The Immaculate Rankdown | Madonna (Revealing...)

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The Immaculate Rankdown

1. Inverse Point system will be used (i.e. rank singles 1-85, and albums 1-14 based on your preference)
2. You must rank all the singles (if there's a remix you prefer, you can use that for your ranking instead, you don't have to specify whether you did)
3. The albums rankdown is optional
4. PM me your rankings; you do not have to submit the singles and albums rankdowns together.
5. You can also submit a top 10 list of non-singles. These can include album cuts, b-sides, official remixes, or unreleased songs. I'm planning on doing showcases throughout of her b-sides, notable remixes, and other stuff, and these would be a great guiding tool to see what people would want to be included in them. This is optional as well and can be included with the other rankdowns, or sent separately. 

As Madonna's onlymost respected and knowledgable fan on Pulse, I feel it is time to guide us through a retrospective of the Queen of Pop's vast discography. Madonna didn't make her name on one hit, or two, or ten, or even twenty, so I understand this will take some time. Currently thinking of making it due around September 10th-ish, which would be over a month, but I'm open to extending it. I'll be putting up some highlight B-sides, performances, and interviews as we get closer too.

I've included all the songs which received some sort of single release somewhere, as well as I Want You, which received a video even though the single release was ultimately cancelled. The albums are all linked to Spotify, and the singles to the videos (if they had one). Dress You Up had a live video, so I also put a link up for the album version, but you still only have to rank it once obvs lol. Likewise, the video linked for Celebration uses the Benny Benassi remix, so I added the original version as well. I might put a Spotify playlist together, but really, these songs are meant to be viewed with the video. If there's one constant about Madonna, it's that she's never been about "just" the music.

I linked the preference revealer at the bottom, as well as another site you can use to add numbers to your list before you send them in.

Enjoy!

Singles

Everybody
Burning Up
Physical Attraction
Holiday
Borderline
Lucky Star
Like A Virgin
Material Girl
Crazy For You
Angel
Into The Groove
Dress You Up + Album version
Gambler
Live To Tell
Papa Don't Preach
True Blue
Open Your Heart
La Isla Bonita
Who's That Girl
Causing A Commotion
The Look Of Love
Spotlight
Like A Prayer
Express Yourself
Cherish
Oh Father
Dear Jessie
Keep It Together
Vogue
Hanky Panky
Justify My Love
Rescue Me
This Used To Be My Playground
Erotica
Deeper And Deeper
Bad Girl
Fever
Rain
Bye Bye Baby
I'll Remember
Secret
Take A Bow
Bedtime Story
Human Nature
I Want You
You'll See + Verás
One More Chance
Love Don't Live Here Anymore
You Must Love Me
Don't Cry For Me Argentina
Another Suitcase In Another Hall
Frozen
Ray Of Light
Drowned World/Substitute For Love
The Power of Good-Bye
Nothing Really Matters
Beautiful Stranger
American Pie
Music
Don't Tell Me
What It Feels Like For A Girl + Album Version + Lo Que Siente La Mujer
Die Another Day
American Life
Hollywood
Me Against The Music (Britney Spears f/ Madonna)
Nothing Fails
Love Profusion
Hung Up
Sorry
Get Together
Jump
Hey You
4 Minutes (f/ Justin Timberlake & Timbaland)
Give It 2 Me
Miles Away
Celebration + Album Version
Revolver (f/ Lil Wayne)
Give Me All Your Luvin' (f/ Nicki Minaj & M.I.A.)
Girl Gone Wild
Masterpiece
Turn Up The Radio
Living For Love
Ghosttown
Bitch I'm Madonna (f/ Nicki Minaj)
Hold Tight

Albums
Madonna
Like A Virgin
True Blue
Like A Prayer
I'm Breathless
Erotica
Bedtime Stories
Ray Of Light
Music
American Life
Confessions On A Dance Floor
Hard Candy
MDNA
Rebel Heart

Preference Revealer

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[Caviar]

Thanks for the tag but I'm not familiar with her catalog. However please tag me for the reveal.

[#LisaRinna]

[Leo ✔]

This is THE Rankdown. I'll try to participate, her catalog is giant, but I don't know few songs.

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Jul 28, 2017 8:21:35 GMT -5 #LisaRinna said:

[alexcuse]

Yes finally!

[bat1990]

B****, C###, M$#%^$F%&$%*

I was going to do this one next!!!!

That said, I'll happily participate and NOT have to do all the calculations myself


EDIT:
The first difficult choice on the Preference Revealer: Like a Prayer vs Into The Groove

[🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾]

I'll send in a list soon.

I wanted to do a Madonna one as well but I know someone else had already indicated that they wished to.

I have some other Madonna ones that I'd like to do in the future that are very specific and aren't as long.

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Jul 28, 2017 9:18:27 GMT -5 bat1990 said:

B****, C###, M$#%^$F%&$%*

I was going to do this one next!!!!

That said, I'll happily participate and NOT have to do all the calculations myself


EDIT:
The first difficult choice on the Preference Revealer: Like a Prayer vs Into The Groove

Do MJ! (I don't think there's been an MJ rankdown, right?)

