Justin1972UK said:

how was the video tasteless?

asg said:

LAST UPDATE: 11/28/2005 12:40:28
NOW IN: 33.74%


LW TW artist / album label power index
5 1 N0W THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! 20 UTV 76,124
VARIOUS
2 2 CARRIE UNDERWOOD ARISTA/RMG 67,190
SOME HEARTS
3 3 KENNY CHESNEY BNA 65,410
THE ROAD AND THE RADIO
6 4 GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 63,182
SOUNDTRACK
-- 5 SYSTEM OF A DOWN AMERICAN/COL/CRG 56,633
HYPNOTIZE
1 6 MADONNA WARNER BROS. 53,109
CONFESSIONS ON A DANCEFLOOR
4 7 MARIAH CAREY ISLAND/IDJMG 51,952
THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI
-- 8 ENYA REPRISE 50,495
AMARANTINE
9 9 NICKELBACK ROADRUNNER/IDJMG 40,773
ALL THE RIGHT REASONS
-- 10 REBA MCENTIRE MCA NASHVILLE 35,448

She's starting to climb now. She'll be top 5 for sure and likely top 3.

DavidEye said:

Most of my favorite Madonna songs are ballads.

DavidEye said:

I just hope one of them doesn't get lost in the mix cuz they both deserve to be huge.

from Madonnalicious.com








Madonna is music to Warner
Posted: 27 November 2005
Madonna has become the first artist to have a simultaneous number one hit across Europe in every music format: single, album, download single and mobile phone ringtone.
The news, based on charts for Europe as a whole, points not only to the popularity of her single, Hung Up, and her album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, but also to the growing importance of new electronic media.
Warner Music, the US group behind Madonna, is placing more and more emphasis on so-called digital revenues from internet downloads and ringtones. Its most recent results show that digital revenues grew to $44m (£27m) in the three months to the end of June, accounting for 6 per cent of revenues, and up by 26 per cent on the previous quarter.




I'd love to direct, says Madonna
Posted: 27 November 2005 - From BBC Online
Madonna has revealed that the shooting of the latest documentary about her has made her want to follow film director husband Guy Ritchie behind the camera. 'I would love to direct,' she said. 'I felt very inspired by making this movie and I learned a lot about film-making.'
'I would like to do it on my own next time,' continued the singer, whose film I'm Going to Tell You a Secret will be shown on Channel 4 on 1 December.
Her latest album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, is top of the UK charts.
Madonna's comments are part of an interview due to be screened on Channel 4.
In the programme, conducted by TV presenter Dermot O'Leary, the mother of two speaks proudly about her nine-year-old daughter Lourdes and five-year-old son, Rocco.
Viewers will see her describe Lourdes as 'very musical'.
'She sings quite well and she's an incredible ballerina,' she says.
Earlier this month Madonna attended the London premiere of the new Harry Potter film with Lourdes, also known as Lola.
There, she revealed, her daughter was left speechless after a chance encounter with one of its stars, Emma Watson.
'In the middle of the movie she had to go to the bathroom,' she told O'Leary.
'Hermione was in there washing her hands and Lola's jaw hit the ground.'
But Madonna refused to discuss her recent riding accident, which left her with a broken collarbone and three cracked ribs.
'I don't want to go there - I get flashbacks,' she said.
'I'm just starting to feel better.'

A reminder for UK fans that this interview airs tonight on Channel 4 at 11:05pm.

Great pics!

GangstaFam said:

yes they are.


can't wait to see what the future singles and tour photo sessions will be like.
i rememeber the enormous pics around the arena of her during Blonde Ambition. would be nice to see pics from the album that size.

I've been trying to upload the Dermot O'Leary interview since it was screened. I originally used a site called Sendspace but it didn't work. I started uploading again at half-ten last night and nine and a half hours later, only two parts have successfully uploaded. It's bloody slow!

Outtakes from COADF (these songs really exist)...

"SuperPop"
"Fighting Spirit"
"Triggering"
"History"


we already know that "SuperPop" is available to ICON subscribers,and "Fighting Spirit" appears on the upcoming Limited Edition set.But what about the other two songs? Will they appear as B-sides on upcoming singles??

I was going to give Bart at Mad-Eyes.net, first dibs on these links but his site's disappeared!

Here's the 'Confessions Of Madonna' interview...

Part One
http://ww8.sharebigfile.c...fEtn8ocnyD

Part Four
http://ww2.sharebigfile.c...sruh8BSEJq

Part Two
http://ww8.sharebigfile.c...m5dizQgh7F

Part Three
http://ww8.sharebigfile.c...rNfl02GqcR

If I were you, I'd click on the links before you go to bed and they should be there when you wake up in the morning.

If you have a PAL tv (as opposed to NTSC), you can make a VCD with the files without having to re-encode them. If you get a message (when making a PAL VCD with Nero) asking you to re-encode, you really don't have to. They'll just work anyway.

DavidEye said:

Where'd you hear about the last 2? Got any info on 'em?

I lost track...did we decide if Madonna DOES have as many Top Tens as Elvis?? I gathered that the dispute is due to the fact the charts have changed over the years...so maybe it's not possible to make an "apples to apples" comparison as a result?

