Madonna ties with Elvis for singles chart record

[Janice]

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Madonna ties with Elvis for singles chart record


LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - As Madonna's "Hung Up" jumps seven places to No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the pop icon matches Elvis Presley's tally for top-10 hits -- 36, the most for any artist in the rock era.

Madonna racked up that tally in about 21 and a half years, starting with "Borderline." Presley scored his 36 top 10 hits in 16 and a half years, from 1956 with "Heartbreak Hotel" until 1972 with "Burning Love."
"Hung Up" is Madonna's highest-charting single in almost five years, since "Don't Tell Me" reached No. 4 in February 2001.

It is her first top 10 hit since her James Bond theme song "Die Another Day" hit No. 8 in 2002. Madonna already held the record for the most top 40 hits by a solo female artist; she continues in first place as "Hung Up" becomes her 45th top 40 hit, out of 51 chart entries. Aretha Franklin is in second place with 43.

The parent album for "Hung Up" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. "Confessions on a Dance Floor" is Madonna's sixth album to achieve pole position. Her No. 1 albums to date are:

"Like a Virgin," three weeks (1985)
"True Blue," five weeks (1986)
"Like a Prayer," six weeks (1989)
"Music," one week (2000)
"American Life," one week (2003)
"Confessions on a Dance Floor," one week to date (2005)

[PrettyinPink55]

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Madonna ties with Elvis for singles chart record


LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - As Madonna's "Hung Up" jumps seven places to No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the pop icon matches Elvis Presley's tally for top-10 hits -- 36, the most for any artist in the rock era.

Madonna racked up that tally in about 21 and a half years, starting with "Borderline." Presley scored his 36 top 10 hits in 16 and a half years, from 1956 with "Heartbreak Hotel" until 1972 with "Burning Love."
"Hung Up" is Madonna's highest-charting single in almost five years, since "Don't Tell Me" reached No. 4 in February 2001.

It is her first top 10 hit since her James Bond theme song "Die Another Day" hit No. 8 in 2002. Madonna already held the record for the most top 40 hits by a solo female artist; she continues in first place as "Hung Up" becomes her 45th top 40 hit, out of 51 chart entries. Aretha Franklin is in second place with 43.

The parent album for "Hung Up" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. "Confessions on a Dance Floor" is Madonna's sixth album to achieve pole position. Her No. 1 albums to date are:

"Like a Virgin," three weeks (1985)
"True Blue," five weeks (1986)
"Like a Prayer," six weeks (1989)
"Music," one week (2000)
"American Life," one week (2003)
"Confessions on a Dance Floor," one week to date (2005)

WOW!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Good for her!

[Dean Winchester]

not bad for someone that critics actually said "oh, she'll be all but forgotten by the time 1986 hits" about

[PrettyinPink55]

not bad for someone that critics actually said "oh, she'll be all but forgotten by the time 1986 hits" about

Hi there! I haven't seen you around in a while, how have you been doing?

[Steve M.]

:mad: :wallbang: :bash: :barf: :livid: :angryfire :cuss:

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Madge - :goaway:

NOW!!!!!!

[Steve M.]

Why is it that all my least favorite eighites performers lasted twenty years and almost all of the few eighties performers I actually liked only lasted twenty months?

And other deserving eighties acts - Rank and File, the Blasters, Jason and the Scorchers - only lasted twenty DAYS!!!!!!!!!

Hey, eighties pop acts - :yousuck:

:meangya:

[Tuesday Weld]

:rolleyes: ohno:

[Steve M.]

:rolleyes: ohno:

Yo! You got a problem with my intense hatred for post-1980 popular music? :mad:

[Stuck In The '70's]

:rolleyes: ohno:
My thoughts exactly. :lol:

[Steve M.]

My thoughts exactly. :lol:

:p

[Stuck In The '70's]

:p
She wasn't quoting you and neither was I. Madonna sucks. :lol:

[Dean Winchester]

:mad: :wallbang: :bash: :barf: :livid: :angryfire :cuss:

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Madge - :goaway:

NOW!!!!!!

people get so mad and upset about this, but look at it this way. Madonna has officially "been around" longer since her first single hit than either Elvis or Lennon were when they died. So you can complain and plea about why she doesn't deserve to be in the same league, but time speaks for itself. It's been 23 years since her first single came out (Everybody came out in October 1982), at this point in time, Elvis had just died a year or so before his 23 year mark and John Lennon had been gone for a number of years by that point (granted, not his fault, but still a fact). So why is it so shocking that she's been able to accomplish the same thing?

Anyways, Madonna RULES!!!! Confessions is the best album she's put out since Like A Prayer. She, along with Donna Summer, is the queen of dance-pop music.

