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    Ian got a reaction from PlayPause in Billboard: Greatest Pop Star every year : Madonna 1985 and 1989   
    Greatest Pop Star every year : Madonna 1985 and 1989 !
    https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/list/9338589/greatest-pop-star-every-year 
    1985 MADONNA
    BY MAURA JOHNSTON
    By the end of 1984, Madonna had already established herself as one of the MTV era’s brightest stars, with boundary-pushing videos, underground-nodding dance-pop hits, and a writhing Video Music Awards performance that turned the then-fledgling telecast into a must-watch event. But the year after Like a Virgin’s release was owned by Madonna from back to front -- the last four weeks of the title track’s run at No. 1 on the Hot 100 opened 1985, and she followed it up with smash singles like “Material Girl” and “Angel,” her feature-film debut and first silver-screen starring role, and yet more unavoidable music videos. 

    “Like a Virgin” hit No. 1 in December 1984 and stayed there until the end of January -- just as her Marilyn Monroe-saluting, Keith Carradine-starring video for “Material Girl” was being added to MTV’s rotation. The bouncy, sardonic track would go on to reach No. 2 and become one of Madonna’s career-defining songs, its video establishing Madonna’s blonde-ambition ideal while also showing off her more down-to-earth side. It also helped Like a Virgin reach the top of the Billboard 200 for three weeks in February,  Madonna racked up another career milestone that month, when the May-December drama Vision Quest was released. In the movie, Madonna played a singer at a Spokane bar, performing “Crazy For You,” a lush, Jellybean Benitez-produced ballad that showed off Madonna’s lower range. Madonna’s star power was so strong that in some countries the movie’s title was changed to Crazy For You -- although in America, she had to settle for the soundtrack single being No. 1 on the Hot 100 for a single week in May. 

    A month later, Madonna appeared in her first starring role in a movie, getting top billing alongside Rosanna Arquette in the hit mistaken-identity comedy Desperately Seeking Susan. The Susan Seidelman-directed ode to New York City’s bohemian enclaves featured the pop star’s “Into the Groove” in the background of a smoky club scene, although it wasn’t on the official soundtrack. At the time of Susan’s release, Madonna had two other videos still in regular rotation on MTV, and because Madonna’s label was worried about over-saturating the market, “Groove” was only released as the B-side to the glittery “Angel,” rendering it ineligible for the Hot 100. But the punchy, commanding song got an accompanying, movie-promoting visual, and became both a channel staple and a signature Madonna hit anyway -- while its “you can dance... for inspiration” koan would later inspire the title for her 1987 remix LP You Can Dance.   

    In April 1985, Madonna embarked on her first live trek: The Virgin Tour brought Madonna’s vision of pop into arenas around North America, kicking off in Seattle and wrapping up with five shows in New York City -- three at Radio City Music Hall and two at Madison Square Garden. The video for “Dress You Up,” the final single (and fourth straight top 5 hit) from Like a Virgin, used footage of the song’s live performance from the Cobo Center in Detroit, while the home video featuring the show in its entirety, Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour, came out in November.
    Even while selling out arenas, Madonna remained a force in the clubs, with “Material Girl” and the double-A-sided “Into the Groove”/”Angel” single hitting No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart after “Like a Virgin” began the year at its summit. She was also a stealth (yet utterly unmistakable) presence on her frequent collaborator Jellybean Benitez’s blippy, freestyle-influenced “Sidewalk Talk,” a No. 1 dance hit and yet another crossover top 40 entry on the Hot 100 by year’s end -- a final testament to Madonna’s first year of true omnipresence.
    see 1989 on the Billboard site!
    also: Rookie of the Year 1984
    ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: MADONNA 

    In 1984, Madonna climbed out of a cake and into immortality. Her performance of “Like a Virgin” at the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards that September, featuring the 26-year-old writhing on the Radio City Music Hall stage in a long, flowing wedding dress, quickly proved one of pop music’s most iconic national debuts, setting the rising dance-pop singer-songwriter on the path to global superstardom. Both “Like a Virgin” and its parent album of the same name would go on to top the Billboard charts; by the next year, Madonna’s stated ambition “to rule the world” had been fully realized.
    also: Honorable mentions in 1986 Madonna (True Blue, “Live to Tell,” “Papa Don’t Preach”)
    also: 2012 COMEBACK OF THE YEAR: MADONNA 

    Leave it to Madonna to announce her return to pop at the year’s biggest televised event -- the Super Bowl. In February, Madonna, with the help of Cirque du Soleil, LMFAO, Cee Lo Green, and recent collaborators Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., headlined the big game’s halftime show. They debuted the Madge-Minaj-Maya collab “Give Me All Your Luvin,” while reworking hits like “Music” and “Express Yourself” and even courting controversy thanks to M.I.A.’s extended middle finger. That segued into the promotion for Madonna’s 12th album MDNA, an EDM-informed pop fantasia that  hit No. 1 in April and set the stage for the set’s ensuing 88-date promotional tour.
     
