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ALBUMPopular (feat. Playboi Carti) - SingleThe Weeknd & Madonna
Albums by Madonna
ALBUMMadame X (Deluxe)Madonna
ALBUMRebel Heart (Deluxe)Madonna
ALBUMMDNA (Deluxe Version)Madonna
ALBUMHard Candy (Deluxe Version)Madonna
ALBUMConfessions on a Dance FloorMadonna
ALBUMAmerican LifeMadonna
ALBUMMusicMadonna
ALBUMRay of LightMadonna
ALBUMBedtime StoriesMadonna
ALBUMI'll RememberMadonna
Madonna's Popular Music Videos
Material Girl
Madonna
Like a Prayer
Madonna
Levitating (feat. Madonna and Missy Elliott) [The Blessed Madonna Remix]
Dua Lipa
Popular
The Weeknd, Playboi Carti & Madonna
Me Against the Music (feat. Madonna)
Britney Spears
Vogue
Madonna
Medellín
Madonna & Maluma
Popular (Live )
The Weeknd, Playboi Carti & Madonna
Ray of Light
Madonna
Bitch I'm Madonna (feat. Nicki Minaj)
Madonna
Artist Playlists
Madonna Essentials
This legendary pop diva practically invented the title.
Madonna Video Essentials
One of pop's most persistent visual innovators.
Madonna: Love Songs
Discover the intimate side of the Queen of Pop.
Madonna: Fitness+ Spotlight
You know she’ll take you there.
Inspired by Madonna
Rounding up the blond ambition icon's royal followers.
Set List: Madonna’s Celebration Tour
It's Madonna's first-ever tour celebrating her decades-spanning catalog. See the set list here.
Madonna: Influences
A young girl empowered by pop smarts and post-punk cool.
Madonna: Deep Cuts
The treasures that prove she can take on any type of pop.
Madonna: Flipped
From hits to deep cuts, breaking down the samples that have inspired one of music’s most vital artists.
Madonna: Chill
Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Artist Biography
When Madonna Louise Ciccone was 15, she put on a black silk cape and the biggest platform shoes she owned, snuck out of her bedroom window in suburban Michigan, and hitchhiked to Detroit to see David Bowie live. The night changed her life—not just because the music was great, but because, as she put it more than 20 years later while accepting Bowie’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, “it was great theater. Here was this beautiful, androgynous man, just being so…perverse.” More than a musician, Madonna—like Bowie then and Kanye West now—is a supreme cultural curator. She's an artist capable of combining styles and images in ways that are both novel and groundbreaking, who changes with such frequency and confidence that change has become her defining characteristic.
Born in Bay City, Michigan, in 1958, she spent her childhood studying ballet, later moving to New York to try and make it as a dancer. (She was fired from a brief stint at a Times Square Dunkin’ Donuts after spraying a customer—either accidentally or on purpose, she never confirmed—with donut jelly.) After playing in a couple of New Wave bands, she went solo, exploring a simple, almost punky, almost amateurish take on dance music (“Borderline,” “Lucky Star”) that brought the grandeur of disco down to human scale. She remained more or less invincible throughout the '80s, releasing a string of albums (Like a Virgin, True Blue, and Like a Prayer) that continue to define the era. Like Prince, her music was immediate but her character was incredibly complex: She could be brassy (“Material Girl”) and sweet (“Open Your Heart”), earnest (“Papa Don’t Preach”) and playful (“Like a Virgin”), sacred and profane—a variety that widened the emotional spectrum for pretty much every female pop artist in her wake.
In the ’90s, she shifted her focus more explicitly to the intersection of sex and power (Erotica, Bedtime Stories, the photo book Sex), with a sound that flirted with house, new jack swing, and late-night R&B. (Between “Vogue” and the tour documentary Madonna: Truth or Dare, it was also a moment when she leaned into her support of the LGBTQ community—a relationship that has defined her career.) Just as quickly as she’d embraced her inner sinner, she pivoted, first with a role as former Argentinian first lady Eva Perón in the 1996 film and soundtrack Evita, then with the 1998 album Ray of Light—projects that rechristened her as a mature, soul-searching artist in a chaotic world. She kept pace through the 2000s and 2010s, exploring disco, electro, and minimalistic takes on ’80s dance music, continuing to track the sound of the times while always, somehow, remaining herself.
When she was a young woman pursuing a dance career in New York, she’d been given a nickname by the famed choreographer Martha Graham: Madame X, a shape-shifting woman whose identity was, as the name suggests, a variable. About 40 years later, she embraced the moniker for 2019’s Madame X, an album influenced by the yearning fado music of her adopted home of Lisbon, Portugal.
Born in Bay City, Michigan, in 1958, she spent her childhood studying ballet, later moving to New York to try and make it as a dancer. (She was fired from a brief stint at a Times Square Dunkin’ Donuts after spraying a customer—either accidentally or on purpose, she never confirmed—with donut jelly.) After playing in a couple of New Wave bands, she went solo, exploring a simple, almost punky, almost amateurish take on dance music (“Borderline,” “Lucky Star”) that brought the grandeur of disco down to human scale. She remained more or less invincible throughout the '80s, releasing a string of albums (Like a Virgin, True Blue, and Like a Prayer) that continue to define the era. Like Prince, her music was immediate but her character was incredibly complex: She could be brassy (“Material Girl”) and sweet (“Open Your Heart”), earnest (“Papa Don’t Preach”) and playful (“Like a Virgin”), sacred and profane—a variety that widened the emotional spectrum for pretty much every female pop artist in her wake.
In the ’90s, she shifted her focus more explicitly to the intersection of sex and power (Erotica, Bedtime Stories, the photo book Sex), with a sound that flirted with house, new jack swing, and late-night R&B. (Between “Vogue” and the tour documentary Madonna: Truth or Dare, it was also a moment when she leaned into her support of the LGBTQ community—a relationship that has defined her career.) Just as quickly as she’d embraced her inner sinner, she pivoted, first with a role as former Argentinian first lady Eva Perón in the 1996 film and soundtrack Evita, then with the 1998 album Ray of Light—projects that rechristened her as a mature, soul-searching artist in a chaotic world. She kept pace through the 2000s and 2010s, exploring disco, electro, and minimalistic takes on ’80s dance music, continuing to track the sound of the times while always, somehow, remaining herself.
When she was a young woman pursuing a dance career in New York, she’d been given a nickname by the famed choreographer Martha Graham: Madame X, a shape-shifting woman whose identity was, as the name suggests, a variable. About 40 years later, she embraced the moniker for 2019’s Madame X, an album influenced by the yearning fado music of her adopted home of Lisbon, Portugal.
Hometown
Bay City, MI, United States
Genre
Pop