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Madonna leaving her hotel in Rome (August 05 2006)

Confessions & Re Invention Tour Dancer Cloud has been a fan favorite since he started dancing with Madonna. Cloud has many talents and interests. For Madonna’s birthday, Cloud decided to make her a video. Click below so that you can see the behind the scenes video Cloud created for Madonna!
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9 Pictures – Madonna performs in London during ‘Confessions’ World Tour (Wembley Arena, London, August 01 2006) – are added to the gallery.

Madonna has topped a poll naming the coolest people of all time, beating out competition from Johnny Depp and the late Steve McQueeen. The Material Girl was voted for by a panel of prominent media workers and 1,725 consumers in the survey by marketing firm CoolBrandsUK. Others in the list included Audrey Hepburn and James Dean.

The Top 10 Coolest People Of All Time are:
1. Madonna
2. Johnny Depp
3. Steve McQueen
4. Audrey Hepbrun
5. James Dean
6. Brad Pitt
7. David Beckham
8. Sean Connery
9. Kate Moss
10. Elvis Presley

source : contact music

27 Pictures – Madonna performs in New York during ‘Confessions’ World Tour (Madison Square Garden, New York, July 18 2006) – are added to the gallery.

As Madonna’s Confessions Tour comes to an end in Japan this week, the artist has released a statement regarding the much talked about Crucifixion scene.
“I am very grateful that my show was so well received all over the world. But there seems to be many misinterpretations about my appearance on the cross and I wanted to explain it myself once and for all.
“There is a segment in my show where three of my dancers ‘confess’ or share harrowing experiences from their childhood that they ultimately overcame. My ‘confession’ follows and takes place on a Crucifix that I ultimately come down from. This is not a mocking of the church. It is no different than a person wearing a Cross or ‘Taking Up the Cross’ as it says in the Bible. My performance is neither anti-Christian, sacrilegious or blasphemous. Rather, it is my plea to the audience to encourage mankind to help one another and to see the world as a unified whole. I believe in my heart that if Jesus were alive today he would be doing the same thing.
“My specific intent is to bring attention to the millions of children in Africa who are dying every day, and are living without care, without medicine and without hope. I am asking people to open their hearts and minds to get involved in whatever way they can. The song ends with a quote from the Bible’s Book of Matthew:
“‘For I was hungry and you gave me food. I was naked and you gave me clothing. I was sick and you took care of me and God replied, “Whatever you did for the least of my brothers… you did it to me.”‘
“Please do not pass judgment without seeing my show.”
Madonna’s “Confessions Tour – Live From London” is scheduled to air on NBC this November. NBC has not confirmed whether they will include this portion of the show in their broadcast.
The artist is scheduled to come to New York at the end of October to promote her new children’s book “The English Roses – Too Good To Be True” and has also announced her plans for a trip to Malawi for several weeks in November to participate in the building of an orphanage and care center for the children of that country (www.raisingmalawi.com).
source : marketwire

Madonna performs in Tokyo during ‘Confessions’ World Tour (Dome, Tokyo, September 20 2006)

Top Electronic Albums :
06 (03) Madonna – Confessions On A Dance Floor

Hot 100 Singles Sales :
26 (21) Madonna – Get Together
43 (38) Madonna – Hung Up
49 (39) Madonna – Sorry

Dance Radio Airplay :
14 (16) Madonna – Get Together

Hot Dance Singles Sales :
05 (04) Madonna – Get Together
12 (11) Madonna – Hung Up
13 (12) Madonna – Sorry

Madonna will wrap her Confessions tour Thursday at the Tokyo Dome as the top-grossing tour ever by a female artist.
Although final numbers are not all in, tour producer Arthur Fogel puts the tally at $193.7 million (102.6 million pounds) from 60 shows that drew nearly 1.2 million in paid attendance.
That gross narrowly puts Madonna over Cher’s benchmark of $192.5 million. However, it took Cher an endurance-testing 273 shows between June 2002 and April 2005 to reach that mark on her marathon Farewell tour.
Madonna’s Confessions tour, which began May 21 in Los Angeles, followed the same model of the $125 million-grossing Re-Invention tour in 2004 and the $75 million-grossing Drowned World tour in 2001.
Rather than visit 100 global markets a la mega acts like the Rolling Stones and U2, Madonna opted to play multiple nights in a limited number of major international locales. The strategy has led to a staggering $400 million in ticket sales in just six years.
source : reuters / billboard

Madonna performs in Tokyo during ‘Confessions’ World Tour (Dome, Tokyo, September 20 2006)