http://www.facebook.com/madonna/app_237738732989291

The Facebook chat she did with the annoying Jimmy Fallon today to promote the album.

Crappy questions asked, sadly.

Uh-oh, lil minnie Madonna (Lourdes) is smoking three years under the legal age...

MDNA has been downloaded and awaits to be listened to! So exciteeeeed!

Totally Madonna ‏ @MadonnaCovers

#Madonna on TV....March 26th is Madonna Takeover on Fuse Network....looks like all Madonna all day. Yay!!! So excited about it! #MDNA

I absolutely love Masterpiece and Falling Free... The acoustic version of Love Spent is great as well, and really enjoyed I Don't Give A and Beautiful Killer. The rest is kind of meh, but it may grow on me with further listening...

I'm getting the clean copy tomorrow from Ticketmaster unless they slag on that promised delivery date like with everything else. I'm going to buy the Deluxe (Non-Clean) Version on Week 2 because of Gang Bang (<- soooo wrong yet soooo right).

I absolutely love Masterpiece and Falling Free...

Masterpiece is probably the most old-school type ballad she has in there and she sounds terrific on it. My only problem with it is I felt it was more of a demo than a fully developed song. It could easily end at the 2:30 - 2:40 mark and be better for it.

FYI: Madonna will also be taking questions on Twitter tomorrow night (well tonight) at 10 pm.

Masterpiece is probably the most old-school type ballad she has in there and she sounds terrific on it. My only problem with it is I felt it was more of a demo than a fully developed song. It could easily end at the 2:30 - 2:40 mark and be better for it.

Hmmm, I didn't think that but I'll give it another listen.

Girl Gone Wild definitely grew on me... I'm obsessed with it now! And Gang Bang... wow. lol

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Billboard counts down her 40 biggest hits on their Hot 100 in honor of MoNDAy.

http://www.billboard.com/#/features/madonna-s-40-biggest-billboard-hits-1006539352.story?utm_source=most_recent

The ranking is based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least. To ensure equitable representation of the biggest hits from each era, certain time frames were weighted to account for the difference between turnover rates from those years.

This is about a third of the chat that I have C & P'ed. For the full chat:

https://twitter.com/.../MadonnaMDNAday

Ryan Seacrest: SInce Tim Tebow is moving to NY now, will you show him around?

Madonna: I'd love to show Tim Tebow around town...we have so much in common. He's "like a virgin" and so am I!

Twitter: every question sounds the same you gotta step into my world! Favorite cereal from childhood?

Madonna: captain crunch. peanut butter flavor

Perez Hilton: would you PRETTY PLEASE join Twitter permanently??? Not just for one day!!! Puhhhlease! *begging here*

Madonna: but then you'll get used to me and take me for granted.

twitter: What did you like about Jimmy Fallon?

Madonna: the way he moves his hips.

Twitter: hav u got a name for this new tour?

Madonna: yes - its the MDNA tour

(Somebody asked if she's really tweeting herself.)

tweeting...

Twitter: Where are u now and what ur wearing?

Madonna: in my living room. t-shirt that says "bitch club" on it.

Twitter: what do you think about justin bieber ?

Madonna: he's awesome. I'm a huge fan. I love it when he raps.

Justin Bieber to Madonna: seeing that is a huge honor. Yours is a career artists dream of. Congrats on the new album!

Justin to his fans: Nothing like your fans blowing u up saying Madonna talked about u. #livingTheDream #DreamBIG

[Later]

Madonna: Come and join me on stage when I'm on tour when we are in the same city and congrats on your new single.

Jimmy Fallon: Did you know they spelled your name wrong on the cover? (Some letters are missing.) Hope you didn't print too many copies!

Madonna: i fired the guy who did it, but it fits better on a t-shirt so we're rolling with it...

Twitter: will there be a tour documentary?

Madonna: maybe

Twitter: have u got nay more injuries from rehearsals?

Madonna: yes. I have a broken finger. I broke it the other day. My pinky just at the top.

Twitter: Hey Madge, can i get a free bottle of Truth or Dare?... im BROKE!

Madonna: sure come on over.

Madonna: I'm at a place called Macys

Perez: How did you break your pinky????

Madonna: Fighting Off a sniper in Gang Bang

Twitter: what u think about Katy Perry ?

Madonna: she's hot. If she was my girl I'd never cheat on her.

[Katy Perry comes online after Madonna has been booted by the bird]

Katy Perry: which evolution of you in your career has been your favorite/ most fulfilling, besides the present?

[she learns of Madonna's "she's hot..."]

Katy Perry: Well played my Queen. My move...

Twitter: What do you do to relax after a performance???

