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MADONNA-STICKY & SWEET TOUR- OPENING SHOW-FIRST LOOK !FIRST PHOTO!

2008-08-24T03:33:00.000-07:00

Znakiem, że koncert się rozpoczyna jest...mrok. Gasną wszystkie światła i ekrany, w tym dwa olbrzymie, krystaliczne M ustawione po bokach sceny. Jakby nieśmiało i cicho rozpoczyna się intro - mroczna muzyka, smyczki i nagromadzenie niezidentyfikowanych kształtów na ekranach. Napięcie rośnie, można usłyszeć fragmenty 4 Minutes i Beat Goes On, a za chwilę słychać tylko rytmiczne tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock...To znak, że rozpoczęcie show jest już blisko - muzyka płynnie przechodzi w C-A-N-D-Y i oczom widzom ukazuje się Królowa Popu - rzecz jasna tam gdzie jej miejsce czyli na tronie - w oszałamiającej kreacji od Givenchego, śpiewająca Candy Shop. Występ praktycznie nie różni się od tego, który mieliśmy okazję podziwiać przy okazji Hard Candy Promo Tour, ale nowy kostium, nowa fryzura i większa liczba tancerzy na scenie sprawia, że wszystko ma większy rozmach. Pod koniec Candy Shop, i tak kuso już ubrana, Madonna ściąga niemal ostatnie części garderoby, a rzeczą, która najwięcej zakrywa są...sięgające do kolan czarne szpilki. To znak, że czas się zabawić - Beat Goes On jest drugie w kolejce. Tutaj piosenkarka wciela się w rolę alfonsa, który zabawia się tanecznie ze swoją wesołą gromadką. Na scenie pojawia się oldschoolowy, elegancki pimp-car, do którego wszyscy ochoczo wsiadają i tam kontynuują szalony i seksowny taniec. Pharrell, ubrany w gustowny garniturek, pojawia się co chwila na ekranach i zachęca wszystkich So get down, beep beep, gotta get up outta your seat, a tego publiczności nie trzeba powtarzać dwa razy, więc na trybunach euforia. Czas jednak na chwilę przystopować - Madonna zakłada biały kapelusz i udaje się na koniec wybiegu, gdzie czeka na nią już jej gitara. Teraz przyszedł moment, na który wielu czekało, mianowicie gitarowe wykonanie Human Nature i Britney Spears na ekranach w video wyreżyserowanym przez Kleina. I mistrz Steven nie zawiódł - miotającą się po windzie Britney stanowi doskonałe tło dla słów I'm not your bitch, don't hang your shit on me!, a sama Madonna po raz kolejny pokazuje, jak odświeża się stare hity. To samo można rzecz już parę minut później, choć na początku na publice panuje konsternacja - słychać bowiem pierwsze takty 4 Minutes, tick-tocki, Justina śpiewającego Madonna, Madonna, Madonna.... Na domiar tego wszystkiego rozpoczynają się pierwsze takty Give It To Me Timbalanda. Co jest?! słychać niezwykle często. Alę kilkadziesiąt sekund później wszystko było już jasne - to nowa wersja Vogue! Okraszona genialnym układem tanecznym, w którym Królowa Popu pokazuje, że mimo 50-tki na karku, wciąż potrafi zatańczyć jak za dawnych czasów! I tym fenomenalnym występem kończy się pierwsza sekcja koncertu, a na fanów czeka nie lada niespodzianka - oto bowiem rozpoczyna się video interlude z Die Another Day, gdzie widzimy M-Dollę miotającą się na ringu i walczącą, jak nigdy dotąd! Na scenie pojawia się dwóch tancerzy w strojach bokserskich i oni również toczą ze sobą efektowny pojedynek. Na czyją korzyść rozstrzygnięty, o tym przekonacie się już na koncercie!Czas na zabawę! Z głośników wydobywa się zachęcające c'mon, c'mon, c'mon!, a chwilę potem dobrze już znane (i kochane) yeah, step to the beat, step to the beat..., jednym słowem - Into The Groove. Madonna pojawia się na scenie obok DJ'a z kryształowymi słuchawkami i pokazuje widzom frywolny taniec...na rurze. Tak, tak, to sekcja old school, więc wracamy do korzeni. Na ekranach mnóstwo kolorowych, kreskówkowych wizualizacji i napisów, a na scenie party trwa w najlepsze! W pewnym momencie Madonna podchodzi do rogu sceny i zachęca fanów, aby śpiewali razem z nią jeden z jej największych hitów. Oczywiście odzew był momentalny! Królowa pokazała również, że umiejętności takich, jak skakanie na skakance nie zapomina się nigdy, nawet po, ośmielę się użyć tego określenia, kilkudziesięciu latach! Jednak i ona przekonuje się, że wiek już nie ten, bowiem upada z wycieńczenia na scenę i na ekranie możemy obserwować jej puls, dość słaby. Stara zaraz nam padnie!Duh, rzekłaby sama zainteresowana. Z pulsem wszystko już okej, a rytm bicia jej serca stanowi tło do kolejnego utworu - Heartbeat. Choreografia nie jest już tak porywająca, ale doskonale zgrana z beatem piosenki. Dopiero, gdy wyśpiewuje ostatnie słowa i można odstawić już od ust mikrofon, Madonna zaczyna swój taneczny popis, a w tle możemy usłyszeć kapitalne rockowe outro, które świetnie zwieńcza utwór z nowej płyty. Fani jednak wciąż zgłaszają apetyt, aby usłyszeć jakiś stary przebój. If you want it, you already got