"[68] Ben Thompson from The Guardian commented on the music by saying that "Hard Candy is a tough, nuggety confection offering plenty for listeners to get their teeth into. Listen to music from Madonna like Hung Up, Like a Prayer & more. The first release under the label was her self-titled debut album, Madonna (1983). "[71], Caryn Ganz from Rolling Stone said that Hard Candy is the work of "a songwriting team of American chart royalty" that helps Madonna "revisit her roots as an urban-disco queen. [41] Though initially planned, the tour failed to visit Australia due to financial problems and the financial recession. I got a beat similar to that. Madonna’s 14th album feels stretched thin all over the globe, layered with an ambitious concept that ends up muddled and convoluted. During the past few months, some of Madonna’s singles and remixes from the 90s and 00s were digitally released and a selection of her videos upgraded to HD. Think Of Me 7. The very first artist's album Madonna was sold out in huge amounts, making her a youth icon. But that's when I play the song for lots of people and they all go, 'Oh, I can totally relate to that. I chose "Hung Up" because that was the biggest hit from my last record and I chose "Music" because it's a crowd pleaser, it's anthemic and it brings people together. [31] Furthermore, the season finale of Ugly Betty's second season, "Jump", solely featured Madonna's music. "Candy Shop", "Spanish Lesson", "She's Not Me" and "Miles Away" were played, as well as the 2006 single "Jump". [48] At the time of the first leg's conclusion, it became the highest-grossing tour by a solo artist, earning $282 million, breaking the previous record Madonna herself held with her Confessions Tour. View All. Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in Bay City, Michigan on August 16, 1958, and is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, icon and Queen of Pop. Other singles released were "Give It 2 Me" and "Miles Away". In February 2007, Timbaland said that he was working with Madonna for her upcoming eleventh studio album. The belt includes the inscription "Give It to Me", the original title of the album. ", "French album certifications – Madonna – Hard Candy", Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique, "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Madonna; 'Hard Candy')", "Greek album certifications – Madonna – Hard Candy", "Adatbázis – Arany- és platinalemezek – 2008", "The Irish Charts - 2008 Certification Awards - Platinum", "Japanese album certifications – Madonna – Hard Candy", "Dutch album certifications – Madonna – Hard Candy", Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers, "Polish album certifications – Madonna – Hard Candy", "Portuguese album certifications – Madonna – Hard Candy", "Russian album certifications – Madonna – Hard Candy", "자료제공:(사)한국음반산업협회/이 자료는당협회와 상의없이 가공,편집을금합니다. [...] Whenever [it] threatens to get boring, something always happens to recapture your interest. Hard Candy became Madonna's seventh number-one album, making her the female artist with the second most Billboard number one albums, behind only Barbra Streisand. It began in August 2008 and was Madonna's first tour from her new recording and business deal with Live Nation. Madame X is the rare album from a veteran artist that puts earlier records in a different light. Borderline 3. The backdrop displayed pink peppermint swirls. Some have noted, however, that it was Madonna rather than Timberlake who appeared to be the featured artist on the track. [97], Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. Celebration is the third Greatest Hits collection, as well as Madonna's last album for Warner Bros. Records. A teacher. 1 album, beating legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen to the top of the Billboard 200 with her latest studio effort Madame X. Together he and Justin Timberlake were confirmed to have worked on the album with Madonna and said that they wrote ten songs for her. In other markets, Vodafone and Warner Music International made an arrangement which saw the music and other forms of mobile content from "Hard Candy" available exclusively to Vodafone mobile customers prior to the album's general release. Ever since the 1980s, the conventional wisdom about Madonna claimed she brought trends from the musical underground for the purpose of pop hits, but Madame X -- a defiantly dense album that has little to do with pop, at least in the standard American sense -- emphasizes the artistic instincts behind these moves. [56] "Miles Away" was released as the third and final single from the album, on October 17, 2008. In 1982, Madonna signed a recording contract with Sire Records, a label owned by Warner Bros. Records. Backing vocals are provided by Williams. [20] The relationship themed lyrics continue in the next track "She's Not Me", which talks about Madonna being emulated by another woman, hence she utters the line "She started dressing like me and talking like me, It freaked me out, She started calling you up in the middle of the night, What's that about? Scrobble Songs und lass dir Empfehlungen zu anderen Titeln und Künstlern geben. Madonna commented on the recorded version: "We put our stuff out there. Later, Madonna recalled that most of the songs on Hard Candy were autobiographical in many respects. It then becomes fast and melancholy, with Madonna singing: "Your eyes are full of surprises/ They cannot predict my fate". … Timberlake felt that the song, which Madonna had been working on for years before the Hard Candy project, was comparable to "Frozen" (1998). Madonna hat seit ihrem Debüt im Jahre 1983 Unzähliges releast: Alben, Singles, Videos, Best Ofs, Remix-EPs, Live-Mitschnitte, Soundtracks. American singer Madonna has released 88 singles and 23 promotional singles and charted with 16 other songs. [27] The photo was taken during a photoshoot with Klein for Interview magazine's April 2008 issue. The full album of "Rebel Heart" on Interscope Records is scheduled to be released the first week in March 2015. Madonna (Alisha Chinai album) (1989); Madonna (...