Saturday, March 21, 2015
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
'Rebel Heart' Tops The Weekly Sales Chart!
Last week, following a couple of full length leaks, Madonna dropped her 13th studio album, “Rebel Heart.” The album came preceded but “Living For Love,” a single that did OK on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Also released last week was the soundtrack for FOX’s hit new drama series, Empire. The soundtrack featured 18 songs, a few of which had already debuted in Top 100 on iTunes (US).
With the success of Empire and Madonna’s time as an entertainer in the music industry, it was unclear, at least until now, who would land atop the weekly sales chart.
The numbers are in and after a very hectic race, Empire pulls off a solid not-so-surprising win. Tallying both the number of pure album sales and cumulative streams, Empire takes the No. 1 spot, racking up 128,640 (107,140 pure album sales), as HDD reports.
Madonna is next, coming in at No. 2 with 121,972 (sales + streams). If streams weren’t counted, Madonna would have scored the No. 1 spot, as her album sold 116,472, as opposed to Empire‘s 107,140.
Monday, March 16, 2015
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Rebel Heart is Number 1 Album on Australia Aria Charts
This marks the singers 11th consecutive Number 1 album extending her lead as the most successful solo artist in Australian chart History.
The artists with the most #1 albums in Australian:
Madonna – 11
U2 – 11
Jimmy Barnes – 9
Bon Jovi – 9
John Farnham – 8
The artists with the most #1 singles in Australian:
Madonna – 10
Kylie Minogue – 10
Black Eyed Peas – 8
Delta Goodrem – 8
Eminem – 7
P!nk – 7
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Howard Stern Show Interview
Howard Stern was audibly thrilled to finally have Madonna on his SiriusXM radio show – to the point that the live Wednesday broadcast was moved to the afternoon to accommodate her schedule.
In their 90-minute interview, Stern, who is unequivocally the best interviewer currently on the air in any medium (it also helps that he can ask questions uninterrupted by commercials), probed into her childhood, her relationship with Michael Jackson and her thoughts on drugs. They also, naturally, chatted about her new album, “Rebel Heart,” out now.
Here are some excerpts.
Stern asked about being a mother since she didn’t have one growing up:
“I try to be the mother that I didn’t have, I try to be all of those things that I wanted…sometimes I make mistakes, sometimes things don’t go the way I planned. I ask my sister for her advice because she was raised by my grandmother and she’s a good mother.”
To Stern’s query of “Are you happy?”
“I am happy at times. There are lots of different gradations. Happy is a big word…When you get exhausted and get in the cycle of HAVING to do things, sometimes you get tired, sometimes you don’t feel well, but there are 20,000 people waiting for you in a sports arena, the show must go on… I wouldn’t say I’m miserable, but I do feel trapped sometimes. When you go on tour and sell tickets, you have to show up and give people the greatest show.”
On her relationship with Michael Jackson:
“I could certainly relate to him on many levels, but he was also a very shy person. He was famous since he was a child and didn’t really have a childhood. He was painfully shy. We didn’t really have a relationship about me revealing myself to him, but making fun of the crazy world we were living and working in. We didn’t talk about our childhoods…I think he felt eternally tortured. It was hard for him to look into people’s eyes.”
Her thoughts about drugs:
“I don’t like being stoned, I don’t like that fuzzy feeling you get. I’m not an herbalist and I never will be.” She also recalled that she left Jean-Michel Basquiat because he wouldn’t stop doing heroin. “We always think we can fix people and we can’t…just change yourself.”
On songwriting:
She wrote “Vogue” in a couple of hours. “I had seen people ‘voguing.’ Warren (Beatty) asked me to write a song for ‘Dick Tracy’ and I was thinking about all of the movie stars. Warren grew up in that era and he dated all of Hollywood, basically.”
When Stern sidekick Robin Quivers interjected to inquire whether Beatty was as sexually adept as his legend suggests, Madonna responded, “Yes, he was (an incredible lover). I’m not going to lie.”
She also revealed that the new song “Ghosttown” is about the end of the world and she’s shooting the video for it next week. “It’s a post-apocalyptic love song.”
And “Joan of Arc” – “This is me wishing I could be as impenetrable as I perceive Joan of Arc to be…she’s always been a female hero in my life.”
On her racy new song, “Holy Water”:
“I think my son likes the beat of ‘Holy Water.’ They like the music. They did roll their eyes a little bit, but they’re used to it. I’m their mom at this point. They separate it.”
On performing live:
“If someone I know is in the audience I would get a little nervous.”
She also expounded on her Super Bowl performance – “You have eight minutes to build the stage in the middle of the stadium and the NFL hires locals to do that, so you have locals building your stage, (and you start to worry) what if it starts to break down? (You’re) so out of control. Live TV is crazy anyway. Whatever happens, happens, you have to roll with it.”
On what happened at the Brit Awards that caused her widely publicized tumble:
“I rehearse everything to death. I never do anything live that I haven’t rehearsed…I had a long beautiful cape made for me by Armani, I was walking down this long runway to the stage at the O2 in London. I entered in the middle of the audience and had to walk up these steps, the cape was placed on me at the bottom of the stage. I had two Japanese girls holding the train of my cape and I could barely see. We rehearsed this 1,000 times. And how the cape is secured, I had magnets going all the way up but the one at the top kept coming undone because the cape is so heavy and I wanted to be obscured. So I tied it with a silk string, we rehearsed in 20,000 times…I pulled the string that time (during the show) and it didn’t come undone, it turned into a knot. (What happened was that) the director or stage manager of the show at the last minute said you can’t walk out in the middle of all these people. So now I had to walk farther so my stylist said, I’m worried that the cape isn’t going to stay on your neck, so let’s tie it tight.”