it! - Madonna bierze swoją rockowę gitarę i po raz pierwszy od ponad 20 lat śpiewa Borderline, tym razem w niesamowitej, rockowej wersji! Fani są wniebowzięci, ale przed nimi She's Not Me - w konwencji, którą skądś już znamy...Na myśl przychodzi Material Girl z Blond Ambition Tour. Madonna w zabawny i kabaretowy sposób śpiewa utwór z Hard Candy, a na scenie możemy podziwiać cztery tancerki, które przebraną są za jej najbardziej ikoniczne wcielenia. Chwilę zagapienia i...widzimy triumfującą Madonnę z peruką tancerki, która wcieliła się właśnie w Blond Ambicję z przełomu lat osiemdziesiątych i dziewięćdziesiątych. Auć, te spiczaste staniki chyba naprawdę wzbudzają w niej złe wspomnienia. Dlatego nie zwlekała długo, aby przenieść się w nieco lepsze czasy - Music. Kolejny pokaz świetnej choreografii i zabawy - cały stadion zamienił się w jedną, wielką imprezę.Madonna znika ze sceny w kolejce metra, a fani odczuwają niepokój, gdyż słychać zbliżający się deszcz...Shit, not this time, please! można usłyszeć. Na szczęście jednak tego wieczoru z nieba nie spadła ani kropla deszczu, ten padał bowiem na ekranach - Rain. Znakomity remix z hitem Eurythmics to idealne wprowadzenie do nastrojowego i mrocznego Devil Wouldn't Recognize You. Madonna pojawia się na końcu wybiegu w klatce, odziana w ciemny płaszcz. Wykonuje delikatne, zmysłowe ruchy wraz z dwójką tancerzy. Niedługo potem możemy podziwiać ją wijącą się na pianinie, gdzie zdejmuje z siebie płaszcz i naszym oczom ukazuje się piękna zwiewna sukienka i mnóstwo różowych krucyfiksów jako biżuteria. Czas więc na Spanish Lesson. Umówmy się, że po takiej lekcji ostatnią rzeczą, którą byśmy potrafili byłoby mówienie po hiszpańsku, ale to przecież mało ważne, bo najważniejsza jest zabawa. A tego u Madonny nigdy nie brakuje, również w tym kawałku. Jednak jak sama powiedziała w I'm Going To Tell You A Secret, sometimes fun is overrated, więc musi też przyjść pora na refleksję. Królowa ponownie dzierży w rękach swoją gitarę i wyśpiewuje miłosną odę do swojego męża, Miles Away. W pewnym momencie klaszcze z nią cały stadion, śpiewającym przy tym You always love me more...miles away, obrazek wart uwiecznienia. A skoro daleko stąd to bardzo szybko Madonna przenosi się na piękną wyspę, znaną wszystkim La Isla Bonita. W cygańskiej wersji, z instrumentami i trupą tancerzy, jesteśmy świadkami kapitalnego show i kolejnej kulturowej inspiracji w jej twórczości. Madonna znika ze sceny, publiczność napawa się pięknymi dźwiękami wiolonczeli, aby za chwilę ponownie ujrzeć swoją idolkę, która w niezwykle podnośnej i wzruszającej wersji śpiewa You Must Love Me, a na ekranach pojawiają się obrazy z Evity.Get stupid, get stupid, get stupid zachęca Nas Królowa. Na jakim punkcie mamy oszaleć? Na punkcie ratowania świata rzecz jasna. Polityczna wizualizacja, niczym Sorry Remix na Confessions Tour, nadaje nieco bardziej poważnego tonu i nakłania do działania. Wszak za chwilę ogłosi, iż mamy tylko cztery minuty, aby ocalić świat! Pierwsze takty 4 Minutes i euforia wśród publiczności. Timbaland wprowadza wszystkich w utwór, aby za chwilę na scenie pojawiła się Madonna, w stroju, którego nie powstydziłby się żaden z wojowników serii Tekken albo Dead Or Alive. Justin towarzyszy wprawdzie tylko na ekranach, ale ponoć złudzenie sprawia, iż wydawać by się mogło, że to Timberlake we własnej osobie porusza swoim seksownym tyłeczkiem, tuż obok nie mniej apetycznego zwieńczenia kręgosłupa Madonny, tym razem całkowicie zakrytego, co stanowi nie lada odmianę na tym koncercie. Końca świata jednak nie było, więc trzeba za to podziękować modlitwą Najwyższemu - Like A Prayer. Nowa, energetyczna, taneczna wersja jednego z największych hitów piosenkarki wprawia w ruch każdego pojedyńczego widza na stadionie. A to dopiero początek mini-serii Greatest Hits. Rockowa gitara ponownie zostaje zatrudniona, tym razem do Ray of Light i Hung Up - publiczność szaleje, a ostre gitarowe brzmienia zadziwiająco pasują do obu utworów. Warto nadmienić, że w Hung Up nie uświadczymy ani sekundy sampla ABBY. Czas na efektowne zakończenie - Give It 2 Me. W świetnej choreografii, dobrze znanej z promo tour, Madonna i towarzyszących jej dziesięciu tancerzy daje energetyczny i wspaniały popis sprawności fizycznej, a ostatni singiel Królowej Popu wzbudza również pozytywną reakcję wśród publiczności. Na tyle pozytywną, że kiedy Madonna prosi fanów o śpiewanie z nią, cały stadion wrzeszczy Give It To Me, yeah!. To już koniec zabawy, na ekranie wyświetla się Game Over. Ale na pewno nikt tu nie przegrał - ani Madonna, która dała kapitalne show, ani widzowie, którzy obejrzeli znakomite show. słychać z publiki. Czy aby na pewno?+++++++++++++++++++++++