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead album) (1999) "[64] Mike Collett-White from Reuters reported: "As parting gifts go, Madonna's 11th studio album—and her last before she exits long-term record label Warner Bros.—is unusually generous, if early reviews are to be believed. It peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200 and was certified five-time platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). By Keith Caulfield 9/12/2014 Madonna's 15 albums: from worst to best. [24] The song received a Grammy nomination in the Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals category. [54] In the United States, "4 Minutes" peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Madonna her 37th Top Ten hit, breaking the record previously held by Elvis Presley. Dodo. Over the last 30 years, the nonprofit has registered 12 million voters (and counting) via its platform and played a significant role in the election of two presidents. The pop star's latest CD is expected to drop 88 percent from its debut week when final chart numbers are released. [50] At the 2009 Billboard Touring Awards, the Sticky & Sweet Tour won the Top Tour and Top Draw prizes, which acknowledge the highest-grossing and highest-attended tours of the year, respectively. Williams said, "We were just in a studio, [...] and [Madonna] was like, 'Look, give me some hot shit.' "Candy Shop" is the opening track of the album. [37] It was followed by "Give It 2 Me", during which pink and green disco beams pulsated across the crowd. American singer Madonna has released 14 studio albums, three soundtrack albums, five live albums, six compilation albums, and 35 other limited releases.In 1982, Madonna signed a recording contract with Sire Records, a label owned by Warner Bros. Records. [55] In the song's accompanying music video, Madonna and Timberlake sing and run away from a giant black screen that devours everything in its path. "[8] The first track recorded by Madonna and Timberlake was "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You". The clip is filmed in a lush photographic black and white. Madonna, who did just that at the Women’s March last winter, the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, released a new album last week — a live recording from her “Rebel Heart” tour — and sold just 3,848 CDs and album downloads, according to numbers obtained by Showbiz 411. [21], MTV said that "Miles Away", the third single from the album, was the most deceptively simple track because although it appeared straightforward on the surface, it had a lot of technical tricks underneath it. Scrobble songs and get recommendations on other tracks and artists. A nun. [...] For Hard Candy, she lets top-shelf producers make her their plaything. But on this album and basically all her albums after this one, Madonna rejected the singles artist territory.. 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[51], "4 Minutes" was released as the lead single from the album on March 17, 2008 by Warner Bros. Records. However, according to her this was not intentional and happened while she was in the process of developing the album. Case in point is "Dark Ballet," an ominous number that descends into a sinister, robotic rendition of Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Reed Flutes" section from The Nutcracker -- an allusion that recalls not the future, but the dystopian horror show of A Clockwork Orange. [5] "Miles Away" is a melancholy electronic ballad, which, according to Madonna is autobiographical, and is inspired by her then husband Guy Ritchie. [83] In New Zealand, Hard Candy debuted and peaked at number five on May 5, 2008, staying on the chart for nine weeks. Download now on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/RebelHeart Then Madonna paused for a moment to thank her collaborators, including Timberlake, West, Timbaland and others. Album 11 is good-naturedly smutty, not confrontationally nasty, but it's a veritable filth bath compared to the C-SPAN sermons and confessional strumming of 2003's dreadful American Life or the woozily self-actualized club trance of 2005's Confessions on a Dance Floor. [Madonna's] got a hot album. He had already laid the groundwork where she was going with it. Listen free to Madonna – Celebration (Celebration - Benny Benassi Remix Edit, Celebration (Benny Benassi Remix) and more). Lucky Star 2. 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Rezension aus Deutschland vom 13. [78] As of December 2016, Hard Candy has sold 751,000 copies. [91], Hard Candy also debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, making Madonna one of the few artists to achieve ten number one albums, behind Elvis Presley, with eleven, and The Beatles, with fifteen. "[69] Andy Gill from The Independent said that the album portrayed Madonna as "how a once diverse talent has ossified into simply satisfying the sweet tooth of functional dance-pop. American singer Madonna has released 14 studio albums, three soundtrack albums, five live albums, six compilation albums, and 35 other limited releases. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Madonna. Madonna (art), pictorial or sculptured representations of Mary, mother of Jesus Madonna (Munch painting), an 1895 painting by Edvard Munch; Fallen Madonna, a portrait by the fictional painter van Clomp; Film. The last song on the album is "Everybody", which starts with a heavily synthesized and spoken introduction, with Madonna taking a loud intake of breath. [52] "Miles Away" reached the top forty in the official charts of United Kingdom, Canada, Belgium, and the Netherlands. "[65] Sarah Hajibegari from The Times felt that while "Hard Candy is no disaster", the album's producers have "already done the same thing with Nelly Furtado, Britney Spears and Gwen Stefani. What do we want to say? These two developments fuel Madame X, an album that treats America as a secondary concern at best. Hard Candy is the eleventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Madonna.