Thought this might be interesting to look at. Done by hand so hopefully not too many errors :/
MADONNA 2001 remaster
Holiday - 90,206,549
Lucky Star - 26,277,004
Borderline - 20,113,741(IC combined)
Burning Up - 11,030,403 (Celebration combined)
Physical Attraction - 3,959,698 (YCD combined)
Everybody - 3,519,864
Think Of Me - 2,276,279
I Know It - 1,665,270
LIKE A VIRGIN 2001 remaster
Like A Virgin - 233,164,328 (the original album version is the dominant streaming version. No IC or Celebration included The only non combined album track in her streaming top 10)
Material Girl - 48,427,096
Angel - 9,368,639
Dress You Up - 7,606,903
Love Don't Live Here Anymore - 3,225,001
Over & Over - 2,897,515
Stay - 1,661,391
Shoo-be-doo - 1,575,302
Pretender - 1,553,294
Bonus:
Crazy For You - 107,886,915 (IC + Celebration + STR boost)
Into The Groove - 102,813,470 (Celebration only)
Gambler - 567,908
Surprised Dress You Up had less streams than Angel but I suppose people use the Celebration version
TRUE BLUE 2001 remaster
La Isla Bonita - 297,490,637 (Celebration boost)
Papa Don't Preach - 109,242,120 (Celebration boost)
Live To Tell - 47,171,230 (Celebration, STR & IC boost)
True Blue - 42,143,757
Open Your Heart - 15,009,678
Where's The Party - 3,766,852
White Heat - 2,981,689
Jimmy Jimmy - 2,341,194
Love Makes The World Go Round - 2,083,554
True Blue the singles streaming power without its appearance on any compilation is really impressive. A true titan in her discography. Just behind Open Your Heart even if you combine TB / IC / Celebration and the album version and not far behind Live To Tell which has appeared on 4 Madonna albums (TB, STR, IC & Celebration).
WHO"S THAT GIRL
Who's That Girl - 29,488,976 (Celebration boost)
Causing A Commotion - 7,087,242
The Look Of Love - 1,523,515
Can't Stop - 664,049
Bonus : Spotlight - 1,371,872
LIKE A PRAYER
Like A Prayer - 90.835,688
Cherish - 11,984.794
Express Yourself - 11,097,461
Dear Jessie - 5,4566,777
Spanish Eyes - 4,816,772
Oh Father - 4,425,434
Til Death Do Us Part - 2,474,228
Keep It Together - 2.270,156
Promise To Try - 1,987,364
Love Song - 1,793,196
Act Of Contrition - 1,000,506
Bonus:
Supernatural - 499,440
Spanish Eyes and Dear Jessie being higher than Oh Father and Keep It Together is a shocker
I'M BREATHLESS
Vogue - 23.035,863
Hanky Panky - 3,424,952
Something To Remember - 1.585,054 (STR combined)
Sooner Or Later - 1,519,750
He's A Man - 674,035
I'm Going Bananas - 631,172
More - 588,833
Back In Business - 597,001
Now I'm Following You 1 - 567,613
What Can You Lose - 518,682
Cry Baby - 481,932
Now I'm Following You 2 - 428,234
Bonus:
Justify My Love - 22.011,640
Rescue Me - 2,913,591
EROTICA
Rain - 18,631,465 (STR boost)
Deeper & Deeper - 9,723,901
Erotica - 8,438,939
Fever - 4,681,379
Bad Girl - 4,173,526
Bye Bye Baby - 2,506,900
Where Life Begins - 2,111,141
Waiting - 2,224,186
Thief Of Hearts - 2,023,184
Why Is It So Hard - 1,523,391
Words - 1,459,400
Secret Garden - 1,416,001
In This Life - 1,158,664
Did You Do It - 574,644
BEDTIME STORY
Take A Bow - 49,318,288 (Celebration @ STR boost)
Secret - 17,457,926
Human Nature - 8.714,790
Bedtime Story - 3,718,547
Forbidden Love - 2,964,253 (STR Boost)
Survival - 2,156,051
Inside Of Me - 2,102,546
Love Tried To Welcome Me - 1,781,682
I'd Rather Be Your Lover - 1,747,484
Sanctuary - 1,673,043
Don't Stop - 1,668,559
Kind of crazy that Don't Stop was being considered a single really when it's obviously the least popular song on the album.