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++MADONNA-STICKY & SWEET TOUR- OPENING SHOW-FIRST LOOK ! FIRST PHOTO!
Madonna premieres her Sticky and Sweet stage show at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium tonight. WalesOnline will be there as the Queen of Pop unveils her world tour to an expectant worldwide audience for the very first time.

We’ll be out and about in Cardiff shooting pictures and video, talking to those dedicated fans who are first in the queue eager to get the best positions stage front and soaking up the atmosphere as the Millennium Stadium eagerly awaits Madonna’s arrival.

We’ll also be the first to bring you pictures of what is expected to be a hugely extravagant stage show and our lucky journalists who managed to get a ticket will be blogging live from the event.

They’ll be setting the scene, adding a little pre-concert colour and as Madonna takes to the stage will be keeping you informed as to just what designer outfits she is wearing, what outrageously extravagant set she’s constructed and which of those many classic hits have made it into her set,

You can join in the Sweet and Sticky fun with our team by taking part in our live blog. The live blog launches at 6pm, so come back then for all the latest news, pics and our concert live blog as WalesOnline goes Madonna mad.

MADONNA 2004

2008-08-21T16:50:00.000-07:00

» 2004

* Jan (5) A public enquiry is ordered to settle a dispute between Madonna and ramblers seeking access on the property of her 1,200-acre Wiltshire estate; a spokesman for the Planning Inspectorate says the enquiry is ordered but no date is confirmed yet.
* (7) Madonna contributes a letter to her website urging people to follow her in supporting Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark.
* (8) Madonna sends a message live by via satellite to The Kabbalah Centre�s Spirituality For Kids ceremony in Tel Aviv, Israel.
* (13) Madonna/Britney Spears are #2 on Mr. Blackwell�s 44th annual list of the worst-dressed women of 2003.
* (16) Madonna attends Kate Moss� 30th birthday party at Claridge�s Hotel in London, England.
* (24) Madonna is presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Britney Spears to commemorate her 20-year hits-filled career at the 5th annual NRJ Music Awards at the 38th MIDEM Music Conference at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.
* Feb (7) �Nothing Fails (Remixes)� hits #1 on Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in US.

