Madonna at #4 on TRL today her highest position on the chart.

Madonna also has 34 #1 on Billboard Dance Club play leaving her behind Conway Twitty with 40 #1's on the Hot Country Chart.

Soon see could take over as the person with the most #1's on any chart in Billboard.

ehuffnsd said:

Wow, that's crazy. It can't just be the Madonna fans voting. The kids must be feeling it.

SassyBritches said:

that story reeks of bullshit

This is the review for "Confessions On A Dance Floor" by the Daily Mail that calls Madonna's new record "the year's best dance album"
"She was once the undisputed Queen Of Pop, a woman whose blonde ambition made her unstoppable. But in recent years, many fans had begun to say a little prayer for the musical health of Madonna.
The singer's last two albums, 2000's Music and 2003's American Life, were wayward affairs, bedevilled by poor lyrics, tentative rhythms and a lack of hummable tunes. Even last year's Reinvention tour seemed like a desperate attempt to halt the slide.

But fear not. Madonna is returning to reclaim her dance-pop crown with a record that pushes her, feet-first, back into club culture.
Confessions On A Dance Floor, out Monday, is not only the former Ms Ciccone's best album since 1998's Ray Of Light. It's a non-stop, rhythm-driven tour de force that ranks alongside anything she made in her chart-conquering heyday.

Madonna, her self-confidence surely dented by the cool reception of American Life, has gone back to basics. That means a return to the spirit of the New York clubs where she cut her teeth.
She describes the new album as 'future disco', but there's a strong retro feel to the 12 tracks here.

Some will claim that dressing up in a pink leotard and stilettos and getting down and dirty 'neath a disco ball isn't a particularly dignified way for a 47-yearold mother-of-two to behave.
That won't bother Madonna, who has never been one to grow old gracefully. Singing with assurance, she carries off this latest reinvention with aplomb.

Part of the credit should go to her latest creative partner, producer Stuart Price. As musical director on her last two tours, Price knows Madonna better than most, and his electronic rhythms dovetail perfectly with her distinctive voice.
Madonna and Price also observe one of the basic rules of great dance music: people might shuffle their feet to throbbing rhythms, but a barnstorming dance anthem is nothing without a decent tune - and Confessions On A Dancefloor is chock-a-block with them.

Current single Hung Up, a souped-up cover of Abba's Gimme Gimme Gimme, sets the tone. Kylie-esque, it might be aimed at Madonna's large gay following, but its slick, sexy appeal is universal and it's no surprise that it is almost certain to top the charts this Sunday.
From that point on, the highlights come thick and fast. Get Together is a trance-like number which marries ambient keyboards to a strong hook. Sorry, a future single, borrows the bassline from Can You Feel It by The Jacksons.
Future Lovers finds Madonna repeating the phrase 'give me evidence of its brilliance' against an undulating synthesiser backing reminiscent of Donna Summer's I Feel Love.

The singer's nostalgia for her roots is also evident on I Love New York: 'I don't like cities, but I like New York/Other places make me feel like a dork/Los Angeles is for people who sleep/Paris and London, baby, you can keep.'

Given that all but two of the tracks here were recorded in the UK, one should take her dismissal of London with a large pinch of salt.
Elsewhere, Price's layered electronic instrumentation returns on Let It Will Be, Forbidden Love and Jump - the latter another surefire hit in the making.
The momentum slackens only in the album's final third, with the ponderous Push and the Eastern-influenced Isaac.

But Confessions rallies to end defiantly with Like It Or Not, the only track to blend acoustic guitar into the mix.
'This is who I am/You can like it or not/You can love me or leave me/'Cause I'm never going to stop.' You have been warned."

Review by Adrian Thrills, Daily Mail

Madonna returns to the place where it all began with a live performance at London's KOKO on November 15th in celebration of the release of her stunning new album "Confessions On A Dance Floor", it was confirmed today.
Madonna is expected to perform hits including her current smash single "Hung Up" live for the first time in Britain to 1500 contest winners via radio contests from over 40 countries around the globe.
The international album launch event will be broadcast simultaneously to Madonna fans around the world through Network Live and will air on aolmusic.com, XM Satellite Radio and 02 Wireless as part of the first International Production and Broadcast for the new multi-platform digital entertainment company.