SOMETHING TO EVITA
Ill Remember - 15,303,894
You'll See - 13,144,560
This Used To Be My Playground - 10,533,568
I Want You - 4,194,475
Love Don't Live Here Anymore - 1,683,030 (non combined with LAV)
One More Chance - 1,514,054
Oh Father - 1,113,848 (non combined with LAP)
Don't Cry For Me Argentina - 25,621,340
You Must Love Me - 4,304,081
Another Suitcase In Another Hall - 3,207,015
Kinder Beunos Aires - 2,825,669
I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You - 2,335,668
RAY OF LIGHT
Frozen - 70,330,737
Ray Of Light - 44,660,158
The Power Of Goodbye - 41,304,921 (GHV2 Combined)
Nothing Really Matters - 11,551,330
Drowned World - 9,415,646 (GHV2 Combined)
Swim - 5,046,404
Sky Fits Heaven - 4,757,279
To Have And Not To Hold - 4,598,050
Skin - 4,467,850
Shanti / Ashtangi - 4,330,655
Little Star - 3,445,685
Candy Perfume Girl - 3,404,512
Mer Girl - 2,516,359
Bonus:
Beautiful Stranger - 23,804,864 (Austin Powers ST + Celebration Combined)
Has To Be - 348, 261 (ROL EP)
MUSIC
Music - 69,546,337 (Celebration Combined)
American Pie - 49,199,953
Don't Tell Me - 27,118,143
What It Feels Like For A Wench - 9,699,530
Paradise Not For Me - 3,398,704 (Mirwais Production Combined)
Impressive Instant - 3,331,482
Amazing - 3,072,627
I Deserve It - 2,819,698
Nobody's Perfect - 2,672,351
Gone - 2,325,653
Runaway Lover - 2,059,509
Bonus:
Time Stood Still - 909,327 amazing for a lost soundtrack song
American Pie is another titan of hers. Doesn't appear on any collection and I severely doubt The Next Best Thing soundtrack is providing the numbers.
AMERICAN LIFE
Die Another Day - 37,340,606 (Celebration Boost + DAD soundtrack Combined)
Hollywood - 19,701,775 (Celebration Combined)
American Life - 7,712,288
Love Profusion - 7,375,361
Nothing Fails - 4,038,651
Nobody Knows Me - 2,433,433
I'm So Stupid - 2,291,792
X-static Process - 1,991,589
Intervention - 1,972, 478
Mother & Father - 1,920,593
Easy Ride - 1,704,612
Bonus:
Me Against The Music - 56,333,047 (the feat trend begins)
Like A Virgin / Hollywood (Xtina, Brit, Missy) - 3,965,563
Into The Hollywood Groove (Missy) - 977,423
Your Honesty - 360,162
Seems like everybody switched the record off after Nothing Fails on this one. I don't have much love for Easy Ride but it seems like such a fan favourite I thought it would have done better.
CONFESSIONS ON A DANCEFLOOR
Hung Up - 337,447,535 (Celebration Combined)
Sorry - 52,117,522
Jump - 36,388,597
Get Together - 23,132,349
Forbidden Love - 10,027,434
Future Lovers - 8,309,362
Isaac - 7,255,598
I Love NY - 6,824,668
Let It Will Be - 6,206,833
How High - 5,884,349
Like It Or Not - 5,101,254
Push - 5,084,621
Bonus:
1. Hey You - 618,365
Surprised at Jump having so many more streams than Get Together as I really thought Get Together was considered one of her modern "ignored by her" classics.
HARD CANDY
4 Minutes - 43,064,617
Give It 2 Me - 41,713,790
Miles Away - 11,565,646
Beat Goes On - 6,092,148
She's Not Me - 5,120,884
Candy Shop - 4,552,810
Heartbeat - 3,584,466
Devil Wouldn't Recognise You - 3,013,175
Dance 2nigh - 2,308,165
Incredible - 1,912,682
Spanish Lesson - 1,657,866
Voices - 1,593,092
Ring My Bell - 865,296
Bonus:
Celebration - 34,241,695
Revolver - 9,701,826
It's So Cool - 592,212
Her first messy era. Miles Away release bungled and the brilliant Kanye track being left to flounder on the album. Secretly love that Candy Shop has such underwhelming streams even after she's pushed it on tour after tour after tour (her most performed live track ever?). Proof that Warner were right all along really.
