page_title: Confessions Tour
section_title: Broadcasts and recordings
hierarchical_section_title: Confessions Tour / Broadcasts and recordings
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo taken at the concert
context_page_description: The Confessions Tour was the seventh concert tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna, launched in support of her tenth studio album, Confessions on a Dance Floor. The tour began in Inglewood, California on May 21, 2006, and ended in Tokyo, Japan on September 21 of the same year. It, additionally, marked the singer's first shows in Wales, Denmark, Czech Republic and Russia.
  The concert was divided into four parts: Equestrian, Bedouin, Glam–Punk, and Disco. Equestrian had horse-themed, bondaged performances, Bedouin had performances accompanied by messages, Glam-Punk performances had Madonna playing guitars and the final Disco segment consisted of dancing in general. The tour garnered positive appreciation from contemporary critics and commercial success. Tickets were completely sold as soon as dates and venues for the tour were announced, prompting the organizers to add more dates. After its ending, the Confessions Tour was dubbed as the highest-grossing tour ever for a female artist, grossing over US$194.7 million from 60 shows with 1.2 million spectators. It is also recognized as the highest-grossing music tour per concert in the 2007 edition of the Guinness World Records.
context_section_description: The show was filmed at the Wembley Arena, in London on August 15 and 16, 2006. After plans failed with HBO, The Confessions Tour – Live from London aired on November 22, 2006 on NBC. The television version omitted the performances of the "Sorry" video interlude, "Drowned World/Substitute for Love", "Paradise (Not For Me)" and "Lucky Star". In the United States, the performance of "Live to Tell" was censored, the broadcast displayed the video backdrop shown on the tour instead of Madonna performing on the mirrored cross. She does not appear until she has come down from it. Outside of the US, the performance was not censored. In the UK it was broadcast on Channel 4 and later on E4.
  In January 2007, Warner Bros. Records released The Confessions Tour CD+DVD package. After its release, the album reached the top of the official charts in a number of European nations while reaching the top ten in United Kingdom and Canada. It reached a peak of fifteen on the Billboard 200 albums chart in United States. At the 2008 Grammy Awards held on February 10, 2008 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, the album won an award for Best Long Form Music Video.
  A photography book by Guy Oseary, titled Madonna: Confessions was released in October 2008 during Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour. It contains over 250 never-before-seen images from the 2006 Confessions Tour with photographs from backstage and during the show. All author proceeds from the book will be donated to Raising Malawi. On January 13, 2013, MTV broadcast a high definition version of The Confessions Tour – Live from London special for the very first time at 00:00 AM (CET time) with more scheduled broadcasts at 7 AM and 10 AM CET the following days.
caption: Madonna and her dancers performing the mashup of "Music" and "Disco Inferno" during the final Disco segment.
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