American singer Madonna has performed on eleven concert tours, nineteen one-off concerts, nine benefit concerts, and three music festivals. Her 1985 debut concert tour, The Virgin Tour, was held in North America only and went on to collect more than US $5 million. In 1987 she performed on the worldwide Who's That Girl World Tour, which visited Europe, North America and Japan, and earned $25 million. 1990's Blond Ambition World Tour was dubbed as the "Greatest Concert of the 1990s" by Rolling Stone magazine and earned over US $62.7 million. In 1993, Madonna visited Israel and Turkey for the first time, followed by Latin America and Australia, with The Girlie Show, and did not tour again until the Drowned World Tour in 2001; she grossed more than US $75 million with summer sold-out shows and eventually played in front of 730,000 people throughout North America and Europe. 2004's Re-Invention World Tour earned Madonna the "Backstage Pass Award" in recognition of having the top-grossing tour of the year, with ticket sales of nearly US $125 million. Madonna's next tours broke world records: The 2006 Confessions Tour grossed over US $194.7 million; with approximately US $411 million in ticket sales, the Sticky & Sweet Tour (2008–2009) became the highest-grossing tour of all time, and still remains the highest-grossing tour ever for a female artist. The MDNA Tour (2012) completed as the tenth highest-grossing tour of all time with US $305 million, the second highest for among female artists at the time, only behind the singer's own Sticky & Sweet. Her 2015–2016 Rebel Heart Tour was an all-arena tour which grossed $169.8 million from 1.045 million attendance. 2019–2020's Madame X Tour was reported to have grossed over $36,385,935 from an audience of 124,655. All of Madonna's tours have been critically appreciated.
Madonna has also embarked on several promotional concerts to promote her studio albums, as well as performing award shows and benefit concerts like Live Aid (1985), Live 8 (2005) and Live Earth (2007). In 2012, she headlined the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, which at that time was the most-watched halftime show in history. Madonna remains the highest-grossing solo touring artist of all time, with over $1.5 billion earned from her concert tours throughout her career.