MDNA
Girl Gone Wild - 46,653,404
GMAYL - 34,679,332
Masterpiece - 8,505,803 (W.E OST combined)
Gang Bang - 6,358,997
Turn Up The Radio - 5,712,150
Bday Song - 5,252,235 (WTF!!!)
I Don't Give A - 4,113,299
I'm Addicted - 4,065,845
Lovspent - 2,891,297
Some Girls - 2,713,779
Beautiful Killer - 2,650,053
Superstar - 2,435,512
I'm A Sinner - 2,247,411
Falling Free - 2,152,161
I Fucked Up - 1,569,293
Best Friend - 1,523,863
Bday Song and I Don't Give A showing the power of a feature I guess. The era where taste seemed to die for me and her first steaming released album era. We're into Maddona picking her own singles now and after the Justin success we move into features territory and you can see they really bolster the weaker songs. BDAY songs streams are a shocker to me. LoveSpent and I'm A Sinners low numbers were a bit of a surprise. In fact Masterpiece and Gang Bang aside Orbits songs really didn't seem to work any magic with the GP as all the rest of his contributions sit in the bottom half of the albums streaming numbers. Even his top streamed tracks only have about 1/6th of the top two streamed tracks. That's sad huh?
There's also a mad anomaly on the W.E. soundtrack. Masterpiece is only the third most streamed song. Charms and Dance For Me Wallis the instrumentals by Abel Korzeniowski have 11,874,069 and 29,278,973 streams respectively. Don't know what's going on there.
REBEL HEART
Bitch I'm Madonna (Nicki)- 91,410,850
Ghosttown - 36,378,982
Living For Love - 34,998,212
Devil Pray - 18,142,000
Unapologetic Bitch - 16,657,315
Joan Of Arc - 11,099,255
Iconic (Chance & Mike)- 9,783,500
illuminati - 7,435,278
Hold Tight - 6,716,455
Holy Water - 5,523,353
Rebel Heart - 5,350,955
Heartbreak City - 5,046,430
Inside Out - 4,604,608
Body Shop - 4,249,264
Wash All Over Me - 4,194,899
S.E.X - 3,713,561
Messiah - 2,963,863
Veni Vidi Vici (Nas) - 2,690,128
Best Night - 2,612,871
Addicted - 930, 262
Beautiful Scars - 904,396
Borrowed Time - 547,148
Graffiti Heart - 453,241
Rebel Heart Avicci version in my iTunes - 1,656,989,091
What a project. I think as time goes on this feels like such a classic Madonna era besides all the leaks drama (which probably added to it, I personally loved the three stage drop of sections of songs and I'll never forgive that twerp who leaked them for fucking top Rebel heart as a single for us all. Her best in years.
MADAME X
Medellin (Maulma)- 68,5556,113
Faz Gostoso (Anitta)- 43,677,564
Crave (Swae Lee) - 14,678,815
Future (Quavo)- 13,451,337
God Control - 11,128,966
Bitch I'm Loca (Maluma) - 9,011,664
Dark Ballet - 8,903,218
Crazy - 8,496,688
I Rise - 8,063,749
IDSIF - 6,313,661
Batuka - 5,619,204
Come Alive - 5,305,729
Killers Who Are Partying - 5,224,976
Looking For Mercy - 4,772,894
Extreme Occident - 3,735,814
Back That Up To The Beat - 222,811
Ciao Bella - 124,346
Funana - 73,666
And as her previous three eras leaned into we are well into the age of the features. All the songs on the top 6 are duets or features with the acceptation of the exquisite God Control which goes down as another Avicii Heart in terms of botched singles in the later part of Madonnas career.
SUMMARY
I suppose one of the things I learned is just how much of a go to Celebration (double disc version) is for her catalogue. Immaculate collection pales next to it really. This is Madonna Spotify playlist also features none of her singles from Immaculate Collection tracks, they're Celebration versions or the original album versions, which obviously weighs things out of Immaculates favour. Few of Immaculates tracks are combined too. Just (Crazy For You, Live To Tell, Justify My Love, Borderline and that odd Lucky Star 12" mix). I suppose when we get the next greatest hits the Celebration version on these list will be changed for the new GH and the plays combined, thus pushing that compilation as the definitive.
Some other cute anomalies are the Confession Tour version of Erotica -5,054,012 is nearly as popular as the Celebration version has about 2/3rds off the original album mix. In fact the Confessions Live album has really healthy streams, easily her biggest streaming Live album which is crazy as it's a pre streaming release. Vogue MDNA live 6,722,766- is her most streamed live track and has done the best numbers on the Sticky & Sweet Tour live album too.