[Tuesday Weld]

She wasn't quoting you and neither was I. Madonna sucks. :lol:

That's right. :lol: :)

[Dean Winchester]

Why is it that all my least favorite eighites performers lasted twenty years and almost all of the few eighties performers I actually liked only lasted twenty months?

And other deserving eighties acts - Rank and File, the Blasters, Jason and the Scorchers - only lasted twenty DAYS!!!!!!!!!

Hey, eighties pop acts - :yousuck:

The 80's was the best decade for pop music ever, followed by the mid-late 70's IMO. It was when music was FUN

[Hollow]

:mad: :wallbang: :bash: :barf: :livid: :angryfire :cuss:

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Madge - :goaway:

NOW!!!!!!
you make it annoying to read threads with the word "madonna" in them.

[Dean Winchester]

I always hate it that The Beatles inspire religous devotion among posters here, but yet it's open game on Madonna. I know people will try to say "it's not the same", but the hell it isn't. Madonna's been around 23 years, 23 years was around the point in McCartney's career that he was starting to settle into living off his past glory instead of pushing his new music with the same heart he did in the 60's through early 80's.

Like it or not, to gay men under 35 (the older ones have Barbra and Cher as their Beatles), she is the closest thing to OUR Beatles.

[Steve M.]

Would it kill you listen to an ELO record for a change? :p

[Steve M.]

She wasn't quoting you and neither was I. Madonna sucks. :lol:


Oops - sorry about that, Cowboys fan. I don't want to offend people who are on my side! :) :thumbsup:

[Steve M.]

you make it annoying to read threads with the word "madonna" in them.


That's the idea! :brent

[Dean Winchester]

Would it kill you listen to an ELO record for a change? :p

actually, read my post about "artists you like", ELO's on there. For the very least, you should assume I'd like them considering they recorded "Xanadu" with Olivia Newton-John (who is definately up there with my fave females), lol

[Dean Winchester]

That's the idea! :brent

well, imagine if Madonna fans started ****ting on every thread of artists you like?

Even if you hate Madonna's music, you cannot deny that she has stood the test of time and has definately carved her own niche into the pop culture stratosphere in a way that only a select few like Elvis and The Beatles have. She is no longer a new artist that you can cross your fingers and hope that will be forgotten come 1986 because she is here to stay. I am laughing at all the Madonna bashers who thought for sure she was "over" because American Life bombed, when Madonna has made an entire career of giving the finger to the naysayers who were ready to write her off.

Confessions is the easily the best dance-pop album since Kylie's Fever, if not better than that.

[Dean Winchester]

actually, read my post about "artists you like", ELO's on there. For the very least, you should assume I'd like them considering they recorded "Xanadu" with Olivia Newton-John (who is definately up there with my fave females), lol

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showpost.php?p=2808740&postcount=15

here's the direct link to that post. So people will know which artists are exempt from people getting defensive and acting like I don't like when the proof is right there on that post. And yes, there's tons of 80's pop stars because 80's pop is the best kind of pop :)

....still shocked someone would think I'd hate ELO considering their presence in Xanadu, which is one of my favorite bad movies, and I have made it perfectly clear that I adore that soundtrack

[Karen*]

I'm happy for Madonna. She's awesome. Good for her. :D

[SBTB Geek]

Why do gay men act as if Madonna is part of their property? I remember when Madonna was for the masses, not just one group.

Anyways... congratulations to Madonna. I'm sure she'll get the record after she releases "Jump" or "I Love New York."

[Shine]

These Madonna threads disgust me to be honest becasue they always turn into a mudslinging contest.:eek: First off, though I don't think that Madonna has recorded a good album in a very long time, I think that it is safe to say that she deserves the sucsess that she has had and that she is an artist that is here to stay. If you don't like Madonna, that's fine, no one says that you have too.

On the other hand, Madonna is not in the same league as the Beatles or John Lennon. To even apply that she is is just plane wrong. The Beatles/John Lennon wrote music that has been an insipiration for many. Madonna is a simple pop singer.

[EmoJoe]

Well whatever Carrie was #2 last week, so there :snob: She was huge competition for Madonna considering Madonna didnt sell much more then her, which was very impressive considering she is a new country artist coming straight from American Idol.

But even though im not a Madonna fan, congrats to her and her fans :)

[EmoJoe]

Yo! You got a problem with my intense hatred for post-1980 popular music? :mad:
:rolleyes: Not all current music is bad, believe it or not.

[Shine]

:rolleyes: Not all current music is bad, believe it or not.


No. Just 99.9% of it. ;) :lol:

[Dean Winchester]

Why do gay men act as if Madonna is part of their property? I remember when Madonna was for the masses, not just one group.

