Aaron Evans

HD remastered video for "Sorry" now on YouTube.

Hopefully this will trigger Emily to upload the Sorry video in HD, the current "official" version is a 4:3 letterbox.

I think this may have something to do with it being added to Spotify's "Big On The Internet" playlist, naturally giving it a stream boost.

This sounds a lot like Justin Bieber's strategy guide in which he encouraged his fans to stream "Yummy" on repeat to get it charting at #1.

I have a feeling that there's a high chance the Madonna (The First Album)-era singles will be released next year…

Discovered this song a while ago and noticed that the intro/outro is very similar to the mixed (not unmixed) album version of "Hung Up". It opens on the sound of a clock ticking, and it returns during the fade-out.

Panic brought this from Beyoncé’s site as all the uploads on YouTube seem to be blocked for me.

I’m guessing “Like A Prayer (Remix/Edit)” will be the Bill Bottrell mix.

I live in Australia, and I haven’t heard anything after the Hard Candy era on my local station. It also appears that nearly every station got caught up in the same problem. For me, it’s mostly her 80s stuff, but I have heard “Ray of Light”, “Hung Up”, “Sorry” and “4 Minutes” in the past year. A similar problem is happening with the new ABBA album, stations are refusing to play the singles for obvious reasons. The closest was Nova playing “Don’t Shut Me Down” in high rotation after release, but only briefly.

I don’t like that song as the follow-up to “4 Minutes”. The instrumental sounds like it came from an early 2000s video game, and is thus too cheap-sounding (not “cheesy” cheap, but cheap cheap) for chart material. I can understand why Madonna never had a major worldwide hit after that, and don’t blame it on her switching labels for MDNA.

From the people who brought you “Friday” (which sampled “Push The Feeling On (MK Dub Revisited)” by Nightcrawlers) comes this poor attempt at a follow-up single, which is yet to chart in the UK.

On Spotify, Papa Don’t Preach has been corrected on the standard album. However, the Behind The Lyrics information track is supposed to go along with the extended remix, so as a result it is “corrupted” at the moment and has not shown up on the new source for the 12” remix.

https://youtu.be/yxSFUsM-10k This is a clip from the game “Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fashion”, in which players have to guess the correct order of photos of an artist based on appearance. The first team’s was Boy George, and they got the image order right. Madonna, on the other hand... (Also, can anyone guess the song playing in the background?)