The drop off after the lead and second singles is real in her last four albums. Bitch Im Madonna being the outlier here.
Taylor Swizz is a con artist who is singularly ruining the planet.
After the apocolypse the only thing left will be Cher, Cockroaches and 15 colour variants of the Midnights album.
Agree but the path to this is through the they / them journey.
I know it seems awkward / hard but the sooner we get there labels won't matter.
Seemingly if someone is not a specific gender the parameters of sexuality also become redundant this making Gay / Lesbian / Bi more questionable because can you say a they who is attracted to a man is gay? No they are queer but the more variations the less need. It's seemingly a mountain for now but in forty years time it'll feel different.
It's the good fight just me.
Padam is an absolute fucking belter and I've not heard such a huge reaction to a song from hers since Head or Lovers TBH.
yes tis a bit short but welcome to streaming. Confident there'll be a longer version.
If M can come up with anything as catchy and hypnotic with Max I'd be a very happy cig.
Her best selling album. For a reason, because it's immaculate..so why not either keep the tracks as it was when released.
It really bothers me more than it should and I won't go on anymore but for fucks sake
Honestly just hire me. Hire me now.
and they didn't use the proper versions?
Honestly who the fuck runs this shit it's absolutely ridiculous. So Mike Dean sat and mixed an over seven minute version of Lucky Star and didn't think something was up?
Good luck with your reissues guys cause it's gonna be a shit show.
I have to laugh gif
I think this deal has unofficially started around 2017 when rhino started doing limited color pressings of her albums and uploading remixes on streaming and it became official after madame x when her commitments to interscope were fully completed.
And then any sort of announcement was pushed back because of the pandemic.
Also, the fact that FEL boxset was limited to 6000 copies on black and red records which clearly doesn’t match the artwork is proof that until now they weren’t able to put in production any sort of large scale release.
Imagine all this effort for an non-event of a live album while we get an empty box with a holographic-Pokemon-card-inspired cover of Ray of Light, her most critically acclaimed album.
Got mine after waiting outside for 4 hours in the cold! But it was worth it!! $20.99 for me. Picked up the Taylor Swift release as well since I LOVE folklore! Was a good day overall!! I'm really happy I got it!! xoxoxo
That's fair. I don't like Christina Aguilera's voice for example but I do know she's a great vocalist, I just don't enjoy her style.
But back on topic, I think Kylie was originally brought into this discussion regarding the reissues of her first 4 albums and I do wish Madonna's reissues were like those! Just a little thinner cause the boxes are a bitch to store! Kinda like this one. It's probably the most beautiful reissue of an album I own. Very complete too. I'd love Warner to reissue her discography like this. The box is also big but not as wide as Kylie's Cherry Red reissues
American Life on streaming tomorrow brings us to a landmark girls.
We now have a maxi single from every era of Madonna from the CD era. Yes there are still gaps but Like A Prayer, I’m Breathless, Immaculate, Erotica, Bedtime Stories, Something To Remember, Evita, Ray Of Light, Music, American Life and beyond.
I can’t believe we did it kids
I’m crying.
If Angel gets uploaded next week we’ll have all studio albums represented and only need Who’s That Wench Maxi uploaded and mommy just needs shoes for the weekend and she’s good to go.
There are sixteen tracks on the Give It 2 Me digital EP and still no radio edit or the version that was initially released to you tube the Justin Cognita edit plus more mixes. If they can release sixteen already for this release there’s no reason American Life can’t have all its mixes released.
I’m really happy we’re getting the digital singles but it’s ten years too late I’d have used these way more ten years ago.
Did Another Day mixes on this when there’s additional American Life mixes just lying about is very frustrating.
I love my mom but the absolute fuckery of this campaign is like pulling teeth. Incredible frustrating and at time difficult to feel positive about. Just having all the mixes of each song under the artwork of each single is not a big ask. Honestly it really isn’t. It’s 2023 the age of streaming. To still be sticking to an outdated representation of CD format and its limitations is another example of backward record company and management thinking. The record industry will never learn. Artists don’t get paid fuck all for streams these days. The money is in content the more the better. Fans will buy the physicals when they come if they’re well done. A lot of these screams we don’t really know what we’re doing to be honest will this do?
Like a shit boyfriend that keeps letting you down and withholding consistently.
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