[Harry!]

Madonna accepts damages over photos

Madonna has accepted substantial undisclosed damages for privacy and infringement of copyright over the Mail on Sunday’s publication of “purloined” photos of her wedding to Guy Ritchie.

The singer, who has just completed her Sticky & Sweet world tour, was not at London’s High Court for the settlement of her action against Associated Newspapers.

Her solicitor, John Kelly, told Mr Justice Peter Smith that she would be donating the damages to her Raising Malawi charity.

Mr Kelly said that the star went to great pains to ensure that the December 2000 wedding was wholly private.

But, in 2003, an interior designer, who was working on her home in Beverly Hills, surreptitiously copied at least 27 photos from the wedding album and provided them to Bonnie Robinson who, in June 2008, offered to sell them to the Mail on Sunday.

Mr Kelly said that the newspaper did not purchase them at that time but waited until October 2008, when Madonna had announced that she was divorcing and there was huge media interest about her marriage, to purchase the purloined photos.

Just three days after she had announced her divorce – and without any warning to Madonna – it published 10 of the photos.

Associated Newspapers’ solicitor, Niri Shan, said that it accepted that it was wrong to act in this way and offered its sincere apologies to Madonna and her family for invading her privacy and infringing her copyright.

[Harry!]

Madonna: I feel free for fun

MADONNA is loving the single life.



The Queen Of Pop - who divorced hubby GUY RITCHIE last year - reckons she is now having more fun than ever.


Now dating toy boy JESUS LUZ, Madge claims her music will also improve too.


Speaking on radio, she said: "I think it is hard to be selfish with four kids but I do feel I have more of a choice about where I can go at night and where I can go on holidays.


"The fun hours - they are all mine."


Madonna added: "My music is going to get better because I am happier."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ngle-life.html

[Harry!]

Like I will post all old forum stuff here first then new stuff later

[Harry!]

Madonna leads big chart debut week

Seven new albums crashed the top 10 this week in Canada, topped by Madonna at No. 1.

Her double-disc hits collection, "Celebration," came in on top with 17,000 in sales, according to figures compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.

Five more premieres crowded the second to sixth slots: Barbra Streisand's "Love Is the Answer" (13,000) landed at No. 2, Paramore's "Brand New Eyes" (12,000) at No. 3, Alice in Chains' "Black Gives Away to Blue" at No. 4, Mariah Carey's "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" at No. 5, and the French compilation "Generation Passe-Partout" at No. 6.

The slew of debuts sent Three Days Grace's "Life Starts Now" down five positions to No. 7, and Pearl Jam's "Backspacer" sank from No. 1 to No. 8.

The last top 10 entry of the week went to Jann Arden's "Free" at No. 9, while the Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies)" went from No. 5 to No. 10.

In the U.S., Barbra Streisand entered in first, followed by Paramore in second, Mariah Carey in third, Breaking Benjamin's "Dear Agony" in fourth, and Alice in Chains in fifth.

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/M/...3076-jam.html#

[Harry!]

Celebration becomes Madonna's 18th US Top 10 album

In a Top 10 almost completely taken over by debuts, Madonna's greatest hits album Celebration lands at #7, with sales of 72,159 copies, making it her 18th album to reach the Top 10 of the US album charts.
While this could seem as a disappointment, considering it's the first time ever a Madonna release sells less in the US than in the UK, let's look at a few things:

The #7 peak matches that of GHV2 from almost 8 years ago, when Madonna was still riding high one of her most successful periods and sold 150,000 in a week with it, even though it featured no new songs. Now, Celebration covers almost the complete The Immaculate Collection (which still remains one of the best selling female albums) and the majority of GHV2. Combine that with all of Madonna's singles being available on iTunes since 2005, there isn't much incentive for the public to buy a Madonna compilation, especially in a country where traditionally greatest hits albums don't do as well as in the UK.
The single Celebration got next to no airplay in the US (unlike in most parts of the world) and Madonna's promo was minimal in US media and she did not do any live performances.

