[Harry!]

Madonna equals Elvis record

From madonna.com:

Madonna's new compilation Celebration leaps straight to number one in the Official Album Chart and brings her level with Elvis Presley’s record of eleven UK number one albums, the Official Charts Company reveals today.

No other solo artist can match this achievement. Only The Beatles, with a total of fifteen, have had more number one albums in chart history.
This feat marks yet another record for Madonna, the most successful female solo artist of all time. She has also:

Spent more weeks at number one (29) of the Official UK Album Chart than any other female solo artist.
Had more UK number one singles (13) than any other female solo artist.
Achieved the chart double (simultaneous number one album and single) more times (4) than any other female solo artist.
Completed the highest grossing tour in history (her recent Sticky & Sweet tour) for a female artist.

Celebration brings together 36 tracks spanning Madonna’s entire career so far and includes a newly recorded song Revolver featuring Lil Wayne.

Celebration The Video Collection DVD with 47 tracks is released tomorrow, Monday 28th September 2009.

Madonna’s UK number one albums:
Like a Virgin (1984)
True Blue (1986)
Like a Prayer (1989)
The Immaculate Collection (1990)
Evita (1996)
Ray of Light (1998)
Music(2000)
American Life(2003)
Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005)
Hard Candy (2008)
Celebration (2009)

Source: madonna.com. Chart Information: The Official Charts Company.

[Harry!]

Celebration #1 on Italian Albums chart

Great news for the Italian fans! Our estimates based on partial sales data last week have been confirmed by the release of the official chart this morning: Madonna's "Celebration" enters straight to #1 in the Italian album chart.
This makes the new collection the fourth Madonna CD in a row topping the charts in the country (not counting the audio CD in the I'm Going To Tell You A Secret and Confessions Tour DVD bundles).

The top placement for Madonna's albums in the Italian charts are as follows:
Madonna #8
Like a Virgin #1
True Blue #1
Who's That Girl #1
You Can dance #6
Like a Prayer #1
I'm Breathless #1
The Immaculate Collection #9
Erotica #2
Bedtime Stories #2
Something To Remember #1
Evita #2
Ray Of Light #1
Music #1
GHV2 #7
American Life #1
Confessions On A Dance Floor #1
Hard Candy # 1
Celebration # 1

Thanks to GAM.

[Harry!]

Madonna set to marry - report



Madonna is set to marry model Jesus Luz before the end of the year, according to reports.

The pop star met the sexy Brazilian in December at a photoshoot for W magazine, which saw the pair pose for a series of provocative photos, weeks before Madonna's divorce from filmmaker Guy Ritchie was finalised in January.

And according to biographer Randy Taraborrelli, her relationship with the 22 year old is so serious, she plans to tie the knot with him in a Kabbalah commitment ceremony within the next few months.

Taraborrelli tells Hello! magazine, "The pop queen has been dating Jesus since January and it is thought the pair may marry before the end of the year.

"Madonna is crazy about Jesus and has been telling close friends and family that 'I could definitely see myself marrying him. Yes, it's definitely on the table.'"

And the 51 year old, who divorced her first husband Sean Penn in 1989, refuses to allow her previous romantic failures to keep her from throwing a lavish ceremony.

Taraborrelli quotes a relative as saying, "She knows that's what Jesus wants. She has a lot of wonderful memories of both of her weddings. She doesn't want to slip off and do it quietly. She definitely wants a big and rather fantastic affair."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/1/20090928/...t-c60bd6d.html

Wooow dude ur a hugeee fan lol

[Harry!]

[rquote=2611809&tid=109695&author=atieah2009]Wooow dude ur a hugeee fan lol[/rquote]

Yep. I even have her calender on my wall!

[Harry!]

Celebration on Album Charts

Australia – #8 (#9 on Physical Album Chart)
Belgium (Flanders) – #2
Belgium (Wallonia) – #7
Germany – #1
Hungary – #2
Ireland – #1
Italy – #1
Netherlands – #2
New Zealand – #2
UK – #1

[MiuMiu]

I got my Celebration cd that I won on the radio today!!!
WOOOP!!!!!!!!!!!