     
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    Ian got a reaction from Voguerista in Billboard: Greatest Pop Star every year : Madonna 1985 and 1989   
    Greatest Pop Star every year : Madonna 1985 and 1989 !
    https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/list/9338589/greatest-pop-star-every-year 
    1985 MADONNA
    BY MAURA JOHNSTON
    By the end of 1984, Madonna had already established herself as one of the MTV era’s brightest stars, with boundary-pushing videos, underground-nodding dance-pop hits, and a writhing Video Music Awards performance that turned the then-fledgling telecast into a must-watch event. But the year after Like a Virgin’s release was owned by Madonna from back to front -- the last four weeks of the title track’s run at No. 1 on the Hot 100 opened 1985, and she followed it up with smash singles like “Material Girl” and “Angel,” her feature-film debut and first silver-screen starring role, and yet more unavoidable music videos. 

    “Like a Virgin” hit No. 1 in December 1984 and stayed there until the end of January -- just as her Marilyn Monroe-saluting, Keith Carradine-starring video for “Material Girl” was being added to MTV’s rotation. The bouncy, sardonic track would go on to reach No. 2 and become one of Madonna’s career-defining songs, its video establishing Madonna’s blonde-ambition ideal while also showing off her more down-to-earth side. It also helped Like a Virgin reach the top of the Billboard 200 for three weeks in February,  Madonna racked up another career milestone that month, when the May-December drama Vision Quest was released. In the movie, Madonna played a singer at a Spokane bar, performing “Crazy For You,” a lush, Jellybean Benitez-produced ballad that showed off Madonna’s lower range. Madonna’s star power was so strong that in some countries the movie’s title was changed to Crazy For You -- although in America, she had to settle for the soundtrack single being No. 1 on the Hot 100 for a single week in May. 

    A month later, Madonna appeared in her first starring role in a movie, getting top billing alongside Rosanna Arquette in the hit mistaken-identity comedy Desperately Seeking Susan. The Susan Seidelman-directed ode to New York City’s bohemian enclaves featured the pop star’s “Into the Groove” in the background of a smoky club scene, although it wasn’t on the official soundtrack. At the time of Susan’s release, Madonna had two other videos still in regular rotation on MTV, and because Madonna’s label was worried about over-saturating the market, “Groove” was only released as the B-side to the glittery “Angel,” rendering it ineligible for the Hot 100. But the punchy, commanding song got an accompanying, movie-promoting visual, and became both a channel staple and a signature Madonna hit anyway -- while its “you can dance... for inspiration” koan would later inspire the title for her 1987 remix LP You Can Dance.   

    In April 1985, Madonna embarked on her first live trek: The Virgin Tour brought Madonna’s vision of pop into arenas around North America, kicking off in Seattle and wrapping up with five shows in New York City -- three at Radio City Music Hall and two at Madison Square Garden. The video for “Dress You Up,” the final single (and fourth straight top 5 hit) from Like a Virgin, used footage of the song’s live performance from the Cobo Center in Detroit, while the home video featuring the show in its entirety, Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour, came out in November.
    Even while selling out arenas, Madonna remained a force in the clubs, with “Material Girl” and the double-A-sided “Into the Groove”/”Angel” single hitting No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart after “Like a Virgin” began the year at its summit. She was also a stealth (yet utterly unmistakable) presence on her frequent collaborator Jellybean Benitez’s blippy, freestyle-influenced “Sidewalk Talk,” a No. 1 dance hit and yet another crossover top 40 entry on the Hot 100 by year’s end -- a final testament to Madonna’s first year of true omnipresence.
    see 1989 on the Billboard site!
    also: Rookie of the Year 1984
    ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: MADONNA 

    In 1984, Madonna climbed out of a cake and into immortality. Her performance of “Like a Virgin” at the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards that September, featuring the 26-year-old writhing on the Radio City Music Hall stage in a long, flowing wedding dress, quickly proved one of pop music’s most iconic national debuts, setting the rising dance-pop singer-songwriter on the path to global superstardom. Both “Like a Virgin” and its parent album of the same name would go on to top the Billboard charts; by the next year, Madonna’s stated ambition “to rule the world” had been fully realized.
    also: Honorable mentions in 1986 Madonna (True Blue, “Live to Tell,” “Papa Don’t Preach”)
    also: 2012 COMEBACK OF THE YEAR: MADONNA 

    Leave it to Madonna to announce her return to pop at the year’s biggest televised event -- the Super Bowl. In February, Madonna, with the help of Cirque du Soleil, LMFAO, Cee Lo Green, and recent collaborators Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., headlined the big game’s halftime show. They debuted the Madge-Minaj-Maya collab “Give Me All Your Luvin,” while reworking hits like “Music” and “Express Yourself” and even courting controversy thanks to M.I.A.’s extended middle finger. That segued into the promotion for Madonna’s 12th album MDNA, an EDM-informed pop fantasia that  hit No. 1 in April and set the stage for the set’s ensuing 88-date promotional tour.
     