To put things in perspective even better, let's make a one-off comparison with other artists, who happened to debut at the same week on the chart, making it a "diva week":

With sales just above 180,000 copies, her new album featuring covers of jazz standards, her first in 4 years, singer-actress-director Barbra Streisand tops the chart for an unbelievable 9th time in her career, extending the lead among female artists (Madonna remains at second place with 7 #1 albums) and becomes the only female artist to have a #1 album in five different decades. Barbra has been long out of the single/video game and her promotion was more traditional, including an interview and a live performance at the Oprah Winfrey Show. Her previous album 'Guilty Pleasures' in 2005 opened with 101,000 copies and was the sequel to her best selling album ever, 1980's 'Guilty', which famously features megahit 'Woman In Love'.

Mariah Carey is the other big name female artist to enter the chart disweek, with sales just below 168,000 copies, she debuts at #3. Unlike Madonna and Barbra, Mariah got plenty of airplay with her single "Obsessed", it eventually reached the top 10 and gathered 85 million audience impressions at radio, a number Madonna only reached once in the 2000s, with the Music single. Mariah also appeared and performed at the Oprah show, along with The View and Today Show, along with small-venue perormances in Las Vegas. She followed up her previous album 'E=MC2' in a mere 17 months (which came out 2 weeks before Hard Candy) that yielded a #1 hit 'Touch My Body' (which sold half of 4 Minutes' total) and sold above 460,000 copies in its first week, with a total above 1.3 million.

As a reminder, Hard Candy opened with sales above 280,000 copies, the single 4 Minutes got around 60 million audience impressions, sold 2.5 million digital downloads and the album itself ended up with 725,000 copies in the US.

The point we're trying to prove is, judging by the sales numbers of these female stars, it's safe to say the CD sales era is over and radio itself is not in control of high sales now. We'd like to reassure worried Madonna fans that she's still doing fine in a country that keeps abandoning old artists and is always looking for a new fad and Mariah's numbers show investing in album promo does not pay off in 2009, which explains why Madonna has been focusing on touring now. None of these new CDs debuted will be coming close to a million copies when all is said and done, most likely not even matching the total of Hard Candy, which was only aided by one hit single, only one tv interview and no live performances whatsoever and erroneously got labeled as a 'flop' by fans. Now it's clear it was not out of the line from the rest of the industry.

When her next album drops (possibly in a year, or later), Madonna will be lucky to debut with 100,000 copies and her total won't even reach 500,000 in the US, regardless of the collaborators and genre she explores next time around, so this is no longer a popularity contest and Madonna is smart to put her efforts where it all matters, touring.

And as a sidenote, currently Madonna's Celebration in its 3rd week and Barbra Streisand's 'Love Is The Answer' in its 2nd week are battling to reach the top spot of the UK charts this coming Sunday, while Mariah's album was delayed till November there...

To close this off, let's look at the bigger picture: No 2009-released album is aiming to sell 2 million copies in the US and the best selling artist of America in 2009 is going to be the late Michael Jackson, who's already leading the year-to-date sales list with his 'Number Ones' compilation that moved more than 1.7 million this year alone.
Worldwide, U2's 'No Line In The Horizon' is the only 2009-release that reached Hard Candy's worldwide total of 3.5 million and no CD is eyeing to reach 5 million worldwide sales in the last year of the decade.

[Harry!]

Keep it going

Madonn and Lady Gaga continued their play catfight from "Saturday Night Live" well into Sunday. After squaring off in an SNL skit, they got into a one-on-one dance-off at SoHo hot spot Submercer at a Sunday night birthday party for Madonna's manager, Guy Oseary.

"(Deejay) Jus Ske was joking around and alternating their songs Holiday and Poker Face, and then they both started going at it," says an onlooker. "Madonna seemed to be the winner. People were going wild."

Also attending were Lenny Kravitz and Andy Samberg.

http://www.madonnatribe.com/news/mod...ticle&sid=4889

[Harry!]

''Celebration'' is chart-resistant in Germany

The Celebration CD rules the German Album Chart for a second week in a row.

After entering straight to #1 last week the new collection holds the top spot for a second week - a remarkable achievement considering that "Celebration" dropped to #2 in countries such as Italy and the UK where Madonna is usually a chart topper.

"Celebration" was released digitally and physically in Germany on September 18 and entered the Album Chart straight to number one on October 2.