MADONNA 2003

2008-08-21T16:48:00.000-07:00

» 2003

* Jan (13) Madonna wins the Michael Jackson International Artist Of The Year Award at the 30th annual American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA.
* (25) Madonna and Lourdes attend a memorial service for late photographer Herb Ritts (who died on December 26, 2002) in Los Angeles, CA.
* Feb (3) Madonna begins filming �American Life� video at Los Angeles Center Studios, Los Angeles, CA, directed by Jonas Akerlund.
* (4) Madonna wins Theatre Event Of The Year for the West End play Up For Grabs voted by theatregoers on the online 3rd annual Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers Choice Awards.
* (5) Madonna announces from Los Angeles, CA that she plans to file an official complaint with the Press Complaints Commission in UK over inaccurate reports by Heat magazine that she is pregnant.
* (9) Kerri Yascheshyn, 17, of Windsor, ON, Canada dies of liver cancer: Madonna and Kerri formed a friendship via telephone calls organized by the Children�s Wish Foundation; Madonna spoke to Kerri on a daily basis and encouraged her to pray and be positive.
* (10) In US, reports confirm that �American Life� video is controversial due to its anti-war theme with Madonna dressed in military uniform.
* (11) Swept Away is released on home video and DVD.
* (14) Madonna releases a statement on her website in response to inaccurate reports that �American Life� video carries a strong anti-war message and she also explains that it should not be interpreted as critical of her homeland or President Bush.
* Mar (3) Madonna signs a book deal with Callaway Editions to publish a series of 5 illustrated children�s storybooks; the first book she has written is titled The English Roses which will be published and released worldwide in September 2003.
* (4) Blue In The Face (1995) is released on DVD.
* (14) Madonna signs a comprehensive deal with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) for all aspects of her career in music, film, TV and books.
* (18) Madonna tapes a guest starring appearance for an episode of NBC-TV�s Will & Grace titled �Dolls & Dolls� (starring Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally and Sean Hayes, directed by James Burrows) at CBS Studio Center, Studio City, CA.
* (21) A statement is released by publicist Liz Rosenberg that Madonna is re-editing �American Life� video in respect to current war events in Iraq and explains there will be some minor alterations but she�s not re-doing the whole video.
* (22) Madonna wins 3 Razzie Awards for Worst Actress (Swept Away), Worst Supporting Actress (Die Another Day) and Worst Screen Couple with Adriano Giannini (Swept Away) at the 23rd annual Golden Raspberry Awards at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Santa Monica, CA.
* (24) �American Life� is released as a Digital Single only in US via the internet and includes a special audio message by Madonna.
* (28) Madonna is interviewed on CBS-TV�s Entertainment Tonight, NBC-TV�s Access Hollywood and Extra.
* (31) In Germany, �American Life� video world premieres on VIVA music channel.
* Apr (1) Madonna announces on her official website that she has cancelled the release of �American Life� video because of its military imagery and out of respect to armed forces fighting war in Iraq: �I have decided not to release my new video. It was filmed before the war started and I do not believe it is appropriate to air it at this time. Due to the volatile state of the world and out of sensitivity and respect to the armed forces, who I support and pray for, I do not want to risk offending anyone who might misinterpret the meaning of this video�.
* (5) �American Life� debuts at #90 on Hot 100 Singles chart in US and is the lowest entry for a debut single from a new Madonna album.
* (7) In Australia, Madonna is featured in TV interviews on The Today Show and Channel 9 Madonna Special.
* (8) �American Life� single is released in US and Canada.
* (10) Madonna announces she has filmed a new performance-only version of �American Life� video will be released on TV on April 16.
* (14) �American Life� single is released in Europe.
* (16) Madonna Speaks special (hosted by Megan Mullally) and �American Life� video (edited version) premieres on VH1.
* (19) �American Life� hits #1 for 2 weeks on the Canadian Singles chart.
* (20) �American Life� hits UK #2.
* (21) American Life CD is released in Europe.
* (22) American Life CD is released in US and Canada. Madonna performs �American Life�, �Hollywood�, �Nothing Fails� and �Like A Prayer� on 60-minute MTV special Madonna: On Stage & On The Record taped at the MTV Studios in Times Square, New York, NY.
* (23) In New York, Madonna makes a special in-store performance and record signing at Tower Records in Greenwich Village and also attends a party with Guy at the Paramount Bar to celebrate the release of American Life CD.
* (24) Madonna guest stars on NBC-TV�s Will & Grace. Madonna and Guy attend a launch party for the book 72 Names Of God by Rabbi Yehuda Berg at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY.
