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I think the next step for this single is to get into the US Top 40, we should be paid off if it makes it. I'd be quite surprised if it really makes into the Top 20 to be honest, that would be bollocks!

 

 

 

 

At the end of the day, it's just sad that we depend on the US Hot 100 to affirm if a single is successful or worth to listen to cause let's be honest... Who gives a shit about what sells in America?? I mean, many fans don't even live there lol It's just stupid and WE ALL FALL FOR IT at certain point :poo:

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I think the next step for this single is to get into the US Top 40, we should be paid off if it makes it. I'd be quite surprised if it really makes into the Top 20 to be honest, that would be bollocks!

 

 

 

 

At the end of the day, it's just sad that we depend on the US Hot 100 to affirm if a single is successful or worth to listen to cause let's be honest... Who gives a shit about what sells in America?? I mean, many fans don't even live there lol It's just stupid and WE ALL FALL FOR IT at certain point :poo:

 

the us charts have always been a mess. But its great that its getting some success in numbers. It ovbiously helped that Madonna's team didn't completely fuck up the release unlike with LFL and Ghosttown.

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Congrats M on your '15 Hot 100 debut! If this had been the 1st single, it might've been Top 10, but still all in all, this has been an amazing era for us. Posted Image

For full recap of Madonna's singles on Billboard, go to http://www.madonna-infinity.net/forums/index.php?/topic/176-madonna-on-the-billboard-hot-100/?p=121451

 

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/fashion/growing-older-with-madonna-jancee-dunn.html?referrer=&_r=0

Growing Older With Madonna

Madonna in the music video “Bitch I’m Madonna†from the album “Rebel Heart.†The video was released last week.

By JANCEE DUNN

JUNE 24, 2015

In the video for “Bitch I’m Madonna,†a party anthem released last Wednesday, the pop star of the title, in a clingy Moschino leopard-print dress, hot-pink coif and gold teeth grills, romps through the corridors of the Standard hotel along Manhattan’s High Line. “The bass is pumping,†she sings, adding a suggestive phrase before gleefully making out with some guy in the hallway.

Madonna will turn 57 in August. As she has repeatedly pointed out, her age is not going to slow her down. “Shut up jealous bitches!†she wrote recently on her Instagram account. “I hope you are as fun loving and adventurous as me when you’re my age!!!! Hahahhahaha let’s see.â€

But the subject of her advancing years dominates seemingly every conversation about her, as she has become a crusader, willingly or not, against age discrimination. As someone who once tracked her closely, I have watched with queasy fascination her attempts to navigate the undeniable fact that she is growing older before our eyes in an era of obsessive self-documentation and rampant oversharing — one that she had a direct hand in creating.

Over the last several months of Madonna’s publicity for her latest album, “Rebel Heart,†I toggle between indignation at the barrage of old-lady jokes (her tumble at the Brit Awards provoking feigned concern about a broken hip) and embarrassment at her febrile determination to be the world’s youngest, raunchiest 56-year-old. It’s relentless: the awkward onstage kiss with Drake, the topless shot in Interview magazine, the strenuous demonstrations of libido. Alongside an Instagrammed photo of the male model Andrea Denver, she wrote â€œ8 pac! Hell to the Yeah!†(This was followed by three heart emojis and a thumbs up.)

When Madonna lifted her Givenchy matador costume to flash her fishnet-encased derrière on the Grammys red carpet, I reacted first with a kind of clinical admiration (her workouts must be intense, given the muscle mass you lose starting in your 30s), followed by prim disapproval (come on, it’s not as if photographers are going to ignore you if you don’t flash them). Why does she have the seemingly compulsive need to shock and titillate, drawing from a playbook that is now over three decades old? Yes, she is constantly reinventing herself, but is she evolving? “There comes a time in every Salome’s life,†Harvey Fierstein once wrote, “when she should no longer be dropping the last veil.†Has the queen of reinvention reached that point?

Certainly, when it come to her aging process, belief is easy to suspend. Her skin is flawless, as evinced by the photo she posted from inside the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sandwiched between the much younger Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. Then there is her preternaturally toned frame, honed by grueling workouts a reported six days a week and showed off in Versace ad campaigns.

Much of the hand-wringing around her age focuses on her lack of dignity. But she’s not a United Nations ambassador — she’s a pop star. And let’s not forget that when pop stars now shoot whipped cream out of their bras and wear dresses made of meat, it’s because they are trying to clear the bar she set.

