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Post by Matheus on Aug 10, 2007 18:39:41 GMT -5
BTW, I heart Miss Kittin... amazing music!!!
And Madonna should get in on the strength of "Like A Prayer" alone. Not to mention, Lucky Star, Express Yourself, Ray of Light, Frozen, Live to Tell, Don't Tell Me, Sorry, Material Girl, Holiday, Music, Oh Father, Papa Don't Preach, Like a Virgin, La Isla Bonita, Borderline, Hung Up, Drowned World, Cherish, Open Your Heart, Crazy For You, Vogue, Erotica, Justify My Love, Into the Groove, Rain, I'll Remember, Take a Bow, Hollywood... and a million more.
The Human Nature and Bedtime Stories should give her distinction in the art of music video... "Like a Prayer," anyone?
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Post by Matheus on Aug 10, 2007 20:33:14 GMT -5
... More importantly for Timberlake, he's written and produced songs for everyone from Rihanna to Reba McEntire, not to mention Duran Duran, Macy Gray, 50 Cent and Madonna.
Paparazzi photographs of Timberlake and Madonna leaving recording studios in London have appeared in magazines all around the world.
The pair share more than a CV that includes kissing Britney Spears.
So far Madonna, Timberlake and FutureSex/LoveSounds co-producer Timbaland have written six songs for her forthcoming album.
"There's a couple of duets in there," a cagey Timberlake says of his work with the queen of pop.
Madonna offering the creative olive branch to a young performer (Timberlake is still only 26) must be like getting to meet pop's answer to Yoda (admittedly a hotter version thereof). She was topping charts when Timberlake was filling nappies.
"She's a very talented lady," Timberlake says diplomatically. "There are definitely moments when I think, wow, I'm singing with Madonna. But she's so cool. She's very clever, very innovative. I was humbled WORKING with her. She's fun to work with and she takes advice. Plus she has an amazing mind."
Pressed, Timberlake says some of the Madonna tracks have grooves that sound like her first album, but with more advanced lyrics.
"It kind of meets in the middle between what she does and what I do. It's exactly how you want to hear Madonna right now. It doesn't sound quite like anything she's done yet it still sounds like Madonna."
Source: Cameron Adams, Melbourne Herald Sun
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Post by Matheus on Aug 16, 2007 17:04:43 GMT -5
What is the United World Chart?
The United World Chart is a worldwide chart issued every week by Media Traffic, using both sales (digital and physical) and airplay to determine the most popular albums and singles in "the world". The United World Chart uses the same system as the Billboard Hot 100, in which the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; meanwhile the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday. The newest weekly chart is therefore issued every Thursday.
Most Successful Artists (1999-2007)
1. Madonna (Warner Bros)
Artists with the most number-one hits in the UWC history
1. Madonna (12)
Artists with most weeks at #1
1. 74 weeks - Madonna (with 12 Number One Singles)
Artists with the most number-one hits in the same year
Madonna (American Pie,Music) - 2000
Madonna (Die Another Day, American Life, Me Against The Music) - 2003
Madonna (Hung Up, Sorry) - 2006
Most Number-One Singles in the 1980s
1. Madonna (4)
Most Number-One Singles in the 2000s
1. Madonna (8)
Artists ever to have a number one-single in different decades
1. Cher - 4 decades (2 in the 1960s, 3 in the 1970s, 1 in the 1980s, 2 in the 1990s)
2. Madonna - 3 decades (4 in the 1980s, 1 in the 1990s and 8 in the 2000s)
Most time spent at the number-one spot by an artist in a year
20 Weeks - Madonna — "American Pie"(8 Weeks) and "Music" in 2000 (12 weeks).
Artist with most consecutive weeks at #1
22 Weeks - Madonna (2005-2006) — With "Hung Up" and "Sorry"
Tracks with most points in a week
Madonna - "Hung Up" (548,000 points (week 51/2005))
Madonna - "Hung Up" (545,000 points (week 49/2005))
Madonna - "Hung Up" (541.000 points (week 50/2005))
Artists who have simultaneously occupied the top two positions at the track chart
The Beatles, Madonna and Justin Timberlake are the only artists to hold onto both the #1 and #2 positions.
