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1. Paramore – 180-190k
2. Mariah Carey – 160-170k
3. Barbara Streisand – 150-160k
4. Breaking Benjamin – 140-150k
5. Alice In Chains – 130-140k
6. Miranda Lambert – 65-75k
7. Madonna – 60-70k
7. AFI – 60-70k
9. Selena Gomez & The Scene – 50-60k

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Available separately or in a bundle with Celebration (2CD Edition) at Live Nation’s Official Madonna Store

Google Inc.’s YouTube reached an agreement with Warner Music Group Corp. that will bring artists including Madonna and Metallica back to the video-sharing site, Chris Maxcy, director of YouTube Partner Development, said today on a conference call.

“It’s a win for artists and fans around the world, and it represents many months of hard work for both companies,” Maxcy said.

Videos from Warner Music artists will return to YouTube by year-end, Maxcy said. Warner plans to hire outside agencies to sells ads and find partnerships, such as sponsorships of videos and artists.

“Members of the YouTube community will not only be able to access videos and other music-related content from Warner Music Group recording artists and songwriters, but will also gain access to an enhanced user experience on YouTube with a feature- rich, high-quality premium player and enhanced channels,” Warner Music said in an e-mailed statement.

source: bloomberg

Australia – #8 (#9 on Physical Album Chart)
Belgium (Flanders) – #2
Belgium (Wallonia) – #7
Germany – #1
Hungary – #2
Ireland – #1
Italy – #1
Netherlands – #2
New Zealand – #2
Norway – #5
Switzerland – #3
UK – #1

FIMI Top Albums:
1. CELEBRATION – MADONNA (WARNER BROS/WMI)
2. 6 COME SEI – D’ALESSIO GIGI (RCA/SONY)
3. THE RESISTANCE – MUSE (WARNER BROS/WMI)
4. BACKSPACER – PEARL JAM (ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC)
5. GET LUCKY – KNOPFLER MARK (MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC)

Madonna’s new compilation Celebration leaps straight to number one in the Official Album Chart and brings her level with Elvis Presley’s record of eleven UK number one albums, the Official Charts Company reveals today.

No other solo artist can match this achievement. Only The Beatles, with a total of fifteen, have had more number one albums in chart history.

This feat marks yet another record for Madonna, the most successful female solo artist of all time. She has also:

- Spent more weeks (29) at number one of the Official UK Album Chart than any other female solo artist.
- Had more UK number one singles (13) than any other female solo artist.
- Achieved the chart double (simultaneous number one album and single) more times (4) than any other female solo artist.
- Completed the highest grossing tour in history (her recent Sticky & Sweet tour) for a female artist.

Celebration album debuts at #1:

#1 Madonna – Celebration (Warner Bros) – 77000 copies sold
#2 Muse – The Resistance (Helium 3/Warner Bros)
#3 Dizzee Rascal – Tongue N’cheek (Dirtee Stank)
#4 Mika – The Boy Who Knew Too Much (Casablanca/Island)
#5 Peter Andre – Revelation (Conehead)

Celebration single drops from #3 to #8 :

#1 Taio Cruz – Break Your Heart (Island)
#2 David Guetta Ft Akon – Sexy Chick (Positiva/Virgin)
#3 Jay-z Ft Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind (Roc Nation)
#4 Shakira – She Wolf (Epic)
#5 Jay-Z Ft Rihanna & Kanye West – Run This Town (Roc Nation)
#5 Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling (Interscope)
#7 Pixie Lott – Boys & Girls (Mercury)
#8 Madonna – Celebration (Warner Bros)

More than 150 dancers were celebrating the release of Madonna’s new compilation “Celebration” in Bangkok, Thailand (September 26 2009)

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Warner Music Group has completed a deal with YouTube (Google) that will bring back music videos for Green Day, U2, Madonna and other artists to the video-sharing site from which they were removed in December, according to two executives familiar with the talks.

source: ethioplanet

Superstar Madonna will visit the Late Show with David Letterman, Wednesday, Sept. 30 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

This will mark the music icon’s eighth appearance on the CBS broadcast — she was last interviewed on the show on Jan. 11, 2007, with prior sit-down interviews on Oct. 20, 2005, Nov. 11, 2003, Nov. 3, 2000 and her memorable appearance on March 31, 1994. She also made a brief cameo appearance Feb. 13, 1995, when she delivered Valentine’s candy and flowers to Letterman. On Dec. 28, 1998, she appeared in a taped celebrity Top Ten List of the “Top Ten Things Beautiful Women Love About Dave.”

source: cbs

Madonna
Celebration
(Warner Bros., 2009)

4 out of 5 stars

Confession from my own private dance floor: I’ve never been a fan of The Immaculate Collection, despite the canonization accorded it in the absence of any competing career compilation up until its companion volume GHV2 in 2001. In almost every case, I found Immaculate’s QSound makeovers by Shep Pettibone (at the time, Madonna’s go-to guy thanks to his revelatory work on “Express Yourself” and “Vogue”) to be earsores, if not total desecrations, of the original works. The winningly tremulous qualities of her earliest hits were all but obliterated by Pettibone’s glossy remixes, and don’t even get me started on the deadening house beats he used to kamikaze “Like a Prayer,” a song which, like no other song from her first decade, did not exactly want for urgency. The upside of the album was and remains this unique feat: how its obligatory new tracks, the simmering “Rescue Me” and the aromatic “Justify My Love,” are considered by most fans to be among the singer’s best work. Full Article

The King of Pop befriended the singer in the early 1990s and several dates followed, but Jackson revealed he never had any romantic interest in her during a taped conversation with his close friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
Jackson told Boteach, “I think she (Madonna) likes shock value and she knows how to push buttons on people. I think she was sincerely in love with me and I was not in love with her. She did a lot of crazy things. I knew we had nothing in common.”
“She is not sexy at all. I think sexy comes form the heart in the way you present yourself.”
The Thriller icon believed Madonna was one of several stars who envied his fame: “They admire you and know you are wonderful and great because they are jealous, because they wish they were in your shoes. Madonna is one of them. She is jealous. She is a girl, a woman and I think that’s what bothers her…”
“I get the fainting and adulation and she doesn’t.”
Boteach, who is publishing the conversations, maintains Jackson wanted the footage to be released to the public so his fans could gain a better understanding of his personal life.

*Update*

Video that includes his comments on Madonna is available at MSN.com