Madonna Sticky and Sweet Tour

Top 10 Fun Facts

1. All 50,000 tickets for Madonna's Vancouver Sticky & Sweet Tour concert were sold in 29 minutes. That's a remarkable rate of 29 tickets per second.
2. On March 10th 2008, Madonna was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The award is presented to performers who have had a significant impact on the evolution, development, and perpetuation of rock and roll for more than 25 years. But at only 51 years of age, Madonna has at least another 25 incredible years ahead of her. Perhaps she will be the first person to receive the award twice.
3. An asteroid named Eva was within a narrow 13 degrees of arc over Madonna's birthplace, Bay City, Michigan, at the time of her birth. Perhaps it was a sign that the multi-talented artist was destined to play the lead role of Eva Peron in the film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Evita."
4. Madonna is not only an actress, songwriter, singer, dancer, writer, and astute businesswoman; she is also a quick-change artist. One costume change during her Sticky & Sweet Tour took a mere 1.5 minutes.
5. Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour was her first major venture from her new recording and business deal with Live Nation. The deal was off to an extraordinary start. The Sticky & Sweet Tour made history earning $282 million while becoming the highest grossing tour by a solo artist.
6. Practice makes perfect, so Madonna and her band spent 653 hours in rehearsal in preparation for the Sticky & Sweet Tour. Those who saw the complex show can attest to the fact that all the hours of hard work paid off.
7. Madonna performed her show in Montenegro to an audience of almost 70,000. It was a huge event for the tiny country with more than 10 percent of the country's population congregated in one spot to enjoy the Sticky & Sweet concert.
8. With a whopping 63 million albums sold, Madonna is second only to Barbara Streisand for the most records sold by a female artist in the United States. But Babs had a 22-year head start on the Material Girl.
9. Practicing the fine art of irony, the "Get Stupid" video interlude during Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour featured the images of celebrated peace advocates John Lennon, Gandhi, Al Gore, and Barack Obama.
10. Although Madonna has more than enough star power to light up her massive Sticky & Sweet stage, her Los Angeles show had some auxiliary star power. Britney Spears joined Madonna onstage during the performance of "Human Nature" while Justin Timberlake joined Madonna onstage to perform "4 Minutes."