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Originally posted by Alongoria13
So Madonna is coming indeed  |
 What exactly happened, been miles away from here for a day and now her surprise release album is about to hit us?
Madonné is coming?
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Originally posted by Lifeline
Madonné is coming?
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S&S Tour really did elevate the HC tracks imo. She gave a lot of life to them while the album versions can be a bit... dull? It's the same with MDNA too, I'm A Sinner live kicked ASS.
Miles Away
She's Not Me
Give It 2 Me (The number in the title though)
Beat Goes On
Candy Shop
4 Minutes
Heartbeat
Devil Wouldn't Recognize You
Voices
Spanish Lesson
Dance 2night
Ring My Bell
Incredible
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Originally posted by Dinosauer
Hard Candy is legitimately a good album and everyone needs to back off. However I didn't really start loving it until I saw the S&S Tour. Ever since it's had such life. Man what I would have done to have been at the recorded tour in Argentina. It had such an incredible atmosphere.
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I love when the crowd is saying her name(and she is pretending she can hear them  ) and everybody is singing 'Like A Virgin' .
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Originally posted by HonourableVomit
S&S Tour really did elevate the HC tracks imo. She gave a lot of life to them while the album versions can be a bit... dull? It's the same with MDNA too, I'm A Sinner live kicked ASS.
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Precisely, I wanted to replace I'm a Sinner with the Cyber-Raga mashup because it ***** all over the album track. Also Masterpiece sounds even better live, or the GI2M/Material Girl version of GGW
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Originally posted by HonourableVomit
Miles Away
She's Not Me
Give It 2 Me (The number in the title though)
Beat Goes On
Candy Shop
4 Minutes
Heartbeat
Devil Wouldn't Recognize You
Voices
Spanish Lesson
Dance 2night
Ring My Bell
Incredible
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RMB that low though 
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Originally posted by Kid A
Like A Prayer is an overrated album full of filler tracks. The single remains iconic and unbothered though
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Sacrilege
How dare u.
It's her best work hands down.
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Someone please tell me it's not true that 'American Life' only sold 2.1 million until TODAY WORLDWIDE
...before I drag their sources in the AL/Artpop thread
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Originally posted by Dinosauer
Hard Candy is legitimately a good album and everyone needs to back off. However I didn't really start loving it until I saw the S&S Tour. Ever since it's had such life. Man what I would have done to have been at the recorded tour in Argentina. It had such an incredible atmosphere.
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Originally posted by HonourableVomit
S&S Tour really did elevate the HC tracks imo. She gave a lot of life to them while the album versions can be a bit... dull? It's the same with MDNA too, I'm A Sinner live kicked ASS.
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Sticky & Sweet Tour is the reason I even like half the songs on Hard Candy, I like that if I'm not really feeling a song, I can at least think of the tour performance of it. It's what got me to stan for Devil Wouldn't Recognize You.
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Originally posted by materialboy
I love when the crowd is saying her name(and she is pretending she can hear them ) and everybody is singing 'Like A Virgin' .
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'Are you a virgin? Half and half?' 
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I read on UKMix American Life sold 4.500.000 but also saw stats that it's at 3.350.000 so, you can pick 
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According to Wiki it has sold 5 million copies.
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Originally posted by Lifeline
Someone please tell me it's not true that 'American Life' only sold 2.1 million until TODAY WORLDWIDE
...before I drag their sources in the AL/Artpop thread
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That's probably only in America. Her website listed it as platinum according to the RIAA, so America alone is already 1 million. In 10 years I think it might have sold over 1.1 million everywhere else 
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Originally posted by Alongoria13
According to Wiki it has sold 5 million copies. |
That's what was posted on UKMix:
Madonna 9.500.000
Like a Virgin 21.000.000
True Blue 24.000.000
Who's That Girl 5.300.000
You Can Dance 5.700.000
I'm Breathless 7.000.000
Like a Prayer 13.000.000
The Immaculate Collection 30.000.000
Erotica 6.500.000
Bedtime Stories 7.500.000
Something To Remember 8.500.000
Evita 7.500.000
Ray Of Light 17.000.000
Music 13.000.000
GHV2 6.500.000
American Life 4.500.000
Remixed & Revisited 700.000
COADF 9.000.000
IGTTYAS 900.000
The Confessions Tour 1.300.000
Hard Candy 3.700.000
~ 202.1M
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Originally posted by dabunique
Sacrilege
How dare u.