I might do this one...I tend to procrastinate until it's too late to not let my schedule and ADD get the best of me (hence why me and longer rankdowns almost never make it), but I will bookmark this anyway.

[bat1990]

Jul 28, 2017 9:40:11 GMT -5 @antigonerising said:

Jul 28, 2017 9:18:27 GMT -5 bat1990 said:

B****, C###, M$#%^$F%&$%*

I was going to do this one next!!!!

That said, I'll happily participate and NOT have to do all the calculations myself


EDIT:
The first difficult choice on the Preference Revealer: Like a Prayer vs Into The Groove

Do MJ! (I don't think there's been an MJ rankdown, right?)

I might do this one...I tend to procrastinate until it's too late to not let my schedule and ADD get the best of me (hence why me and longer rankdowns almost never make it), but I will bookmark this anyway.

I didn't think of that actually.....*ponders*

Whitney and Robyn were the others on my list. Tina Turner and Stevie Nicks also.

[boysilver400]

I'm sitting out on this one.

[jtd Thee Stallion]

Jul 28, 2017 8:12:29 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Thanks for the tag but I'm not familiar with her catalog. However please tag me for the reveal.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

I will do this one! I thought about hosting this but since I already did a Madonna countdown here a few years back, that still feels fresh.

Tag me until I submit to you.

#thatswhathesaid?

[Juanca]

As another huge Madonna fan for over 30 years I'm definitely doing this one!!!
I'd suggest you include Sidewalk Talk too. I know she wasn't officially credited in US... back home in Peru she was though :) and I can think it was like that in other Latin countries looking at how huge she was then

Also, as I'm seeing songs like Hey You I remembered that Amazing reached the top 10 of the World Chart Show, so I guess it did receive airplay in enough radios to reach that high position. Below a link with the year-end chart with Amazing there:
chartsaroundtheworld.com/2001/12/31/world-chart-show-year-end-chart-2001/

Also, The Beat Goes On was a single in a few countries, including Brazil where it sold quite a beat ;)

I understand that dance singles like Impressive Instant and Nobody Knows Me aren't included either.... likely because they were US-based... it's worth noting that the single CD was a double-A of Nothing Fails and NKM. Of course no problem if no added. Just felt that both felt a bit bigger than a couple of other songs in the list.

Finally, suggest you add the video of Verás alongside You'll See, as the Spanish single and video combo contributed to it becoming a relevant hit in Spanish-speaking markets (including Spanish-only radio stations)

[bat1990]

No more songs. "Sidewalk Talk" sucks anyway and would be in the bottom 10 or 15.

[Sambalada]

HARDEST. RANKDOWN. EVER.

[Mirago]

OH YES!!

[Albie]

No "Think of Me" or "Where's the Party"??


bat1990 Whitney please!

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Jul 28, 2017 12:31:58 GMT -5 Juanca said:

As another huge Madonna fan for over 30 years I'm definitely doing this one!!!
I'd suggest you include Sidewalk Talk too. I know she wasn't officially credited in US... back home in Peru she was though :) and I can think it was like that in other Latin countries looking at how huge she was then

Also, as I'm seeing songs like Hey You I remembered that Amazing reached the top 10 of the World Chart Show, so I guess it did receive airplay in enough radios to reach that high position. Below a link with the year-end chart with Amazing there:
chartsaroundtheworld.com/2001/12/31/world-chart-show-year-end-chart-2001/

Also, The Beat Goes On was a single in a few countries, including Brazil where it sold quite a beat ;)

I understand that dance singles like Impressive Instant and Nobody Knows Me aren't included either.... likely because they were US-based... it's worth noting that the single CD was a double-A of Nothing Fails and NKM. Of course no problem if no added. Just felt that both felt a bit bigger than a couple of other songs in the list.

Finally, suggest you add the video of Verás alongside You'll See, as the Spanish single and video combo contributed to it becoming a relevant hit in Spanish-speaking markets (including Spanish-only radio stations)

I added links to Verás and Lo Que Siente La Mujer (along with the album version for the latter).

I've already started receiving submissions, so I'm not going to be adding to the list. I did use the wikipedia listings and chose not to use the 'other charted songs' section. That's where The Beat Goes On was listed. 

In addition to the sheer size of her singles discography, one of the reasons I opted to omit the Club releases was that the versions promoted there were remixes and not the album versions. So that's why Nobody Knows Me, Impressive Instant, Mother and Father, and Buenos Aires (as well as my personal favorite Sky Fits Heaven) aren't included. The GHV2 megamix and the You Can Dance album cuts that were collectively pushed there were left out too.

Jul 28, 2017 15:50:46 GMT -5 Albie said:

No "Think of Me" or "Where's the Party"??


bat1990 Whitney please!

Those were B-sides, so they weren't included. I actually considered doing a separate rankdown of her B-side only tracks (Ain't No Big Deal, Supernatural, Let Down Your Guard, etc.), but decided to just showcase them in the end as we went along since there weren't that many of them.

