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[MPowered 3,296]

4 hours ago, Prayer said:

Warner always pushed for album sales back then (way more profitable than single sales). It was intentional. “You like the song? Well, buy the whole album then” was the reason behind the mess.

“Nothing Really Matters” case was extreme and a total chart mess in the US and surely it added to her being pissed off and all the tensions with them in 2000-2001 and later.

It sucked so bad, cause The Power of Good-Bye and Nothing Really Matters would have done so much better chart-wise and most likely considered bigger hits, had they not done what they did.

[Prayer 9,061]

12 minutes ago, MPowered said:

It sucked so bad, cause The Power of Good-Bye and Nothing Really Matters would have done so much better chart-wise and most likely considered bigger hits, had they not done what they did.

It was terrible. "The Power Of Good-Bye" #11 and "Nothing Really Matters" #93 in the US.

But it even went back to the "Ray Of Light" single release: in the UK it was out at the end of April 1998, while in the US the physical single release was held back until the end of June. Of course being the monster hit it was, it got to #5 anyway but imagine with a normal strategy and not the album pushing one - maybe she could have had another #1 with it.

I wonder if she agreed to all that or it was all the label promo policies and she couldn't do much about it.

[animalinstinct 1,188]

I’m loving that NRM is finally getting released to streaming, but it is a worry that they’ve skipped Drowned World & Power of Goodbye

[Blue Jean 9,575]

15 minutes ago, MPowered said:

It sucked so bad, cause The Power of Good-Bye and Nothing Really Matters would have done so much better chart-wise and most likely considered bigger hits, had they not done what they did.

TPOG wasn’t Warner’s fault. The week after the song rose to #11 was when billboard first changed the way the charts were calculated. This was when airplay became a bigger factor for songs in the hot 100 then sales hence why TPOG dropped massively after that. It’s highly likely it would have broken the top 10 that week if that didn’t happen. I’m not sure Warner could have known that was coming.

[Blue Jean 9,575]

15 minutes ago, Prayer said:

It was terrible. "The Power Of Good-Bye" #11 and "Nothing Really Matters" #93 in the US.

But it even went back to the "Ray Of Light" single release: in the UK it was out at the end of April 1998, while in the US the physical single release was held back until the end of June. Of course being the monster hit it was, it got to #5 anyway but imagine with a normal strategy and not the album pushing one - maybe she could have had another #1 with it.

I wonder if she agreed to all that or it was all the label promo policies and she couldn't do much about it.

Considering singles were being sold super cheap in the late 90’s I’m sure it was in her best interests to sell albums. Album sales mattered way more than chart positions.

What Warner did became the trend for everyone in the early 2000’s once songs were charting on airplay stats. For example, I remember Backstreet boys single scraping into the top 10, meanwhile their album sold 10 million plus. Labels were not even releasing singles a lot of the time at that point.

Hence why Beautiful stranger didn’t chart high, it was only available on the Austin Powers soundtrack and it’s position was based on airplay alone. Same with American Pie. It sucks for her chart stars but for album sales it was the best thing to do.

[deathproof 9,117]

1 hour ago, Blue Jean said:

TPOG wasn’t Warner’s fault. The week after the song rose to #11 was when billboard first changed the way the charts were calculated. This was when airplay became a bigger factor for songs in the hot 100 then sales hence why TPOG dropped massively after that. It’s highly likely it would have broken the top 10 that week if that didn’t happen. I’m not sure Warner could have known that was coming.

TPOG peaked in sales 4 weeks before peaking on airplay. It could have hit the top ten had the single been released a few weeks later, which would have allowed sales and airplay to balance each other out (when sales peaked, airplay was at #40, but when airplay peaked at #26, sales had fallen several spots to #19).

[Sultrysully 2,492]

Madonna needs to release a missing streaming single/demo every week from now through the tour.  Let's make this truly a Celebration! 

[andirabo 100]

 

[subversive 961]

Wow, don't know if it is upscaled or not but it's really impressive!  My fav video

[Prayer 9,061]

17 minutes ago, andirabo said:

 

The audio is a little bit out of sync or it was always like that? 

[GregVsMatt 2,704]

12 hours ago, Prayer said:

Warner always pushed for album sales back then (way more profitable than single sales). It was intentional. “You like the song? Well, buy the whole album then” was the reason behind the mess.

“Nothing Really Matters” case was extreme and a total chart mess in the US and surely it added to her being pissed off and all the tensions with them in 2000-2001 and later.

