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Madonna is Releasing a New Remix Album With 50 Tracks To Celebrate her 50th Number One Hit on Billboard Dance Chart

Madonna is Releasing a New Remix Album With 50 Tracks To Celebrate her 50th Number One Hit on Billboard Dance Chart

May 2022

Madonna to Release ‘Finally Enough Love,’ Two Career-Spanning Remix Collections

May 4, 2022

…madonnaFinallyEnoughLoveThe collections mark the first album releases to be part of the newly  announced partnership between Madonna and Warner Music Group, which will feature an extensive series of catalog releases across her career.

“50 Number Ones” clocks in at 220 minutes and includes dozens of remixes by top producers, including Shep Pettibone, William Orbit, Honey Dijon, and Avicii, along with rarities, with more than 20 being officially released for the first time or making their commercial/digital debut.

Each remix was newly remastered for the collection by Mike Dean, who produced Madonna’s two most-recent studio albums, “Rebel Heart” and “Madame X.”

The collection will be available digitally on August 19, along with a 3-CD version and a limited edition, 6-LP version on red and black vinyl.

The 16-track version, “Finally Enough Love,” will be available for streaming on June 24, with 1-CD and 180-gram 2-LP versions coming on August 19.

The “You Can Dance Remix Edit” of “Into the Groove” is available today digitally for the first time.

Madonna Announces Finally Enough Love Collection to Celebrate Record-Breaking 50 No. 1 Dance Chart Hits

On Wednesday, Madonna announced a new remixes collection titled Finally Enough Love, set for a summer release, to highlight her 50 singles that have topped the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart

By Jack Irvin
May 04, 2022

Get into the groove: Madonna is celebrating a record-breaking career achievement.

On Wednesday, the 63-year-old iconic musician known as the “Queen of Pop” announced a new remixes collection titled Finally Enough Love to highlight her 50 singles that have topped the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart — she’s the only artist with 50 No. 1 hits on any Billboard chart — set to be released this summer in multiple formats.

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Madonna, The Beatles, Elton John Among Most Popular Artists of All Time – via Liberty Games

Madonna, The Beatles, Elton John Among Most Popular Artists of All Time – via Liberty Games

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Liberty Games: The Most Iconic Songs of All Time

Madonna, The Beatles, Elton John Among Most Popular Artists of All Time

March 11, 2022
By Elizabeth Scarlett

Liberty Games analysed over 6,500 songs and chart records to reveal the most popular artists in history, and Madonna came in at number one

According to Liberty Games, Madonna is the most popular artist of all time. This isn’t just some daring statement made by an overly-enthusiastic Madonna mega fan though, this result was conceived from hard analysis.

  From analysing over 6,500 songs from the top 100 Billboard charts, starting from 1959 all the way to the present day, the games retailer produced a list ranking the most successful performers in history.

Their popularity was ranked by how many times they appeared in the chart, with Madonna holding the highest amount on a total of 34 times.

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Madonna, Warner Music Strike Deal to Re-Issue Her Entire Catalog

Madonna, Warner Music Strike Deal to Re-Issue Her Entire Catalog

Birthday Girl Madonna Gets New Reissue Campaign, Italians Do It Better Covers Comp

August 16, 2021
by Ryan Leas

Madonna Album Covers….[I]t was announced that Madonna has signed a new deal with Warner Music Group that encompasses her entire recorded music catalog.

Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of Madonna’s first single, and the new deal promises an extensive reissue campaign digging back into all her classic albums.

But today, there is also Italians Do It Better’s big Madonna tribute album.

The label put together a compilation of 20 covers [listen to samples here], recorded by 19 artists, representing 10 different countries. The whole thing was executive produced by Johnny Jewel.

Madonna announces reissue series on her birthday

By Charlotte Krol
16th August 2021

Madonna has announced that she will reissue many of her albums in deluxe editions, after signing a new publishing deal with Warner Music Group.

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NYC in the ’80s Changed Music – and Launched Madonna, Run-DMC and More

NYC in the ’80s Changed Music – and Launched Madonna, Run-DMC and More

NYC in the ’80s Changed Music – and Launched Madonna, Run-DMC and More

Zachary Kussin
June 11, 2021

How did disco sound when it died? In 1980s New York, it disappeared in a melodic revolution of hip-hop beats and rock riffs that helped fuel the rise of contemporary music.

Now, a just-opened museum exhibit explores the peak years of this musical renaissance, which changed the local cultural landscape — and eventually found its way to a global stage.

“New York, New Music: 1980-1986,” on view at the Museum of the City of New York, shows visitors how it all happened — thanks to emerging genres, new collaborations and the power of television. Another factor: a slow transition out of the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, which meant that New York was still affordable.

“That allowed a lot of artists to be freely creative and not have to also worry about making music as a career — and so people could be a little more experimental,” said Sean Corcoran, 47, the exhibit’s curator. “In the end, what we see is a lot of meeting and sharing of ideas across different communities … we thought that was a very New York story.”