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The Sticky and Sweet Tour premieres on EPIX

Madonna fans in the United States will finally have their chance to see the "Sticky & Sweet Tour" on television. With a press release issued a few hours ago, EPIX have announced that they will debut the Live in Buenos Aires concert special across all their platforms - television, video-on-demand and the internet.

EPIX is a joint venture between Viacom, Paramount Pictures, MGM. and Lionsgate. Conceived as a next-generation multiplatform premium entertainment channel, video-on-demand and online service launching with Verizon FiOS and other distribution partners in October 2009, accessing more than 15,000 motion pictures spanning the vast libraries of the partner studios.

"An unstoppable force and the ultimate entertainer, Madonna gives an amazing performance," EPIX president Mark Greenberg said about their Madonna deal. "She's in a category of her own."

EPIX also expressly mentions that they will world premiere the Sticky & Sweet show on television, although they confirm that the broadcast was filmed in Buenos Aires’ River Plate Stadium, which is likely to be the one we saw already in a number of countries around the world.

So far, the concert premiere on SKY in the UK in an almost complete edit featuring the entire set list. A similar version aired on HBO Eastern Europe and a reduced one-hour version with highlights from the show did broadcast in some European countries. A longer version - with no additional song but a longer intro and the full "request song" moment was shown in South America by CityVibe.

A DVD from the tour is also expected from Warner Music later this year.

For more information on Madonna's "Sticky & Sweet" television premiere on EPIX, follow twitter.com/epixHD.

[Harry!]

The ''Celebration'' US Maxi Single

And here's the first look at the US EP-Maxi Single CD for "Celebration" which comes with a stunning original artwork and will surprise you with Madonna's wink popping out from the tray below the picture disc.

The Maxi includes six remixes and no album version making its tracklisting different from the European 6-track CD. The Benni Benassi Dub version of "Celebration" also appears on this CD for the first time on a commercial release.

1) Oakenfold Remix 6:32
2) Benny Benassi Remix 5:30
3) Oakenfold Remix Dub 6:32
4) Benny Benassi Remix Edit 3:58
5) Benny Benassi Dub 6:01
6) Johnny Vicious Club Remix 7:58

[Harry!]

Should Madonna work with Lady Gaga?
After the SNL catfight, we played with the possibility of Madonna collaborating Lady Gaga. What do you think? Should the two ladies team up?

[Harry!]

More remixes coming in, no Summer Tour for 2010

Guy Oseary was quite talkative again yesterday on his Twitter page, and here's a couple of tidbits you will certainly be interested to hear about..,


Xavier69 tells guy he loves "Celebration" album version... "Working on a few more remixes.. stay tuned" is what Guy tells him.

Materiallboy asks him about a new tour next year?
" I don't see a new tour next year.. definitely not summertime..." Guy says.
Later on, her confirms that "as I've promised... we will definitely go to Australia next tour."

There are no plans for Madonna to do SNL or any other TV as of now, (answering to Duzett who told him that Madonna was great with Gaga on the show last Saturday and asked if she was going to be on SNL again).

Then Guy says goodnight to the Twitterers saying "thanks again to all of you for helping Greatest Hits sell 2 million albums in just 2 weeks.."


That sucks. Dont want any more Celebration remixes now (No point now) want M on tour again and no TV for her for now

[Harry!]

Madonna 'to buy Jesus $2.7m apartment'

Madonna has reportedly decided to buy a $2.7 million (Ł1.7m) apartment in New York for her boyfriend Jesus Luz.

The 'Celebration' singer allegedly wants to purchase a property near her own Upper East Side townhouse as an alternative to Luz moving in with her family.

"Madonna has her agent searching for the perfect pad for Jesus in her new neighbourhood. She's told them to spend no more than Ł1.7 million and the pad has to be within walking distance of her townhouse," a source told The Sun.

"She is financing everything, but Jesus will own it once it's bought. She wasn't kidding when she told him he'll never have to worry about money from now on."

According to the report, Luz has also been added to the payroll of Madonna's company and has secured a number of modelling contracts with Dolce & Gabbana and Marc Jacobs through her.

Madonna reportedly upset her lover recently when she claimed that she would rather "get run over by a train" than marry again.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/...apartment.html

[Harry!]

