Madonna's biggest-ever concert transforms Rio's Copacabana beach into a massive dance floor

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Madonna put on a free concert on Copacabana beach, turning Rio de Janeiro's vast stretch of sand into an enormous dance floor teeming with a multitude of her fans.

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It was the last show of The Celebration Tour, her first retrospective, which kicked off in October in London.

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The “Queen of Pop” began the show with her 1998 hit “Nothing Really Matters.”

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Helicopters and drones flew overhead, and motorboats and sailboats anchored off the beach filled the bay.

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An estimated 1.6 million people attended the show.That is more than 10 times Madonna’s record attendance of 130,000 at Paris’ Parc des Sceaux in 1987. Madonna's official website hyped the show as the biggest ever in her four-decade career.

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