     
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    Ian got a reaction from momosfantasy in Game: A to Z Madonna!   
    Bedtime Story (video) - a lil video at MoMa's permanent collection

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    Ian reacted to Inco in Game: A to Z Madonna!   
    Can't Stop, so good to listen to this song. Yeah, it should've been released as a single too.
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    Ian got a reaction from MarXus in Game: A to Z Madonna!   
    Bedtime Story (video) - a lil video at MoMa's permanent collection

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    Ian got a reaction from Mister_Pop in Your Favorite "Vogue" Costume(s)!   
    Blond Ambition Tokyo Black Tour Jacket Performance
     
    "just put your vogue costume on, put your jacket on, and that's your costume for the night... k? " 
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    Ian got a reaction from LikeAMelody in Game: A to Z Madonna!   
    X for X-tra FUN!

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    Ian got a reaction from MarXus in Madonna's Spotify   
    I use all of them!  
    btw I ain't no bitch  whore ... ok slut, sometimes, privately ok -I'm joking btw, I've seen some people taking things too literally here hahaha-
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    Ian reacted to steady75 in Madonna Most Streamed Spotify Songs   
    Bitch Im Madonna pushing Into The Groove out of the top ten feels homophobic. 
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    Ian reacted to luckystar908 in Vogue Live: Official Youtube Uploads   
    That's what Alek Keshishian said, but I find it hard to believe. This means that they stopped recording one every two songs for the first half, which I don't believe. The whole show may not have been edited, but I do think it was filmed. Which doesn't bring it closer to a release, but still.. 
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    Ian reacted to wtg1987 in Madonna's Spotify   
    Why do people care about Spotify ? Surely you bitches have the CDs , vinyls , cassettes to fall back on ? ?
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    Ian reacted to Scottyx in Vogue Live: Official Youtube Uploads   
    I look forward to the day that your profile pic has lost the underwear. 
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    Ian got a reaction from DFTFLX in What your favorite 80's album of Madonna?   
    You Can Dance
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    Ian reacted to Andymad in Vogue Live: Official Youtube Uploads   
    Team: “M we just uploaded your BAT performance of Vogue to your YouTube for the anniversary, and your fans are going nuts!”
    M: 
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    Ian got a reaction from MarXus in What your favorite 80's album of Madonna?   
    My original CD still smells like it! Mind you, when I got it it reeked of it and I didn't open it that much -actually next to never haha- so I got another copy and I played the LP mostly and for traveling I used the cassette (which weren't scented I think, at least not mine) so I didn't open it -the CD- that much.
    The scent now is faint, but it's there.
    The reissues had no such scent sadly -that I could tell- oh and the AIDS info leaflet was gone too
    Because I wanted to be, you know consistent, I got a Patchouli oil bottle and dabbed a lil' some on the LP sleeve and the cassette cases so they would all be brothers am I too silly?
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    Ian reacted to Trent in Come on! Vogue: 30 Year Anniversary   
    Such a classic that truly never gets old.
    The Immaculate Collection version is the definitive version if you ask me.
    For the performance, I voted for the Re-Invention Tour. The Super Bowl and the VMA performance are close favorites though! 
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    Ian reacted to Rebel Hugo in Vogue Live: Official Youtube Uploads   
    JUST UPLOADED TO HER YOUTUBE OFFICIAL CHANNEL!!! 
     
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    Ian reacted to madgefan in Vogue Live: Official Youtube Uploads   
    They already have the MDNA performance on her channel. Maybe The Girlie Show version is next? I wouldn't mind the Madame X Tour finished version as a badass teaser 
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    Ian got a reaction from MarXus in Come on! Vogue: 30 Year Anniversary   
    OMG!
     
    that's another Blu-ray I need in my life!
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    Ian reacted to Rebel Hugo in Come on! Vogue: 30 Year Anniversary   
    JUST UPLOADED TO HER YOUTUBE OFFICIAL CHANNEL
     
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    Ian got a reaction from LikeAMelody in Game: A to Z Madonna!   
    New York: M's city of choice when she first left home and decided to make it big
     
    edit- we posted at the same time lol
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    Ian got a reaction from Voguerista in POLL: Which do you favor more Gambler or Jimmy Jimmy?   
    same here
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    Ian got a reaction from MarXus in Game: A to Z Madonna!   
    Joe Henry - M's collaborator and married to M's sis
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    Ian got a reaction from MarXus in Game: A to Z Madonna!   
    New York: M's city of choice when she first left home and decided to make it big
     
    edit- we posted at the same time lol
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    Ian reacted to LVX in POLL: Which do you favor more Gambler or Jimmy Jimmy?   
    I love Gambler. Jimmy Jimmy is OK.
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