Rebel Heart Tour Tickets Selling Fast For Madonna’s Stops In Australia, New Zealand
From an article by Jesse Lawrence, Forbes:
Madonna, the reigning Queen of Pop, is set to embark on her international tour, the Rebel Heart Tour, starting in Montreal on September 9 in support of Rebel Heart, her thirteenth studio album.
The North American leg of the tour will wrap up in October and will lead to her covering Europe and the UK in November and December. The Rebel Heart Tour will continue on into Australia and New Zealand in March 2016, and will be historic tour stops for the singer – her New Zealand dates mark her first time ever touring in the country, and her return to Australia will be her first trip there in a long-awaited 23 years.
Madonna’s Australian fans remain some of her strongest followers, as Rebel Heart opened at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart in March, and marked her 11th No. 1 album in Australia.
If history is any indication, Madonna’s upcoming tour will not disappoint in the box office. According to the Billboard Boxscore, Madonna’s MDNA tour in 2012 was a substantial success, grossing $305 million and moving 2.2 million tickets to 88 shows, making it the highest grossing tour of the year. In 2006, her Confessions tour grossed $194 million and had 1.2 million tickets sold to 60 shows. Madonna’s most dominant run remains her 2008-2009 Sticky & Sweet tour, which grossed $408 million for 3.5 million tickets sold. It continues to hold the record for the biggest tour ever for a female artist.
Tickets for the Australian/New Zealand leg of the tour went on sale this morning at 10 AM, and tickets are moving quickly – the cheapest available seats sold out in just minutes.
On international ticket marketplace viagogo.com, tickets to see Madonna are understandably competitive across the map. Currently, the average ticket price is $321.97 on the secondary market, and many of her dates present higher prices. Her most expensive stop on the secondary market is the October 24 show in Las Vegas, where the average ticket price is $949.21, with a get-in price of $180, according to viagogo, the world’s largest source of live event tickets. Madonna’s cheapest stop is her October 12 date in Edmonton, Canada, where the average ticket price is $164.30, with a get-in price of just $44.