Those leotards always make me check out her crotch. Am I alone here?

CinisterCee said:

leotards or not...i always check out her 'crotch'


damn that woman is hottttt

CinisterCee said:

I always think that I almost see something in that part where she really stretches it out in the video. Lurid!

GangstaFam said:

These songs were mentioned on a popular Madonna fansite www.mad-eyes.net

"Super Pop","Fighting Spirit",and "Triggering" were produced by Mirwais."History" was produced by Stuart Price.

DavidEye said:

I need.

TRON said:

I hate hearing about Madonna outtakes,because I know that she will never release them

CandaceS said:

Elvis has 38 top tens, so she hasn't yet. Billboard, or at least one writer in Billboard, subtracted two tracks from his five double-sided top tens to make 36. I believe they'll be confirming that point to still argue that she has (contradicting the stats they published in their Elvis feature last year).

She'll end up beating the 38 legitimately I'm sure, on the Billboard Top 100. There really isn't a true "apples to apples" and hasn't been for a long time. Billboard is the recognized brand though, it's what exists, and the industry will keep trying to work with it, everyone to their respective advantage.

Eileen

http://www.billboard.com/...rd+Hot+100


Hung Up holds at # 7 this week , keeps its bullet.

The confusion has been cleared up, sorta (the article gets confusing). Madonna and Elvis are both tied with 36 top ten hits and her top 40 status has also been cleared up. heres what fred had to say from:
http://www.billboard.com/...t/chat.jsp

ELVIS' 36 TOP 10 HITS

Fred,

In your recent article on Madonna's "Hung Up" single, you incorrectly stated that Elvis Presley had 36 top 10 hits. Elvis had 38 top 10 hits on the Billboard singles charts. I am not sure where you came up with 36.

Jason Edge
President - Elvis
International Fan Club
jasonedge@nc.rr.com or jasonedge@elvis.com

Dear Jason,

You were the first person to send me an e-mail about the stats reported in last week's 'Chart Beat' -- but you weren't the last, not by a longshot. This item has generated more letters to "Chart Beat Chat" than almost any other subject in 2005.

I understand why I've received so many missives about Madonna tying Elvis Presley's record number of top 10 hits. Joel Whitburn has long reported that Elvis has 38 top 10 hits. My respect and admiration for Joel knows no bounds, but it's important to know how he comes up with that number or any of the statistics reported in his books.

For example, in his latest edition of "Top Pop Singles," Joel counts songs that did not chart on Billboard's Hot 100 as Hot 100 hits if they made the Hot 100 Airplay or Hot 100 Sales charts. The same goes for songs that made a holiday chart but not the Hot 100.

On the R&B charts, which were not published between November 1963 and January 1965, Joel uses data from Cash Box, a now-defunct trade magazine that was a competitor to Billboard at the time. That data can't be used when citing Billboard stats -- for example, if I report the number of songs charted by Stevie Wonder on Billboard's R&B survey, I can't use the number of songs Joel reports because it includes titles that never charted in Billboard.

The Elvis "discrepancy" is because Joel counts things differently on pre-Hot 100 charts. Before there was a Hot 100, there were four different weekly charts. The main chart was Best Sellers in Stores, and that's the list Billboard uses as THE pre-Hot 100 chart. Joel counts information from all four charts. When he lists a peak position, for example, he picks the highest position from any one of the four charts. He will list more than one song at No. 1 in a particular week, because he counts all four charts.

Another reason for the Elvis "discrepancy" is that rules for how a two-sided single is charted has changed many times over the years.

On Best Sellers in Stores, a two-sided single counted as one hit and charted in one position. Thus, "Don't Be Cruel" / "Hound Dog" is one top 10 single, not two. The same goes for the early 1958 single "Don't" / "I Beg of You." Counting these two double-sided hits as four top 10 hits instead of two gives you the figure of 38 instead of 36.

When the Hot 100 was introduced, the two sides of a single charted separately. So some of Elvis' later top 10 singles DO count as two top 10 hits, if both sides made the top 10 separately.

In late 1969, Hot 100 rules were changed and two-sided hits again charted as one hit, occupying the same position. Later, the rules were changed again and they were separated once more. Then they counted as one again. Today, they are separate again (you think it's easy keeping track of all this?).

I've been consistent in my books and columns in using only the Best Sellers in Stores chart when compiling pre-Hot 100 stats, and following whatever two-sided single rule was in effect at the time. I don't favor Madonna over Elvis Presley, I just report the facts.

Having said all of this, I did shortchange Madonna in last week's column. "Hung Up" is her 47th top 40 hit, not her 45th. That pushes her past Stevie Wonder (with 46 top 40 hits) into fourth place among artists with the most top 40 hits in the rock era, behind Elvis, Elton John and the Beatles.

By the way, I could have avoided offending Elvis fans if I had just cited the number of top 10 hits collected by Madonna on the Hot 100. Since 12 of Presley's 36 top 10 hits occurred before the Hot 100 was introduced, Madonna would be the undisputed champion. However, I think it's more relevant to use the entire rock era to measure success.