Madonna in March 11, 2006
"Sorry"
"Hung Up"
This is in response to JAC's idea that Madonna's popularity is waning. It may be in the United States, but I think it should be shown that she continues to be a huge force in the world charts. And may I ask... when was the last time a dance song hit #1 in America??? It's been a long while, and from what I read, it was a miracle that Hung Up went to #7 on the Hot 100 in America.
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Post by Matheus on Aug 16, 2007 17:05:05 GMT -5
BTW, he'll never read this.
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Aug 16, 2007 21:42:18 GMT -5
I have to admit:
"Latisla Bonita" (or however it's spelled) and "Live To Tell" are 2 songs that are nostalgic of my childhood and they're pretty good tunes. There. I said it.
Um, but besides that I despise Madonna in most every way. Sorry.
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Post by Matheus on Aug 31, 2007 11:12:06 GMT -5
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Post by bowiglou on Aug 31, 2007 15:04:19 GMT -5
voted 'no substance'..never liked her in the 80s when you couldn't escape here at any of the clubs...and still don't like her!!
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Post by maarts on Sept 6, 2007 17:37:57 GMT -5
Madge v Kylie: who’ll be No 1?
Who will prevail in this autumn’s heavyweight album clash? Our correspondents big up their favourites; but the choice is yours, music lovers. Plus: all the other contenders
Pete Paphides and Peter Robinson
MADONNA
Title: Madonna
Date: November
Madonna or Kylie? To a certain kind of pop fan with only £10 of disposable income this autumn, deciding which album to buy has the makings of an anguished eeny-meeny. Surely, if you like one maturing icon of gay pop, chances are that you’ll like the other, yes? For some, perhaps, but in every sense that matters there’s a world of difference between being Kylie and being Madonna. There’s something about Kylie that makes you want to put a protective arm around her. You wouldn’t dream of doing that with Madonna.
Comparing the two singers is like comparing sculptures to a sculptor. Kylie is a muse for popsmiths of the day. Fine, but every generation has its pop muses. Madonna’s thing is control and vision. Her innate fearlessness informs everything she does, within and beyond music, from Like A Prayer’s black Christ controversy to her reported adoption of a second Malawian orphan. Though misunderstood at the time, her erotica anthology Sex saw her take an unprecedented risk, reinventing female sexuality as a thing of beauty rather than a tool of exploitation.
To people determined never to forgive her for being an ex-dancer from Michigan she’s only ever as good as her collaborators. In reality, Madonna’s pop nous is second to none. Listen to the version of Don’t Tell Me that Joe Henry penned for his album Amor before Madonna stripped its murky Cuban ambience and replaced it with a future-folk sheen. Even back in 1984 she knew how to bring something iconic to a song. Before she got involved, Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly’s piano demo of Like a Virgin sounded like something you wouldn’t have rescued from Barry Manilow’s dustbin.
But, once again, her detractors will no doubt seize upon the fact that her new album enlists the production services of Timbaland. But speaking to MTV recently, Timbaland was palpably fired up by their time together in the studio. “There’s this one song, we taking it back to: ‘You must be my luck-eee starrrr!’. . . The hook is no words. It’s saying stuff named after coffee – all these different names for coffee is the hook. The name of the song is La, La. She’s off the chain.”
As with Ray of Light and Music, first impressions of The Beat Goes On – the first single from the Timbaland sessions – leaves you attempting to reconcile how something so off-beam can also be so catchy. A skeletal production frames an exquisite slice of machine-soul over which Pharrell Williams and Madonna playfully duet. Also leaked in advance is one of several Justin Timberlake collaborations, a pneumatic sex-pop monster called Candy Shop.
As ever, she sounds oddly untouchable on the new songs, and you suspect that’s how she wants it. Other female singers inspire affection, a sense of warmth – Kylie more than most. Faced with a choice, you’d rather find yourself stuck in a lift with Kylie than Madonna. But if one lift was playing Kylie songs, and the other Madonna, that’s another matter.
Pete Paphides
KYLIE MINOGUE
Title: rumoured to be X
Date: November
The concept of “Kylie” – the logo, the all-conquering hits package with feathers on its head, the brand of nice pants – can occasionally appear so synthetic it’s easy to forget that there’s a human being at the centre of the phenomenon. Her well-documented past few years could easily pave the way for her tenth studio album to be Kylie’s most personal.