* (25) Madonna guests on NBC-TV�s Live With Regis & Kelly. Madonna is #4 with 227 million pounds on the UK Sunday Times annual list of the richest musical artists in England. Madonna is voted The Greatest Video Star Of MTV in an internet poll at www.mtv.com. based on her innovation, creativity and contribution to video as an art form.
* (26) �American Life� hits US #37.
* (27) American Life hits UK #1 and is her eighth #1 album in UK. In US, American Life has sold 241,000 copies in its first week.
* (29) �American Life� maxi-single is released. Madonna is interviewed by Matt Lauer on Madonna: An American Life - A Dateline Special on NBC-TV�s Dateline. Madonna visits Cologne, Germany to tape a performance and interview on RTL�s Absolut Madonna TV special.
* May (1) Madonna is interviewed and performs �American Life�, �Hollywood� and �Don�t Tell Me� on BBC-1-TV�s Tonight With Jonathan Ross at the BBC Television Centre in London, England.
* (2) Madonna is interviewed and performs �American Life� and �Hollywood� on ITV1�s CD: UK show in London, England.
* (3) American Life debuts at #1 in 14 countries such as: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Europe (overall), France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK and US. Madonna guests and performs �American Life�, �Hollywood� and �Music� on RTL channel�s Absolut Madonna TV special in Cologne, Germany.
* (4) Madonna is interviewed by VJ Charlotte Roche on VIVA Germany (taped on April 29 in Cologne, Germany).
* (6) Madonna tapes an interview and performances of �American Life�, �Hollywood� and �Music� for La Chanson No. 1 - Madonna Special TV show tribute at the studio of La Plaine St-Denis in Paris, France.
* (7) Madonna performs a mini-concert for 200 invited guests at La Cantine du Faubourg restaurant in Paris, France.
* (8) �Die Another Day� wins Soundtrack Video Of The Year at the 12th annual Music Video Production Association (MVPA) Awards at the Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.
* (9) Madonna performs a 7-song mini-concert before 500 fans at HMV Oxford Circus record store in London, England.
* (10) American Life hits US #1.
* (12) Madonna is interviewed by Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 1 in London, England.
* (15) Madonna performs �Hollywood� on BBC1-TV�s Top Of The Pops in London, England and is also guest of honor at the opening of Stella McCartney�s London clothes store on Bruton Street.
* (17) �American Life (Remixes)� hits #1 on Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart in US. �American Life� video hits #4 on VH1.
* (20) Madonna is interviewed by DJ Vicky Pitchers (pre-taped at the Dorchester Hotel, London) on Forth One radio in Edinburgh, Scotland.
* (30) Callaway Editions announces that Madonna will make publishing history as her children�s book The English Roses will be released simultaneously worldwide in 30 languages in 100 countries.
* (31) �American Life (Remixes)� hits #1 on Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in US.
* Jun (2) Madonna begins filming �Hollywood� video in Los Angeles, CA, directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
* (3) Die Another Day is released on home video and DVD (includes �Die Another Day� video and making-of video documentary).
* (8) Madonna performs �American Life�, �Hollywood� and �Music� on French TV show tribute Chanson No. 1 (taped on May 6 in Paris, France).
* (11) VH1: 100 Greatest Songs Of The Past 25 Years list includes �Like A Virgin� at #10 and �Ray Of Light� at #100.
* (18) Madonna is named The Greatest Fashion Trendsetter Of The World by Elle magazine in Munich, Germany.
* (19) Madonna participates in radio interviews with WHYI and WPYM (Miami), WSTR (Atlanta), KLLC (San Francisco) and KIIS (Los Angeles).
* (23) �Hollywood� video premieres on VH1.
* (24) �Hollywood� video premieres online at launch.yahoo.com. Madonna and rapper Missy Elliott begin filming a TV commercial and print ads for Gap clothing stores campaign in Los Angeles, CA, directed by Paul Hunter.
* (27) �Hollywood� video premieres on MTV.
* Jul (1) Madonna is #1 in a special edition of Women In Rock magazine�s list of �50 Women Who Rocked The World�. Madonna and Guy win a privacy battle to keep their estate private and not be classified as open countryside under the Right to Roam legislation in UK.
* (7) American Life is certified 1x platinum (1 million units). �Hollywood� single is released in Europe.
* (8) �Hollywood� single is released in US.
* (13) Madonna makes a video appearance to honor and roast Carson Daly on MTV special MTV Bash. �Hollywood� hits UK #2.
* (15) �Hollywood� single is released in Canada.
* (16) Gap Inc. announces a $10 million contract with Madonna to star in TV commercials and print ads for Gap clothing store�s fall campaign.
* (19) �Hollywood� video hits #5 on VH1 and #14 on MTV.
* (21) Madonna is voted #7 on VH1�s list of �200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons�.
