Pop icons Madonna and Kylie Minogue duet on stage for International Women's Day

What a performance

Kylie Minogue / Madonna
Author: Anna Sky MagliolaPublished 11th Mar 2024

When it comes to music royalty you can't get much bigger than Madonna and Kylie Minogue, and in celebration of International Women's Day, the pair united on stage to perform Kylie's hit 'Can't Get You Out of My Head', and a cover of Gloria Gaynor's 'I Will Survive', while Madonna played the guitar in front of the thousands watching.

Madonna was performing at the Kia Forum near Los Angeles as part of her 'Celebration' tour, and took to the stage wearing cowboy boots and a leather jacket, while Kylie had leather-style snake-skin patterned trousers and a black vest top, with Madonna's name written on it in silver.

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Kylie also took to Instagram to share a video of herself watching Madonna on stage, while she danced amongst the crowd, to Madonna's 'Ray of Light', making her way towards the stage.

This performance marks the first time Madonna and Kylie have performed live together on stage, despite the pair both being in the music industry for many decades.

Kylie's outfit was reminiscent of the iconic top Madonna worn back in 2000 to perform at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Stockholm in Sweden, with Kylie's name written on it (shown on the last slide below).

Fans and celebrities couldn't believe the Queen and Princess of Pop had united on stage, with pop star Rita Ora writing: 'Icons only', and fashion designer Donatella Versace commenting: 'Two iconic superstars! Proud to call you my friends 💖💖💖💖'.

Another fan wrote: 'QUEENS OF THE UNIVERSE!!'.

While Kylie Minogue recently picked up a Global Icon Award at this year's BRIT Awards, and was honoured with a Barbie on International Women's Day, Madonna will continue her the North American leg of her 'Celebration' tour after it was postponed from last year, due to her health scare.

You can hear songs by Kylie Minogue and Madonna on Greatest Hits Radio.

Take a look through Madonna's 'Celebration' tour in numbers:

Madonna's The Celebration Tour in numbers

1 Queen-sized Madonna flag outside the O2 Arena
6 Sold out nights in London
4 Rehearsal venues

Madonna's The Celebration Tour in numbers

17 Archived costumes recreated
50 Merch items including vintage recreations of iconic items from previous tours such as the Blond Ambition Bomber Jacket
40 Pairs of boxing gloves

Madonna's The Celebration Tour in numbers

24 Onstage performers
1 Extraordinary drag queen
8th Tour partnering with director Jamie King
1 Stuart Price reunion (producer)
4 of Madonna's children on stage

Madonna's The Celebration Tour in numbers

4 Decades of unstoppable hits – prepare to dance your ass off!
330 Million albums sold, still the best-selling female artist of all time

Madonna's The Celebration Tour in numbers

4,400 square feet of stage, the largest for any Madonna tour. Inspired by the grid of Manhattan with Uptown, Downtown, Midtown, East and West stages.
3 Layered circular stage where the traditional main stage would be, inspired by the wedding cake of Madonna's original VMA performance.
230 Feet of combined length of catwalk that gets Madonna 105feet far into the venue.

Madonna's The Celebration Tour in numbers

14 Spotlights for Madonna and over 600 intelligent lights to light the stage and arena with over 8800 lighting cues
3600 Square feet of projection imagery to the show. The most amount of video ever used in a Madonna show.
30 Feet off the ground - Madonna is transported around the arena in an illuminated portal frame that acts as a time machine allowing her to move at 1.5 feet per second, 80 feet across and 130 feet down the length of the arena designed to symbolise looking into the past, present and towards the future.

Madonna's The Celebration Tour in numbers

3 Physical therapists
8 Humidifiers in Madonna's dressing room
1 Bottle of MDNA Rose Mist Spray in each quick-change space
200+ Traveling crew – 25 in the costume department alone

Madonna's The Celebration Tour in numbers

13th Culture shaping tour
15 Countries
78 Shows

Madonna's The Celebration Tour in numbers

80 Tons of production equipment
3700 Amps of show power
3 Traveling mobile gyms
45 Wardrobe trunks

Madonna's The Celebration Tour in numbers

AND ONLY 1 MADONNA

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