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Madonna performances

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. The singer's most recent outing, 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.

Madonna live performances

14 articles

The Virgin Tour

Who's That Girl World Tour

Blond Ambition World Tour

The Girlie Show

Drowned World Tour

Re-Invention World Tour

Confessions Tour

Sticky & Sweet Tour

The MDNA Tour

Rebel Heart Tour

Madame X Tour

Super Bowl XLVI halftime show

Madonna: Tears of a Clown

Contributor(s): IndianBio, 11JORN and Christian

The concert tours and live performances of American singer Madonna have become, according to some, a "cultural touch point" that remain a "unique animal" in terms of "striking a chord" with fans and generating media coverage. All the articles in this proposed topic pass the FA and/or GA criteria. --Christian (talk) 17:39, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

• Support. Impressive articles, quite complete, well referenced (bibliography and websites), well written and structured. Excellent work! Vera (talk) 21:07, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
• Support: Looks like it's got all the contents of Category:Madonna (entertainer) concerts at GA or better. I don't quite know why some of the one-offs have articles and others don't, but if the currently existing articles reflect the notability of the subjects, then this appears to be complete. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 21:51, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
• Support: per nom. Kekkomereq1 (talk) 07:01, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

• Support: All of them looks fine, and have GA or FA status. --Apoxyomenus (talk) 13:26, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
• Support Comment the usage of PR Newswire has got to be fixed per WP:RSP; however, I felt very proud to have reviewed a few of these detailed articles, nice work! --K. Peake 22:01, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Kyle Peake:! Could you please tell me on what article/source does the fixing need to be done? Also, thank you for your great reviews :--Christian (talk) 14:18, 10 February 2022 (UTC)D

The unreliable source mentioned is present in the articles for the Who's That Girl World Tour, Madame X Tour, Rebel Heart Tour and Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, also I have moved this nom to the top of the candidates since it's the newest. --K. Peake 07:29, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

I have removed this source @Kyle Peake:, let me know if it looks alright. --Christian (talk) 14:41, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

• Support – Looks good to me. Impressive work! Damian Vo (talk) 08:44, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
• Support. Panini! • 🥪 22:36, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
• Consensus to promote to Good Topic. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 14:22, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

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King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime

King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime is the fifth studio album by Faith No More, released on March 28, 1995. It was their first album recorded without longtime guitarist Jim Martin. The album spanned a range of genres, and spawned three singles—"Digging the Grave", "Ricochet" and "Evidence". Following Martin's departure, Trey Spruance was brought on to perform on the album, having also been in Mr. Bungle with singer Mike Patton. Production of the album was further marred by the band suffering a car accident, and by the absence of keyboard player Roddy Bottum, who was affected by the deaths of both his father and his friend Kurt Cobain. Spruance was replaced on the supporting tour by the band's former roadie Dean Menta. Critical reception to the album has been mixed, with its varied genres being cited as a detraction by several reviewers.

King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime

4 articles

"Digging the Grave"

"Ricochet"

"Evidence"

Contributor(s): Grapple X

This is my first music-based GT nomination but it should be comprehensive--the album and each of the singles have their own articles; no other songs are independently notable enough to warrant an article separate from the lead article. All articles have been assessed at GAN. The introductory paragraph is a new requirement since I was last at GTC--if it's too long I can trim it down, gauging the appropriate size was mostly guesswork. Thanks in advance to all having a look at this. --𝄠ʀᴀᴘᴘʟᴇ X 15:46, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

• Comments: On "Digging the Grave" and "Evidence", wikilink exclaim.ca. On the album article wikilink Sydney Morning Herald; old.fnm.com. → FNM.com, "www.feastorfamine.com" → also fix this, source 47 has no publication, source 50 has no publication, author. On the Chart positions section of the album, use Template:Album chart. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 17:07, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

I've made a number of the other fixes, but I'm working on that conversion to the album chart template and it seems like that's going to mean losing the "weeks in chart" field which I can't see the template supporting; is this really necessary to go through the legwork of converting a table to a series of templates which will end up losing information? 𝄠ʀᴀᴘᴘʟᴇ X 18:01, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

