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Speculation from excited Madonna fans has produced tons of rumors about the new album track listing. Fans, Madonna has heard you and now wants to share with you the line up for Confessions on a Dancefloor! The final version of the Confessions on a Dancefloor album tracks are available right here!

Confessions On A Dancefloor
1. Hung Up
2. Get Together
3. Sorry
4. Future Lovers
5. I Love New York
6. Let It Will Be
7. Forbidden Love
8. Jump
9. How High
10. Isaac
11. Push
12. Like It Or Not

source : madonna.com / thanks to uffa

Madonna and photographer/filmmaker David LaChapelle won’t be teaming up on the video for her single “Hung Up.” The pair confirmed to us yesterday that “artistic differences” foiled the collaboration.
Just Wednesday, at an H&M/Interview party for his film “Romeo and Juliet,” LaChapelle told us, “It’s going to be major. It’s just the hottest Madonna song.”
Yesterday, his rep explained that LaChapelle “wanted to approach the video in a documentary style, like he did in ‘Rize’ [his movie about ghetto dancers]. Madonna didn’t see it the same way.’”
Some claimed both talents turned diva. “Madonna had to control every little thing,” said one tipster. “She wanted to be shot so she looked very young.”
The 47-year-old goddess certainly looks youthful on the Steven Klein-shot cover of her new CD, “Confessions From the Dance Floor.”
But her rep, Liz Rosenberg, insists Madonna bears no grudge against LaChapelle: “She loves him and said she would work with him again in a minute.”
Her Madgesty was in New York last weekend. Besides having doctors check out her riding injuries, she had dinner Sunday at Blue Hill with Christiane Amanpour.
source : nydaily

Madonna is to scoot over to Paris from her London home to accompany husband
Guy Ritchie to the French premiere of his latest movie, “Revolver”, the film’s press people told AFP.
The US entertainer, who last week travelled to Canada for the movie’s showing at the Toronto film festival despite recovering from an August horse-riding accident that left her with several broken bones, was making her appearance in Paris as a supportive spouse, not a sultry superstar singer, they stressed.
“We can confirm that Mrs Ritchie is expected. It’s in that capacity she will attend the screening,” one of the publicity employees said.
“Revolver”, starring Jason Statham and Ray Liotta, exhibits Guy Ritchie’s trademark style mixing dark humour and gangster violence, though festival audiences have been cooler towards it than with his previous works such as “Snatch” and “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”.
source : afp

Madonna fans can express themselves big time today with a sneak preview of her new single before it is globally released to radio on October 17th. It’s a ringtone, it’s only on Vodafone and only Vodafone customers can hear it first. Yes first!
Vodafone customers will be the first in New Zealand and among the first in the world to wrap their ears around the first single from Madonna’s 13th album “Confessions on a Dance Floor” which is due for release in November.
The ringtone of the single – aptly titled ‘Hung Up’ – will be available exclusively from Vodafone live! from Monday 19th September. It’s the first time Warner Music in New Zealand has launched a single exclusively as a ringtone prior to its official release to radio.
“It is such a massive endorsement of mobile music that the world’s must powerful female artist is launching her album in New Zealand with Vodafone,” said Vodafone’s Kieren Cooney. “This gives further evidence of mobiles becoming a prefered way of obtaining the very latest in music.”
More than 100 Madonna singles are among the 300,000 full music tracks currently available on Vodafone’s MusicStore. Full music tracks from “Confessions on a Dance Floor” will be added to the Madonna collection on Vodafone’s MusicStore for fans to download, buy and listen to directly on their mobiles when the album is launched commercially.
“Customers are going crazy for Vodafone MusicStore because for the first time they can buy their favourite music whenever they want, wherever they are straight from Vodafone live! onto their mobile.” Says Cooney, “The way people consume music has gone to another level.”
“Thanks to our partnerships with big players in the music industry we have made some major ground in this space,” said Kieren. “I can’t think of any other place you can get all your music needs met – you can download your favourite songs, watch music videos, be ahead of the game on the latest music news and gossip, and kit your phone out with the best ringtones and backgrounds.”
The increasing number of subscribers to the Vodafone Backstage Pass service – which delivers daily alerts with the latest offers, competitions and industry news – represents the growing number of people looking to their mobiles for their music needs.
“Mobile phones are an ideal channel to build the level of demand for a single across a large audience,” said Head of Warner Music NZ Jerry Lloyd. “The Crazy Frog phenomenon is a perfect example of how a ringtone can work its way to number one spot on the charts.”
Vodafone customers can download the ringtone by going to the Music and Tones section of Vodafone live! The 30 second long ringtone costs $3.50 and can be downloaded onto a mobile phone which can play ‘realtone’ ringtones.
Go to Vodafone live! or www.vodafone.co.nz for instructions on how to win two Motorola 3G mobiles which are up for grabs for Madonna fans.
source : phonecontent.com

