2016 San Antonio United States AT&T Center Mary Mac 14,543 / 14,543 $1,915,670
January 12, 2016 Houston Toyota Center Mary Mac 11,604 / 11,604 $1,671,630
January 14, 2016 Tulsa BOK Center Mary Mac 10,891 / 10,891 $1,559,410
January 16, 2016 Louisville KFC Yum! Center Mary Mac 14,558 / 14,558 $1,856,200
January 18, 2016 Nashville Bridgestone Arena Mary Mac 11,569 / 11,569 $1,430,485
January 20, 2016 Atlanta Philips Arena Lunice 10,609 / 10,609 $1,500,635
January 23, 2016 Miami American Airlines Arena Lunice 26,468 / 26,468 $2,555,425
January 24, 2016
January 27, 2016 San Juan Puerto Rico Coliseo de Puerto Rico Lunice 18,539 / 18,539 $2,352,219
January 28, 2016
Leg 4 — Asia
February 4, 2016 Taipei Taiwan Taipei Arena Mary Mac 22,554 / 22,554 $6,578,042
February 6, 2016
February 9, 2016 Bangkok Thailand IMPACT Arena Mary Mac 19,930 / 19,930 $4,584,740
February 10, 2016
February 13, 2016 Tokyo Japan Saitama Super Arena Mary Mac 37,706 / 37,706 $9,609,418
February 14, 2016
February 17, 2016 Hong Kong China AsiaWorld–Arena Mary Mac 21,808 / 21,808 $4,907,134
February 18, 2016
February 20, 2016 Macau Studio City Event Center Mary Mac 7,446 / 7,446 $8,265,771
February 21, 2016
February 24, 2016 Manila Philippines Mall of Asia Arena Mary Mac 7,446 / 7,446 $4,956,105
February 25, 2016
February 28, 2016 Singapore Singapore National Stadium N/A 19,123 / 19,123 $6,093,229
Leg 5 — Oceania
March 5, 2016 Auckland New Zealand Vector Arena Mary Mac 17,386 / 17,386 $3,593,978
March 6, 2016
March 12, 2016 Melbourne Australia Rod Laver Arena Mary Mac 23,768 / 23,768 $5,482,518
March 13, 2016
March 16, 2016 Sydney Allphones Arena Mary Mac 13,886 / 13,886 $2,332,579
March 17, 2016
March 19, 2016 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre Mary Mac 26,370 / 26,370 $6,052,001
Total 304,935 / 304,935 $45,899,978

Trivia[]

  • During the first performances of the tour (in Montreal and Washington, D.C.), "Dress You Up" medley also included "Everybody"
  • During the New York City show at the Barclays Center, Madonna performed "Ghosttown" for the first time on the tour being added to the setlist.
  • During the Detroit show, Madonna performed an acoustic version of "Frozen" instead of "Ghosttown" as a "special hometown treat".
  • During the Saint Paul show, Madonna performed an a cappella version of "Fever".
  • During the Vancouver show, Madonna performed an acoustic version of "Secret".
  • During the San Jose show, Madonna performed "Frozen" once again.
  • During the concert in San Diego and Inglewood, Madonna performed Like a Prayer.
  • During the concert in Stockholm, Madonna returned to perform "Like a Prayer", but on that occasion, in tribute to the victims of the attacks in Paris in November 2015 that took place just the day before the show. The song was sung after a long speech emotive in the name of freedom and fraternity, before forty and four thousand people in the Swedish capital.
  • During the first performance in Turin, Madonna performed "Don't Tell Me".
  • During the second performance in London, Madonna performed "Drowned World/Substitute For Love" as a tribute to her late friend David Collins.
  • During the second concert in Amsterdam, Madonna performed "Secret" again
  • During the first performance in Paris, Madonna performed "Redemption Song" with her son David.
  • During the performance in Manchester, Madonna performed an a cappella version of "Open Your Heart". Prior to the concert, the video files for the show had become corrupted, resulting in a reboot of the whole system, which caused the show to begin late, resulting in several songs being cut from the setlist.
  • During the performance in Houston, Madonna performed "Rebel Rebel", the 1974 single by David Bowie, as a tribute to him after his death.
  • During the performance in Nashville, Madonna performed an a cappella version of "Ring of Fire", the 1963 single by Johnny Cash.
  • During the concert in Miami, Madonna performed "Spanish Lesson" and "Don't Cry for Me Argentina"
  • During the concert in San Juan, Madonna performed again "Spanish Lesson" and a cappella version of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend '
  • During the first and second night in Taipei, Madonna performed "Take a Bow". It was the first time she performs the song live from the show of the American Music Awards 1995 and for the first time at a concert or tour.
  • During the concert in Bangkok, Madonna performed again 'Take a Bow'.
  • During the first night in Tokyo, Madonna reprized "Don't Tell Me" and during the second night again 'Take a Bow'.
  • During the first night in Hong Kong, Madonna performed a cappella version of "Hung Up".
  • During the second performance in Manila, Madonna performed "Crazy for You" as a tribute to the 30th anniversary of the EDSA Revolution
  • During the concert in Kallang, Madonna not perform the actions of "Iconic", "Holy Water" and "Devil Pray". This is because the local law of Singapore, the Media Development Authority (MDA), which prohibits the use of religious symbols. Instead, the opening of the show was started with "Bitch I'm Madonna." She also reprized "Crazy for You" in acoustic format.
  • During the performances in Auckland, Madonna performed "Like a Prayer" both in concerts as a tribute to his first visit in New Zealand.
  • During a concert in Brisbane, the singer performed a version of "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" by Australian singer Kylie Minogue.
  • During the last concerts of the tour, held in Sydney, Madonna reprized "Take a Bow" and "Like a Prayer" and a short acapella of "Hanky Panky" during "Music".
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