The show will feature music visionary, famed DJ and Madonna's musical director and co producer of "Confessions On A Dance Floor", Stuart Price, as well as other members of the Material Girl's touring band including Steve Sidelynk (drums), Monte Pittman (Guitar), Marcus Brown (keyboards) and Michael McKnight (keyboards). "Just as the record is where pop meets dance, this show is where live musicians meet the DJ world," says Stuart Price.

Madonna originally played at KOKO - formerly the Camden Palace - at the very beginning of her career in June l983, following the release of the underground club hit "Everybody". More recently, she played to a global audience of 5 billion as part of Live 8 in London's Hyde Park on July 2nd.
International sales for London's other queen are in excess of 200 million. She has had fifty-eight Top Ten UK hit singles including ten Number 1s, eight Number 1 albums and has spent almost two thousand combined weeks on the UK Charts. In the US, ?Hung Up? has just become the star's thirty-fifth No.1 dance single in the Grammy winner's legendary career.

Recent raves for the new album include the Sun's glowing "Anyone who thought Madonna might have abdicated as the Queen of Pop can kneel at her feet once more" and Uncut's recent statement, "Her tenure at the top has just been extended indefinitely."

In addition, Madonna appears in an hour-long special with Michael Parkinson which airs Saturday evening at 9.45pm on ITV.

From the Koko website

French Radio Europe 1 has just aired a clip from the "Sept à huit" interview which will be shown on sunday at 6:50 pm on TF1.
Here is what Madonna has to say about her children's education:


Thierry Deméziere:Is that true when Lourdes leaves her clothes on the floor she has to wear the same clothes all day long?

Madonna: Why everyone's so obsessed with my children? The press is exagerating everything. I'm with my children the same as everyone else. Do you have Children? Ok, do they throw their clothes on the Floor?

Thierry Deméziere: What do you say to them? The Press say they can't watch tv, etc...

Madonna: No, but i don't watch TV myself. We don't even have a connection to cable so they don't watch TV. We have TVs to watch movies. I don't think TV is necessary.

Thierry Deméziere: Are you scared one day they might see the videos you did in the 80s and 90s?

Madonna: No, I'm not scared.

Thierry Deméziere: What would you say to them about that Madonna?

Madonna: Let's be very clear, The work, most of the work I've done it's been for adults not for Children. One of the reason my children don't watch TV is that i think children in general grow up too fast and they are exposed to things they are not really ready to see.When My Children are grow up and they want to see my work, I'll be happy to show it to them.I'm not ashamed of my work.

I wonder if any of the stores are going to do some sort of special promtion for the COAD or do you think we would have heard about it....something like a bonus disc seems to generous but maybe not a free download or a poster. If anybody hears anything, post it here!

the continuous mix doesn't bother me as much as i thought it would (for now), but wouldn't it be great if there was a promo or an edition that had the songs isolated?

UK TV: Children In Need 12 November 2005
Madonna is due to perform two songs on the charity TV show Children In Need on BBC One on Friday 18 November - her first song is due between 8:00-8:30pm and her second performance is due to air between 11:00-11:30pm, although fans should remember that with live shows some timings are subject to change.


Madonna on Star Academy (France)





Madonna at the VIP room in Paris where Madonna took part in a radio interview for NRJ last night.









Confessions.... released today in some countries
Some lucky fans can already buy Madonna's new album Confessions On A Dance Floor in stores, it is already for sale in Holland and Ireland.

I don't even get what half those British stories were talking. I love Madonna, but they're nuts! The gay man trapped in a woman's body comment is news? Hell, Debbie Gibson once said that! And she looks her age like an old woman in that silver dress...good, but her age.

