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Post by HolidayGuy on Mar 31, 2020 13:27:10 GMT -5
^Hasn't it been fun in recent years? Enjoyment of the Queen and her music/art shouldn't be dictated by chart stats and such when she was younger and the hits just kept on comin'.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Mar 31, 2020 19:16:58 GMT -5
New video uploaded to M's YouTube page:
The PDP video is about cross 100M views.
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Post by spiritboy on Apr 1, 2020 5:12:24 GMT -5
Madame X era was a great time to be a Madonna fan. We got a great album and some great videos. Other than this, the only time enjoyed being a Madonna fan this decade was MDNA Tour. She wowed so many of my friends and people in Turkey, i felt like a proud sister. :kii:
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Post by chartfreak on Apr 1, 2020 8:50:56 GMT -5
^Hasn't it been fun in recent years? Enjoyment of the Queen and her music/art shouldn't be dictated by chart stats and such when she was younger and the hits just kept on comin'. Well most of us came to this site because we follow the charts....hence, why it was such a fun time to be a fan when she was charting.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 1, 2020 11:35:02 GMT -5
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# MUSIC VIDEO MARCH VIEWS CUMULATIVE VIEWS
01 (=) La Isla Bonita* 10.004.773 391.054.492 02 (=) Hung Up* 6.128.004 238.002.085 03 (=) Like A Prayer* 5.091.924 113.929.915 04 (=) 4 Minutes* 3.302.670 138.265.819 05 (+1) Papa Don't Preach* 2.737.019 127.333.041 06 (-1) Frozen* 2.597.309 68.811.149 07 (+1) Vogue 2.120.368 113.332.137 08 (+1) Material Girl 1.937.458 46.521.203 09 (+3) Sorry* 1.682.447 48.653.503 10 (+1) Into The Groove 1.502.565 27.573.009
11 (-1) Like A Virgin* 1.171.397 81.615.141 12 (-5) Bitch I'm Madonna 1.119.304 315.723.890 13 (+4) The Power Of Good-Bye 1.088.615 32.147.945 14 (=) Crazy For You 954.892 26.025.750 15 (-2) Express Yourself 791.947 26.899.804
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Post by Juanca on Apr 2, 2020 0:42:06 GMT -5
Great numbers for LIB!! Should reach 400k soon.
Hope LAP and LAV pick up more views. They’re iconic for different reasons and should be much higher in the list.
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Post by josh on Apr 2, 2020 10:23:08 GMT -5
Interesting that the Erotica and Bedtime Stories videos aren’t getting many views, despite being some of the best videos of her career.
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Post by August on Apr 2, 2020 12:10:35 GMT -5
Interesting that the Erotica and Bedtime Stories videos aren’t getting many views, despite being some of the best videos of her career. Two of my all time faves are Bad Girl and Bedtime Story
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Post by chartfreak on Apr 2, 2020 15:13:25 GMT -5
Interesting that the Erotica and Bedtime Stories videos aren’t getting many views, despite being some of the best videos of her career. Take a Bow is the highest with 570,000 views in March.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Apr 2, 2020 18:19:51 GMT -5
Billboard has a feature called Greatest Pop Stars By Year: www.billboard.com/articles/news/list/9338589/greatest-pop-star-every-yearAside from the chosen Greatest Pop Star, each year also has three Honorable Mentions for Greatest Pop Star, Rookie of the Year and Comeback of the Year. These are Madonna's citations: 1984- Rookie of the Year 1985- Greatest Pop Star 1986- Honorable Mention 1989- Greatest Pop Star 1990- Honorable Mention 1998- Honorable Mention 2012- Comeback of the Year
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Post by Juanca on Apr 2, 2020 20:27:01 GMT -5
Interesting that the Erotica and Bedtime Stories videos aren’t getting many views, despite being some of the best videos of her career. Two of my all time faves are Bad Girl and Bedtime Story Same here! I don’t like BG as a song that much, but it’s my second favorite 90s video of her, behind BS :)
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Post by August on Apr 3, 2020 8:10:55 GMT -5
Two of my all time faves are Bad Girl and Bedtime Story Same here! I don’t like BG as a song that much, but it’s my second favorite 90s video of her, behind BS :) It is based on a great movie called "Looking for Mr. Goodbar." You should watch it. It is a true story about this woman here in NYC in the 1970s who lead a somewhat secret life in the evenings of picking up men and have sex with a string of them. She eventually meets the wrong man and we know what happens from there. It stars Diane Keaton, Tom Berenger, and Richard Gere. The real woman the story is based on.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 3, 2020 8:48:33 GMT -5