…The exhibit uses photos, video clips and more to focus on this era, highlighting 14 moments that changed music forever.
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Dua Lipa Song Suggestions for Gen X (September 2020)

Dua Lipa Song Suggestions for Gen X (September 2020)

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Dua Lipa – from her “Future Nostalgia” album cover

In 2020, pop singer Dua Lipa released an album called “Future Nostalgia.”

She later released a second album of re-mixes based off that first album called “Club Future Nostalgia.”

It is my opinion that the original versions of the songs (from Future Nostalgia) are much better than the remixes (from Club Future Nostalgia – which you can listen to on You Tube here).

(Side note: Madonna – yes Madonna from the 1980s who sang hit songs such as “Material Girl” and “Like A Prayer” back in the 1980s – sang on the “Levitating” remix off “Club Future Nostalgia,” which you can listen to here on You Tube, though I think the original version of the song is ten times better; you can listen to the original version below.)

According to the Wiki page for this album:

Future Nostalgia is the second studio album by English singer Dua Lipa, released on 27 March 2020 by Warner Records.

…She wanted to create a record with the nostalgic memories of her childhood and the music her parents listened to and put a modern spin on it with futuristic elements, which is why she ultimately went with the title.

It is meant to describe “a future of infinite possibilities while tapping into the sound and mood of some older music.”

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Madonna and Bruce Springsteen Both Have New Albums Out Today. It’s Like the ’80s Never Went Away by M. Lou – 2019

Madonna and Bruce Springsteen Both Have New Albums Out Today. It’s Like the ’80s Never Went Away by M. Lou – 2019

Madonna and Bruce Springsteen Both Have New Albums Out Today. It’s Like the ’80s Never Went Away by M. Lou

Excerpts:

June 14, 2019

It’s the battle of the ’80s musical icons.

Madonna, aka The Queen of Pop, and an equally formidable musician Bruce Springsteen, nicknamed “The Boss,” are both out with new albums.

It may seem like a hip, young new artist is popping up every day — but these titans of the ’80s are showing that they’ve still got it.

Madonna’s “Madame X”

…Madonna’s 14th studio album, “Madame X,” is her latest full-length album since 2015’s “Rebel Heart.” It includes 15 songs and was inspired by her time spent in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Madonna’s ‘Madame X’ Album Music Suggestion

Madonna’s ‘Madame X’ Album Music Suggestion

Out of all the songs on Madonna’s new album (released June 14, 2019), “Madame X,” the only ones I can recommend for any Gen Xer who’d like to have a new work out song would be “I Don’t Search I Find” and the official remixes of “Medellin” (pronounced “med-uh-zeen”).

“I Don’t Search I Find” is very reminiscent of Madonna’s 1990s song “Rescue Me.”

madonna_MadameX You can listen to the entire “Madame X” album (Deluxe Version) on Madonna’s official You Tube account here, and probably on Spotify.

Many professional music reviewers have given this album a high rating, in spite of the fact they’re also saying some of the songs on it are terrible (see this example or this example), while one or two reviews have been very negative across the board (such as this one or this one).

My personal take on this album:
Aside from “I Don’t Search I Find” and the official “Medellin” remixes, the other songs on this album range from mid-tempo, to strange, to so-so average and dull, to, I am sorry to say, un-listen-able.

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Madonna – Social Media Use and Music Suggestions (part 2 – post-2000)

 (The Madonna music recommendations in this post, with embedded videos, are towards the bottom, if you’d like to scroll ahead and get straight to the music.)

To be completely honest, I pretty much tuned out most of Madonna’s musical career after the late 1990s “Ray of Light” album.

I did hear the songs “Hollywood” and “American Life” (link to that on You Tube) which were on her 2003 album “American Life.” I found both songs to be lackluster, and her rapping on “American Life” was awful, and I found its rap lyrics to be dismal and ridiculous.

I didn’t pay her “Confessions on a Dance Floor” (released 2005), “Hard Candy” (2008), “MDNA” (2012),  or “Rebel Heart” (2015) albums much attention.

I did listen through all the tracks on “Rebel Heart.”

From that album, the only songs that held up, and you may like them too are the following:

“Iconic” (link to that on You Tube) and “Illumanati” (link to that on You Tube, the album version – I believe that the demo version of this song is much better).

Some felt that Madonna’s “Hung Up” (link to that song on You Tube), in which she sampled ABBA, was a pretty good song – I didn’t care for it, but it may be something readers of this blog may enjoy. Others also enjoyed “Jump” (link to that on You Tube – album version), but this is another one I felt very under-whelmed by.

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Madonna – Music Suggestions (part 1 – the rare or under-played 80s songs)

Madonna – Music Suggestions (part 1 – the rare or under-played 80s songs)

If you’re Gen X, you more than likely remember songs off Madonna’s first four albums that were released for radio air play in the 1980s (which would include the self titled debut, “Madonna”; then, “Like A Virgin”; next, “True Blue”; and finally, “Like A Prayer”).

You probably remember such ’80s era Madonna songs such as

I find that some of Madonna’s songs that were not  released for radio were actually just as good, or maybe even better, than the ones that received radio air play back then.

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