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The 51-year-old singer took the top spot ahead of Lady Ga Ga’s Poker Face and Wannabe by the Spice Girls in the online poll.

Other videos voted into the “least sexy” top ten included Never Gonna Give You Up by 1980s crooner Rick Astley, and Michael Jackson’s You Are Not Alone, which featured the singer naked with Lisa Marie Presley.

Britney Spears won the sexiest video vote for her 2004 single Toxic, with Shakira in second place with She Wolf and boy band JLS in third with Beat Again.

The recently reformed boy band Take That appeared in both the sexiest and least sexy top tens, for Pray and Do What You Like respectively.

The rankings were decided by users of the music video website Muzu.tv.

Ten Least Sexy Music Videos:
1. Madonna – Hung up
2. Lady Ga Ga – Poker Face
3. Spice Girls – Wannabe
4. Pink – Get the Party Started
5. Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up
6. Michael Jackson – You Are Not Alone
7. Take That – Do What You Like
8. Billy Ray Cyrus – Achy Breaky Heart
9. Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
10. David Hasslehoff – Jump In My Car

Top Ten Most Sexy Videos:
1. Britney – Toxic
2. Shakira – She Wolf
3. JLS – Beat Again
4. Girls Aloud – Untouchable
5. Kylie – Spinning Around
6. Rihanna – Umbrella
7. Ciara feat. Justin Timberlake – Love, Sex and Magic
8. Take That – Pray
9. Beyonce – Single Ladies
10. Robert Palmer – Addicted to Love

source: telegraph uk

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One of Madonna’s New York neighbors says the superstar’s loud music and frequent dance sessions are causing a commotion.

Karen George, of Manhattan, lives above Madonna in a building on Central Park.

She said in a lawsuit filed Friday against the building’s co-op board that the Material Girl is using her apartment as a rehearsal studio, forcing neighbors to endure “blaring music, stomping and shaking walls,” for up to three hours each day.

George complained about “unreasonably high-decibel, amplified music” and vibrations pouring through walls, ceilings and radiators.

The building’s board says it has already threatened to evict Madonna.

Madonna’s representatives didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

source: ap

Madonna, U2 and AC/DC are among the finalists for the 2009 Billboard Touring Awards, which will be handed out at a special reception in New York on Nov. 5. The awards are based on global box office numbers reported to Billboard Boxscore from Oct. 1, 2008, through Sept. 30, 2009.

The finalists for the Top Tour and Top Draw awards, which acknowledge the top grossing and ticket selling tours, respectively, are the same three global treks: U2’s 360 tour, Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet tour, and AC/DC’s Black Ice tour.

source: billboard

Rolling Stone, Issue 1090, October 29 2009

The Queen of Pop has offered one of her favorite pairs of Christian Dior shoes to a charity supporting Gypsy child education. Organizers said Tuesday the skyscraper gold heels, which are autographed by Madonna, will be sold at the Ovidiu Rom annual ball later this month.

Madonna drew international attention by saying during an August concert in Bucharest on her “Sticky & Sweet’” tour that widespread discrimination against East Europe’s Gypsies, also known as Roma, should end.

Thousands of fans responded by booing her.

Guests at the ball will make donations to win raffle tickets for the auction of the donated prizes. This year’s items also will include a gold chain donated by actress Vanessa Redgrave.

source: ap

Week 41 / 2009 – October 17

1 (4) Madonna – Celebration – Warner Bros. – 323.000 (last week: 189k)
2 (-) Paramore – Brand New Eyes – Fueled By Ramen – 273.000
3 (-) Barbra Streisand – Love Is The Answer – Columbia – 244.000
4 (-) Mariah Carey – Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel – Island – 202.000
5 (-) Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue – Parlophone / Virgin – 160.000
6 (1) Ayaka – Ayaka’s History 2006-2009 – Warner Music Japan – 142.000
7 (-) Breaking Benjamin – Dear Agony – Hollywood – 138.000
8 (3) Jay-Z – Blueprint 3 – Roc Nation / Live Nation – 135.000
9 (2) Pearl Jam – Backspacer – Monkey Wrench / Island – 119.000
10 (5) Muse – The Resistance – Helium 3 / Warner Bros. – 118.000

Billboard’s pan-European sales chart leaders continue their runs, with Madonna’s “Celebration” (Warner Bros.) starting a second week at No. 1 on Top 100 Albums and “Sexy Chick” (Gum/Positiva/Virgin/EMI) by David Guetta featuring Akon into a fifth week at No. 1 on European Hot 100 Singles.

“Celebration” falls 1-2 in Italy and on the U.K. chart, with weekly sales in the latter market of 52,000, but holds at No. 1 for a second week in Germany. Muse holds at No. 2 overall for a second week with the former chart-topper “The Resistance” (Helium 3/Warner Music), which descends in most markets but is still No. 1 in Switzerland.

source: billboard

Madonna has accepted substantial undisclosed damages for privacy and infringement of copyright over the Mail on Sunday’s publication of “purloined” photos of her wedding to Guy Ritchie.

The singer, who has just completed her Sticky & Sweet world tour, was not at London’s High Court for the settlement of her action against Associated Newspapers.

Her solicitor, John Kelly, told Mr Justice Peter Smith that she would be donating the damages to her Raising Malawi charity.

Mr Kelly said that the star went to great pains to ensure that the December 2000 wedding was wholly private.

But, in 2003, an interior designer, who was working on her home in Beverly Hills, surreptitiously copied at least 27 photos from the wedding album and provided them to Bonnie Robinson who, in June 2008, offered to sell them to the Mail on Sunday.

Mr Kelly said that the newspaper did not purchase them at that time but waited until October 2008, when Madonna had announced that she was divorcing and there was huge media interest about her marriage, to purchase the purloined photos.

Just three days after she had announced her divorce – and without any warning to Madonna – it published 10 of the photos.

Associated Newspapers’ solicitor, Niri Shan, said that it accepted that it was wrong to act in this way and offered its sincere apologies to Madonna and her family for invading her privacy and infringing her copyright.

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