BILLBOARD: THE GREATEST POP STAR BY YEAR (1981-2019)www.billboard.com/articles/n...tar-every-year1985: MadonnaBY MAURA JOHNSTON By the end of 1984, Madonna had already established herself as one of the MTV era’s brightest stars, with boundary-pushing videos, underground-nodding dance-pop hits, and a writhing Video Music Awards performance that turned the then-fledgling telecast into a must-watch event. But the year after Like a Virgin’s release was owned by Madonna from back to front -- the last four weeks of the title track’s run at No. 1 on the Hot 100 opened 1985, and she followed it up with smash singles like “Material Girl” and “Angel,” her feature-film debut and first silver-screen starring role, and yet more unavoidable music videos. “Like a Virgin” hit No. 1 in December 1984 and stayed there until the end of January -- just as her Marilyn Monroe-saluting, Keith Carradine-starring video for “Material Girl” was being added to MTV’s rotation. The bouncy, sardonic track would go on to reach No. 2 and become one of Madonna’s career-defining songs, its video establishing Madonna’s blonde-ambition ideal while also showing off her more down-to-earth side. It also helped Like a Virgin reach the top of the Billboard 200 for three weeks in February, Madonna racked up another career milestone that month, when the May-December drama Vision Quest was released. In the movie, Madonna played a singer at a Spokane bar, performing “Crazy For You,” a lush, Jellybean Benitez-produced ballad that showed off Madonna’s lower range. Madonna’s star power was so strong that in some countries the movie’s title was changed to Crazy For You -- although in America, she had to settle for the soundtrack single being No. 1 on the Hot 100 for a single week in May. A month later, Madonna appeared in her first starring role in a movie, getting top billing alongside Rosanna Arquette in the hit mistaken-identity comedy Desperately Seeking Susan. The Susan Seidelman-directed ode to New York City’s bohemian enclaves featured the pop star’s “Into the Groove” in the background of a smoky club scene, although it wasn’t on the official soundtrack. At the time of Susan’s release, Madonna had two other videos still in regular rotation on MTV, and because Madonna’s label was worried about over-saturating the market, “Groove” was only released as the B-side to the glittery “Angel,” rendering it ineligible for the Hot 100. But the punchy, commanding song got an accompanying, movie-promoting visual, and became both a channel staple and a signature Madonna hit anyway -- while its “you can dance... for inspiration” koan would later inspire the title for her 1987 remix LP You Can Dance. In April 1985, Madonna embarked on her first live trek: The Virgin Tour brought Madonna’s vision of pop into arenas around North America, kicking off in Seattle and wrapping up with five shows in New York City -- three at Radio City Music Hall and two at Madison Square Garden. The video for “Dress You Up,” the final single (and fourth straight top 5 hit) from Like a Virgin, used footage of the song’s live performance from the Cobo Center in Detroit, while the home video featuring the show in its entirety, Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour, came out in November. Even while selling out arenas, Madonna remained a force in the clubs, with “Material Girl” and the double-A-sided “Into the Groove”/”Angel” single hitting No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart after “Like a Virgin” began the year at its summit. She was also a stealth (yet utterly unmistakable) presence on her frequent collaborator Jellybean Benitez’s blippy, freestyle-influenced “Sidewalk Talk,” a No. 1 dance hit and yet another crossover top 40 entry on the Hot 100 by year’s end -- a final testament to Madonna’s first year of true omnipresence
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 3, 2020 10:12:32 GMT -5
