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Our contest allowing 10 lucky Iconers + their guest to attend Madonna's Soundcheck Party in Werchter on July 11th has been a huge success and we would like to thank all of you who entered!

We now have picked our winners on a random basis and out of all of the valid collected entries. Read to find out if your name was selected!

Thursday, June 11th, Tel Aviv , For Immediate Release:

DUE TO OVERWHELMING PUBLIC DEMAND, MADONNA WILL PERFORM A SECOND AND FINAL 'sTICKY & SWEET' SHOW IN TEL AVIV ON SEPTEMBER 02 2009

Madonna's visit to Israel was announced one week ago and received to great applause and spectacular demand thus leading to a second and final show for the record breaking 'sticky & Sweet' tour, promising the Israeli audience a sweet finale.

Tickets for Madonna's 'sticky & Sweet' Tour's second and final Tel Aviv show will go on sale this Friday, June 12th at 09:00 am. Tickets will be 490 NIS and will be available exclusively online at madonna.013netvision.co.il and through Castel (*8965). Members of Madonna's International fan club will also have the ability to purchase tickets for the final Sticky & Sweet performance beginning Friday, June 12th.

The 'sticky & Sweet Tour' - a stunning extravaganza gives fans a breathtaking never before seen or heard once - in - a - lifetime experience. One of the top selling touring acts of all time, Madonna's "Sticky & Sweet" tour played 58 cities last summer to critical acclaim and before over two and a half million adoring fans including sold out performances in Paris (80,000 tickets sold), Zurich (72,000 tickets sold), London (74,000 ticket sold), Vancouver (50,000 tickets sold), South America (650,000 tickets sold) and three sold out Madison Square Garden Shows in New York City.

Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour will stop in Werchter on July 11th. To celebrate her first ever performance in Belgium, Madonna has planned an exclusive Soundcheck party for her fan club members only.

Madonna.com and Spinearth.tv are giving you a chance to attend this amazing event and to become Madonna.com's offficial reporter!

If you think you have what it takes to win, just click here and enter the contest now!

Current Icon Platinum members: Please note that a contest allowing you to attend Madonna's soundcheck party in Werchter will be launched separately on Madonna.com.

Before going back on tour with Madonna early July, the sweet and talented Nicki Richards (Madonna's back - up singer) will perform a solo show at The Canal Room in New York City tomorrow, Friday June 5th. The show will start at 8pm, so if you're in New York, make sure to attend Nicki's latest solo gig!

For more info about Nicki's music and live shows, please visit her Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/nickirichards

Madonna's triumphant and record shattering 'sticky & Sweet Tour will be making its last and final stop September 1st in Tel Aviv, Israel at the Yehoshua Gardens (HaYarkon Park). Tickets will go on sale this Wednesday, June 3rd. Read the full press release!

If you've attended the 2008 leg of Madonna's 'Sticky & Sweet' Tour, then you know about talented DJ Enferno and the amazing live remixs he's been performing during the whole summer while on the road with the Material Girl.

DJ Enferno is part of the selection created by DJ Times for the 2009 America's Best DJ award and you can vote for him right now! Just visit the following page and caste your vote: http://www.djtimes.com/bestdj/vote.asp

Italian and Swedish Madonna fans, please note that 'Filth And Wisdom' will get a theatrical release in your country within the next few weeks.

The movie will be released in Sweden on May 15 and under the title of 'Sacro e Profano' in Italy on June 12.

Please check your local listings for more details.

Madonna attended the 2009 Costume Institute Gala in New York yesterday night. The Material Girl paid tribute to the gala's Honorary chair, Marc Jacobs, by sporting a blue mini dress he designed for Louis Vuitton's fall collection, along with thigh - high sexy black boots.

'The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion', the spring 2009 exhibition organized by New York's Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will take place at The Tisch Galleries from May 6 to August 9 and explores the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, focusing on iconic fashion models in the latter half of the 20th century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their respective eras.

Included as part of the exhibition are photographs by Steven Meisel, Gilles Bensimon, Patrick Demarchelier, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Lindbergh, Helmut Newton, Francesco Scavullo, Bert Stern and Ellen von Unwerth, who all got to collaborate on various Madonna photoshoots during the past years.

Photo: Getty Images

Madonna will once again be the face of the upcoming Louis Vuitton campaign for their Autumn/Winter 2009 collection.following the extraordinary success of the Spring/Summer 2009 ad campaign.

Sidewalk Talk is not about official and/or confirmed news but is devoted to Madonna - related whisperings related to her artistic career…

Madonna fans, we are happy to confirm that Madonna's 'Sticky & Sweet' Tour will stop at Zaragoza's Recinto De La Feria De Zaragoza on July 25th.

While the public ticket sale will start on April 3rd at 10am local time, please note that a devoted fan club pre sale will start on April 1st at 5pm LOCAL TIME.

We are happy to announce that Madonna's "I Am Because We Are" documentary premieres on Youtube and Hulu today.
Directed by Nathan Rissman and narrated by Madonna, "I Am Because We Are" depicts a journey in the second poorest country in the world, Malawi.

In a country of 12 million people, so many children without parents has caused irreparable damage. The film attempts to explore what is going on in the heads and hearts of these orphans, and what the future holds for them. Suffering from AIDS, infections and malnutrition, most of the children in Malawi are in need for food, medical care, but also for proper education and guidance.

More than just a story about Malawi, 'I Am Because We Are' provides the audience with keys to help changing the situation but also spreads hope for a better world.

Visit the "I Am Because We Are" Youtube channel today to watch the full documentary.
"I Am Because We Are" is also available for online streaming from Hulu (location restrictions may apply).

For more info on the documentary, please visit www.iambecauseweare.com

Madonna and Nathan Rissman's 'I Am Because We Are' documentary will be released on March 25 in France. In the meantime, Nathan attended two of the previews organized in Paris (March 3rd) and in Lille (March 5th). As the documentary's director, he took the time to answer the audience's related questions and to share his thoughts about the situation in Malawi.

Working on the project for more than 2 years and spending a lot of time with children in orphanages helped Nathan to turn the documentary into an amazing and touching story made of what those children have to deal with on a daily basis. Suffering from AIDS, infections and malnutrition, most of the children in Malawi have lost their parents and are in need for proper education and guidance.

More than just a story about Malawi, 'I Am Because We Are' provides the audience with keys to help changing the situation but also spreads hope for a better world.

For more info about 'I Am Because We Are', please visit www.iambecauseweare.com.

French Madonna fans, we are happy to announce that the 'sticky & Sweet' Tour will stop at Paris Bercy on July 9th!

A devoted fan club presale will start on March 9th at 10am LOCAL TIME for Legacy members and at Noon LOCAL TIME for newer members.

Please note that the public ticket sale will start on March 12th at 10am (online) and at 10.30am (classic outlets).

Madonna was among the winners at the 23rd edition of the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) Gold Disc Awards at Tokyo International Forum in the Yurakucho district of Tokyo. The awards, held March 2, celebrate the artists that have sold the most in sales categories that range from singles and downloads to albums and total sales.

Madonna, on the strength of her "Hard Candy" (Warner Bros) album and digital download single "Miles Away," got the Japan Gold Disc award for international artist of the year. She also won the mastertone of the year award for the same track.

Source: Billboard.biz