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Confessions Tour
Year(s) 2006
Legs 3
Dates 60
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The Confessions Tour was the seventh concert tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It supported her tenth studio album, Confessions on a Dance Floor. Madonna confirmed the possibility of going out on a tour as early as November 2005. Jamie King, Madonna's longtime collaborator, was then hired on to direct. The set list consisted of mainly songs from the supporting studio album and rehearsals started during 2006. As with many of her prior tours, the Confessions Tour did not go to Australia, prompting Madonna to release an apology statement on her website.

Background[]

In November 2005, during an interview with The Guardian, Madonna confirmed that she was going out on tour in 2006 and it would likely be named either the Confessions Tour or the Confess Your Sins Tour. Jamie King was next hired on as the director of the tour. During an interview with MTV in February 2006, Madonna explained that she wanted to play first at small venues like Roseland Ballroom in New York or the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, then move out to perform at stadiums and arenas. That way she deduced that she would not feel bored during her performances. King clarified,

"A typical Madonna show is quite produced, [...] She likes things large, she likes things theatrical, but this time, being that Confessions on a Dance Floor is an intimate album, we want to try to make people have an intimate experience as well as a big produced theatrical experience. So look for us doing some small venues, some smaller venues. [...] I would like to put her as close to her people — her fans, her dancers, her fellow supporters — as possible,"

King also confirmed that the set list for the tour consisted mainly of songs from the supporting album, with few of Madonna's old hits making the cut. Some of the dancers from the music videos of "Hung Up" and "Sorry", both singles from Confessions on a Dance Floor, were signed to perform on the tour as well.[3] In March 2006, Madonna, along with her then-husband Guy Ritchie and with their kids, moved to Los Angeles, to begin rehearsing for the tour.[4] In the summer of 2006, Madonna's manager Guy Oseary announced that her Australian leg to the tour had been dropped.  Her official website released the following statement:

To my fans in Australia,
Please forgive me. I really did hope and expect to come to Australia during the Confessions Tour and asked my managers to try to include some shows there. I have fond memories from previous tours. Unfortunately, the logistics just didn't work out this time around. We looked into going from Japan to Australia and ending the show there but I have to get my kids back into school in England and they are, as you can understand, my most important priority. The important thing to remember is that I'm not retiring anytime soon and I am gonna get to Australia as soon as I can. You remain in my heart and Thank you for your continued love & support.
Love, Madonna

Setlist:[]

Act I: Equestrian
1. "Future Lovers" / "I Feel Love"
2. "Get Together"
3. "Like a Virgin"
4. "Jump"

Act II: Bedouin
5. Confessions (Video Interlude) (contains elements of "Live to Tell")
6. "Live to Tell" (contains elements of Tears)
7. "Forbidden Love"
8. "Isaac"
9. "Sorry" (Pet Shop Boys Remix)
10. "Like It or Not"

Act III: Glam-Punk
11. "Sorry" (Remix) (Video Interlude)
12. "I Love New York"
13. "Ray of Light"
14. "Let It Will Be" (Paper Faces Mix)
15. "Drowned World/Substitute for Love"
16. "Paradise (Not for Me)"

Act IV: Disco
17. "The Duck Mixes The Hits" (Video Interlude) (contains excerpts from "Borderline", "Erotica", "Dress You Up", "Holiday" and "Disco Inferno")
18. Music Inferno (contains elements of "Disco Inferno" and excerpts from "Where's the Party")
19. "Erotica" (remixed version based on the unreleased demo "You Thrill Me")
20. "La Isla Bonita"
21. "Lucky Star" (contains elements of "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" and excerpts from "Hung Up")
22. "Hung Up" (contains elements of "Lucky Star")

Shows[]

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, amount of available tickets and gross revenue

Date City Country Venue Opening act Attendance Revenue
Leg 1 — North America
May 21, 2006 Inglewood United States The Forum N/A 40,044 / 40,044 $7,686,380
May 23, 2006
May 24, 2006
May 27, 2006 Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena 27,528 / 27,528 $7,257,750
May 28, 2006
May 30, 2006 San Jose HP Pavilion at San Jose 27,024 / 27,024 $4,761,555
May 31, 2006
June 3, 2006 Los Angeles Staples Center 14,158 / 14,158 $2,804,583
June 5, 2006 Fresno Save Mart Center 20,154 / 20,154 $3,749,800
June 6, 2006
June 8, 2006 Glendale Glendale Arena 28,820 / 28,820 $4,890,090
June 10, 2006
June 14, 2006 Chicago United Center 52,000 / 52,000 $9,271,790
June 15, 2006
June 18, 2006
June 19, 2006
June 21, 2006 Montreal Canada Bell Centre 34,940 / 34,940 $5,670,150
June 22, 2006
June 25, 2006 Hartford United States Hartford Civic Center 21,558 / 21,558 $3,451,235
June 26, 2006
June 28, 2006 New York City Madison Square Garden 91,841 / 91,841[a] $16,507,855[a]
June 29, 2006
July 2, 2006
July 3, 2006
July 6, 2006 Boston TD Banknorth Garden 36,741 / 36,741 $6,337,115
July 9, 2006
July 10, 2006
July 12, 2006 Philadelphia Wachovia Center 29,749 / 29,749 $4,639,775
July 13, 2006
July 16, 2006 Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall 12,322 / 12,322 $3,246,100
July 18, 2006 New York City Madison Square Garden
July 19, 2006
July 22, 2006 Miami American Airlines Arena 30,410 / 30,410 $5,568,485
July 23, 2006
Leg 2 — Europe
July 30, 2006 Cardiff Wales Millennium Stadium Paul Oakenfold 55,795 / 55,795 $7,788,845
August 1, 2006 London England Wembley Arena N/A 86,061 / 86,061[b] $22,090,582[b]
August 3, 2006
August 6, 2006 Rome Italy Stadio Olimpico Paul Oakenfold 63,054 / 63,054 $5,268,886
August 9, 2006 London England Wembley Arena N/A
August 10, 2006
August 12, 2006
August 13, 2006
August 15, 2006
August 16, 2006
August 20, 2006 Düsseldorf Germany LTU Arena Paul Oakenfold 44,744 / 44,744 $5,926,105
August 22, 2006 Hanover AWD-Arena 39,871 / 39,871 $5,218,985
August 24, 2006 Horsens Denmark Forum Horsens 85,232 / 85,232 $11,435,199
August 27, 2006 Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy N/A 67,758 / 67,758 $9,145,832
August 28, 2006
August 30, 2006
August 31, 2006
September 3, 2006 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam Arena Paul Oakenfold 102,330 / 102,330 $11,783,254
September 4, 2006
September 6, 2006 Prague Czech Republic Sazka Arena N/A 37,666 / 38,342 $5,861,668
September 7, 2006
September 12, 2006[c] Moscow Russia Luzhniki Stadium 37,939 / 37,939 $5,548,998
Leg 3 — Asia[55]
September 16, 2006 Osaka Japan Kyocera Dome Osaka N/A 50,623 / 50,623 $7,379,553
September 17, 2006
September 20, 2006 Tokyo Tokyo Dome 71,231 / 71,231 $11,463,877
September 21, 2006
Total 1,209,593 / 1,210,269 $194,754,447
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