After she fell, “Honestly, I was in shock. I had so much adrenaline pumping through my body. The first thing that flashed through my mind was I have to start this all over again and then I realized it’s live TV…then I just danced like an angry matador for the next 30 seconds…No one beats up on me more than me, I have a lot of pride in doing shows well and not messing up and I did and that’s really what I did, beat up on myself. That lasted pretty much the week.”
BY MELISSA RUGGIERI
RebelHeart set to debut with 100K
Madonna's new album Rebel Heart is set to debut with 100-110K in sales this week. Her last album MDNA debuted with 359K copies.
Here are some of the key figures for this weeks chart:
Empire (Turn First/Columbia) 115-125k (90-100k sales)
Madonna (Live Nation/Interscope) 115-125k (100-110k sales)
Luke Bryan (Capitol Nashville) 95-105k (85-95k sales)
Her lead single Living For Love peaked at #106 on the Billaboard chart. Madonna has been doing extensive promo worldwide for the release of Rebel Heart, which will continue in the following weeks.
Monday, March 9, 2015
Rebel Heart Promo
Wednesday March 11th: Howard Stern Show (US)
March 14th: The Jonathan Ross Show (UK)
March 16th: The Ellen DeGeneres Show week of March 16
March 29th: iHeartRadio Music Awards
August 29th: Rebel Heart world tour kicks off in Miami and cover North America, Europe, Asia and Australia
Saturday, February 28, 2015
I'll Remember...1992
Air Date: February 22nd, 1992
Host: Roseanne & Tom Arnold
Musical Guest:Red Hot Chili Peppers
Special Guests: Madonna & Barbara Streisand
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Madonna’s New Single Revealed / Video Details
With the promo machine running full steam for Madonna‘s new album ‘Rebel Heart’, the Pop queen is already looking beyond current single single ‘Living For Love’.
For, this week not only was it confirmed which single will succeed the dance-floor anthem, details about its accompanying video were revealed too. Per multiple sources including The Inquisitr, ‘Ghosttown’ will serve as the official second single to be lifted from ‘Rebel Heart’.
Elsewhere, reliable reports suggest Madge’s longtime collaborator Jonas Akerlund will helm the music video. With visual credits such as ‘Ray of Light’ and Lady GaGa‘s ‘Telephone’, Akurland certainly makes for a great choice.
Haven’t heard ‘Ghosttown’ yet? Take a listen to the official stream which was added to Madonna’s YouTube today below.
‘Rebel Heart’, the album, arrives on March 10th worldwide.
Friday, February 20, 2015
NEWS: Billboard.com
Madonna Notches Historic 44th No. 1 on Dance Club Songs Chart
By Gary Trust
The Queen of Pop reigns again with 'Living for Love,' tying with George Strait, the King of Country, for the most leaders on a single Billboard chart. Madonna makes Billboard chart history, as she earns her 44th No. 1 on Dance Club Songs, where "Living for Love" lifts 2-1. (The ranking, dated March 7, will refresh on Billboard.com on Thursday, Feb. 26.)bWith the coronation, Madonna equals George Strait, who's logged 44 No. 1s on Hot Country Songs, for the most leaders ever by an act on a singular Billboardchart. It's fitting history for the artists also known, respectively, and reverently, as the Queen of Pop and the King of Country.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
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Thursday, February 12, 2015
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Friday, February 6, 2015
Grammys: 2015
Madonna’s going to be seated right in front of the man who helped launch her music career: Nile Rodgers, the man responsible for her first two albums. “Like a Virgin,” anyone? He was just speaking about her, saying he’d love to work with her again. Nile is currently living it up after the success of the last Daft Punk album, an album her plays on.
I wonder how long it’s been since Nile and Madonna spoke.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
NEWS: Billboard.com
Exclusive: Madonna to Premiere Music Video from 'Rebel Heart' on Snapchat Discover Today
The "Living for Love" music video is the first to premiere on the app's Snap Channel.
Today, Madonna is set to premiere the first music video from her new album, Rebel Heart, on Snapchat, the picture messaging app that was recently valued at $10 billion. The video accompanies "Living for Love," the album's first single, and will be viewable on the app's "Snap Channel."
It's been a rocky album campaign for the pop star, 56, who has endured two devastating album leaks, the second of which happened on Monday and included the 25-track deluxe version. Rebel Heart will go on sale Tuesday, March 10th, after Madonna performs at the Grammy Awards on Feb. 8th, and the Brit Awards on Feb. 25th.
The video was directed by the French duo Julien Choquart and Camille Hirigoyen, together known as J.A.C.K., was edited by longtime Madonna collaborator Danny B. Tull, and styled by B. Akerlund -- who also works wth Beyonce, Britney Spears and Lady Gaga. It was choreographed by Megan Lawson.
To state the obvious, it's a major coup for the three-year-old Snapchat, which boasts an estimated 200 million users. CEO Evan Spiegel made headlines during last year's Sony hack when a series of uncovered e-mails revealed that he was at work on an in-app music feature, including negotiations with Vevo to bring music video viewing inside Snapchat's interface. Those talks reported stalled, but the music feature being discussed was likely tied to Discover, which was announced last month.
Discover feeds news and entertainment from 12 different companies directly to the user. Participating organizations include Warner Music Group, National Geographic, People magazine, ESPN and Vice, who enlist editors to select stories (which can include photo essays and videos) that are shared and refreshed every 24 hours.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
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