 After the tour was announced , the first two shows at Wembley Stadium in London sold @-@ out at a then record @-@ breaking time of 18 hours and 9 minutes for 144 @,@ 000 tickets . However around 10 @,@ 000 concert tickets were still left unsold for her Leeds concert . Madonna 's concert in Paris in front of 130 @,@ 000 fans remains to this date , her biggest concert audience ever and largest crowd of any concert in French history . A concert was also planned in Basel , Switzerland for August 31 , 1987 , but negotiations between Madonna 's management and local organizers failed due to the high fee of one million ( $ 2 @.@ 08 million in 2016 dollars ) that Madonna 's camp demanded . As a result , Nice , France was booked in the itinerary . But when a local mayor threatened to cancel the concert , citing crowd problems , Jacques Chirac , then Mayor of Paris , stepped in to overrule him . Her first @-@ ever Italian concert in Turin , was presented by the Italian state broadcaster RaiUno and broadcast around the world . Just in Italy , the show was watched by around 14 million households . The show at Turin was watched by 65 @,@ 000 fans and was a record there . 
