Madonna on Acclaimed Music

[groovyguy 63,864]

Acclaimed Music is a website created by Henrik Franzon, a statistician from Stockholm, Sweden. Franzon has statistically aggregated hundreds of published lists that rank songs and albums into aggregated rankings by year, decade and all-time. Lists that are submitted by readers to magazines or websites are excluded from the aggregation. Author Michaelangelo Matos writes that "Franzon's methods are imperfect, but as indicators of overall critical appeal go, it's hard to beat."

 

Courtesy of Pulsemusic

 

Acclaimed Music will be updating its site soon. Lists that will be added to the site:

Songs
1. NME: 100 Best Songs of the 1980s
33. Like a Prayer

2. NME Best Songs of the 1990s
12. Vogue

3. NME: 100 Best Songs of NME's Lifetime
19. Like a Prayer

4. Slant: 100 Best Singles of the 1980s
43. Open Your Heart
28. Live to Tell
26. Into the Groove
16. Express Yourself
7. Like a Prayer

5. Consequence of Sound: 100 Greatest Songs of All Time
46. Like a Virgin

6. Porcys Best Singles of the 1990s
9. Vogue

7. "Theater van het Sentiment" yearly top 40 songs, 32 years in total. through 2000 (Netherlands)
1992: This Used to Be My Playground: No. 39
1998: No. 6- Frozen

8. Rolling Stone (Spain): The 50 Best Songs of the XXI Century (2013)
46. Hung Up

9. Indiespot - Las 1000 mejores canciones del siglo XXI (2009)
2005: Hung Up
2008: 4 Minutes

10. NME: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
47. Like a Prayer
438. Material Girl

11. Will Hermes, Details: The 40 Records That Shook the World (1998)
Like a Virgin

12. Radio 2's "Canon van de popmuziek"
Like a Virgin

13. Steve Sullivan, Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings
Live to Tell
Like a Prayer
Take a Bow

14. Arizona Republic: Madonna's 30 Best Singles

15. Cameron Adams/News Corp. Australia: Best Songs From the 100 Music Albums You Must Have in Your Record Collection
Like a Prayer

16. Out: Gayest Songs of the 80s
Into the Groove
Express Yourself

17. Out: Gayest Songs of the 90s
Secret
Ray of Light
(yes, baffling exclusion of "Vogue")

18. Freaky Trigger: 100 Greatest Songs
4. Like a Prayer
25. Into the Groove
99. Papa Don't Preach

Also- the site is expanding its database to something like 6,000-8,000 songs, and the following songs will be added:
Burning Up
Angel
True Blue
Causing a Commotion
Deeper and Deeper
This Used to Be My Playground
Take a Bow
Sorry

Albums
1. Slant: 100 Best Albums of the 1980s
20. Like a Prayer
33. Madonna
60. True Blue

2. Slant: 100 Best Albums of the 1990s
28. Erotica
47. Ray of Light
63. Bedtime Stories

3. Zeit (Germany) - 100 Modern Classics (2007)
94. Madonna

5. NME: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
241. Ray of Light

6. Petridis: Albums of the Century
Like a Virgin
Like a Prayer

7. Cameron Adams, The 100 Albums You Must Have in Your Record Collection
Like a Prayer


8. Entertainment Weekly: The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time (2013)
Madonna
43. Madonna

9. The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock
Like a Prayer

[Guest]

17. Out: Gayest Songs of the 90s

Secret

Ray of Light

(yes, baffling exclusion of "Vogue")

 

Really?  How can those two be even considered such? I think it's silly to call a song "gay", but those two, when we have songs like "Vogue" and "Deeper and Deeper" which screamed GAY!  LOL!

[groovyguy 63,864]

Acclaimed Music has updated it site; unlike the songs- which expanded to 6,000 rankings- the album stayed at 3,000.

Some things to keep in mind:

* Year-end lists were not nearly as prevalent in the 80s and part of the 90s (that, or the ones attainable are limited) as they were to become in the late 90s-on.
* Multi-critic lists are ones eligible for year-end lists; single-critic lists sometimes are included for all-time lists
* "Later" singles sometimes don't get as much list love as "earlier" singles from an album (especially third singles and beyond)
* Genre-specific lists are not included at AM unless it's from a source specializing in the genre, or includes experts from the genre in compiling the list (i.e. a Rolling Stone list of the Top 100 Country Albums wouldn't be eligible)
* Current criteria for artist lists (i.e. Greatest Madonna Songs) is dependent on various factors: i.e. size (30 and up, it looks these days); number of critics (if one and it meets other criteria, one may be OK); must have commentary for each track

Artist ranks shouldn't be paid too much mind to, per the sitemaster (as it just takes into account the top 15 songs and albums from an act, and other reasons), but it certainly gives a good idea of reverence.

Madonna is ranked as the No. 32 act- No. 21 songs and No. 91 albums. You can check out all the info at the site, but here are her songs' rankings in the AM top 6,000 songs:

179. Like a Prayer 
220. Into the Groove
230. Like a Virgin
568. Vogue 
594. Ray of Light
595. Music
814. Hung Up
963. Borderline
1,217. Material Girl
1,392. Beautiful Stranger
1,412. Papa Don't Preach
1,413. Holiday
1,442. Live to Tell
1,456. Justify My Love 
2,102. Express Yourself
2,124. Crazy for You
2,621. Erotica
2,652. Secret
2,719. Frozen
2,916. Open Your Heart
2,926. Don't Tell Me
4,231. Where's the Party
4,296. Lucky Star
5,022. Die Another Day
5,700. Who's That Girl

She has others that are bubbling under.

[groovyguy 63,864]

Acclaimed Music is a site which compiles best-year-end lists and best-of-all-times lists from professional critics creating a ranking of the most recommended music ever created.Top ArtistsThe artist ranking is based on the positions for the artists' acclaimed albums and songs. Madonna is at number 23 on the best artists of all time list, the number 1 female artist.1- The Beatles2- Bob Dylan3- The Rolling Stones4- David Bowie5- Bruce Springsteen6- Radiohead7- Elvis Presley8- Neil Young9- Prince10- R.E.M.11- The Beach Boys12- U213- Led Zeppelin14- The Who15- The Velvet Underground16- Marvin Gaye17- Jimi Hendrix18- The Clash19- Kanye West20- Elvis Costello21- Miles Davis22- Nirvana23- Madonna24- Pink Floyd25- Stevie Wonderhttp://www.acclaimedmusic.net/

[Fighter 28,874]

Interesting 

[ITG 3,331]

Kanye....hmmmmm....ok!

[Breathless 5,286]

Exactly loool, Kanye - now wtf is he doing on that list??!! Plus I find it interesting that they're all male groups, and the only female (on #19...) is Madonna.....!! I mean, it's great that she's on that list but she should have been a bit higher up