from Sun-Suntinel’s Celebrity Q&A :
Why have the studios refused to release Madonna’s movie about her Re-invention Tour? I saw the show and it was fabulous.
According to reports, studio executives felt there was too much emphasis on Kabbalah, the ancient Jewish belief system that Madonna began studying in 1996. “Kabbalah is too weird for people, too foreign,” the disappointed megastar told Ladies’ Home Journal. “They can’t get their heads around it, so they have to devalue it by saying it’s a trend or a cult.”
The 47-year-old Material Girl is especially upset since she financed the movie out of her own pocket and is now faced with seeing it go directly to video — the second time this has occurred. Her last movie, Swept Away, directed by husband Guy Ritchie, did so poorly when it premiered in the United States that it was never released in theaters in England, Ritchie’s native land.

Madonna was the most popular celebrity on Google.com in August 2005 :
1. Madonna
2. Jessica Simpson
3. Pamela Anderson
4. Paris Hilton
5. Jessica Alba
source : google zeitgeist

Madonna wanted her fans to be the first to see the cover art for her new album, Confessions on a Dancefloor. Madonna collaborated with Steven Klein and Giovannin Bianco to create this dazzling album artwork. Confessions on a Dancefloor will be released on November 14 in international markets, November 15 domestically.

source : madonna.om

Madonna’s dreams of resurrecting her role as Eva Peron in a new stage version of Evita have been dashed by the show’s creator Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The hugely successful British composer was delighted by Madonna’s performance in the 1996 film adaptation of Evita – but he considers the Music singer to now be too old for the part.
Lord Lloyd-Webber says: “She’s not right for the part. We are looking for people in their twenties for goodness sake.”
This latest setback follows a string of bad fortune for the superstar singer, who recently broke several bones in a horse-riding accident on her 47th birthday.
source : iol.ie

Europop hit ‘The Ketchup Song’ by Las Ketchup has been declared the catchiest summer song of all time according to a new, ultra-scientific study.
The components of what makes a cheesy summer hit have been broken down in a new study undertaken by a Huddersfield University lecturer for BA Highlife Magazine .
Dr Rupert Till, who also plays in electronica collective the Chillage People , has worked out a formula for a song’s ‘Catchiness Quotient’ based on a number of variables including number of steps in a dance routine; distance in semi-tones between the highest and lowest notes in the chorus; number of chords and promotional spend by the record company.
Dr Till said: “The Catchiness Quotient proves that there is a formula operating behind the phenomena of the Big Summer Song. Our unique formula reveals the science behind why every summer our charts are invaded by these poppy records that critics hate, but the public love.”
Feeding in all the variables The Top Ten catchiest tunes were found to be:
1. ‘The Ketchup Song’ – Las Ketchup
2. ‘Macarena’ – Los Del Rio
3. ‘Y Viva Espana’ – Sylvia
4. ‘Holiday’ – Madonna
5. ‘Agadoo’ – Black Lace
6. ‘Boys (Summertime Love)’ – Sabrina
7. ‘The Birdie Song’ – The Tweets
8. ‘Saturday Night’ – Whigfield
9. ‘Paloma Blanca’ – George Baker / ‘Una Paloma Blanca’ – Jonathan King
10. ‘Summer Holiday’ – Cliff Richard
source : nme
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Internationally renowned producer/remixer/DJ Stuart Price will sit for The Billboard Q&A Sept. 20 at the 2005 Billboard Dance Music Summit in New York.
Price — who is also known by such monikers as Jacques Lu Cont, Les Rythmes Digitales, Zoot Woman and Man With Guitar, among others — produced the majority of Madonna’s upcoming album, “Confessions on a Dancefloor” (Warner Bros.) and was the musical director on her Re-Invention tour. He also produced two songs on New Order’s “Waiting for the Siren’s Call” (Reprise) and many of the tracks that make up newcomer Juliet’s recently released debut “Random Order” (Virgin).
As a remixer, the Frenchman won a Grammy in February for his remix of No Doubt’s version of Talk Talk’s “It’s My Life.” He has also remixed cuts for Scissor Sisters, the Killers, the Music, the Faint and Britney Spears.
Set for Sept. 19-21 at New York’s Union Square Ballroom, the 2005 Billboard Dance Music Summit will gather the genre’s key players and artists for panel discussions and performances.
source : billboard