It's her best work hands down.
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Erotica seems to disagree.
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12. American Life (2003)
It’s probably safe to say that everyone — including Madonna — would like to forget that 2003′s American Life ever happened. The Kabbalah-inspired acoustic/electronica disaster features Madge/Esther awkwardly rapping about “drinking a soy latte” and “getting a double shot-ey” that “goes right through her bod-ey,” among other things. The album failed to spawn any memorial singles and remains her lowest-selling to date.
11. MDNA (2012)
Perhaps no other Madonna album inspires as much divide among fans as 2012′s MDNA. Some love it, others loathe it. This was Madonna’s first album post-Lady Gaga, post-divorce from Guy Richie, and post-menopause. Turns out those three things combined were a recipe for disaster, which, in hindsight, really isn’t all that surprising. MDNA was panned by critics, suffered one of the largest sales drops in Billboard history between its first and second weeks, had virtually no impact on radio, and was even trashed by its own producer, William Orbit. In all fairness, had it been released by another pop artist — perhaps someone younger and less established — it may have fared better. But coming from an icon like Madonna, it was, put simply, a disappointment.
10. Hard Candy (2008)
In its defense, 2008′s Hard Candy had big shoes to fill. It followed one of the Material Girl’s strongest late-career albums to date, Confessions on a Dance Floor, as well as her critically-acclaimed, sold-out world tour. Miss Ciccone paired up with producers Timbaland, Pharrell Williams and Justin Timberlake in hopes of cashing in on their popular, of-the-moment sound. The only problem: She was about two years behind the trend. Hard Candy sounded dated before it was even released. On top of that, it featured one of the most cringe-worthy songs from Madge’s entire catalog, Spanish Lesson, in which she assaults listeners’ ears with incorrect Spanish-to-English translations for three and a half minutes. We still haven’t totally forgiven her for that.
9. Bedtime Stories (1994)
While we love 1994′s mid-tempo, R&B-infused Bedtime Stories (it makes for great sex music), the cold, hard truth is, it didn’t have nearly the same impact as many of Madonna’s other efforts. Sure it spawned one of the biggest singles of her career (Take A Bow spent seven weeks at #1) as well as the iconic S&M-themed Human Nature music video, but in terms of cultural causatum, it didn’t offer much. Not even a tour. But we heart it anyway.
8. Like A Virgin (1984)
We debated listing Like A Virgin at #8 since it was an important album in Madonna’s career and we love it to death. It features two of her most memorable early hits — “Like A Virgin” and “Material Girl” — and solidified her status as a cultural force to be reckoned with. However, if we’re being really honest, the album kinda sounds like an extension of her previous one — 1983′s Madonna — only without as many good songs. Like A Virgin has as many mediocre tracks as it does good ones. Does anybody even sing along to “Shoo-Bee-Doo,” “Over and Over,” “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore” or “Pretender” anymore?
7. Erotica (1992)
When Madonna’s fifth studio album Erotica (or as we like to call it Eroti-ca) was first released in 1992, it shocked the world. So much so that it was banned in several countries. Critics were divided over the album’s quality. Some called it the pop star’s most ambitious to date. Others said it was nothing more than ****ography for the ears. The album contains one of our all-time favorite songs, the bitch-slapping, club-banging Thief of Hearts. Seriously, why wasn’t that track made into a single?