Anyways... congratulations to Madonna. I'm sure she'll get the record after she releases "Jump" or "I Love New York."

why shouldn't we get defensive when people attack Madonna? There are very few artists who have done as much for us as she has, she is definately in the same elite group as Barbra and Cher in terms of being a huge influence on us. When you consider the money she has given to AIDS charities as well as pushing doors open for gays and lesbians that others were afraid to do, of course we're going to jump to her aid when people are stuck on bashing her. Madonna even said that she recorded Confessions as a "thank you" to her gay fans who have stuck with her through Swept Away and American Life, and she has said that she thinks the gay community has been her most devoted audience.

She is definately one of the greatest acts that people who were too young to experience Elvis and The Beatles firsthand will live to see and it ticks me off that people are so hung up hating her (lemme guess, it really sucks to see a female artist who actually has as much power and clout as the "boys" do, especially since she's shown endurance and that everytime you want her to go away, she comes back and tells you to eff yourself).

At this point, Madonna doesn't necessarily need defense, she's still going strong after nearly a quarter century. To people who hate her, listen to the lyrics of "Human Nature" from the Bedtime Stories album, she puts you guys in your rightful place.

[Dean Winchester]

On the other hand, Madonna is not in the same league as the Beatles or John Lennon. To even apply that she is is just plane wrong. The Beatles/John Lennon wrote music that has been an insipiration for many. Madonna is a simple pop singer.

well, with all due respect, your favorite Madonna albums are Virgin and True Blue. You jumped ship when she started getting more critical and artistic respect. Nobody thinks the first three albums have any sort of actual merit outside of being catchy pop albums. It's albums like Like A Prayer, Ray Of Light and Erotica that won the critics over to her side and when Madonna actually began to make those critics who dismissed her as the inferior version of Cyndi Lauper actually come around to her and re-evaluate her. Like A Prayer and Ray Of Light both received many five star reviews and both albums were seen as a side of Madonna the artist that nobody has seen before then.

Madonna is no "simple pop singer", she is a lot more of an icon than that. Look at all the people who hopped on the Kaballah bandwagon just because she talked about it in a few interviews. She is definately a true pop culture icon and is probably second only to Oprah when it comes to powerful women in the media. She hasn't been a "simple pop singer" since she was wearing a Boy Toy belt.

[EmoJoe]

No. Just 99.9% of it. ;) :lol:
No offense but it sort of annoys me when people say that, it seems they just hear a few songs and automaticly decide that all music today is crap. Sure the hip hop crap sucks, but there is some good stuff.

[Dean Winchester]

Confessions moves another 215k in it's second week (which is only 25k less than American Life's FIRST week, and only a 30% drop from week one, compared to AL's drop from 240 to 65k), taking the two-week tally to 560,000..... It should have no problem surpassing American Life's 662,000 total within the next week or two.

I doubt that in America, COADF will be as big as Emancipation Of Mimi has been (let's face it, Mariah's making what's hot now), but I think at least Confessions will have restored the luster that was lost with American Life when all is said and done. I think "Push" and "Jump" (at least from early airplay reports, Jump had 40 spins on the radio last week even though it hasn't even been discussed about being a single) both have the chance to be hits as well. Her chart days of the mid-80's are definately behind her (well, in America only) but I think this album has shown that Madonna still has legs and it is definately her best dance record since her debut from 83.

[Ireneparalegal]

Confessions moves another 215k in it's second week (which is only 25k less than American Life's FIRST week, and only a 30% drop from week one, compared to AL's drop from 240 to 65k), taking the two-week tally to 560,000..... It should have no problem surpassing American Life's 662,000 total within the next week or two.

I doubt that in America, COADF will be as big as Emancipation Of Mimi has been (let's face it, Mariah's making what's hot now), but I think at least Confessions will have restored the luster that was lost with American Life when all is said and done. I think "Push" and "Jump" (at least from early airplay reports, Jump had 40 spins on the radio last week even though it hasn't even been discussed about being a single) both have the chance to be hits as well. Her chart days of the mid-80's are definately behind her (well, in America only) but I think this album has shown that Madonna still has legs and it is definately her best dance record since her debut from 83.
Madonna's new CD is thee CD of her career since Ray of Light. It takes us back to her dance days which were awesome. I love Madonna.

[Dean Winchester]

Madonna's new CD is thee CD of her career since Ray of Light. It takes us back to her dance days which were awesome. I love Madonna.

yes, I think she listened to the fans this time. If you venture to any Madonna fan forums, you'll see on average the favorite song off Music was "Impressive Instant" and off American Life was "Nobody Knows Me", those were THE club tracks from those albums (NKM and Mother And Father were the only dance tracks off American Life). It shows that even though she's done a good job adjusting her sound, it'll always be the dance tracks that will be the bread and butter for her. I think "Future Lovers" is bound to be the big "cult classic" for her off this album down the road. I think the song has zero commercial appeal but I can see it being as beloved in 5 years as Impressive Instant is today.