Madonna's "Confessions" Gobbled Up

[CellarDweller]

As is her wont, Madonna will be stuffing plenty of stockings this holiday season.

The Material Girl scored her third consecutive chart-topper with Confessions on a Dancefloor, selling 350,000 copies in the U.S. for the week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures.

Thanks to a worldwide marketing blitz backed by MTV, the disc opened at number one in 25 countries, including the U.K., Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Australia and--despite protests over her invocation of a rabbi in the Kabbalah-inspired track "Isaac"--Israel. All told, Confessions moved 4 million copies worldwide, per Warner Bros. Records.

The 47-year-old superstar's previous album, American Life, topped the charts in '03 with a substantially fewer 241,000 copies, and the disc became her first not to yield any Top 10 radio hits. Consequently, Madonna went back to her dance pop roots with Confessions and landed another huge radio hit with the ABBA-sampling "Hung Up", which put Madonna back in the Top 10 this week, moving from #14 to #7.

The current Rolling Stone cover girl, who has already sold more than 250 million career copies, now has three straight number one albums for the second time in her career. Before 2000's Music kicked off the second set of number ones, she had gone 11 years--the entire '90s--without hitting the top spot.

 

[Dussicar]

I have to say that her new hit is definately catchy. I actually like it quite a bit.

Except for the beginning. It makes my ears want to bleed.

 

[CellarDweller]

Actually, my fave track off the cd is the 3rd one in, called "Sorry", which uses a sample from a 70's track by The Jacksons called "Can You Feel It", and it's rumored to be the second single.

I also found out that "Hung Up" is Madonna's 36th Top 10 hit, putting her in a tie with Elvis as the artists with the most Top 10 hits from the "rock-n-roll" era.

 

[Dussicar]

Hmmm. I might actually have to buy a Madonna album.

I haven't heard any other song on her disc as I only hear her music on the radio.
But, if you figure she has a decent album put together, I might think about picking it up after christmas.

 

[CellarDweller]

Well, I am biased. I have been a Madonna fan (what?? A gay Madonna fan?? Shocker!!!) since she released "Everybody" (her first single) back in 1983.

You can judge for yourself here.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_1/103-2370260-0873402?v=glance&s=music


It's the page on amazon.com for her new cd, and there are 30 second samples from each track. Granted, that's not a lot of time, but you'll get an idea of what it sounds like.