Celebration still at #2 in UK Albums:

1. (4) Barbra Streisand – Love Is The Answer – 27500
2. (2) Madonna – Celebration – 26000 (total UK sales: 155k+)
3. (1) Paramore – Brand New Eyes
4. (7) Cliff Richard & The Shadows – Reunited
5. (10) Vera Lynn – We’ll Meet Again – The Very Best Of
6. (9) Jay-Z – Blueprint 3
7. (5) Muse – The resistance
8. (-) Chris Rea – So far To Go: The Best Of
9. (6) Dizzee Rascal – Tongue N Cheek
10. (-) Andy Williams – moon River: The Very Best Of

Singles:
25. (14) Madonna – Celebration

[Harry!]

Oct
09
Madonna’s Celebration tops United World’s Global Album Chart

Week 41 / 2009 – October 17

1 (4) Madonna – Celebration – Warner Bros. – 323.000 (last week: 189k)
2 (-) Paramore – Brand New Eyes – Fueled By Ramen – 273.000
3 (-) Barbra Streisand – Love Is The Answer – Columbia – 244.000
4 (-) Mariah Carey – Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel – Island – 202.000
5 (-) Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue – Parlophone / Virgin – 160.000
6 (1) Ayaka – Ayaka’s History 2006-2009 – Warner Music Japan – 142.000
7 (-) Breaking Benjamin – Dear Agony – Hollywood – 138.000
8 (3) Jay-Z – Blueprint 3 – Roc Nation / Live Nation – 135.000
9 (2) Pearl Jam – Backspacer – Monkey Wrench / Island – 119.000
10 (5) Muse – The Resistance – Helium 3 / Warner Bros. – 118.000

[Harry!]

Charts: Madonna celebrates herself on the World Chart

After the first full sales week Madonna's greatest hits package "Celebration" jumps atop the global album chart with 323.000 copies, MediaTraffic.de reports.

In the USA the set starts at #7 with 72.000 units, in Canada at #1 with 17.000, in Japan it rises up to #.3 with 67.000 and in the United Kingdom it slides at #2 with 53.000.
"Celebration" enters the top 10 in all the MediaTraffic monitored markets and it seems that the album will belong to the hottest products during this year's X-mas season.

[Harry!]

Charts: Madonna album back on top in Ireland

Here's an interesting piece of news from DigitalSpy showing how "Celebration" is set to be a long-lasting performer in the album charts around the world.

Madonna has returned to the top of the Irish albums chart with her new greatest hits collection "Celebration".
The compilation package, which first secured the #1 spot two weeks ago, knocks last week's chart-toppers Paramore down to second place with Brand New Eyes.

Irish rockers The Coronas remain in third spot with 'Tony Was An Ex-Con', followed by Muse's 'The Resistance' at number four.

[Harry!]

Todo Sobre Madonna — Is Her Madgesty Eyeing an Almodóvar Role?



Paper magazine threw a party in honor of Penélope Cruz’s new Pedro Almodóvar film, Broken Embraces, at the newly opened Casa Lever on Saturday, and Madonna made a surprise appearance. Her Madgesty sat in the center of the room, of course, directly between Cruz and Almodóvar, and made small talk — babies? Beauty? Latin studmuffins? We’ll never know — with Cruz, and she flirted with Almodóvar. “I must confess, I introduced myself to one of her friends’ friends," said Paper’s Mickey Boardman, who co-threw the soirée. "It’s my birthday, so I was joking that I wanted Madonna to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to me. When everyone was singing, everyone I had said that to was like, ‘She sang the whole time!’” So how did he get her to come and sing him the birthday song? "She’s a big fan of Pedro’s. One thing I’ve learned — actresses who want to work with him love having an opportunity to have dinner with him."

As a party reporter in the presence of perhaps the most famous woman in the world besides Princess Leia, we had to at least try to talk to her. So when the right moment arose, we shyly said, “Excuse me, Madonna,” on behalf of Intel. There was a real moment where she pretended that this wasn’t happening, but finally she shook our hand — at which point we noticed she was wearing fingerless gloves — and we blurted out that that was very cool. “Thank you,” she said, and she returned to her dessert, which she did seem to be eating.