For the past 18 months pop songwriters and producers around the world have adopted the phrase “we’re working on tracks for Kylie” as something of a mantra. And some big names have been connected with this album. These include Groove Armada, Calvin Harris, Hot Chip, Boy George and Mylo, as well as world-class songwriters and producers such as Bloodshy & Avant, Cathy Dennis, Jewels & Stone, Hannah Robinson, Johnny Douglas and Richard Stannard. While some collaborations have made the cut – the brilliant Calvin Harris-produced track In My Arms is in the running for the first single – others have fallen by the wayside. Another potential first single is Two Hearts, an unusual and extremely unKylieish track submitted by the London electropop outfit Kish Mauve. As is now traditional with Kylie many other pop moments have already leaked online, along with a a list of 49 song titles – including Sexual Gold, To the Nines, When the Song Comes On and Down Down – and on the evidence it seems that she’s not going to be short of magic.
Peter Robinson
BRITNEY SPEARS
Title: TBC, although everyone’s favourite celebrity catastrophe is seemingly asking fans to vote on titles via her website. Choices included: OMG is Like Lindsay Lohan Like Okay Like; What if the Joke is on You; Down Boy and – could this be ironic? – Dignity.
Date: November
Of course, the fact that pop’s former golden girl has been recording with Timbaland protégé Nate “Danja” Hills and producer- du-jour Sean Garrett is of only minor interest compared with the album’s backdrop of personal chaos. In fact, despite her alleged fortune, Poor Britney might be a better title; any working mother with two kids aged under 2 deserves some sympathy.
Poor Britney has also faced misogynistic attention from “fans” and media over her divorce from Kevin Federline and their custody battle for little Sean Preston and Jayden James. Obviously, her ongoing refusal to wear underwear while exiting cars hasn’t helped her cause, but there have been enough mental-health red flags – the head-shaving, her crying jags while filming the video for new single Gimme More – to leave you wondering whether she really needs the pressure of releasing a career-saving album right now.
But her career as a pop star depends on this record. Fake tracks on the internet have shown that the appetite for her music remains, but with only 19 US radio stations reported to be playing the really rather good Gimme More (hear it on the gossip website http://www.perezhilton.com), chart success could be elusive.
PJ HARVEY
Title: White Chalk
Date: September 24
Produced by Polly Harvey, Flood and John Parish, White Chalk represents a departure for the enduring indie heroine. Harvey corsets her voice into a higher pitch while sitting moodily at the piano, increasing the sense that this is the work of a deranged Victorian governess in an attic.
After 2004’s slightly disappointing Uh Huh Her, this is as superbly unsettling as Rid of Me-era Harvey while sounding entirely different.
JAMES BLUNT
Title: All The Lost Souls
Date: September 17
Following the success of Back to Bedlam, the pop aristo sticks his head beneath the guillotine of public opinion for the second time.
JONI MITCHELL
Title: Shine
Date: September 24
The legendary singer-songwriter releases her first album of new songs in nearly a decade.
ANNIE LENNOX
Title: Songs Of Mass Destruction
Date: October 1
The first solo album from the Eurhythmics diva in four years boasts a “feminist anthem” starring 23 female artists, including Madonna, Shakira and Fergie.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Title: Magic
Date: October 1
Although fans will been delighted to know that Bruce Springsteen’s fifteenth album has been recorded with the E Street Band, it seems that the Boss lived up to his name. Most of the band's contributions were recorded separately by producer Brendan O’Brien.
According to manager Jon Landau it’s “high energy” rock: not one of his Nebraska moments, then.
BABYSHAMBLES
Title: Shotter's Nation
Date: October 1
Recorded with the Smiths/Britpop producer Stephen Street, Babyshambles’ second album betrays the band’s chaotic state by featuring yet another new lineup.
If you can tune out the hurdy-gurdy racket of the media circus it’s just possible to hear Pete Doherty’s songwriting strength rushing back on such tracks as Crumb Begging.
MICHAEL JACKSON
Title: TBC
Date: Before the end of 2007
It’s testament to his enduring reputation that the controversy surrounding Michael Jackson has not deterred the likes of the Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am and Akon from working on his new album.
Jackson’s lack of major-label deal is the most taxing issue however. He is said to be sorting out distribution, possibly online.
