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Music News: Madonna begins work on next album
Member Since: 9/18/2011
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Even though it probably won't happen, I'm hoping this new album will join LAP, ROL, and COADF as one of her more critically acclaimed albums (it's just coincidence, but each of those albums are separated by two albums in between, and since it's been two albums since COADF, well...  )
If I have to wait till 2016 for the next album though.
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Member Since: 9/4/2012
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Originally posted by Katamari
After mdna she only get better  |
Don't be so sure 
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Member Since: 3/19/2012
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I'm really getting tired of the bandwagon hate for MDNA 
Ok it's far from being a masterpiece but there's WAY worse pop albums out there. And songs like Masterpiece and Falling Free are flawless 
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Member Since: 9/4/2012
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Originally posted by Tainted Blood
I'm really getting tired of the bandwagon hate for MDNA
Ok it's far from being a masterpiece but there's WAY worse pop albums out there. And songs like Masterpiece and Falling Free are flawless |
I listened to the entire album and I only liked four songs.  I agree that there are worse albums out, but when you have past work that stomps all over your new work, people will only compare your new work to your old work.
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Member Since: 8/10/2010
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W.E. was very good. I would not mind a new movie.
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Member Since: 3/19/2012
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Originally posted by Quietly Trek
I listened to the entire album and I only liked four songs. I agree that there are worse albums out, but when you have past work that stomps all over your new work, people will only compare your new work to your old work. |
I see your point but sometimes the hate is just too much, even coming from Madonna fans 
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Member Since: 9/5/2008
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MDNA was just an re-introduction to the young generation
the next album (2013) is going to be even more powerful and awesome, i'm sure of it
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Member Since: 1/3/2011
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i don't like MDNA...terrible single choices and this non-traditional-promo ...
she HAS to fire guy oseary and we can talk again
+ i think she won't release new album until 2014..
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Member Since: 9/4/2012
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Originally posted by Sam Winchester
i don't like MDNA...terrible single choices and this non-traditional-promo ...
she HAS to fire guy oseary and we can talk again
+ i think she won't release new album until 2014.. |
Me neither. Her tour will end in like a month. I don't there's going to be enough demand for another one next year.
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Member Since: 11/23/2011
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i'm not surprised. after that grammy MDNA is going to win she's just unstoppable
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Member Since: 1/13/2012
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Oh my.. I'm scared.. After HC and half of MDNA I'm not sure. It i's full of Gang Bangs, I'm Addicteds, Love Spents, Falling Frees, Masterpieces, and Some Girlses, Idbe happy. I wonder what she'll come up next. Since there's a n alternative trend starting, she should be one of the first major stars to do an album like that
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Member Since: 5/31/2008
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She has to release 3 albums and tour do 2 more tours by 2017 so it's no surprise. Can't wait!
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Member Since: 3/18/2008
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I'm here for it. She has nothing else to prove anymore, she can make a new album just for the sake of it.
I just hope the movie and album come in two totally different periods.
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Member Since: 7/22/2012
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Member Since: 5/31/2012
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YAAASSS!
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Member Since: 11/2/2011
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Please fuse House with Hip-Hop!
Some dark gritty tracks!
Comebine the angst of America Life, longing of Erotica, or personal reflection of ROL & Music.
Hell, I'll even take impersonal lyrics in the way of Confessions....
but I'm not here for L-U-V Madonna.
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Member Since: 4/3/2012
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So, Madonna owes Live Nation/Interscope how many more albums (I thought the Live Nation & Interscope deals were different deals with Interscope giving Madonna like 1 million per album) - 2? I think she owed Warner Brothers 2 albums at the time she made the LN deal. So MDNA would be the first album for the new label.
How many more tours? Sticky & Sweet and MDNA were part of the 360 deal, no? 2 tours. How many is she obligated for? Oh I see the answer I think, 3. This article estimated 600 million for 3 tours. She's made 700,000,000 on the first two tours.
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Live Nation will eventually have to provide details on the $120 million deal (which may not actually be a $120 million deal, but we'll get to that shortly). In the meantime, here's the rough estimate, courtesy of Ethan Smith at the WSJ:
• $17.5 million: A general advance -- money Madonna gets just for being Madonna.
• $50 to $60 million: Advances for up to three new albums. This money only gets handed over when Madonna delivers the music, so it's possible that LYV will won't have to pay all of this out. Perhaps the Material Girl won't be moved to record another 36 to 45 more songs.
• $50 million in cash and stock for the right to promote Madonna's concerts and to license her name. Note that Live Nation still has to share concert and licensing revenue: It will give her 90% of concert sales and 50% of licensing money it collects.
Live Nation has almost no chance of earning back its money on Madonna's albums -- every one she delivers will be a money-losing proposition for them. So in essence, Live Nation is paying between $67.5 million and $127.5 million for right to promote Madonna's tour and sell her name on perfume, etc. Can they make their money back?
Concert promotion is a risky and low-margin business. In Q2 07 -- traditionally, the spring and summer are the strongest for the concert business -- Live Nation squeaked out operating income of $36 million on sales of $1 billion. The licensing business, at least, is relatively risk-free, but it's not a cash machine, either: Live Nation will probably keep 33 cents of each licensing dollar it generates, but it will have to split that with Madonna as well.
Madonna's last tour was a record-breaker for female artists, and generated $195 million over 60 shows. She's nearly 50, but oldsters do well on the concert circuit -- their fans have plenty of disposable cash. Lets be optimistic, and assume she mounts a similar tour every three years, generating another $600 million over the course of the 10-year deal. Madonna will get 90% of that, and Live Nation won't actually keep the remaining 10%, since some of that will have to go to venue owners, etc. But let's call it $60 million to Live Nation.
By this rough math, Live Nation still has to come up with another $7.5 million to $67.5 million to break even on the deal. Can it sell enough Madonna perfume, Madonna vitamin water and Madonna girdles to get there? Maybe. But why make this kind of gamble?
Because Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino has been arguing that his company, which dominates the concert business, ought to be much more than that. He has been telling investors that his company should be doing more than concerts: It should sell tickets, records, and much more. We imagine that when the Madonna deal is inked, he'll argue that this is the first step towards that transformation.
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She'll have made 700 million on two tout
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Member Since: 2/11/2012
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She must've been disappointed by MDNA's lack of success...oh well on the next one
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Member Since: 2/13/2012
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YAS Madonna. Give us something good. We trust you 
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Member Since: 4/3/2012
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I don't think MDNA was bad by any stretch of the imagination, but it would be intriguing if she really wanted IT for this next album. Hard Candy and MDNA were albums where she was kind of saying I'm fine with where I am. Will the next album be hungry? I think she has inspiration with the one trending topic through this era being going for her age. When you do that to Madonna she usually first becomes defiant then she shows you in surprising fashion not to ever count her out.
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