When you start to count up Madonna’s comebacks and reinventions, you run out of fingers pretty quickly. > Did you know three versions of Like A Prayer have charted? Check them out 6. Martin de Porres, the patron saint of those seeking interracial harmony, which makes perfect sense when you watch the video. MADGE FACT: The saint who Madonna snogs in the church is widely, and mistakenly, believed to be based on Jesus. She’d do it only once more, on American Life in 2003.ĬHART FACT: Like A Prayer spent three weeks at Number 1 before being toppled by the Bangles’ Eternal Flame. A video featuring burning crosses and a violent murder was always going to grab some attention, and thanks to a well-known soft drinks firm pulling the plug on an advertising campaign featuring the song, its notoriety took it all the way to Number 1.Īlso, Madonna hair fans, this was the first time she had led a new album campaign as a brunette. Madonna’s show-stopper and an instant classic, Like A Prayer was the centre of huge controversy upon release – all in a day’s work for Madge, really. > Take a look at the True Blue album's incredible 66-week first run in the Top 40 7. I guess he was proven right that week at least. While it was Number 1 for just a week, True Blue has outsold some of her more famous Number 1s, including poor old Vogue, which just misses the Top 10.ĬHART FACT: True Blue was knocked off Number 1 by EastEnders’ star Nick Berry’s anthem Every Loser Wins. It didn’t put off anybody buying it, though. Written for and about her then-husband Sean Penn, True Blue is very much the unloved stepchild of Madonna’s back catalogue - she rarely performs it on tour. In many ways, Madonna’s most overlooked Number 1, True Blue came right bang in the middle of the star’s ‘imperial phase’. The video was filmed in bright sunshine in the Californian desert, with the 1998 equivalent of about a million Instagram filters over the top to make it look colder. MADGE FACT: Madonna didn't really go brunette in the video for Frozen it was a wig. Lead single Frozen was the perfect introduction and kicked off her work with William Orbit, who’d go on to collaborate with her on two further albums.ĬHART FACT: Frozen was Madonna’s first Number 1 in eight years – she hadn’t enjoyed a chart-topper since Vogue in 1990. ![]() ![]() After a few years off having her first baby Lourdes and making Evita – which won her a Golden Globe – Madonna returned with a new attitude and an album full of trance bangers and trippy beats. > See Beautiful Stranger's entire chart run 9. MADGE FACT: Madonna has only performed this song on tour once, during the Drowned World Tour in 2001. Possibly the greatest Number 1 that never was for Madge, Beautiful Stranger had strong first-week sales of over 135,000 copies, but could not compete with S Club 7’s debut – Bring It All Back beat her to it, and denied Beautiful Stranger a place in chart history.ĬHART FACT: This was the ninth time Madonna had seen a single stall at Number 2 – she’s had 12 runners-up in total. Outselling seven of Madonna’s chart-toppers is this William Orbit-produced slice of kitsch perfection, from the movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Jump to the full Top 40, or stick with us as we look over her Top 10, and, yes, we’re doing it in reverse order… 10. There’s plenty to say about her performances, her fashion sense, her pushing of boundaries and buttons when it comes to sex and ageing and religion and art, but to do any of that, Madonna has needed one thing – her massive collection of hits.Īnd what a back catalogue it is - her Top 40 biggest sellers alone amounts to over 15 million singles sales. She made it through the wilderness, somehow she made it through… and 34 years after her very first hit Holiday, Madonna still gets everybody talking.
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