In her 1991 documentary film, “Madonna:Truth or Dare,†cameras were voyeuristic, which seemed radical then and eerily prophetic now: Here is Madonna slurping soup while chatting on the phone, there is Madonna getting her throat examined by a doctor. “She doesn’t want to live off camera, much less talk,†said Warren Beatty, her boyfriend at the time.

Now we all live constantly on camera, busily Instagramming and tweeting our every move. Madonna’s throat exam is demure compared with “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,†on which we would not be surprised to see a high colonic recorded for posterity.

Kanye West, a Kardashian in-law, calls Madonna “the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had.†Her music videos — over 60 — helped define the genre; she has had more No. 1 singles (45) than anyone. Along with Michael Jackson, she expanded the video form from a routine performance — or, in the early days, a goofy skit shot on a paltry budget — into four minutes of emotionally layered storytelling.

But she was late to social media — she joined Twitter in 2012 and Instagram in 2013 — and there’s been a stream of gaffes as she attempts to be down with the kids.

In 2000, back when the narrative was easier to control, I interviewed her for thecover story in Rolling Stone. Our chat was to take place in her office at Maverick Records in Los Angeles. Sick with nerves, I showed up an hour early — I had been told she doesn’t tolerate lateness — and sat in front of the building, trying to calm my hammering heart.

She was witty, well read and told amusing stories, such as her worst job as a teenager in Michigan: a house cleaner, scrubbing the toilets at the homes of the popular boys.

I wormed my way into the bathroom adjoining her office, opened the cabinet and dutifully cataloged the contents for my friends: a bottle of Fracas perfume, a geranium facial spray from a company called Tree of Life (which we all ran out and bought) and La Mer face lotion.

She was fine-boned and tiny, even though she was heavily pregnant at the time with her son Rocco. At one point, I had to help her, puffing, out of a chair. It was odd to see a person celebrated for her superhuman strength so physically vulnerable.

Now I see her as vulnerable in a different way, the constant products from her outrage-generator obscuring her talent. The strange thing is that like her triceps, her voice is stronger than ever, most notably in March during a live performance of “Ghosttown†at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, with no horned dancers, just Taylor Swift strumming guitar. (What better testament to Madonna’s power than to get one of the biggest stars on the planet to be your backup player.)

Among the most intriguing tracks on “Rebel Heart†is the simple, haunting “Joan of Arc,†in which she reveals that contrary to belief, the haters do burrow under her skin. “Each time they write a hateful word,†she sings, “dragging my soul into the dirt/I wanna die.â€

In interviews, Madonna has repeatedly said that she is kicking down the doors so that the women following her will not have to deal with ageism. Perhaps she has begun to change the paradigm already: People magazine selected Sean Connery as its Sexiest Man Alive at age 59 (and bald as a cantaloupe), while 42 (Halle Berry in 2008) is the current ceiling for Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive.

“I take care of myself; I’m in good shape,†she told a reporter after her Grammys flash, with some epithets for good measure. She can show her bare bottom, she pointed out, “when I’m 56 or 66 — or 76.â€

She can, she very well might, and the world will probably still be talking about her. Since I’ve probably seen her derrière more often than I’ve seen my own at this point, I won’t be clicking on those photos.
 

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Yes to the queen charting at #84 at this moment where only half of the chart are known songs to Gen X's. The rest are just blah. Can't complain anymore that Mimi's Infinity debuted higher at #82. And what's more is that Adam Lambert's Ghost Town is no better than Ghosttown but it's a hot shot debut at #73. èé

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It's been said that 4 Minutes used to be the music video with most views on Youtube before it was removed with around 60M. It was probably topped by Single Ladies though before that one got removed as well.

 

It doesn't help that Madonna's videos are uploaded either on her Vevo channel, her personnal, Warner's or fans' channels. 4 Minutes has 21M views on Madonna's channel plus another 26M on some unofficial one. Her accumulated views must/should be monstruous by now.

 

I found this ranking of most played artists of all-time in the US as of 2010. It's obvious Madonna stays a classic radio standard considering her ridiculous range of pop hits and ballads throughout her career, so that should translate to Youtube views/Spotify plays somehow - if things were more organized, of course.