* (22) Shanghai Surprise (1986) is released on DVD.
* (26) �Hollywood (Remixes)� hits #1 for six weeks on Hot Dance Singles Sales chart in US: Madonna sets a new record as it is her 22nd No. 1 and sixth consecutive No. 1 hit on this chart, besting two previous records of five consecutive No. 1 hits from 1987-1990 and 1991-1993. (�Hollywood� is the first commercial single by Madonna since 1983 that fails to enter Hot 100 Singles chart in US due to lack of radio airplay).
* (28) Madonna and Missy Elliott�s Gap commercial titled �A New Groove, A New Jean� world premieres on VH1.
* (30) �A New Groove, A New Jean� Gap commercial premieres on all TV stations in US and Canada.
* Aug (2) �Hollywood� hits #5 on Canadian Singles chart.
* (9) American Life drops off the albums chart in US after only 14 weeks and is the shortest-living album by Madonna on the Billboard 200.
* (12) Madonna is honored with Greatest Female Singer Of The Video Age award by VH1 (based on a viewer�s poll).
* (16) The Immaculate Collection (1990) celebrates its 400th cumulative week on the Billboard 200 and Top Pop Catalog Albums charts in US.
* (23) �Hollywood (Remixes)� hits #1 on Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in US: it is her 30th No. 1 single on the dance charts.
* (28) Madonna performs �Hollywood� with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the opening of the 20th annual MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY and upstages everyone at the ceremony when she shares a passionate open-mouth kiss with them.
* (30) Madonna and Guy attend the wedding of Stella McCartney and Alasdhair Willis at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, Scotland.
* Sep (1) In Atlanta, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper apologizes to its readers for printing a picture of Madonna and Britney Spears in an open-mouth kiss at the MTV Video Music Awards on its front cover following several complaints.
* (3) Madonna releases a special audio message for shoppers on Amazon.com to promote her children�s book The English Roses.
* (8) Madonna tapes an interview with Oprah Winfrey for The Oprah Winfrey Show at Harpo Studios in Chicago, IL.
* (13) Madonna gives an invitation-only reading of The English Roses to family and friends at her estate in London, England.
* (14) Madonna hosts an English tea-party to celebrate the launch of The English Roses at Kensington Roof Gardens in London, England.
* (15) The English Roses, a 48-page children�s book written by Madonna and illustrated by Jeffrey Fulvimari, is released in 100 countries and in 30 languages. Madonna attends a press conference at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, France to promote The English Roses.
* (16) Madonna guests on ABC-TV�s The Oprah Winfrey Show (taped on September 8).
* (17) The English Roses hits #2 on Amazon.com�s bestseller list. Britney Spears� record label Jive Records announces that Madonna will be featured on Britney�s new single �Me Against The Music�.
* (20) The English Roses hits #2 on UK BookScan�s best-selling children�s books behind JK Rowling�s Harry Potter & The Order Of The Phoenix.
* (21) The English Roses has sold 57,369 US copies in its first week of release and is the 5th overall best-selling book in the country.
* (24) The English Roses hits #1 on bn.com (Barnes & Noble�s online bookstore).
* (25) The English Roses becomes the fastest-selling children�s picture book of all time: it has sold more than 10,000 copies in UK in its first week of release. In US, The English Roses hits #7 on USA Today newspaper�s Top 150 best-selling books list.
* (26) A lawsuit is filed against Madonna in US District Court in Manhattan, NY for copyright infringement and unspecified damages by Samuel Bourdin, the son of late French photographer Guy Bourdin, who accuses her of copying images of his father�s work for her video �Hollywood�. In UK, a special collector�s edition of Q magazine which celebrates Madonna�s 20-year career is released.
* (27) Madonna attends a ceremony to celebrate the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York, NY.
* (29) Madonna visits Barnes & Noble bookstore at Rockefeller Center in New York, NY to read and sign copies of The English Roses and she is also presented with the inaugural Dave Hoghe Award in honor of her artistic courage and outstanding dedication to the LAByrinth Theater Company at a Celebrity Charades benefit gala at the Daryl Roth Theater, New York, NY.
* Oct (1) Madonna is interviewed by Diane Sawyer on ABC-TV�s Good Morning America (taped on September 29).
* (5) The English Roses hits #1 on The New York Times best-seller list for children�s picture books.
* (6) �Me Against The Music� (Britney Spears featuring Madonna) premieres on AOL.com.
* (8) Madonna and Britney Spears begin filming �Me Against The Music� video at Silvercup Studios East, Queens, NY, directed by Paul Hunter.
* (9) The English Roses has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide.
* (12) The English Roses is #1 for a second week on The New York Times best-seller list for children�s picture books.