You are supposed to have a commercial performance section on the album article, which covers that along with peaks, year-end charts, and certifications. Also no author, publication on source 48. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 09:34, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Ref 48 updated. If it's deemed a necessity for this topic I can add another prose section to the article but as it stands the information is still validly presented. 𝄠ʀᴀᴘᴘʟᴇ X 09:53, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Never said the information was not valid at all, henceforth I propose the change by adding it to the reception or commercial performance. I just believe if an album spent 5,6 or 8 weeks on an album chart doesn't seem very relevant. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 08:07, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Hey MarioSoulTruthFan, I just wanted to check in if you feel comfortable supporting or if you have unaddressed concerns? Aza24 (talk) 22:29, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Aza24 I have yet one unaddressed concern. It's the only comment I have not yet struck. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 09:32, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

• Support: Album and all singles at GA, linked by a navbox and supercategory. There doesn't appear to have been an associated tour, live album, or any other articles that should be here. Looks right to me! Good work! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 18:06, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
• Comments there are refs in the lead of the album for info that should be written out and sourced in the body; mention the heavy metal leanings under production and genre shuffle as part of reception. The info can remain in the lead too without the refs if you believe this is suitable, but everything there needs to be in the body. The image of the keyboardist belongs in the recording sub-section and the release history para should be in the section above, retitling to release and reception. You should use the chart templates like MarioSoulTruthFan mentioned and it does show weeks for ones such as Billboard and ARIA, also there's no organizations in brackets for numerous charts that these would add and put one in brackets for the year-end chart too. In all of the articles, you should not change the parameter on different occasions of citing the same publication, plus merge the release and reception sections on "Richochet" and "Evidence" due to their small sizes. I do not take stability issues with the pending request for the latter's article title to be changed since this does not affect the actual content and for the most parts, these articles are well-written and worthy of my congratulations for your hard work! --K. Peake 11:32, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

  I have moved the material cited in the lead of the main article down to the reception section and reworked it a little (I honestly thought that Rolling Stone quote was already there so thanks for pointing it out). The image you mention moving is something I'd like to keep where it is--I don't mind what the image actually is but keeping something under that heading is to break up what would otherwise be a longer stretch of only text, moving it to a higher heading would clash with the infobox and leave the later headings looking more like blocks of text. I'm happy to switch the image for a different one if you think something else is more relevant there but the placement is deliberate. The commons category has a few shots of the whole band if you think that would be a better option; I just went with Bottum as he's discussed specifically a bit. I would also still respectfully disagree on the idea of switching to chart templates rather than the existing table; this feels like a stylistic preference and I stand by the information being presented how it is. 𝄠ʀᴀᴘᴘʟᴇ ꭗ 13:27, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

  The heavy metal info was not moved into the body, also the jazz and funk elements marking a departure is not sourced there and you missed the release and reception edits for all of the articles. It is fine not to use chart templates, but you need to add the organizations in brackets and used the chart names since writing Switzerland, Austria, etc. on there own does not provide proper information about these charts. --K. Peake 08:17, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

  Removed some more of the genre discussion as citing it would largely be synthesis, it adds little to nothing anyway so it's an easy cut. Chart names added alongside nations; went with country first, chart second as this should be easier to parse for the lay reader. I missed the "release and reception" edits as it's really just a WP:STYLEVAR issue, which I don't feel is germane to this nomination. 𝄠ʀᴀᴘᴘʟᴇ ꭗ 13:10, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

  That is fine since the content is still there properly, though you still need to move the release info for the album article because release history sections are tables and this is prose, so it belongs elsewhere. Also, publications are still cited with inconsistency, such as FNM.com being italicised at points. --K. Peake 08:43, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

  Hey Kyle Peake, I just wanted to check in if you feel comfortable supporting or if you have unaddressed concerns? Aza24 (talk) 22:29, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

  All of the things that I have not crossed out are still yet to be covered. --K. Peake 06:30, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

  Combed through refs in the main article to ensure consistent ref formatting but anything else I feel boils down to WP:STYLEVAR and I don't a reason to change from one valid layout to another; this is a candidacy for a topic and should ideally focus on the criteria at WP:WIAGT. 𝄠ʀᴀᴘᴘʟᴇ ꭗ 09:49, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

• I will let this slide on the refs actually, but you still need to fix the release history part since that section being too small is not my only issue; it is also in prose which is not how history is even laid out. --K. Peake 18:08, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

• Director comment - This nomination has been open since September and only one declaration of support. There needs more votes here or this will have to be closed as not promoted. GamerPro64 16:51, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
• Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:32, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
• Support meets the criteria. FrB.TG (talk) 08:53, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
• Support. Good Job! Panini! • 🥪 22:38, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
• Closed with a consensus to promote to Good Topic - GamerPro64 05:00, 27 March 2022 (UTC)