So when is she coming back to America for promotion....the few apperance when "Hung Up" came out where pitful in comparison to what she is doing overseas. Will she perform her or is it not worth it for her? Oprah? Lettermen again? Leno? Good Morning America/Today? The big interview with Diane or Barbara....now that she has something interesting to say and something good to promote (not some kid's book), she won't come here? If that was it a month ago, I'm very dissapointed.

VinnyM27 said:

Is it really worth her time? The US seems more consumed in seeing their favorite rap act or American Idol. It's fucked up and i'd rather Madonna give her attention to countries actually supporting her.

She just scored her 11th #1 in the UK by the way. And you wonder why she spends more of her promotional efforts overseas. Smart is what i call it.

As for the gay man in a woman's body comment... you haven't been a Madonna fan long have you. She also said this over 15 years ago.

Madonna debuted on the Aria chart aria.com.au on both the singles and dance charts at number 1. The song is certified gold for sales of 35000 in its first week.


It's her ninth number one single (not including Me Against The Music), and bodes well for her album which was released across Australia this morning.

Also the Stuart Price dub version is at #6 on the club chart in its 4th week (up from #13 last week).


Another reason to focus promotional efforts away from US soil.

You know how Madonna's been schmoozing Apple recently: what with her entire back catalogue being released on iTunes and advertsing the Motorola ROKR with Apple's iTunes software built in???

Well, if you go to http://www.madonna.com and right click on the main menu to View Source, the author of the website has written...

jayaredee said:

But she has the potentail to change not just her career, but the way dance music is seen, heard, etc over here. I think she gave techno pop a lot of crediblity after "Ray Of Light" and imitators (some good, some bad) got a lot of radio play. Then all of a sudden, it was all about rap and little else.

Meanwhile, I think Madonna has had eleven #1s in America since "Music". If she wants another one, she just has to come and get it. She still has a lot of American fans and this promotion just shows she is either too lazy or too much of a cunt to fight for them.

As for the quote, I wouldn't be surprised if Madonna said it (Debbie also said it and I'm sure after Madonna) so then why the fuck are the Brits freaking out of over it. They are leemings...If Madonna really wants to impress people, she should make an attempt to win back her fans here. I'm not even saying she has to force them to buy the album....hell, I doubt most people have heard the lead single..don't you think that might be a reason that they won't buy the disc if and when they see it in stores?

VinnyM27 said:

She may not have said the gay man comment in the UK. it was part of the US promo for Truth or Dare i think.

Also people know about Madonna's new album. every major US magazine and paper have given it a positivie review. it is moving up every day on TRL it debuts at #10 on VH1 and it's number 2 on Itunes again. people know and the music is speaking for its self. something that Madonna hasn't done since You'll See.

aren't Dolce and Gabbana grand.
[Edited 11/13/05 12:38pm]

Tessa said:

well, hey, what do you know... apparently the "unmixed" version on iTunes is exactly that... all the songs have their own beginnings and ends. boy, i'd love to have that. don't have iTunes (and it doesn't work on my computer anyway). i'd really, really love to have that

AMG's not so nice review.

