Madonna recently announced a career-spanning greatest hits tour.

An official press release announced that the upcoming concerts "will take us on Madonna's journey

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through four decades of her career, paying lip service to the city of New York where she began her funnel

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The tour will begin in July in Vancouver, Canada, with the options in New York, Barcelona, Paris

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and Stockholm in addition to concluding in Amsterdam on 1 December.

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Only one date has been announced for the UK so far, at London's O2 Arena on 14 October.

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However, her calendar is vacant one week on either side of her earliest available date

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suggesting more shows will be released when that date sells out.

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