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3500 Number of individual wardrobe elements for tour

653 Hours of rehearsal time for Madonna and band

250 Number of travelling personnel

200 Triangle sponges used to apply makeup

180 Q - Tips used for entire tour (3 per night)

Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour Kicks Off This Saturday In Cardiff

Madonna, currently putting the finishing touches to her fabulous new Sticky & Sweet Show in Cardiff, is readying herself and the 250 travelling personnel for the opening night this Saturday at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.

Iconers, Madonna has reviewed all of the t - shirt designs submitted through our first contest and has chosen her favourite ones! If your name is listed below, congratulations, you've won a pair of the best tickets available in the house and will be Madonna's special guest at the show you've selected!
Don't forget that a new contest will start on August 21 and will allow you to win tickets to the Dusseldorf, Rome, Frankfurt, London and Lisbon shows!

We are happy to confirm that Madonna's 'sticky & Sweet' tour will stop at Rio De Janeiro's Maracana Stadium on December 14th and at Sao Paulo's Morumbi on December 18th!

A fan club devoted presale for both shows will start on Wednesday, August 20th at 10am Local Time.

Public registration will start on August 20 and end on August 29. Tickets for the Rio De Janeiro show will go on sale Monday, September 1st while the Sao Paulo ones will be available from Wednesday, September 3rd.

A second Boston show was just added to the "Sticky & Sweet" Tour itinerary and will take place at the TD Banknorth Garden on October 16.
Tickets will go on sale Monday, August 25th, at 10am Local Time.
A fan club devoted presale will start on Tuesday, August 19 at 10am LOCAL TIME.

We are happy to confirm that Madonna's "Sticky & Sweet"" Tour will stop at Detroit's Ford Field on November 18!

Tickets for this newly added show will go on sale Saturday, August 23 at 10am Local Time.

A devoted Icon presale will start on Tuesday, August 19 at 10am Local Time.

Iconers, we have some good news for you! To thank you for your incredible
support, Madonna has decided to keep the best tickets available to each of
her "Sticky & Sweet" shows, which will be given away through an exclusive
contest series starting today!

Madonna's "Give It 2 Me" was released as a 8 tracks CD maxi-single in the USA yesterday, August 5.
It includes amazing club remixes by Paul Oakenfold, Fedde Le Grand, Eddie Amador, Tong & Spoon, Jody den Broeder, as well as stunning ragga version of the song by Sly & Robbie.
Click here to order your copy from Amazon now.

She might be known worldwide as the Material Girl, but There's more than a little of the small - town Michigan girl left in Madonna.

The pop superstar arrived in this northern Michigan resort town Saturday to introduce her documentary, "I Am Because We Are," a highlight of the Traverse City Film Festival. The event was co - founded by filmmaker, author and fellow Michigan native Michael Moore.

Hundreds of fans cheered from behind barricades as Madonna, wearing a black dress, high heels and sunglasses, stepped out of a black sport utility vehicle that pulled up in front of the State Theatre. She hugged a waiting Moore, who sported an orange baseball cap, and posed for photos with him.

Madonna and Moore shared the stage at the theater before a screening of the movie, which deals with the orphans of Malawi, the African nation where she and husband Guy Ritchie adopted a son.

"It's great bringing my movie to a place that I feel familiar," Madonna told the audience. "Not like the Cannes Film Festival, where nobody's speaking English, or the Tribeca Film Festival, where no one sits down.

"There's something poetic about coming back to the place where I used to come for holidays - camping trips with my dad and stepmother and my very large family," said the 49 - year - old singer, born to the southeast in Bay City and raised in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills.

Madonna was accompanied by her 11 - year - old daughter, Lourdes, and the film's director, Nathan Rissman.

Moore, who won an Oscar for his 2002 documentary "Bowling for Columbine," said he was humbled to be able to call Madonna a friend.
"She has such an incredible heart and such a generous spirit," he said. "She does so much out of the glare of the lights to make the world a better place."

Madonna had praise of her own for Moore, 54, a Flint - area native who has a home near Traverse City.
"There aren't a lot of role models for us in the world, or people we can look up to," she said. "People who are not afraid to stick their neck out, people who are not afraid to stand up for things and be unpopular, to go against the grain, think outside the box.
"And we need, and I need, Michael Moore in my life."

Source: AP

Dear Friends,

Issue #49 of Icon Magazine has just been released and is available for instant download from the "Exclusives" section of the site! This new issue includes exclusive interviews, behind the scenes pictures and everything you need to know and see about "Hard Candy" and "4 Minutes". While you can download your digital copy from the site, you will soon be able to also order your printed copy of it. More details to be announced next week.

With all of the new projects and releases announced during the past few months, we wanted for the magazine to cover all of them in a detailed way and to stick to its original purpose, which is to remain your very own Madonna archive. That is why issue #50 will follow shortly, featuring all of the pictures and info about "Give It 2 Me", the "HARD CANDY" Promo Tour as well as Madonna's 2008 'sticky & Sweet' World Tour and more!

Happy Reading!
xo
Johann

We are happy to announce that Madonna's 'Sticky & Sweet' Tour will stop at Valencia's Circuito Ricardo Tormo Cheste on September 18.
Tickets will go on sale Friday, July 18th at 10AM local time.
A devoted Fan Club presale will start today, Wednesday, July 16th, at 2PM, LOCAL TIME.

We are happy to confirm that French DJ Bob Sinclar will be the opening act for Madonna's 'Sticky & Sweet' shows in Paris on September 20 and 21.

After European hits such as 'Feel For You' and 'The Beat Goes on', back in the late 90's, Sinclar also released the amazing 'Love Generation' and 'World Hold On' singles, which hit the top of the charts in most European countries.

Make sure to join him in September for some exclusive sets! While the September 20 show in Paris is sold out, a few tickets are still available for the September 21st one. Just click here to access the tour page.

Madonna's Official Street Team has just launched a new mission allowing you to win a signed "4 Minutes" vinyl single.

For more info or to join the official street team, just click here.

Italians fans, we are happy to announce that one of the most successful Italian DJs will be the opening act for Madonna's 'Sticky & Sweet' show in Rome.

Benny Benassi, the guy behind club hits like 'Satisfaction' or 'Make Me Feel' will perform an exclusive live set at Rome's Olympic Stadium on September 6th!

If you've already ordered your tickets, then you took the right decision as the Rome show is now sold out.

See you at the show!

Madonna's "Give It 2 Me" video was just added to VH1's Top 20 Video Countdown. Wanna make it number 1?

Click here to visit VH1's website and to cast your vote!