[Harry!]

[rquote=2614165&tid=109695&author=MiuMiu]I got my Celebration cd that I won on the radio today!!!
WOOOP!!!!!!!!!!!

[/rquote]



yey!

[Harry!]

No Madonna for Ryan today

Ryan Seacrest just announced on his radio show that due to some miscommunication with an assistant in Madonna's camp, she won't be able to join the show today.

Apparently Madonna was not informed of the interview being scheduled for today and she's not able to join Ryan on the phone today due to other commitments - but she's expected to talk to him tomorrow.

[Harry!]

Also to appear on the Late Show with David Letterman today!

[M X]

Michael Jackson on Madonna -

"She is not a nice person,"

"Madonna laid the law down to me before we went out. [She said] I am not going to Disneyland, OK? That's out," Jackson said. "I said, 'I didn't ask to go to Disneyland.' She said, 'We are going to the restaurant. And afterwards, we are going to a strip bar.'

"I said, 'I am not going to a strip bar, where they cross dress. ... I am not going to there. If that's how it is, forget this whole thing. He also described a scene in which a child approached them during dinner and Madonna reportedly brushed the kid off, leading Jackson to say, "Don't you ever talk to children like this.

"She said, 'Shut up,' " he recalled. "I said, 'You shut up.' "

... Afterwards, she wrote some mean things about me in the press. And I wrote that she is a nasty witch, after I was so kind to her," Jackson said

[MiuMiu]

Are they having a Madonna's songs week on the x factor this year?
Is she going to be on it?

[Harry!]

[rquote=2616505&tid=109695&author=MiuMiu]Are they having a Madonna's songs week on the x factor this year?
Is she going to be on it?
[/rquote]

No dates have been set yet but she will be on the X Factor somehow!

[Harry!]

[rquote=2616025&tid=109695&author=MichaelSpears]Michael Jackson on Madonna -

"She is not a nice person,"

"Madonna laid the law down to me before we went out. [She said] I am not going to Disneyland, OK? That's out," Jackson said. "I said, 'I didn't ask to go to Disneyland.' She said, 'We are going to the restaurant. And afterwards, we are going to a strip bar.'

"I said, 'I am not going to a strip bar, where they cross dress. ... I am not going to there. If that's how it is, forget this whole thing. He also described a scene in which a child approached them during dinner and Madonna reportedly brushed the kid off, leading Jackson to say, "Don't you ever talk to children like this.

"She said, 'Shut up,' " he recalled. "I said, 'You shut up.' "

... Afterwards, she wrote some mean things about me in the press. And I wrote that she is a nasty witch, after I was so kind to her," Jackson said


[/rquote]

Really they are so different to each other. Maybe 2 icons but with2 different personalities!

[MiuMiu]

Are they having a Madonna's songs week on the x factor this year?
Is she going to be on it?

[Harry!]

[rquote=2616505&tid=109695&author=MiuMiu]Are they having a Madonna's songs week on the x factor this year?
Is she going to be on it?
[/rquote]

No dates have been set yet but she will be on the X Factor somehow!

[Harry!]

[rquote=2616025&tid=109695&author=MichaelSpears]Michael Jackson on Madonna -

"She is not a nice person,"

"Madonna laid the law down to me before we went out. [She said] I am not going to Disneyland, OK? That's out," Jackson said. "I said, 'I didn't ask to go to Disneyland.' She said, 'We are going to the restaurant. And afterwards, we are going to a strip bar.'

"I said, 'I am not going to a strip bar, where they cross dress. ... I am not going to there. If that's how it is, forget this whole thing. He also described a scene in which a child approached them during dinner and Madonna reportedly brushed the kid off, leading Jackson to say, "Don't you ever talk to children like this.

"She said, 'Shut up,' " he recalled. "I said, 'You shut up.' "

... Afterwards, she wrote some mean things about me in the press. And I wrote that she is a nasty witch, after I was so kind to her," Jackson said


[/rquote]

Really they are so different to each other. Maybe 2 icons but with2 different personalities!

[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.

[Harry!]

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?