* (15) �Nobody Knows Me� single (remixes by Peter Rauhofer, Above & Beyond and Mount Sims) is released only to dance clubs in US.
* (19) The English Roses is #1 for a third week on The New York Times best-seller list for children�s picture books.
* (21) �Me Against The Music� (Britney Spears featuring Madonna) video premieres on MTV.
* (23) Madonna contributes a videotaped message in Spanish to celebrate the 10th anniversary of MTV Latin at the 2nd annual MTV Video Music Awards Latin America held at the Jackie Gleason Theater, Miami Beach, FL.
* (25) �Me Against The Music� debuts at #50 on Hot 100 Singles chart in US: it is Madonna�s 50th entry on the Hot 100 and also comes 20 years to the week she made her first appearance on the chart with �Holiday� (October 29, 1983).
* (26) The English Roses is #1 for a fourth week on The New York Times best-seller list for children�s picture books.
* (27) �Nothing Fails� single is released to radio stations in US.
* (28) Madonna films �Love Profusion� video (for European-only release) in New York, NY, directed by Luc Besson.
* (30) Madonna is interviewed by Pat O�Brien on CBS-TV�s Access Hollywood.
* Nov (2) The English Roses is #1 for a fifth week on The New York Times best-seller list for children�s picture books. In UK, Madonna is the #1 top-earning female in the music industry with Ł15m on The Sunday Times Rich List 2003.
* (10) Madonna releases her second children�s book: Mr. Peabody�s Apples, a 32-page hardcover illustrated by Loren Long is released in 37 languages and more than 110 countries. �Me Against The Music� single is released.
* (11) Madonna guests on ABC-TV�s Live With Regis & Kelly and CBS-TV�s Late Show With David Letterman; she also reads Mr. Peabody�s Apples to a group of children from 4th to 8th graders at Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, NJ.
* (12) Madonna and merchandising company Signatures Network announce a deal to develop dolls, apparel, accessories, cosmetics, stationery, room decor and back-to-school products based on The English Roses book for ages 7 to 12. Madonna attends the final preview performance of Broadway musical Taboo (produced by Rosie O�Donnell and starring Boy George) at the Plymouth Theatre, New York, NY.
* (13) Madonna guests on MTV TRL�s �Spankin� New Music Week� at the MTV Studios in Times Square, New York, NY.
* (15) Madonna is voted the Greatest Female Pop Culture Icon on the list of �100 Greatest Pop Culture Icons� in a poll conducted by VH1. �Me Against The Music� video hits #3 on MTV.
* (16) Madonna wins the Michael Jackson International Artist Of The Year Award at the 31st annual American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA. The English Roses returns to #1 for a sixth week on The New York Times best-seller list for children�s picture books. �Me Against The Music� hits UK #2.
* (19) Madonna telephones into CNN-TV�s Larry King Live to wish Larry King a happy 70th birthday. A new wax figure model of Madonna is unveiled at Madame Tussaud�s Museum in New York, NY.
* (25) Remixed & Revisited, a seven-song EP (which includes remixes of songs from American Life CD) is released.
* (26) Madonna guests on NBC-TV�s The Tonight Show (with host Jay Leno) at NBC Studios, Burbank, CA.
* (29) �Me Against The Music� hits US #35.
* (30) Mr. Peabody�s Apples hits #1 and The English Roses is #3 on The New York Times best-seller list for children�s picture books. In UK, Remixed & Revisited EP hits #1 on Top 40 Dance Albums chart.
* Dec (4) �Love Profusion� video world premieres on MTV Germany in Europe.
* (8) �Love Profusion� is released as a UK single.
* (9) �Nothing Fails� maxi-single (featuring remixes of �Nobody Knows Me�) is released in US. Madonna reads Mr. Peabody�s Apples to a group of 30 students from the Community Magnet School at Border�s Bookstore in Westwood, CA.
* (13) Remixed & Revisited EP hits #115 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart in US. �Nobody Knows Me (P. Rauhofer, Above & Beyond, Mount Sims Mixes)� hits #4 on Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in US.
* (14) �Love Profusion� hits #11 in UK.
* (16) Madonna announces she is endorsing Democratic candidate Wesley Clark for the Nov 2004 presidential election.
* (20) Madonna has three titles on Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in US: �Me Against The Music�, �Nobody Knows Me� and �Nothing Fails�: she is the second artist in 18 years to achieve 3 simultaneous entries on this chart (previously achieved by Bronski Beat in 1985).
* (27) �Nothing Fails/Nobody Knows Me� hits #1 and �Me Against The Music� is #2 on Hot Dance Singles Sales chart in US: it is the first time an artist occupies the top 2 positions on this chart since Puff Daddy in 1997. �Me Against The Music� hits #1 for 2 weeks on Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in US. Madonna is #1 Hot Dance Singles Sales Artist and �Die Another Day (Remixes)� is #1 Hot Dance Singles Sales in Billboard magazine�s The Year In Music survey of 2003.

