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In 1979, while she was a struggling singer who had to pose naked to make ends meet, they were the world’s biggest band. Now Madonna is set to give Abba what is likely to be the biggest-selling record of their career.
At 5pm GMT tomorrow, the American singer’s new single, Hung Up, which heavily samples Abba’s 1979 hit Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, will premiere simultaneously on national radio stations around the world.
The broadcast is part of a multi-million pound marketing strategy designed to re-establish Madonna as the Queen of Pop. But the sales of the single, which is expected to top the charts around the world, could also generate millions of pounds for Abba’s songwriters, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus.
The pair agreed to let Madonna use their most famous disco hit after striking a lucrative copyright agreement that observers say will give them a significant share of royalties from airplay.
“Gimme, Gimme, Gimme is the essence of the new song and we have agreed to split the copyright with Madonna and her co-writer,” Andersson said. He declined to go into details and insisted that financial concerns were not the primary motive for the decision to give Madonna permission to use the track.
“We get so many requests from people wanting to use our tracks but we normally say ‘no’. This is only the second time we have given permission.
“We said ‘yes’ this time because we admire Madonna so much and always have done. She has got guts and has been around for 21 years. That is not bad going.”
Andersson said he thought the new single was “wonderful” and joked it was his favourite Madonna song to date. “Hung Up is really good. If it wasn’t any good we would not have said ‘yes’. It is a wonderful track: 100 per cent solid pop music.”
Madonna, who has enjoyed 54 British top 10 hits including 10 number ones, has sold more singles in this country than Abba.
Hung Up is regarded as one of the most commercial songs of her career and will easily outsell the 1979 original which reached Number Three in the British charts but was not given an American release.
The worldwide broadcast of the single is part of an ambitious strategy designed to re-establish the 47-year-old mother-of-two as the most successful act in the world. Madonna is to spend an unprecedented £5 million buying up television, billboard and cinema slots for her new album Confessions On A Dancefloor, which will be released on November 14.
The publicity drive also involves ground-breaking deals with firms such as Orange, MTV, Virgin, Vodaphone and Apple.
The companies have become virtual partners in the album’s release in exchange for the rights to provide audio and visual downloads of the singer’s new material and her huge back catalogue of hits.
John Reid, the head of marketing at Warner Music, said: “Madonna has nailed it with this record and we are rolling it out very big indeed.”
Madonna’s last album, American Life, which was released in 2003, sold four million copies and was the lowest selling release of her career.
Hung Up’s radio debut will mark the first time the record has been heard in its entirety, but it will, in fact, be just the latest stage in a sophisticated campaign. The song has been available as a telephone ringtone since September 19 – the first time a star of Madonna’s stature has released material as a ringtone before an actual record.
Madonna’s recent riding accident would appear not to have reduced the number of her planned public appearances.
She has declared herself fit and well to perform Hung Up at the MTV Music Awards in Lisbon on November 3, and she is believed to be planning performances in Britain, America, Japan, Holland and Germany.
source : telegraph.co.uk

Madonna at the Kabbalah Centre / out and about in New York (October 15 2005)

LFI

A special worldwide live radio special with Ryan Seacrest and Madonna is scheduled to take place on Monday, Oct. 17 at noon ET / 9 a.m. PT, it was announced today. The 10-minute, commercial-free radio special will be presented by Ryan Seacrest Productions in association with Premiere Radio Networks and will be made available to all radio stations worldwide including Japan, Canada, and Australia, as well as Z100-FM/New York, WKTU-FM/New York, KIIS-FM/Los Angeles, KRBE-FM/Houston, and Y100-FM/Miami.
Ryan Seacrest stated, “Madonna’s fans have anxiously awaited the release of this album. I am excited to bring her closer to radio audiences around the world live!”
“Ryan’s consistent ability to connect with the biggest names in entertainment and turn those moments into great radio never ceases to amaze me,” said Kraig T. Kitchin, president/COO of Premiere Radio Networks.
source : ap

Believe it or not, Madonna still has some secrets. Her new documentary, I’m Going to Tell You a Secret, premieres on MTV Friday. Don’t expect a scandalous redux of 1991’s Truth or Dare, but Madonna is back in documentary mode with I’m Going to tell You a Secret, which chronicles last year’s Re-Invention Tour. The special airs at 10 p.m. ET.
source : people.com

From Madonna.nu : NYC’s #1 radio station, z100, just sent an email to Madonna.nu saying Madonna & Ryan Seacrest will join Shelley Wade on Monday at noon to premiere Madonna’s new song “Hung Up.”

