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Album Of The Decade
1. Confessions on the Dance Floor – 67% (3617 Votes)

2. American Life – 13%
3. Hard Candy – 10%
4. Music – 10%

Single Of The Decade
1. Hung Up – 23% (2138 Votes)

2. Music – 13%
3. Give It 2 Me – 8%
4. Get Together – 8%
5. Celebration – 7%
6. Don’t Tell Me – 5%
7. Sorry – 4%
8. Miles Away – 4%
9. Jump – 4%
10. Nothing Fails – 4%
11. Die Another Day – 4%
12. Hollywood – 3%
13. American Life – 3%
14. What It Feels Like For A Girl – 3%
15. 4 Minutes – 2%
16. Love Profusion – 2%
17. Revolver – 2%
18. American Pie – 1%
19. Hey You – 1%

Video Of The Decade
1. Hung Up – 16% (906 Votes)

2. American Life (Original Version) – 10%
3. Don’t Tell Me – 8%
4. Die Another Day – 7%
5. What It Feels Like For A Girl – 7%
6. Music – 6%
7. Hollywood – 5%
8. Paradise (Not For Me) (Drowned World Tour Backdrop Video) – 4%
9. 4 Minutes – 4%
10. Sorry – 4%
11. Give It 2 Me – 4%
12. Celebration – 4%
13. Get Stupid (Sticky & Sweet Tour Backdrop Video) – 3%
14. Bedtime Story (Re-Invention Tour Backdrop Video) – 3%
15. Vogue (Re-Invention Tour Backdrop Video) – 3%
15. Love Profusion – 3%
17. Die Another Day (Sticky & Sweet Tour Backdrop Video) – 3%
18. Celebration (with Fans) – 2%
19. American Pie – 2%
20. Jump – 2%
21. Get Together – 2%
22. Miles Away – 1%
23. Hey You – <1%
24. American Life (Flag Version) – <1%

Tour Of The Decade
1. Confessions Tour – 50% (2764 Votes)
2. Sticky & Sweet Tour 2009 – 17%
3. Re-Invention Tour – 16%
4. Sticky & Sweet Tour 2008 - 12%
5. Drowned World Tour – 6%

She’s nominated for a Most Attractive and Most Elegant Woman in 2009.

Thanks to Maddyct

#2, Madonna

Charity: Raising Malawi
Annual Impact: $5,540,068

After co-founding Raising Malawi in 2006 to aid the nation’s two million orphans, Madonna has become one of the most hands-on philanthropic celebrities. She had to go through a fair bit of legal wrangling, but the pop star eventually adopted two Malawian children, Mercy and David. Of course, the coverage and controversy sparked by the adoptions generated significant press, as she and the charity were mentioned in over 600 newspaper or magazine articles in the last 24 months. The organization focuses on providing basic needs for children including nutrition, education, health care, and clothing, and to kick-start donations Madonna has vowed to match every dollar donated to the organization out of her own pocket.

Breakdown: TV ($455,568), Print ($4,897,500), Internet ($187,000), Personal donations (undisclosed)

source: thedailybeast

1 U2 No Line on the Horizon
2 Bob Dylan Together Through Life
3 Antony & the Johnsons The Crying Light
4 Jarvis Cocker Further Complications
5 Manic Street Preachers Journal for Plague Lovers
6 F**k Buttons Tarot Sport

7 Madonna Celebration
Michigan’s most famous daughter, Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, is equal parts Little Orphan Annie, Margaret Thatcher, Dorothy Parker and Mae West. No surprises that she also sold more than 300 million records worldwide with zeitgeist-zapping pop moments like Into the Groove, Papa Don’t Preach, Like a Virgin, Borderline, Erotica, Like a Prayer and Material Girl.
Covering nearly every phase of her 25-year career, Celebration is a breathless and bop-friendly testament of the ab fabness of Madge.

8 Lily Allen It’s Not Me, It’s You
9 Jay-Z The Blueprint 3
10 Wilco Wilco

source: independent ireland

Guy Ritchie has described his ex-wife Madonna as “a perfectly good” screen actress.

Speaking to The Daily Beast, the Sherlock Holmes director suggested that cinema-goers are unable to separate the pop icon’s off-screen image from the characters she plays in movies.

“If you ask me, I think she’s all right,” he said of Madonna’s acting ability. “I think she’s perfectly good. I just don’t think people can get her persona out of the way.”

Ritchie also defended his 2002 movie Swept Away, which starred Madonna and was panned by critics, claiming that he treated the subject material in an “ironic” way.

“The whole thing is supposed to be ironic,” he commented. “It’s about a man that hits a woman, and at the same time, it was her. There were all sorts of irony. If you ask me, everything about it was rather interesting, but it was such a feral relationship between a man and woman and you just can’t get away with that in contemporary society.”

source: digitalspy

Guy Ritchie doesn’t regret making ‘Swept Away’ with ex-wife Madonna despite the fact it was a box office flop.

The 41-year-old British director – whose 2002 movie ‘Swept Away’ starring his ex-wife Madonna, 51, flopped at the cinema and went straight to DVD in the UK – said he wasn’t upset by the critics, because you have to do some things wrong in order to know what works.

He said: “‘Swept Away’ was always going to have a limited audience. The idea was that it was going to be a small film… but you can’t do small films with the ex.”

The romantic comedy was a disaster at the box office, just like his 2005 film ‘Revolver’ which starred Jason Stratham, but Guy said he doesn’t take too much criticism on board, and in fact, ‘Revolver’ was still his favourite movie.

He said: “I think on reflection it always will be. Celebrity culture can only be capricious and ephemeral, sometimes you are in synch with what everybody wants, sometimes you are not.”

Any truth to the rumours about working with Madonna again?

There is always speculation about that and people would like it. You know, I send her tracks and sometimes she’s keen … I sent her a track when she was doing the best of and she was very keen and then she realised, and it ticked me off a bit actually, that Finley Quaye had done a version of it previously and she didn’t really want anything that had been done before so I missed my chance. Would I do another project with her? I’d do it but I don’t miss the stress of it. She doesn’t half push the stress button.

When you’re DJing do you have a song you always play?

I always want to play Music by Madonna. It’s almost like a get out of jail free card.

Interview from Attitude magazine / Thanks to Jimmy Mack

The cast and crew of musical movie Nine had just as much fun behind the scenes as they did on screen, according to Penelope Cruz.

The Spanish actress says she had a novel way of making sure they were all on song.

“I tried to take everybody to karaoke. We were planning it and then it didn’t happen,” said the 35-year-old.

She added: “Most of us went to a concert together to see Madonna and that was really inspiring and really beautiful.”

source: itn

66. Madonna — “Music”
Despite all the new pop starlets out there trying to jump her train, Madonna definitely was not slackening the pace. When she dropped “Music,” she was older than Britney and Christina combined, yet she took them to school with vintage electro-boom, Eurodisco flourishes from French producer Mirwais, and her own inimitable sass.

76. Madonna — “Hung Up”