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Always thought this was a cute version she did on Jimmy Fallon's show back in 2015:
 

In late 2000, Madonna did a promotional gig at Brixton to promote her newly released album "Music".  Among the performances, was an "oldie but goodie".  Let's "show some appreciation!"
 

photo used for the back of Madonna's debut album:

Madonna being interviewed on Hot Tracks in 1984, talking about Borderline being her latest big song, new album she's working on and a movie she filmed. 
 
 

A rare video glimpse of Madonna performing "Borderline" in Dallas in 1985.  Like "Burning Up", it was left off of the Virgin Tour Home video release:
 

While you can barely make out the video, but here is "Burning Up" performed in 1985 on the Virgin Tour.  Unfortunately, the performance was left off the official Home video release of the tour:
 

Debrorah Feingold talks about her photo session with Madonna in 1982.  According to her, Madonna was all made up, all business, they only exchanged a few words and she was done in 15 minutes. 
 

Seems that everybody forgets about "Revenge of the Killer B's". A various artists Warner compilation with B-sides released in 1984. I've read years ago in lots of fan-sites that the released date was October 29th. In other sites they say that was released in march/april in 1984. The album had a little text for song. This is what it was written about Madonna and "Ain't no big deal":
Madonna - "Ain't no big deal"
Maybe so, but Madonna's career has becone one. She formerly cut the rug for the Alvin Ailey dance troupe but now is shaking things up vocally at the top of the charts. This hot number has never been previously released; it was recorded during the sessions for her first album.
 

Early interview with the Japanese press.  Madonna speaks a little about how she got her record deal and the fashion she chooses to wear:
 

Holiday; the video some consider "official":
 

A Holiday TV performance which includes her brother Christoper as a background dancer.  He came to NYC sometime after to Madonna and joined her while she was making that climb as a superstar:
 

A clip from 2001's Naked Ambition, detailing how Madonna got her record deal, her manager Freddy DeMann and who she took along for the ride to get where she wanted to go.  Stephen Bray gives the impression the two were at some sort of odds at the time.  Freddy admits she was demanding and would manipulate and use people to get her way. 
 
 

Audio rehearsal of "Lucky Star" for the Virgin Tour:
 

Madonna performing Everybody at The Roxy in 1982:
 

In 2012, Madonna surprised her audience with an abridged version of "Everybody"  to commemorate its 30th anniversary during her MDNA tour:
 

Madonna performing Everybody in Italy:
 

Behind the Scenes and on the set of Borderline video:
 

Early Molly Meldrum interview in early '84, speaking mainly about her becoming a singer, and how Holiday is becoming a huge hit in Australia:
 

I've been working on a big visual upgrade of my ROL box set that'll be out later this week, which has been really fun to make and I hope you all like it, but it's been a little bittersweet too.
I'd thought by now we'd be celebrating pre orders being open for an actual box set or some kind of digital deluxe edition at the minimum, and that my little projects would become dusty relics. No such luck yet 🙁
I wonder what's going on behind the scenes?

Where is that Guy O tweet you keep mention stating that, anyway? Cause the only one I found about it was this one:
And this is the full transcript of his Twitter Q&A session that day:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bhST_aN5m6sJ:https://madonnaunderground.com/full-qa-with-guy-oseary-on-twitter-with-fans-last-night-regarding-rebel-heart-release/&hl=es&gl=es&strip=1&vwsrc=0
Nothing about the double album rejected by the label because of the leaks and the 6-tracks advance. He only said the original April 2015 release was moved to March because of the leaks.
You connected those dots in your mind (opinion, not fact) but no one told explicitly that.
The only explicit words about the double album concept being rejected by the label are from Madonna, here:
"So I wanted to have two different sides: all of the songs that would more romantic and vulnerable would be in one and the others would be on the other, like "Unapologetic Bitch" and "Bitch I'm Madonna". And then my record company didn't think that was a good idea so we ended up... they... kind of all mixed up in one big soup".
Fact, not opinion, and from the horse's mouth.

Getting back to the Warner deal, even though some people insist that nothing was promised, I think we can all agree that not celebrating the 40th anniversary of the debut (besides an Instagram post of her dancing to lucky star and the release of lucky star to streaming) is a huge missed opportunity and makes no sense commercially
i am really disappointed :(

Agreed. She promoted the hell out of it and was everywhere. She did her part, but not the label. She was on her own cause the label wasn't helping at all with radio and also playlisting at that point, 2015 (Spotify was starting to be the main platform already by then).
It's not only about the artist and them being everywhere, there's a whole promotion system behind the scenes that needs to be going on for songs to gain traction and getting to people and she didn't have any of that since that US radio deal for "GMAYL". Interscope helped a little bit later with some of the singles on US Adult radio and that was it. Like I said before, with Warner the first single always got a minimum big exposure cause they had those kind of deals for her. Even "American Life" was a US Top 40 hit before being banned for every station. And in Europe it kept being played everywhere way after the video debacle.
"4 Minutes" was one of the worldwide hits of 2008 cause Warner did everything they could to support the song: even getting it used on series, TV shows, etc. All those are deals behind the scenes, it's not casual that suddenly a song starts to be played everywhere - except for rare viral hits.
She did everything she could for "Rebel Heart" but didn't have a good label support system behind, so there was only so much she could do in the end. The US Hot 100 chart entry of "Bitch I'm Madonna" was just her and the video.
We can only speculate if the age factor would have been an issue anyway even with a proper label support behind her, but the fact that she was still getting hits at 49 only four years before "MDNA" maybe it's an indicator that she could have at least gone on for at least a couple of big projects? There's no way to know, really.

1) She's had ownership of all the three 10s albums since day one. Again: Boy Toy Inc. exclusively licensed to Interscope Records. On every single album from 2012 to 2019. That's how a distribution deal works.
The deal has not ended yet. Warner had to license the 10s decade remixes for "Finally Enough Love" last year and "Back That Up To The Beat" had to be released under Interscope last December cause the deal it's indeed still on. The "MDNA" vinyl repressing this month is under... yes, Boy Toy Inc. licensed to Universal:
https://www.discogs.com/es/release/27665352-Madonna-MDNA
The deal is still on.
2) Who says Interscope preselected the "MDNA" singles and the "Rebel Heart" singles? The only proof of all those you mentioned is them helping with "Crave" cause from all the ones they offered Adult Radio it was the one they reacted better.
3) I posted an interview with Madonna saying from her own mouth the label rejected the double sided album idea, but you keep bringing out a Guy O tweet. OK.
4) OK. But the deal they ended up getting for her was s**t and her recording career was almost over thanks to that. She literally went from a worldwide smash still at 49 with "4 Minutes" in 2008 to nothing in the next few years. They left her on her own cause they only cared about the big fat live shows money. And maybe she wasn't smart enough to realize she would need the albums and the hits to keep going too. And as result of that she ended up not selling albums anymore but also not selling big stadiums anymore. It was a disaster.