Madonna performs for 1.6 million fans in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil : NPR

Madonna capped off her “Celebration” tour with a visit to the seashore: Rio de Janeiro’s famed Copacabana Seaside, to be precise, the place on Saturday night time she placed on an enormous free present for some 1.6 million followers. It was the final efficiency throughout her globe-trotting retrospective tour in addition to her solely “Celebration” date in South America — and it garnered the most important stay crowd of her profession.

The 1.6 million estimate got here from Riotur, the town’s official tourism company. Madonna, who had not carried out in Brazil since 2012, enthused concerning the night on Instagram: “Phrases can’t categorical my gratitude!” she wrote in a caption to a drone video exhibiting the beachfront filled with followers. As with different “Celebration” exhibits, she invited native stars onstage together with her: in Rio, her visitors have been Brazilian performers Anitta and Pabllo Vittar, the latter serving to Madonna shift her monitor “Music” right into a samba.

Copacabana Seaside has one thing of a historical past in terms of big pop spectacles: in 2006, The Rolling Stones performed for an estimated 1.5 million followers there, whereas a 1994 New Yr’s Eve present with Rod Stewart reportedly drew some 4.2 million attendees.