Will.i.am has reportedly said that the new album will be this generation’s Off the Wall.
R.E.M
Title: TBC
Date: TBC
It has been recorded in Vancouver and Dublin with flavour-of-the-year producer Jacknife Lee, who has put the final nail in the coffin of Michael Stipe’s “enigmatic” reputation by declaring R.E.M. “aren’t strange, they’re just your proper artists”
IAN BROWN
Title: The World is Yours
Date: September 24
King Monkey’s fifth solo outing takes an evolutionary step back with guest appearances by Manchester stalwarts Andy Rourke and Paul Ryder and the Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones and Paul Cook.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
Title: Brave
Date: October 8 The romantically cursed diva describes her fifth album as “a little Jamiroquai, a little Sade” and “real feel-good music”.
Victoria Segal
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Post by Matheus on Sept 10, 2007 1:20:47 GMT -5
Nice post, maarts!!! I think I was MIA when u posted it, so I never saw it till now.
BTW, from what I'm hearing, Madonna's album won't be released this year, which is a total bummer, but probably for the best. Too much shit coming out all at once could leave her lost in the fray, even with JT and Timbaland at her side.
I would hate to see that, because Madonna truly is, as your article stated, a visionary.
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Post by KooL on Sept 10, 2007 18:45:53 GMT -5
I heard that Madonna's new album will be written/produced by the the Timba-duo. Sounds like she's dying to have herself another hit again. What ever happened to Madonna, the leader? Since when did she become a follower? I don't think this album will be any different from Nelly Furtado's last one. Timbaland and JT are all over the place, and as much as I enjoyed JT's last album, I'm starting to get sick of them. They've even written/produced Duran Duran's latest which sounds just like everything else JT/Timbaland have done recently. Pop music needs something fresh. |
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Post by Matheus on Sept 29, 2007 14:46:03 GMT -5
I heard that Madonna's new album will be written/produced by the the Timba-duo. Sounds like she's dying to have herself another hit again. What ever happened to Madonna, the leader? Since when did she become a follower? I don't think this album will be any different from Nelly Furtado's last one. Timbaland and JT are all over the place, and as much as I enjoyed JT's last album, I'm starting to get sick of them. They've even written/produced Duran Duran's latest which sounds just like everything else JT/Timbaland have done recently. Pop music needs something fresh. I'm actually with you on that. For example, I like the stuff Madonna did with Babyface, but I don't like it AS much as other stuff she's done. Honestly, as much as I'm kind of excited about it, I'm not at the same time. I don't know... if it comes out sounding like shit I'm gonna be pissed. On the other hand, if the album is shitty I can always look forward to the dance remixes. |
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Post by Matheus on Oct 9, 2007 18:16:26 GMT -5
Brilliant Madonna photograph of the day:  Taken by Steven Klein. |
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Post by Matheus on Oct 17, 2007 12:17:28 GMT -5
Madonna picture of the week:  |
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Post by Matheus on Oct 17, 2007 12:19:55 GMT -5
Confirmed: Madonna joins Live Nation
Posted: 16 October 2007 - From AP Via Yahoo! News
Madonna and concert promoter Live Nation Inc. announced a deal Tuesday that will give Live Nation a stake in her albums, tours, merchandising, films and other music-related projects.
Financial terms were not disclosed in the joint statement released by Madonna and Live Nation. A person familiar with the agreement previously told the Associated Press it was worth about $120 million over 10 years.
The official announcement came after weeks of speculation that the Material Girl would abandon Warner Music Group Corp., which refused to match the Live Nation deal.
Madonna said in the statement that she was drawn to the all-ecompassing deal with Live Nation because of the changes the music business has undergone in recent years.
'The paradigm in the music business has shifted and as an artist and a business woman, I have to move with that shift,' Madonna said. 'For the first time in my career, the way that my music can reach my fans is unlimited. I've never wanted to think in a limited way and with this new partnership, the possibilities are endless.'
The singer still owes Warner Bros. Records another studio album and a greatest hits album.
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Post by Kensterberg on Oct 17, 2007 12:57:41 GMT -5
Hey Matt -- was that a shot from the "Sex" era Madonna, or earlier. Either way, she looked sexy as hell then.
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