I know this is a Madonna thread but it is not about "Hard Candy". It's not like there are a ton of threads on every single, so please don't delete.

Just a question. I was on some Madonna site with offical info and it listed all of her albums and now the new thing to say in all the press is that "Hard Candy" is the 11th album....But I thought they were twelve. Wasn't COADF discussed as 11 and before AL as magic number 10. The one not included is "I'm Breathless". I wonder if recently Madonna sees IMB as an embrassment maybe since it sort of is so tied to the movie. It's not a soundtrack. There were actually TWO of those. This had 3 songs from the movie but mostly stuff inspired by the movie and the era. Even after "Hard Candy" (hip-hop), "American Life" (folk, rap) and "Bedtime Stories" (R&B,hip-hop), it is her most experiemental album that is not filled with pop songs of the era. Maybe she now thinks of it as so related to that movie, just consider it a soundtrack. Considering "Evita" has many non-Madonna songs and is 100% a soundtrack and barely a Madonna album since most of the material exsisted and she is not a music producer, of course that isn't her studio album. But "I'm Breathless" is.

I think soundtracks done by an artist as not counting towards studio albums.

I thought it was considered a soundtrack cause it had that tag, "Music from and Inspired" by Dick Tracy?

I kinda put it in the Prince Batman soundtrack cause it was along those same lines. Granted I don't know if P's Batman is considered a studio album or not.

lazycrockett said:

Batman was consired a Prince Project not a actual Prince album

banks said:

It depends on who you ask. Many fans don't put it in the canon, but a lot do. It was the album that helped him after a few years of lack luster album sales. Only to put another sound track a year after that didn't do very well.

Graffiti Bridge is considered a Prince album even though it features many songs that are not sung by him.

lazycrockett said:

I consider the "Batman" album a proper studio album since it is all Prince, even though many of the songs appear in the movie. That being said, did his name actually appear on the spine? I know it isn't on the cover, but I don't have the CD in front of me. It's tricky, I guess. Something like "Graffatti Bridge" is more of a head scrather since it has so many non-Prince tracks on it but for years I did consider it a Prince album (and I believe it has his name on the cover)...Doesn't matter but debatable.