Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show - Madonna

[HolidayGuy]

Nightline was a half-hour, Disco. ;) But, yes- that showed, though, the power of Madonna at the time.

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/record-labels/chart-moves-madonna-s-sales-surge-michael-1006152552.story

Chart Moves: Madonna's Sales Surge

Madonna: The diva made the most of her Super Bowl halftime show performance on Feb. 5. The mega-gig came two days after her new single and video for "Give Me All Your Luvin'" (featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A.) debuted and two days before the announcement of her upcoming world tour on Feb. 7. Further, iTunes launched an exclusive preorder campaign for her new album, "MDNA" (due March 26 on Live Nation/Interscope), on Feb. 3.

Madonna's catalog of older albums had a 410% gain in sales in the week that ended at the close of business on Feb. 5 (moving from 5,000 to 26,000), while her catalog track sales surged by 214% (going from 30,000 to 94,000). That latter figure doesn't includes sales of "Give Me All Your Luvin'," which debuts on the Digital Songs chart at No. 7 with 115,000.

Madonna's biggest-selling album of the last week was her "Celebration" hits set, which re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 24 with 16,000 (up 1,341%). Much of her catalog was sale-priced in the iTunes store for $7.99, while "Celebration" was discounted to $6.99.

[imbondz]

thank you Madonna for talking sense! Glad she spoke out about it. It does matter, for all of you who say it doesn't matter. You're welcome to flip people off all you want, but doesn't make it right or ok.

Madonna called in to Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show this morning and, of course, he asked about M.I.A's middle finger gesture at the Super Bowl halftime show.

"I wasn't happy about it. I understand it's punk rock and everything, but to me there was such a feeling of love and good energy, and positivity it seemed negative. It's one of the those things, it's such a teenager, irrelevant thing to do…there was such a feeling of love and unity there what was the point? It was just out of place."

[areyoureadytojump]

Madonna's interview with Ryan Seacrest about The Super Bowl:

www.madonnarama.com/posts-en/2012/02/10/madonna-interview-with-ryan-seacrest-kiis-fm/

The Super Bowl was the hardest thing she has ever done.

Had a pulled hamstring.

Got very emotional during LAP.

Madonna stayed at the JW Marriott, which her kids loved.

Her daughter is in love with Tom Brady.

The drum corp and the gladiators were all volunteers.

LMFAO cracks her up.

She likes Cee Lo's voice.

She chose Nicki Minaj and MIA because of their youthful energy and that they are bad asses.

There are 3 ballads on MDNA.

Britney Spears in not on her next single, Girls Gone Wild.

[felipe]

Feb 6, 2012 14:37:17 GMT -5 imbondz said:

Feb 6, 2012 12:02:58 GMT -5 allow that said:

Overall the performance was well put together and well thought out. Madonna looked great and the songs she selected to perform were spot on. In particular I loved the lead in to "Like a Prayer." The stadium looked beautiful.

I do think it was obvious that Madonna wasn't moving a whole lot. She was mostly standing there singing while all the people around her were doing the movement. She didn't actually start to really dance until LMFAO joined her onstage.

Also, the whole M.I.A. thing. Who cares? Do Americans really have nothing better to get all uptight about? I'm seeing how M.I.A. was "vulgar" all over the news. Why is it even news? Who cares? It's a little finger, big deal.

because you don't have kids. I don't want my kids watching the biggest sporting event in the world, and have to watch a nipple or a bitter english rapper giving the middle finger. it's unnecessary. what did she get out of flipping us off. makes no sense to me and I thought it was ridiculously dumb.

I assume you never saw someone giving the middle finger when you were a child.

[floridagrl]

OMG!! You guys have to watch this! It's beyond EPIC!! A dad and his two sons taped the Superbowl half=time show from their seats. You cannot appreciate the stage unless you see it from this video. Also, the commentary of this family enjoying the show is so awesome!!

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Fnif2inspZM#!

[HolidayGuy]

Yes- great view. Love how she showed the images of all the Hollywood legends mentioned in "Vogue."

There are some adorable videos on YouTube of babies/toddlers dancing while watching the halftime show. Even during "Give Me All Your Luvin'."

Her Madgesty tapping into a new generation of fans.

[allow that]

At the Brit Awards, Adele gave the middle finger as a joke when the presenters cut her acceptance speech short. It was on national TV in the UK and it was met by the crowd as subtle humor. Imagine if she did that on US TV? It should be no different, but the Super Bowl incident proved it would have been made a big deal of.

Crazy that M.I.A.'s finger sparked more controversy than the "Birthday Cake" remix. I think that's a startling statement on American society.

[HolidayGuy]

Madonna had cussed on a UK program some years ago (Turner Prize, I believe), and it was a "big deal" in the press. Maybe language in the UK is as offensive as it is elsewhere.

[popstop]

Give the Birthday Cake remix some time. It's not like 140 million people are all listening to the remix at once as was the case with MIA's deal.

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I don't think the US would have made as big a deal about it if it had been Adele at say, the Grammys, for three reasons.

1. I think Adele's personality for those familiar with her allow her to 'get away with it' more than most people could. It's easier to tell she was joking whereas with MIA, the little we in the US do know about her indicates that she courts controversy, so a lot of people took her way too seriously - there were articles reaching so far as to say MIA was purposely flipping off America and everything it stands for, b/c (see reason #2)
2. The venues would have been different...the Brit equivalent would have been the Grammys and people wouldn't have reacted to a bird there as if someone just pissed on the flag in front of them; the Super Bowl is treated as a singularly American event and while the whole 'controversy' was just stupid (but I won't rehash that), the patriotic meaning we bestow on the SB definitely makes it easier to take extreme exception to what otherwise is a vaguely disrespectful gesture aimed at no one in particular.
3. Adele is also in a much better, almost universally beloved place with us right now than MIA ever was or ever will be, and in the US when you're on the right side of the celebrity-obsession pendulum then you're pretty much treated as if you can do no wrong. I think it would have given the junkets something to talk about for a few days but They would have discussed the fact that she clearly meant it as a joke and she either didn't realize she was still on camera, or probably forgot or was unaware of the different decency rules in the US. She wouldn't get nearly the flack that MIA did b/c the US loves Adele right now and are willing to believe everything she does is with good-natured intentions.

News of the BC and TUTM remixes hasn't trickled out to the non-internet masses yet and it doesn't seem like either is going to be put up for sale (in fact signs tentatively point to Rihanna going behind her label's back to do this) so I kind of don't expect a major public uproar over that. I suspect Rihanna's backlash, when it starts to happen, will be more gradual and spread out over the course of the rest of this era and next - possibly gradual enough that most people won't think to trace it back to the remixes and will simply write it off as a pop star finally reaching her point of decline. But IMO this is going to mark a shift in how she is perceived, even if it's indirect (ex., radio PDs being less inclined to put her in power rotation, gossip shows/mags taking on a negative tone when talking about her, possibly even her own label and management not wanting to work as hard for her b/c they find her 'difficult' or uncooperative and this is the last straw, etc.). Unlike MIA, Rihanna's problem is not going to be the public reaction so much as it is the reaction of industry insiders, whom she needs on her side to reach those masses in a good light. She is splitting some people here and that is bound to have some affect on her at some point.