Madonna's free Brazil show draws 1.5 million fans

Madonna enactment connected a escaped performance successful Rio de Janeiro connected Saturday nighttime with throngs of fans flocking to spot the popular idol connected Brazil's celebrated Copacabana beach.

"Rio, present we are successful the astir beauteous spot successful the world," she declared, arsenic the show got nether way.

The amusement was the last halt connected the 65-year-old's Celebration Tour, celebrating her 40 years successful music.

More than 1.5 cardinal fans were estimated to person attended the show.

"Are you ready?" Madonna posted connected her Instagram relationship 7 hours earlier the show.

Crowds of fans were seen dancing on to Madonna's songs played from speakers connected the stage, hours earlier the American superstar arrived.

In what galore person called a "historic" show, Madonna impressed the assemblage with aggregate acceptable and costume changes and airy displays.

The signer performed immoderate of her top hits, including Nothing Really Matters, Like a Prayer and Vogue, and was joined connected signifier astatine 1 constituent by Brazilian vocalist Anitta.

There were elephantine screens located on the beach, to guarantee the mostly Brazilian assemblage was capable to spot the lawsuit unfold. There was besides a ample constabulary beingness to guarantee the information of each those successful attendance.

T-shirts, souvenirs and billboards with Madonna's look decked the neighbourhood arsenic excitement built up of the concert.

Since she burst onto the UK charts with Holiday successful 1984, Madonna has scored different 71 hits, including 13 fig 1 singles.

Some, similar Vogue, Like A Prayer and Ray of Light, are era-defining anthems. Others, similar Live To Tell and Don't Tell Me, are beloved instrumentality favourites.

Last year, the superstar was recovered unconscious successful her New York flat successful June and rushed to hospital, wherever she received attraction for a superior bacterial infection.

But she has since returned to afloat spot and her circuit has been marked by her characteristically energetic performances.

The Rio performance was the last interaction connected a circuit made up of 80 shows crossed Europe and North America.