'Some of us are destitute, your Madgesty': Madonna fans voice their fury as her 40th anniversary tour tickets sell for nearly £3,000 during cost-of-living crisis
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Madonna fans were ecstatic earlier this week when the Queen of Pop announced a 32-date world tour to mark her 40th anniversary.
But even before the tickets go on general release on Friday, it's been revealed that some seats are selling for nearly £3,000.
With only one UK date on October 14 at London's O2, many of the pre-sale tickets are being listed for up to seven times their face value, while some fans have slammed the already high official face value of the tickets.
O2 Priority and Live Nation pre-sale tickets are on sale now ahead of the general release on Friday.
Some listings on ticket selling site Viagogo include general admission tickets with a face value of £400 selling for a whopping £2950.
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Meanwhile The Immaculate VIP package is listed at £1,307.75 on Ticketmaster.
At the start of the 9am pre-sale on Wednesday, prices started at £47.55 for standard tickets but as the morning went on, the remaining available ticket prices were ranging from £93 up to £436.85 each as the more affordable seats were snapped up within minutes.
Those trying to get O2 priority tickets were shocked at the steep pricing with many pointing out the timing amid a cost of living crisis and the post-Christmas payday wait.
'I couldn't think of a worse week in the calendar year for extortionate but essential Madonna tickets to go on sale than the third week of January in a cost of living crisis. Christmas wiped us out and we haven't had payday since. Pure evil,' summed up one fan.
'Can't cope with Madonna's tickets going on sale during the 9th week of January. Some of us are destitute your Madgesty,' agreed another.
'This feels like a once in a life time opportunity but with the cost of living it's going to be a case of paying my bills on time or seeing the Queen of Pop,' tweeted another.
Others were left with unaffordable ticket options after waiting in a queue, with one fan tweeting that 'after queueing for over an hour I finally got to the point of being able to buy tickets. £876.20 FOR TWO!!! Sorry Madge that's not happening.'
Kicking things off in Vancouver, Madonna will visit multiple cities in the Unites States and Canada, as well as the United Kingdom and Europe.
Produced by Live Nation, the tour will kick off in North America on July 15th at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, BC with stops in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Miami, Los Angeles.
She will then make her way to Europe where she will hit 11 cities throughout the fall, including London on October 24th, continuing onto Barcelona, Paris, and Stockholm, among others.
The Celebration Tour will wrap in Amsterdam, NL on Friday, December 1st at Ziggo Dome.
The shows will take audiences on Madonna's artistic journey through four decades and pay respect to the city of New York where her career in music began.
Madonna said: 'I am excited to explore as many songs as possible in hopes to give my fans the show they have been waiting for.'
The Celebration Tour will offer a one-of-a-kind experience with special guest Bob the Drag Queen a.k.a. Caldwell Tidicue across all dates on the global tour.
General tickets go on sale starting Friday, January 20th at 10am local time at madonna.com/tour.
The announcement won't come as a surprise to some, as it had previously been reported Madonna was planning her first ever Greatest Hits tour.
A source told The Sun: 'Madonna is trying something completely new — and really giving fans, young and old, what they want.
'She wants to capitalise on tracks like Frozen and Material Girl popping off on TikTok, and introduce her back catalogue to an entirely new generation.
'Previously she has always wanted to be forward-facing and focus on whatever new album she's plugging. But now, in her mid-sixties, she is going back to basics and once again reinventing herself.'
It's thought that the show's will be 'no-holds barred and suitably risqué' as Madonna's prior shows, with the star no stranger to raunchy displays on social media.
Madonna's previous tour saw her perform at significantly smaller theatre venues, but for this Greatest Hits tour she is expected to take to the stage and huge stadiums.
Last year, Madonna hinted that she was ready to get back on the road and tour again, telling Variety: 'I want to go on tour again, I'm a creature of the stage. That is my happy place.'
Madonna last took to the stage in London's O2 Arena during her Rebel Heart tour in 2015, the same year she famously took a tumble during a performance at the BRIT Awards.
While Madonna performed at 75 theatre venues during her Madame X tour, she was forced to cancel several shows due to recurring hip and knee injuries.
She first took to the road to tour around the UK in 1987, with her Who's That Girl World Tour.
Her performances have been no stranger to controversy, having famously angered the Catholic Church in 1990 when she simulated masturbation on stage, leading Pop John Paul II to call for a boycott of her Blonde Ambition tour.
It was during that same tour that Madonna donned her now-iconic Jean Paul Gaultier conical bra during a sell-out show in Japan.
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In 2006 she also infuriated the Church of England by staging a mock crucifixion during her Confessions tour in LA.
It comes after Madonna was scarcely recognisable in the latest racy offerings she uploaded to her Instagram page.
She decked herself out in bondage gear including a busty sheer lace top and flounced around her bed, biting down seductively on a riding crop.
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