Warner USA made some mistakes circa 1999-2000 and were focused on radio play without valuing the single market - eg for Beautiful Stranger and American Pie, had they had physical releases they would have been top 10 hits at least however they wanted to drive the soundtrack sales, very messy 

[BuggedOut 2,183]

22 minutes ago, subversive said:

Wow, don't know if it is upscaled or not but it's really impressive!  My fav video

It’s so overrated, though.

Shes just bouncing up and down in front of a green screen to sped up footage.

I never got the love for the video or the song.

[dylanlioncourt 4,310]

1 hour ago, Prayer said:

The audio is a little bit out of sync or it was always like that? 

It's definitely off by a second especially during the slow down bit "zephyr in the sky at night" 

[deathproof 9,117]

Time-lapse & slowed-down footage does not translate well when upscaled lol

[subversive 961]

1 hour ago, BuggedOut said:

It’s so overrated, though.

Shes just bouncing up and down in front of a green screen to sped up footage.

I never got the love for the video or the song.

[BuggedOut 2,183]

6 minutes ago, dylanlioncourt said:

It's definitely off by a second especially during the slow down bit "zephyr in the sky at night" 

The new upload of Fever is off by a second as well.

[Roland Barthes 4,659]

Probably the worst upscale second to Rain. 

[Askeroff 6,070]

the upscale is ok

a little cartoonish 

 

wish we have something like this

 

[Frank 37,948]

26 minutes ago, deathproof said:

Time-lapse & slowed-down footage does not translate well when upscaled lol

 

2 minutes ago, Askeroff said:

the upscale is ok

a little cartoonish 

wish we have something like this

 

The Tidal video looks way better than the YouTube rip tho.

[Prayer 9,061]

4 minutes ago, Askeroff said:

the upscale is ok

a little cartoonish 

 

wish we have something like this

 

This looks incredibly dated - and upscaled - too. I guess VHS quality made us see things without the imperfections and bad effects haha.

About "Ray Of Light", is the sound out of sync what puts me off a little bit... Image is not perfect but I guess an upscaling was always going to be difficult in this case with all those high speed images and changes.

The thumbnail hasn't been updated yet and it's not yet on her HD Videos playlist so maybe they're realized is not perfect and they will upload another version... fixed audio, please.

[Bjonkers 1,171]

2 hours ago, Prayer said:

The audio is a little bit out of sync or it was always like that? 

Yeah, the first thing I noticed was that the video and audio were out of synch. Very noticeable when she's singing the slowed down middle 8. That's not something I had ever noticed before.

Sigh. If only she hadn't taught us to be such perfectionists!

[tscott 1,887]

5 minutes ago, Prayer said:

This looks incredibly dated - and upscaled - too. I guess VHS quality made us see things without the imperfections and bad effects haha.

About "Ray Of Light", is the sound out of sync what puts me off a little bit... Image is not perfect but I guess an upscaling was always going to be difficult in this case with all those high speed images and changes.

The thumbnail hasn't been updated yet and it's not yet on her HD Videos playlist so maybe they're realized is not perfect and they will upload another version... fixed audio, please.

They've yet to include Express Yourself as well which that was randomly upgraded without any mention at all. 

[Askeroff 6,070]

well Dion video actually a rescan of original 35 mm tape

the close up scenes looks impressive 

 

Tidal ROL looks better than youtube vers a bit sharper

but still...

[Fabiolous 4,786]

So the EPs we still don't have are these then?

JANUARY

Keep It Together - January 30, 1990

 

MARCH

Crazy for You - March 2, 1985

I'll Remember - March 15, 1994

Live to Tell - March 26, 1986

 

APRIL

American Life - April 8, 2003

Angel - April 10, 1985

Spotlight - April 25, 1988

 

JUNE

Papa Don't Preach - June 11, 1986

This Used to Be My Playground - June 16, 1992

Who's That Girl - June 23, 1987

 

JULY

Hollywood - July 7, 2003

Into the Groove - July 15, 1985

Dress You Up - July 31, 1985 / December 12, 1985

 

AUGUST

Cherish - August 1, 1989

Lucky Star - August 8, 1984

Drowned World / Substitute for Love - August 24, 1998

Causing a Commotion - August 25, 1987

 

SEPTEMBER

Holiday - September 7, 1983

True Blue - September 17, 1986

The Power of Goodbye - September 22, 1998

 

OCTOBER

Die Another Day - October 22, 2002

Nothing Fails - October 27, 2003

You'll See - October 30, 1995

 

NOVEMBER

Don't Tell Me - November 14, 2000

Open Your Heart - November 19, 1986

 

DECEMBER

Love Profusion - December 8, 2003

[Fabiolous 4,786]

There's singles like Material girl and Like a virgin of which we already have every version, but I'd love to see them uploaded anyway with their original cover among the other singles