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Given the cold shoulder Madonna's 2003 album American Life received by critics and audiences alike — it may have gone platinum, but it was her first album ever not to have a single enter the Billboard pop Top Ten (in fact, its title track barely cracked the Top 40) — it's hard not to read its 2005 follow-up Confessions on a Dance Floor as a back-to-basics move of sorts: after a stumble, she's returning to her roots, namely the discos and clubs where she launched her career in the early '80s. It's not just that she's returning to dance music — in a way, she's been making hardcore dance albums ever since 1998's Ray of Light, her first full-on flirtation with electronica — but that she's revamping and updating disco on Confessions instead of pursuing a bolder direction. While it's true to a certain extent that contemporary dance music is still recycling and reinventing these songs — besides, anything '80s is in vogue in 2005 — coming from Madonna, it sounds like a retreat, an inadvertent apology that she's no longer on the cutting edge, or at least an admission that she's inching ever closer to 50. And no matter how she may disguise it beneath glistening layers of synths, or by sequencing the album as a non-stop party, Confessions on a Dance Floor is the first album where Madonna seems like a veteran musician. Not only is there a sense of conscious craft to the album, in how the sounds and the songs segue together, but in how it explicitly references the past — both her own and club music in the larger sense — the music seems disassociated from the present; Madonna is reworking familiar territory, not pushing forward, in a manner not dissimilar to how her former opening act the Beastie Boys returned to old-school rap on their defiantly old-fashioned 2004 album, To the 5 Boroughs. But where the Beasties are buoyed by their camaraderie, Madonna has always been a stubborn individual, working well with collaborators but always, without question, existing on her own terms, and this obstinate nature is calcifying slightly into isolation on Confessions. There's no emotional hook in the music, either in its icy surface or in the lyrics, and the hard-headed intention to deliver a hardcore dance album means that this feels cold and calculated, never warm or infectious. Of course, Madonna has always been calculated in her career, often to great effect, and this calculation does pay off some dividends here. Taken on a purely sonic level, Confessions on a Dance Floor does its job: with the assistance of co-producer Stuart Price (Bloodshy & Avant produce two tracks, Mirwais produces one, while another was originally produced by Anders Baggee and Peer Astrom), she not only maintains the mood, but keeps the music moving nicely, never letting one track linger any longer than necessary. This is shimmering music falling just short of sexy, yet it's alluring enough on the surface to make for a perfect soundtrack for pitch-black nights. That's what the album was designed to do, and it works well on that level, it works well as a whole, but as a collection of individual tracks it falls apart, since there is a distinct lack of melodic or lyrical hooks. But Confessions wasn't intended to be pop music — as the title makes clear, it was made for the dance clubs or, in other words, Madonna's core audience, who will surely be pleased by this sleek slice of style. But the fact that she's making music just for her core audience, not for the mass audience that she's had for 20 years, is yet another indication that Madge is slyly, slowly settling into her new status as veteran (or perhaps as survivor), and while she succeeds rather handsomely on those modest terms, it's more than a little odd to hear Madonna scaling back her ambition and settling for less, rather than hungering for more.

ehuffnsd said:

That's great but I'd like to see her perform here. It seems like she is done with America and considering the reaction to AL, maybe she is justifed.

GangstaFam said:

I actually completely agree with that review. I'd give it a higher star rating though. Probably 4. I really like it a lot, but they're right. As I said before, Confessions is very much the post-AL apology that Bedtime Stories was after Erotica. It's the dance equivalent of Bedtime Stories.

from Drownedmadonna.com
Into The Chart Grooves
HU On Top Spot.

Finally Hung Up ( Radio Edit) has reached top spot of the iTunes chart in USA. Buy the single and let it stay at #1 for a long time!!

thanks to Thomas and Ben Kim


1.Hung Up(Radio Edit) Madonna
2.My Humps Black Eyed Peas
3.Run It (Remix) Chris Brown
4.StickwitU Pussy Cat Dolls
5.Gold Digger Kanye West
6.Photograph Nickelback
7.Dance, Dance Fall Out Boy
8.Laffy Taffy D4L
9.Sugar We're Going Fall OUt Boy
10.Jesus Walks Kanye West

when's the album being released in the usa? and when will the information about how it ranked on billboard and how many copies it sold be realeased?

hellomoto said:

This Tues Nov 15 at 12am

GangstaFam said:

I totally disagree with this critic when he says that there is a lack of melodic or lyrical hooks.This album contains some of her strongest,catchiest hooks EVER.Nearly every song has a punchy,memorable chorus and hook ("Sorry","Hung Up","Jump","Let It Will Be").

This is blasphemous:

http://video.google.com/v...&q=hung+up

VinnyM27 said:

I'm actually very impressed with the promotion so far.Madonna has been everywhere lately,and she has done countless interviews in the last few months.Pretty amazing considering that she is still recovering from her horseriding accident.I'm also pleased with Warner Bros' efforts too.There isn't a person on the earth who doesn't know that she has a new CD coming out tomorrow.

MikeMatronik said:

is that DavidEye?????