Madonna: I get a massage (with a happy ending)

Twitter: My birthday is August 17, we have a party together???? s2 s2 s2

Madonna: will you pay for it?

Twitter: Why are you tweeting with your glasses on?

Madonna: cause im cool. all this new found fame is freaking me out.

T: Do you believe in law of attraction??

M: are you attracted to me?

T: Hey Madonna can I be your next boyfriend?? I'm 20 and I love private jets

M: send me a picture!

T: was it fun working with Kelly Osbourne and Taylor Momsen in Material Girl?

M: Yes, they are both lovely girls.

T: How is NickiMinaj as a kisser?

M: soft lips sink ships

[Nicki was giddy on Twitter after the kiss back in December. There was a camera there and the video of the kiss came out yesterday: https://twitter.com/...v%3DF1jqi_YmzVA]

T: Are you a good kisser?

M: most definitely

deadmau5 (they're DJ's who wear some weird mouse thing. One of the guys called her a f-in idiot on Facebook earlier in the day for asking the audience at the EDM Fest if "they've seen Molly." Molly is a reference to Ecstacy) : You're a role model to 100's of millions. You have a powerful voice,EDM could use your positive influence, not "molly" talk.

Madonna: lovemau5

deadmau5: fair enough, i was just voicing my concerns as i usually do. +1 respect for clearing it up personally.

[Later]

Madonna: Communication is always best. You should have called me first, we could have cleared it up "privately." See you on the road.

deadmau5: sure. regardless, just be a little more aware of what you *should* represent at EDM events, and ill watch my mouth.

[Later, after she return for a minute after being booted]

Madonna: broken pinky swear

deadmau5: not gunna lie, thats pretty gross. that'll do though.

T: Is your love a revolver?

M: my sex is a killer

T: can I have your Chanel gloves you have on?

M: After I am done sweating in them and ripping them to shreds.

T: How long are you tweeting? I have to work in the morning

M: not telling. hang tough baby.

T: How do you feel about bullying and what do you think about Gaga's work with the Born This Way Foundation

M: I applaud Lady Gaga support of the gay community and her commitment to stop bullying.

T: could you tweet me so i can be the cool kid on my block?

M: you are amazing. lets be bffs.

T: what is your favorite place to hide?

M: bathroom

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news08913

MADONNA’S MATERIAL GAINS

New MDNA Album Debuts on Top, Richie, Shinedown Debut

March 28, 2012

She’s no longer “Like a Virgin,” or even the Material Girl, for that matter, but Madonna is still a pop diva superstar.

Madge’s Interscope debut, MDNA, her 12th studio album and first under a recently inked deal with Live Nation, is her first new collection in four years, since 2008’s Hard Candy. It’s a lock for #1 on next week’s HITS Album sales chart, with between 325-350k, beating that album’s 280k opening.

Those figures are based on one-day sales figures which our crack retail staff arrived at by throwing darts at a board. Take that, Soundscan!

Lionel Richie’s Mercury Nashville bow, Tuskegee, a collection of his greatest hits performed with country stars such as Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, Shania Twain, Willie Nelson and Jimmy Buffett, is the big surprise, with a robust first-week estimate in the 140-160k range. The album has even hit the #1 slot at iTunes over Madonna.

Veteran Atlantic Florida rockers Shinedown’s fourth studio album, Amaryllis, their first since 2008’s The Sound of Madness, is on track for first-week sales of 80-90k, easily topping that album’s 50k.

Hopeless’ The Used release Vulnerable, the Orem, UT, thrash-rockers’ fifth studio album and first since leaving their longtime label Warner Bros./Reprise, which looks to be in the 20-25k range.

Interscope’s veteran Oklahoma post-punks All-American Rejects’ fourth album, Kids in the Street, is slated to do between 17-20k, a striking comedown from their last, 2008’s When the World Comes Down, which did 112k its first week..

Prog-rocking Texas band The Mars Volta’s Noctourniquet, their sixth full-length album, and second from Warner Bros., is also in the 17-20k range.

Mercury/IDJ Canadian rock group My Darkest Days’ sophomore album, Sick and Twisted Affair, fueled by the hit single, “Porn Star Dancing,” should do between 12-15k

Album sales were down 3% vs. last week, down 16% vs. same week last year and up 1% year to date.

Track sales were up 2% vs. last week, up 3% vs. same week last year and up 6% year to date.

TEA sales were down 2% vs. last week, down 11% vs. same week last year and up 2% year to date.

Billboard adds their educated-predictions to the mix, which are basically the same as the above. For the price of Madonna's tickets those "free" CD's should count. I was surprised when I was hearing it wouldn't count, but I guess that was inaccurate.

