US pop singer Madonna (C) performs during her concert of the "Sticky and Sweet" world tour in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 5, 2008.Madonna's "Sticky & Sweet" concert tour was the highest-grossing music tour of 2008 in North America, raking in 105.3 million U.S. dollars, according to media reports Wednesday.
The Material Girl, whose 58-show world tour finished in Brazil last week,
Celine Dion came in second, taking 94 million dollars on her first U.S. tour since her five-year residency in Las Vegas, and The Eagles took third place, with more than 73 million dollars for their tour to support possibly their last studio album "Long Road out of Eden."
Country music star Kenny Chesney (72.2 million dollars) and rock band Bon Jovi (70.4 million dollars) came in fourth and fifth.
The Top 10 grossing tours of North America were rounded out by Bruce Springsteen and the E street band (69.3 million dollars), Neil Diamond (59.8 million dollars), Rascal Flatts (55.8 million dollars), The Police (48.0 million dollars) and veteran rocker Tina Turner (47.7 million dollars).
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