BILLBOARD: THE GREATEST POP STAR BY YEAR (1981-2019)www.billboard.com/articles/news/list/9338589/greatest-pop-star-every-year1989: MADONNABY JOE LYNCH With guitars starting to give ground and hip-hop not yet fully crossed over to a wider audience, the 1980s were the biggest decade for dance-based pop in the American mainstream. And as it came to a close, the era's biggest female pop star -- and arguably the biggest female pop star of all time -- reached a new apex in terms of artistry and impact. The year 1989 didn't start out on a high note for Madonna: After three years of marriage to Sean Penn (and a nullified 1987 divorce filing), she again filed for divorce from the actor in early January citing irreconcilable differences. But no matter: Soon thereafter, Madonna was back to topping charts, rankling pearl-clutchers and raking in the dough. She signed a $5 million deal with Pepsi in January, culminating in a two-minute ad that would eventually get pulled due to a religious backlash to her latest music video. Released March 3, the day after the Pepsi ad first aired, the controversial clip featured cross-burning, stigmata and an erotic encounter with a saint. Regardless, Madge still pocketed the soda money, and the video became an MTV staple. And oh, what was the name of that song again? "Like a Prayer"? Yes, this is the year where Madonna went from dance-pop purveyor with an iron-grip on American teens to a capital-A Artist, someone who could deliver an album every bit as geared toward the charts as to critics' tastes. Universally acclaimed, the song’s parent album (also called Like a Prayer) topped the Billboard 200 for six consecutive weeks and was eventually certified 4x platinum by the RIAA. The title track brilliantly mixed the secular and the sacred both lyrically ("I'm down on my knees" works both ways) and musically (a transcendent gospel choir takes the hard-hitting pop-rock anthem into the heavens), and the result was a sing-along for the ages that even non-fans are likely to know damn near every word to. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks, while follow-up singles "Cherish" and "Express Yourself" both reached No. 2 (as the David Fincher-directed video for the latter, inspired by Fritz Lang's Metropolis, became one of the most instantly iconic of the era). This was a release so stuffed with hits that Madonna could afford to not release a duet with Prince as a single. Five years after her game-changing "Like a Virgin" at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards, Madonna was courting controversy at the 1989 VMAs once again with a performance of the Motown-flavored "Express Yourself" that featured her simulating masturbation. That song's video would nab three VMAs and "Like a Prayer" the viewer's choice award, although inexplicably the latter lost video of the year to Neil Young's "This Note's For You" -- a decision that has not aged particularly well. While Madonna would go on to notch bigger hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and reach more idiosyncratic artistic heights, Like a Prayer was the last proper studio album where she would enjoy such universal adoration. As the '90s set in, her detractors would get louder, but in 1989, Madonna was able to own the charts, charm the critics and – even though she released a video so controversial Pepsi decided to scrap something they paid $5 million for -- reign as the most celebrated female artist in pop.
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Post by August on Apr 5, 2020 8:29:52 GMT -5
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Post by HolidayGuy on Apr 5, 2020 11:42:12 GMT -5
"Bad Girl" was too gloomy to have been a big hit; same for "Oh Father." The songs that didn't have great radio potential (those two, plus "Bedtime Story" and "Human Nature") ended up with superb videos, didn't they.
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Post by popsummit on Apr 5, 2020 14:47:45 GMT -5
The video edit of Bad Girl is ovah
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Post by August on Apr 5, 2020 15:16:03 GMT -5
Glamour magazine has a list of Madonna's 10 Best Songs vs. Madonna's 10 Worst Songs. I mostly agree with the 10 Best, but not really the methodology here. All the songs on the Best List are songs that were released as singles. All but two of the songs on the Worst List are album cuts. Not really sure it is a fair comparison. By nature, most album cuts, not all, but most, are the songs that are deemed the least hit worthy or radio friendly. You can argue the point if you like, but that is generally what happens in the pop world. Given that she has released over 60+ singles, it would have been easy to comprise this list out of her single releases, which would be a more valid comparison. Anyway, here is the list. Madonna’s 10 Best (and Worst) Songs of All Time
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Post by chartfreak on Apr 5, 2020 15:20:22 GMT -5
Only 383,489 to go for Papa Don't Preach to hit 100 million. Keep watching! You don't have anything else to do, right?