Madonna's 12th studio album, "MDNA," is on course to easily debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart next week. Industry sources suggest the set could sell between 300,000 to 350,000 copies by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, April 1.

If "MDNA" lands atop the list, it will mark the queen of pop's eighth No. 1 album and her fifth consecutive studio set to debut in the penthouse. Her last studio album, 2008's "Hard Candy," started at No. 1 with 280,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The new Billboard 200 chart's top 10 will be revealed on the morning of Wednesday, April 4.

Madonna's first No. 1 came on the Billboard 200 chart dated Feb. 9, 1985, when her second album, "Like a Virgin," began a three-week run at the top.

"MDNA's" first week will be bolstered by a successful album sales promotion involving Madonna's upcoming world tour. U.S. customers who bought a concert ticket also had the option of also receiving "MDNA" as part of their purchase. The only sales that will count towards Billboard's charts are those where the customer opted to receive the album.

This sort of ticket/album promotion has been used in the recent past by such acts as Bon Jovi and Tom Petty. The latter's "Mojo" album saw a No. 2 debut on July 3, 2010 -- thanks to a fair number of customers who got the album via a ticket purchase. The same goes for Bon Jovi's 2007 No. 1 album "Lost Highway."

Switching gears away from Madonna for a moment. She won't be the only big news on the Billboard 200 next week.

Lionel Richie is poised to notch his best sales week since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991 and his highest charting album since 1986.

His country collaborations album "Tuskegee" is looking at a No. 2 debut with maybe 125,000 to 150,000 sold. The album collects many of Richie's best-known hits, but he has re-recorded them with an army of country stars. Among the luminaries: Shania Twain ("Endless Love"), Blake Shelton ("You Are"), Kenny Chesney ("My Love") and Tim McGraw ("Sail On").

The last time Richie was in the top two was October of 1986, when "Dancing on the Ceiling" spent two weeks at No. 1.

Richie is also benefitting from a partnership with the Home Shopping Network (HSN), where the singer appeared during an hour-long special on March 16. Universal Music Group, Richie's record company, says he sold 20,000 "Tuskegee" albums during the show. (Those sales will count towards the album's debut week, as they were not fulfilled to the customer until this week.)

Here's a flashback for you. When was the last time Madonna and Richie were in the top five at the same time on the Billboard 200? Way back on Oct. 4, 1986, when "Dancing on the Ceiling" was No. 1 for a second week and Madonna's former No. 1, "True Blue," was No. 5.

http://www.billboard..._medium=twitter

Here's how her last several albums did on week 1:

#2 Erotica - 167,000 units (1992)

#3 Bedtime - 145,000 units (1994)

#2 Ray of Light - 371,000 units (1998)

#1 Music - 420,000 units (2000)

#1 America Life - 241,000 units (2003)

#1 Confessions on a Dance Floor - 350,000 units (2005)

#1 Hard Candy - 280,000 units (2008)

It's #1 in the UK midweeks as well. Meaning this Sunday when that chart is published, she'll beat Elvis for most #1 albums for a solo artist on the UK album chart.

It's also #1 on most worldwide iTunes charts. Say what you want about her, but Madonna is one of the very few stars with GLOBAL appeal that we have.

Here's her lipsyncing Like A Virgin on Top of the Pops in 1985 with a very bad pink wig on!

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The 80s and horrible hair decisions, heh.

It's also #1 on most worldwide iTunes charts. Say what you want about her, but Madonna is one of the very few stars with GLOBAL appeal that we have.

I was looking at her international numbers (from the 80s thru to today - sales, #1 and Top 10 singles/albums) not too long ago, and they're friggin' amazing. Despite #1 openings for her albums, the U.S. has ignored her singles for those albums so I would not have guessed what huge hits Hung Up, Sorry and to a lesser extent Celebration were internationally.

This is another good documentary on Madonna. This is the U.K.'s version of "Driven" so it's more sexed up and more scandalous. It's a pretty good counterpart to "Driven." We have the female partner that discovered Madonna in this one, the male one was in "Driven." There's A LOT of old boyfriends and some of the people she used to club with. So Madonna and Stephen Bray were an item? I don't know why I didn't guess that, haha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pws99uB8c4c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBeucnfCohw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE3p8jh4cFU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnnXu_BM5Qc

Link to Part 5: http://madonnabce.vodspot.tv/#1755083

Ugh, part 6 won't link. Go to this site: http://madonnabce.vodspot.tv/ Press the big right side arrows 5 times. 3rd Row, 2nd Column.

I'll probably post Rising this weekend. That's an MTV special where she goes around her old places in NY late at night.

Apparently, Normann Shay will be the artistis director on this tour.

Looks like she finally ditched Jamie King.