Madonna announces biggest-ever world tour

The Material Girl will hopscotch around the globe in support of her 12th studio album “MDNA” which comes out March 26, even as her second feature film, the romantic drama “W.E.,” struggles to impress critics and draw audiences.

In a statement, concert promoter Live Nation Entertainment said the as-yet unnamed tour — Madonna's first since her wildly successful “Sticky and Sweet” outing in 2008 and 2009 — would kick off March 29 in Tel Aviv.

She will go on to perform in Abu Dhabi and Istanbul, before starting a 22-city swing through Europe in Zagreb on June 11 that will include Paris, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Moscow and Milan.

Madonna will be in Oslo on Aug. 15, the day before her 54th birthday.

The 26-city North American leg begins August 28 in Philadelphia, and includes open-air gigs in Quebec City's Plains of Abraham park on Sept. 1 and New York's Yankee Stadium on Sept. 6.

“The tour will also visit South America and Australia,” Live Nation said, with dates to be announced. There was no mention of any gigs in Asia.

“It will be big and can get bigger,” Live Nation's chief executive Arthur Fogel told music news website Billboard.com, adding that production for the tour was in the conceptual stages.

Curiously, Madonna's hometown Detroit was missing from Tuesday's list, although Live Nation teased that “additional cities and venues” are in the pipeline.

Fogel told Billboard.com that the tour — to wrap up in Australia early next year — would be Madonna's biggest yet with close to 90 concerts, compared with 85 for “Sticky and Sweet.”

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