6. Music (2000)
2000′s Music followed Madonna’s multi-Grammy Award-winning magnum opus Ray of Light, and, frankly, she couldn’t have done a better job. After the whole Earth-Mother-Spiritual-Y0ga-Goddess phase, she decided to let her hair down and have a little fun, and the end result was 44 minutes of pure pop perfection. This is the album (and supporting tour) that made Madonna the official Queen of Pop. Music offers the perfect balance of pop songs, dance tracks, and mid-tempo ballads that still make for a throughly enjoyable listen nearly 15 years later.
5. True Blue (1987)
This album single-handedly defines ’80s music and remains one of the best-selling albums of all time more than 25 years after it was released. With songs like “Papa Don’t Preach,” “Open Your Heart,” “La Isla Bonita,” “Live to Tell” and “True Blue,” Madonna’s third studio effort is jam-packed with hits. It’s no surprise it reached #1 in 28 countries and spent 34 consecutive weeks at the top of the European Top 100 Albums chart, longer than any other album in history. It’s one of Madonna’s most pure fun albums and we continue to blast it regularly to this day.
4. Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005)
Perhaps her last truly great artistic achievement to date, Confessions on a Dance Floor is Madonna’s late-career, disco-infused, infectious masterpiece. It’s the album that reminded us why we fell in love with her in the first place. The Queen paired up with producer Stuart Price to create 12 dance songs that flowed seamlessly together. Then she slipped into a pink leotard and roller skates and started grinding on a boombox. Seriously, how could anyone not love everything about that? Our only criticism is the song “I Love New York,” in which Madge rhymes “New York” with “dork.” But by 2005, a bad rhyme or questionable lyric here and there had become a staple item in every Madonna record.
3. Ray of Light (1998)
Oh boy, we’re down to the top three… There’s no denying Ray of Light was Madonna’s most inspired album — lyrically, musically, thematically. It’s also the album that won her her first Grammy. And it proved that she could actually — well — sing. Her voice was in top form after Evita. Madonna has often called the Ray of Light-era her favorite, and we can understand why. It’s the album that finally got people to take her seriously as a musician. It’s also the album she’s never been quite able to match. Was it just a stroke of genius? Or does she have another Ray of Light in her somewhere?
2. Like A Prayer (1989)
The title track alone is what lands Like A Prayer in the #2 spot of our list. To this day, every time it comes on the radio, we can’t help but turn it up. The album, too, is pretty damn good. Madonna tackles some rather lofty themes — the Catholic church, her divorce from Sean Penn, her mother’s death — but songs like Express Yourself and Cherish keep the mood from getting too heavy. All in all, Like A Prayer is probably one of her most personal albums. And it achieves subtle greatness without trying too hard.
1. Madonna (1983)
In the beginning, there was Madonna. The Queen’s self-titled debut comes in at #1 on our list because — well — it’s the album that started it all. Without Madonna there would be no Madonna. On top of that, the songs are pretty dope. This is the album that brought us “Holiday,” “Lucky Star,” “Burning Up” and “Borderline.” But, truthfully, every song is good. It’s crazy to think this album turned 30 last year. Here’s to 30 more! L’chaim!
Queerty
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Trashing AL and then putting True Blue above Music  and 'Madonna' #1? 
Completely agree about MDNA and HC
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Switch HC and True Poo
Among other changes... 
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Make The Immaculate Collection 30.000.001 I bought it last week 
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Originally posted by LoveLiveMusic
Sticky & Sweet Tour is the reason I even like half the songs on Hard Candy, I like that if I'm not really feeling a song, I can at least think of the tour performance of it. It's what got me to stan for Devil Wouldn't Recognize You.:
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Same here tbh. I bought the DVD as a recovery treat for when I got my wisdom teeth out and I lay in bed watching it on my laptop and my life was changed, and I got a huge obsession with "Candy Shop" ever since - it's such a bop! And I love that Madonna loves it.
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Make The Immaculate Collection 30.000.001 I bought it last week |
Remember when it shot up on iTunes after the Grammy's? Like what kind of longevity of an album?
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