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Apr 6, 2020 17:55:05 GMT -5
Orlando Puerta who had handled the club promotion for Madonna and other artists for nearly 20 years via his Citrusonic Promotions company has unexpected died due to Covid 19.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 6, 2020 18:37:50 GMT -5
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Billboard Top 10 from 35 and 25 years ago:
April 13, 1985
01 02 We Are The World - USA For Africa (1st of 4 weeks at #1) 02 01 One More Night - Phil Collins 03 04 Crazy For You - Madonna 04 07 Nightshift - The Commodores 05 03 Material Girl - Madonna 06 08 I'm On Fire - Bruce Springsteen 07 09 Rhythm Of The Night - DeBarge 08 05 Lovergirl - Teena Marie 09 14 Obsession - Animotion 10 13 Missing You - Diana Ross
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01 06 This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan (1st of 7 weeks at #1) 02 04 Red Light Special - TLC 03 02 Candy Rain - Soul For Real 04 01 Take a Bow - Madonna 05 03 Run Away - Real McCoy 06 12 Freak Like Me - Adina Howard 07 05 Strong Enough - Sheryl Crow 08 10 Big Poppa / Warning - The Notorious B.I.G. 09 09 I Know - Dionne Farris 10 07 Creep - TLC
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Apr 7, 2020 0:35:00 GMT -5
Madonna Remembers Dance Music Champion Orlando Puerta: 'I Am Forever Indebted To Orlando'4/6/2020 by Katie Bain As news of Puerta's death ripples through the music industry, Madonna, Diane Warren and more share their recollections of the beloved dance music promotions and marketing exec. As news of Orlando Puerta's death ripples through the music industry, those who knew the longtime dance music marketing and promotions executive are mourning his loss. "I am forever indebted to Orlando and he will be sorely missed," Madonna tells Billboard. "His passion and commitment to dance and club music had no limits and he was a very big reason I had 50 number ones on the dance charts. Thank you Orlando. RIP." Puerta began working with Madonna when he joined the marketing team at Warner Brothers Records in the late 1990s. He did marketing and promotions for Madonna albums including Music, Confessions On a Dancefloor, Hard Candy, Rebel Heart and her most recent LP Madame X, delivering songs and remixes to the top of worldwide charts. In 2009, Puerta left Warner Brothers to start his own promotions company, Citrusonic, although he continued working with Madonna and her team until his death. "Orlando was part of our Madonna family," says Madonna's longtime manager Guy Oseary. "No one loved dance music more or worked harder or more joyously to promote it. I spoke with him in February when Madonna reached her 50th #1 on the dance charts. He was so proud of Madonna. He was a force of nature who will be missed." Puerta passed away on Saturday, April 4 from an upper respiratory infection. He was 55. It is currently unknown whether the infection was caused by COVID-19, although a test is forthcoming. A dance music advocate since the early '90s, he worked with artists including Madonna, Bette Midler, Linkin Park, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Depeche Mode, New Order, Orgy, Static X, Michael Bublé and Seal. His work on Cher's "Believe," helped make the song a global smash and Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit in 1999. Puerta also became close with songwriting legend Diane Warren through his work on "'Til It Happens To You," the 2016 single she co-wrote with Lady Gaga. "At the time, the label wouldn’t let it come out, and her team was against it coming out," Warren tells Billboard. "Orlando was like, 'Let me do some dance mixes.'" Puerta commissioned 30 edits by a group of producers including Dave Audé, Dirty Pop and Tracy Young, with Young's remix hitting No. 1 on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart in January of 2016. "He was so passionate about that song that on his own he went and got everyone to do mixes for it, and really with no budget," Warren recalls. It was the power of the remixes, Warren says, that helped convince various teams to release the original, which became the first to be nominated for a Grammy, Emmy and