 

#1 Michael Jackson - 4353 spins
#2 Justin Timberlake - 3067 spins
#3 Madonna - 2966 spins

#4 Kelly Clarkson - 2868 spins
#5 Prince - 2727 spins
#6 Whitney Houston - 2611 spins
#7 Alicia Keys - 2217 spins
#8 Beyonce - 2123 spins
#9 P!nk - 2070 spins
#10 Nelly Furtado - 1967 spins
#11 Usher - 1913 spins
#12 Jay-Z - 1861 spins
#13 Mariah Carey - 1833 spins
#14 Shania Twain - 1706 spins
#15 Avril Lavigne - 1592 spins
#16 Mary J. Blige - 1566 spins
#17 Rihanna - 1538 spins
#18 Fergie - 1449 spins
#19 Cyndi Lauper - 1286 spins
#20 Gwen Stefani - 1214 spins
#21 Aaliyah - 1191 spins
#22 Christina Aguilera - 1145 spins
#23 Janet Jackson - 877 spins
#24 Kanye West - 853 spins
#25 Shakira - 834 spins
#26 Eminem - 710 spins
#27 Celine Dion - 688 spins
#28 50 Cent - 647 spins
#29 Britney Spears - 536 spins
#30 Jennifer Lopez - 514 spins

 
Madonna:
1. Like a Prayer: 466 spins
2. Holiday: 442 spins
3. Into the Groove: 360 spins
4. Crazy for You: 310 spins
5. Borderline: 305 spins
6. Lucky Star: 290 spins
7. Vogue: 245 spins
8. Open Your Heart: 232 spins
9. La Isla Bonita: 203 spins
10. Papa Don’t Preach: 113 spins
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http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6612594/madonna-returns-to-hot-100-with-b-im-madonna

 

Madonna Returns to Hot 100 With 'B**** I'm Madonna'By Gary Trust | June 25, 2015

 

Her Madgesty is back on the Billboard Hot 100.Madonna's playfully self-celebratory "B**** I'm Madonna," featuring Nicki Minaj, debuts on the Hot 100 (dated July 4) at No. 84, powered most heavily by its 1,454 percent gain to 2.6 million U.S. streams in the week ending June 21, according to Nielsen Music. The song's official video premiered June 17 (first exclusively on Tidal for 24 hours) and includes cameos by Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Chris Rock, Kanye West and other stars.The third single from Madonna's album Rebel Heart becomes the set's first Hot 100 hit, preventing the LP from becoming her first studio album not to generate a Hot 100 entry. Lead single "Living for Love" and follow-up "Ghosttown" both fell shy of the list. Still, both songs crowned the Dance Club Songs chart, with the latter becoming her 45th No. 1 on the survey and rewriting the record for the most leaders an artist has notched on any Billboard ranking. ("B****" debuts at No. 26 on Dance Club Songs this week.)"B****" arrives as Madonna's 57th Hot 100 hit and first since "Give Me All Your Luvin' " (also featuring Minaj, as well as M.I.A.) became her record-extending 38th top 10 in 2012. The Beatles follow with 34 Hot 100 top 10s.Among women, Madonna boasts the fourth-most charted Hot 100 titles dating to the ranking's 1958 launch. Here's an updated look at the top 10 women with the most visits to the Hot 100, with Madonna and Minaj both upping their counts by one this week:73, Aretha Franklin69, Taylor Swift63, Nicki Minaj57, Madonna56, Dionne Warwick53, Connie Francis49, Rihanna48, Brenda Lee47, Mariah Carey43, Miley CyrusMadonna also joins an exclusive club of artists that have charted Hot 100 hits whose titles include their own names. Prince, for instance, reached No. 36 in 1992 with "My Name Is Prince." Honorable mentions for Eminem, whose debut entry "My Name Is" also rose to No. 36, in 1999, and whose "The Real Slim Shady" soared to No. 4 in 2000.Plus, three other iconic acts charted self-referential titles, although not due to their lyrics: "The Beach Boys' Medley" surfed to No. 12 in 1981; "The Beatles' Movie Medley" reached the same rank, in 1982; and, Elvis Presley's "The Elvis Medley" reached No. 71, also in 1982.Speaking of the Beatles, they charted the only composition prior to Madonna's latest with "Madonna" in its title: their classic "Lady Madonna" peaked at No. 4 in 1968. (Later that year, Fats Domino's cover spent two weeks at No. 100.)

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It's been said that 4 Minutes used to be the music video with most views on Youtube before it was removed with around 60M. It was probably topped by Single Ladies though before that one got removed as well.

 

It doesn't help that Madonna's videos are uploaded either on her Vevo channel, her personnal, Warner's or fans' channels. 4 Minutes has 21M views on Madonna's channel plus another 26M on some unofficial one. Her accumulated views must/should be monstruous by now.

 

 

 

Yes its sad that her Youtube presence isnt neatly organized. It really affects the way she's seen by people. For example I was looking for the Beautiful Stranger video on it and it's not there. How the hell are people supposed to watch them? by popping a DVD? lol

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