I was between Whitney and Madonna for the one I wanted to do, but chose Madonna in the end.

[Juanca]

Jul 28, 2017 16:04:39 GMT -5 Glove Slap said:

Jul 28, 2017 12:31:58 GMT -5 Juanca said:

As another huge Madonna fan for over 30 years I'm definitely doing this one!!!
I'd suggest you include Sidewalk Talk too. I know she wasn't officially credited in US... back home in Peru she was though :) and I can think it was like that in other Latin countries looking at how huge she was then

Also, as I'm seeing songs like Hey You I remembered that Amazing reached the top 10 of the World Chart Show, so I guess it did receive airplay in enough radios to reach that high position. Below a link with the year-end chart with Amazing there:
chartsaroundtheworld.com/2001/12/31/world-chart-show-year-end-chart-2001/

Also, The Beat Goes On was a single in a few countries, including Brazil where it sold quite a beat ;)

I understand that dance singles like Impressive Instant and Nobody Knows Me aren't included either.... likely because they were US-based... it's worth noting that the single CD was a double-A of Nothing Fails and NKM. Of course no problem if no added. Just felt that both felt a bit bigger than a couple of other songs in the list.

Finally, suggest you add the video of Verás alongside You'll See, as the Spanish single and video combo contributed to it becoming a relevant hit in Spanish-speaking markets (including Spanish-only radio stations)

I added links to Verás and Lo Que Siente La Mujer (along with the album version for the latter).

I've already started receiving submissions, so I'm not going to be adding to the list. I did use the wikipedia listings and chose not to use the 'other charted songs' section. That's where The Beat Goes On was listed. 

In addition to the sheer size of her singles discography, one of the reasons I opted to omit the Club releases was that the versions promoted there were remixes and not the album versions. So that's why Nobody Knows Me, Impressive Instant, Mother and Father, and Buenos Aires (as well as my personal favorite Sky Fits Heaven) aren't included. The GHV2 megamix and the You Can Dance album cuts that were collectively pushed there were left out too.

Thanks for adding the links to the Spanish videos she's the only superstar that's always had a heart for Latinos (followed by Mariah) so it's good to see that further highlighted in the RD.
I hear you with the club versions and less popular songs (I love SFH too! ) and the fact that some people already submitted their lists. Maybe people can submit their 5 favorite extra songs like in other RDs? Just as an option. It could be interesting to see :)

Anyway. Just suggestions. THANKS for doing this rankdown!!!! Look forward to looking at the results. Should be fun!!

[Albie]

Thanks Glove Slap. I think I'd always thought they were singles by the way my brother played them out. Especially "Think of Me". Love that one!

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Jul 28, 2017 16:12:58 GMT -5 Juanca said:

Maybe people can submit their 5 favorite extra songs like in other RDs? Just as an option. It could be interesting to see :)

That's a great idea! I added a 5th point about it and made it a top 10 since she has such a vast discography, and opened it up for remixes, b-sides, and unreleased songs as well.

[Juanca]

Jul 28, 2017 16:49:14 GMT -5 Glove Slap said:

Jul 28, 2017 16:12:58 GMT -5 Juanca said:

Maybe people can submit their 5 favorite extra songs like in other RDs? Just as an option. It could be interesting to see :)

That's a great idea! I added a 5th point about it and made it a top 10 since she has such a vast discography, and opened it up for remixes, b-sides, and unreleased songs as well.

Awesome!!!!
Excited for this one
I'm glad you dared to do this RD such an amazing discography

[Albie]

Trying to finish this up today but my goodness this is hard. I had to stick some in the PR and some of the match-ups I'm getting are damn near impossible. Iconic.

[Glove Slap]

I meant to update the main post with some links to single and radio versions for a few of them (Rain, Argentina, Secret, etc.) if you wanted to use them instead, I'll to it today.

Also, I'm making the deadline for submissions September 20th as of right now.

[🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾]

Just sent mine in. This was one of the hardest rankdowns I have participated in so far. I had to just put some songs in a certain position so they would be ranked. There are a few that I don't like as much and those are ranked as such. The Preference Revealer thing made things super messy because certain songs that I wouldn't rank so low were all the way at the bottom. One of my top 10s was in the bottom based on how it did things. I altered my rankings accordingly.

[Unhinged]

In.

[Illusions]

I'll be doing mine this week. :)

[alexcuse]

Have to echo everyone else here that this is super difficult (and I'm nowhere close). The super tricky part for myself (and really all of us) is our music tastes and current presences in 2017 is very different than when we were young growing up. At various different stages of our lives, I have memories of different specific Madonna songs being my favorites at those different times. So it's almost impossible to rank with the proper balance and perspective.

Song A may be one of my favorite songs at age 5 but if currently in 2017 I would prefer to listen to Song B but I don't consider it to ever be one of my favorites, I have to rank Song A higher right? And then say Song C was one of my favorites at age 15, how do I rank it against Song A?

[Glove Slap]

Reminder tag. Thanks to everyone who already submitted their lists!

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