Oscar award in the same year. Puerta and Warren remained friends since the collaboration. "I loved him," she says. "He was so kind, so lovely and lovable. Just a sweet guy. He went with his heart. We need more people like that. We can’t afford to lose people like that." Warren says a mutual friend sent an ambulance to Puerta's house in Los Angeles this past Friday night (April 3), because they knew he was in poor health, although Puerta declined to go to the hospital. "He [didn't] really take care of himself," says Warren. "He [cared] so much about the music, and his company, and his friends, and his animals, but he [didn't] put that same care into himself." He passed away the following day, with Citrusonic announcing his death earlier today (April 6.) A prolific animal lover, Puerta had recently sent his pet pig, Charlotte, to live on Warren's animal rescue ranch. His five chihuahuas also arrived at her ranch today, just around the time Warren learned of his passing. "In a time when we need kindness and we need good people," she says, "to lose such a kind, good person is just tragic." www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/9352645/madonna-remembers-dance-music-champion-orlando-puerta?fbclid=IwAR3XVT2Ghh9LDTjZ5BMDNu_byljRZVTRRUiMbZBdjwYWrA4nep8IcLPDL9k
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Post by chartfreak on Apr 7, 2020 8:24:17 GMT -5
Anyone think M is taking this time to write some some music?
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Post by schnetzka on Apr 7, 2020 11:06:19 GMT -5
Anyone think M is taking this time to write some some music? I doubt it. Her releases/albums are getting farther and farther apart. I don't expect another album/new music until at least 2022.
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Post by chartfreak on Apr 7, 2020 16:05:32 GMT -5
Anyone think M is taking this time to write some some music? I doubt it. Her releases/albums are getting farther and farther apart. I don't expect another album/new music until at least 2022. Yes, but I don't think she knew she would be in quarantine.
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Post by August on Apr 7, 2020 16:18:05 GMT -5
I doubt it. Her releases/albums are getting farther and farther apart. I don't expect another album/new music until at least 2022. Yes, but I don't think she knew she would be in quarantine. I believe she is quarantining in Portugal. I hope that if she is writing new music, that she is not influenced by the pandemic or by Portugal in terms of the lyrics. I want a euphoric pure pop and energetic album. Madame X had some of those, but most of it grinded me to a halt right when I was getting into one song.
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Post by spiritboy on Apr 8, 2020 6:41:03 GMT -5
She's in Hamptons, she just posted that she's missing Lisbon life a few days ago. Maybe this situation might inspire her to write some music, who knows?
I'm also glad she made a statement about Orlando.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Apr 8, 2020 8:59:35 GMT -5
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SPOTIFY UPDATE through April 2, 2020
# SONG WEEK STREAMS %± LW TOTAL STREAMS
01 (=) Material Girl 888.943 -0,43% 152.092.335 02 (=) Like a Prayer 873.502 +1,10% 167.616.937 03 (=) Hung Up 817.536 +1,50% 111.536.259 04 (=) Like a Virgin 679.761 +0,31% 128.109.694 05 (=) La Isla Bonita 662.422 +1,04% 100.951.807 06 (=) 4 Minutes 515.924 +0,01% 128.587.026 07 (=) Vogue 493.391 -0,30% 103.172.855 08 (=) Holiday 411.502 +1,05% 79.916.285 09 (=) Crazy for You 315.725 +2,89% 38.422.756 10 (=) Papa Don't Preach 293.702 +0,65% 44.789.164
11 (=) Frozen 236.205 +1,94% 45.442.979 12 (=) Medellín 218.830 -1,93% 47.669.004 13 (=) Into the Groove 205.207 +2,35% 47.813.432 14 (=) Faz Gostoso 167.921 +3,46% 28.609.264 15 (=) Sorry 164.995 +6,62% 28.612.110
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Post by chartfreak on Apr 8, 2020 12:07:10 GMT -5
Thanks, I thought she was in Hamptons based on the scenery with some of the kids.
103,998 to go for Papa Don't Preach video to hit 100 Million on Youtube. Take a view today.
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