It was a little moment, an innocent one involving a tiny web journalist and a tiny international superstar, but it caused quite a ruckus. Some person purporting to be Madonna's handler (it was not Liz Rosenberg, whom we love, so we didn't bother to remember his name) immediately swooped in and called us a "liar" and said we "disrespected" him. Even dropping the all-important words "Daily Intel" had no effect, because he said, "I don't have a boss, like you. I own my own company." [Eds: We are hardly Vilensky's bosses. He's more like our affiliate party pixie.] Truthfully, we had tuned out after about nine seconds because we had just touched Madonna. Not even Jesus — the Biblical or Brazilian one — could have distracted us at that moment. Meanwhile, Boardman’s speculation that she may want an in with Almodóvar, lauded Spanish auteur, may be correct: We hear she sat through the screening of his new film the next night.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/10...e_madonna.html

[Harry!]

Revolver charts in Canada
Revolver charted at #95 this week on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 - check out www.billboard.biz

Since the beginning of this week the song Revolver is being played on Canadian radio and can now be voted for by fans at these links:

c100 | www.c100fm.com
CHUM FM | www.chumfm.com
CKOI | www.ckoi.com
NRJ | www.radionrj.ca

[Harry!]

Oct13
Celebration on Album Charts – Week #3

Australia – 8-6-8
Belgium (Flanders) – 2-1-2
Belgium (Wallonia) – 7-2-3
Canada – 1-
Czech Republic – 1-1
Denmark – 1-2
Finland – 2-2
France (C) – 1-1
Germany – 1-1-8
Hungary – 2-4-3
Ireland – 1-2-1
Italy – 1-2-3
Japan – 12-3-6
Mexico – 2-1
Netherlands – 2-2-7
New Zealand – 2-3-5
Norway – 5-4
Poland – 3-3
Portugal – 2-2
Spain – 2-4
Sweden – 2-7
Switzerland – 3-3
UK – 1-2-2
USA – 7-
Europe – 1-1
United World – 4-1

last number is the latest chart position

[Harry!]

Madonna shoes offered to Gypsy charity in Romania

Madonna is putting her shoes where her mouth is.

Madonna's signed Christian Dior shoes.The Queen of Pop has offered one of her favorite pairs of Christian Dior shoes to a charity supporting Gypsy child education. Organizers said Tuesday the skyscraper gold heels, which are autographed by Madonna, will be sold at the Ovidiu Rom annual ball later this month.

Madonna drew international attention by saying during an August concert in Bucharest on her Sticky & Sweet tour that widespread discrimination against East Europe's Gypsies, also known as Roma, should end.
Thousands of fans responded by booing her.

"Madonna's very mild comment regarding equality shone a spotlight on a common European attitude toward Gypsies," Leslie Hawke, president of Ovidiu Rom, told The Associated Press. "We're thrilled to have her donation because she is such an icon of innovation and vigor and 'can do' spirit."

Hawke's son, actor Ethan Hawke, will attend the ball and speak to guests.
Guests at the ball will make donations to win raffle tickets for the auction of donated prizes. This year's items also will include a gold chain provided by actress Vanessa Redgrave.

[Harry!]

Madonna on the cover of Rolling Stone

[Harry!]

Originally Posted by Iceman

Eminem reportedly snubbed Madonna's offer to work together on new material.

The 36-year-old rapper turned down the opportunity to collaborate with Madonna after the Celebration star approached him about a possible team-up.

Madonna, 51, told Rolling Stone: "I wanted to work with Eminem. I don't think he wanted to work with me. Maybe he's shy."

Nelly Furtado recently revealed that she also wants to record a track with Eminem.

Stubbon Eminem he is. I like the idea of Nelly Furtado working with Madonna but I would much rather Lady Gaga did.

[Harry!]

Originally Posted by Iceman

No I think you misread, it says Nelly Furtado wants to work with Eminem....

I just dont think they'd gel together in a song....way too different...

Oh sorry lol. People I want M to do a song with are Gaga and Kylie Minogue

[Wildcat!]

I am liking that madonnna documentary right now,on 4 music, from 1991 When I actually liked her.

[Harry!]

Madonna is the same she hasn't changed at all with her personality from her heyday.

Ice I hope Lady Gaga does a song soon with M it will be good