After all the tiny clips of snippets we’ve been talking about over the last few weeks, the full proper radio edit of ‘Hung Up’ has now leaked on the intranot.
BUT!
You don’t need to download it because Madonna’s ‘people’ have asked us to put up these links to a 30-second streaming clip of the single, which is obviously infinitely better.
As you can hear the song is f*cking fantastic for about a million reasons, ten of which are:
1. It’s almost as good as The Tamperer’s ‘Hammer To The Heart’.
2. Songs about telephones are always brilliant. See also: ‘If I Give You My Number’ (PJ & Duncan), ‘Call Me’ (Spagna), ‘I Wanna 1-2-1 With You’ (Solid Gold Chartbusters) and so on and on until the end of time.
3. Stuart Price is a pop genius of Xenomaniesque proportions and if he’s happy letting something ‘out of the door’ then it stands to reason that the thing in question is brilliant.
4. In a development that will turn the universe of pop on its head and then pour poppers down its bottom, ‘Hung Up’ somehow makes Abba’s ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)’ sound even more gay.
5. The middle eight is really quite good.
6. Flying in the face of Madge’s recent exploration of Artistic Seriousness, ‘Hung Up’ is a hilariously mindless pop song and attempts to sound nothing whatsoever like Goldfrapp or whoever else it is Madonna is supposed to be copying. Madonna can still pull off the unexpected. Hurrah!
7. The red hair is a clear homage to Nicola Roberts, or more precisely a homage to the point at which Nicola Roberts stops dying her hair, meaning that Madonna is still ‘ahead of the game’.
8. It’s so good that you almost forget about it soundtracking that Motorola advert, which is officially the most inept execution of a very simple idea in the history of everything.
9. And…
10. …there we have it.
source : popjustice

The first official play of Madonna’s new single “Hung Up” will take place next Monday on BBC Radio One, as the pop superstar prepares to unveil her new album.
The pop superstar is gearing-up for the release and promotional campaign for the single – artwork pictured – and accompanying album, “Confessions On A Dancefloor”.
Not only will the track, which samples Abba’s “Gimme Gimme”, get its first play on Monday, but Madonna will also perform the song on MTV that night on “TRL”.
MTV will also broadcast a documentary, “I’m Going to Tell You a Secret” on Monday, focusing on her career and last year’s “Re-Invention” world tour.
It has also been claimed that “Confessions On A Dancefloor”, which is produced by Stuart Price, from Les Rhythms Digitales, will be mixed into one seamless whole, to emphasise the club environment Madonna is targeting.
“I want people to jump out of their seats”, she recently said about the album, which is due out on November 15.
Alongside “Hung Up”, tracks such as “Get Together”, “Sorry”, “Future Lovers”, “I Love New York”, “Let It Will Be”, “Forbidden Love”, “Jump”, “How High”, “Isaac”, “Push” and “Like It Or Not” will feature on the album.
source : launch

This monday at 12 Noon Mix 96 is proud to bring you an exclusive interview with Madonna including the premiere of her new single Hung Up.
Join us Monday at Noon as Ryan Seacrest talks with Madonna for a 10 Minute MIX exclusive interview, followed by her new single Hung Up and then hang in for a special “Madonna Edition” of the 80’s 90’s Nooner.
source : themix.com

104 Video Captures from “I’m Going To Tell You A Secret” Preview Clip are added to the gallery.

Click on the image bellow to watch preview of Madonna’s tour documentory “I’m Going To Tell You A Secret”.