The sky-high cost of a brief backstage encounter with Madonna

THE pop queen is offering fans a meet-and-greet at an upcoming concert — but the price tag means only the richest of the rich could possibly afford it.

UNLIKE many of her pop peers, Madonna isn’t usually one to offer meet-and-greet packages for her concert tours.

She hardly needs to — while stars like Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez can charge up to a couple of thousand dollars for fans to get a quick backstage photo and handshake, making touring all the more lucrative for them, Madonna’s recent Rebel Heart tour grossed $US169 million without the queen of pop having to endure a single fan meet-and-greet.

Madonna’s known for her sky-high ticket prices, but this takes the cake. Picture: Zak Kaczmarek/Getty Images

She’s breaking her rule for an upcoming one-off gig, though — but the price for a meeting with Madge is so prohibitive only her super-rich fans could dream of it.

On December 2 in Miami Beach, Madonna will perform ‘An Evening of Music, Art, Mischief & Live Performance’ — thought to be the same intimate late-night show she played at Melbourne’s Forum during her recent Australian tour — for an audience of just 400 fans.

Tickets for the show have been sold for $US5000 — an eye-watering price, but one in aid of a good cause: the concert is a benefit for her Raising Malawi charity.

Madonna promises music, art and mischief with her upcoming show. Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty Images

And if you’d like the briefest of meetings with the Queen of Pop herself? You’ll have to buy the package giving you a table for 10 people. Just four of those people will be allowed into a VIP cocktail reception for a meet-and-greet with Madonna. “All yours for just $US150,000,” the Miami Herald reports.

In Aussie dollars, that’s almost 200k — a price tag that puts even the priciest top-tier tickets to her 2016 Australian tour to shame.

If the show Madonna has planned is similar to her intimate Tears of a Clown Melbourne concert, it’ll be one for the hardcore fans: in Melbourne, she arrived on stage four hours late dressed as a clown and riding a toy tricycle, before singing a largely acoustic set of ballads and album tracks.