Sticky & Sweet Tour | ||||
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Live album by Madonna | ||||
Released | March 26, 2010 | |||
Recorded | December 7–8, 2008 | |||
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River Plate Stadium (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
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Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 62:14 (CD) 138:54 (DVD) |
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Label | Warner Bros. | |||
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Allmusic | |
Bloomberg Television | |
Canada.com | |
Digital Spy | |
Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
The Independent | |
The Irish Times | favorable |
Rolling Stone | |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | favorable |
Sticky & Sweet Tour is the third live album by American singer and songwriter Madonna. It was released on March 26, 2010 by Warner Bros. Records. The album was released on DVD, Blu-ray and CD formats. The tour was filmed at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the 2008 leg of Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour. The album contains the performances from the tour, and thirteen songs in CD format, accompanied by photography by Guy Oseary. Before the official release, the show was broadcast on VH1 and was produced by Madonna's production company Semtex Films.
Madonna commented that she had not been able to focus on the development of the DVD as she was involved with the development of her directorial venture, titled W.E. Upon its release, Sticky & Sweet Tour received mixed reviews from critics, with one group criticizing it for being lifeless, while others praised the album for the performances. It became Madonna's 19th top-ten album on the Billboard 200, while reached the top of the charts in Greece, Hungary, Mexico and Portugal. The album also reached the top-ten in the charts of Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Japan, Sweden and Switzerland, but had failed to reach the top-ten in Germany and the United Kingdom.
The album was originally announced as Sticky & Sweet by Madonna's official website on January 12, 2010, with artwork depicting this title. This was later changed to Sticky & Sweet Tour and the packaging design was slightly altered with the additional wording, although the DVD and Blu-ray menu screen retains the original title announced. The album included 30 minutes of exclusive footage, filmed behind the scenes during the course of the tour. The release included "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" which was only performed at the River Plate Stadium concerts. The photography used on the front cover is by Guy Oseary and is included in his book Madonna: Sticky & Sweet. The imagery is from the video interlude section of "Die Another Day" and has been slightly altered, removing the dancers on stage in the mock-boxing ring. The filmed tour footage was broadcast on VH1 on April 2, 2010, just a few days after the official release.