The first box office totals are in for Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour that launched on Sept. 9. With the first 10 performances reported to Billboard by promoter Live Nation Global Touring, the tour’s total gross stands at $20 million, based on 132,769 sold tickets from the first eight arenas on the schedule. Madonna Adds Second…
It’s easy to admire Madonna and not necessarily easy to like her. Respect her as an inspirational visionary, a hard-driven original, a tough-as-nails survivor, a single mother (of four) and a singular artist. Dislike her because she’s a demanding, narcissistic, self-aware, self-absorbed, perfectionist diva. There’s good reason that she titled a song “Unapologetic Bitch” on…
Pop superstar Madonna performed at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul on Thursday, October 8, 2015. (Pioneer Press: John Autey) It was easy to get caught up in the excitement the last time Madonna was in town, for a two-night stand in November 2012, thanks to the herculean effort she puts into her live shows…
MELBOURNE showman Scott Maidment has a friend and colleague in Madonna. The queen of pop saw his last two shows in London and loved them so much she invited Maidment to work on her Rebel Heart world tour. He obliged, naturally, and flew to New York to create one of the numbers, Illuminati, for her concert.…
It’s three days before the Pope leads hundreds of thousands of people in a mass at Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and four miles away at the Wells Fargo Center, one of America’s most famous ex-Catholics is already getting into the spirit of the occasion. Madonna uses a giant cross as a stripping pole and writhes around…
Brand new section online! We have finally completed our Rebel Heart Album Promo in our Album Promo section. It took quite some work, but we are very proud of the result. We have included some rare bits in the press and memorabilia section as well. What about the rejected artwork for the beloved Dutch official…
Get ready for worlds’ largest record fair in Utrecht Holland on November 21 & 22! As always we can provide you with a discount code to purchase your tickets online. Please use the code RP3 when you purchase your tickets at Recordplanet. You will pay 10.50 (plus transacation fees) instead of 11.50 or 13 EUR at…
Photographer George DuBose is planning to release a book of photographs from Madonna’s first solo concert at US Blues in Roslyn, Long Iceland, NY. This will include around 100 black and white photographs. George wants to include a photo from her Danceteria performance and the show she did in Bostan at the Metro disco too for…
This HD video of the incredible Grammy performance of Madonna and the Gorillaz performing Hung Up has been added to the video section of our Confessions On A Dance Floor Album Promo section
Be still my gay heart. Though Madonna’s latest spectacle, “Rebel Heart Tour,” spotlights her 13th studio album of the same name, the concert queen still reached into her back pocket and pulled out a swoon-worthy collection of classics. Ones she hasn’t touched in years – and an exclusive addition just for her fellow Detroiters. “Hometown…
NEW YORK—George Harrison, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Madonna, Tom Petty and John Mellencamp are among the A-list contenders nominated for the 2016 Songwriters Hall of Fame. Blondie, Gloria Estefan, the Isley Brothers, Sly Stone and Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards are also up for the top honour. Winners will be inducted next June in New…