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* Jan (9) In Singapore, �Madonna: Drowned World Tour 2001� concert DVD is banned from release because it is deemed too explicit.
* (19) Madonna attends Donatella Versace�s haute couture fashion show at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France.
* (21) Madonna is named the second best-selling artist in Europe with 17 Platinum Europe Awards for 5 albums by the International Federation Of The Phonographic Industry (IFPI) at the 36th annual MIDEM Music Conference in Cannes, France.
* (29) Madonna attends the opening of photographer Mario Testino�s exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England.
* Feb (9) �GHV2 Megamix� hits #5 on Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in US.
* (12) �Madonna: Drowned World Tour 2001� is named Best Music DVD at the 1st annual UK DVD Awards in England.
* (20) Madonna attends a Michelle Branch concert at Irving Plaza, New York, NY.
* (21) �Madonna: Drowned World Tour 2001� video is certified 1x platinum (100,000 units).
* (28) Madonna announces she will make her West End stage debut in David Williamson�s play Up For Grabs which will open on May 23, 2002 at Wyndhams Theatre in London, England and will have a 10-week run: it is her first stage role in 14 years since Speed-The-Plow (1988).
* Mar (1) �Blond Ambition World Tour 1990� is featured in Q magazine�s list of �The 10 Tours That Changed Music�.
* (13) Madonna and Guy attend the opening night of play Jesus Hopped The A-Train at the Donmar Theatre in London, England.
* (15) Madonna is signed to record the theme song for 20th James Bond film Die Another Day.
* (20) Madonna announces she has cancelled all matinee performances of Up For Grabs due to unforeseen daytime recording commitments.
* (25) Madonna wins Best Dance Artist - Solo at the 17th annual International Dance Music Awards in Miami Beach, FL.
* Apr (1) Madonna is #6 on the list of �Top 100 Rock & Rollers Of All Time� in LIFE magazine�s Rock And Roll At 50 special edition issue.
* (2) Dick Tracy (1990) is released on DVD.
* (7) Madonna and Guy Ritchie are #4 on The UK Sunday Times list of Britain�s richest people of the year 2002.
* (8) Madonna begins rehearsals for David Williamson�s play Up For Grabs at Sadlers Wells in London, England, co-starring Megan Dodds, Tom Irwin, Michael Lerner, Daniel Pino, Sian Thomas and Debora Weston, directed by Laurence Boswell.
* (11) Rolling Stone: 50 Coolest Albums Of All Time includes You Can Dance at #50.
* (13) A controversial nude portrait of Madonna by contemporary artist Peter Howson is unveiled at the MacLaurin Art Gallery in Ayr, Scotland.
* May (8) �Like A Prayer� is #5 in UK�s Favorite Single Of All Time survey by Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles.
* (13) Madonna begins 10-day preview performances of David Williamson�s play Up For Grabs at Wyndhams Theatre, London, England.
* (14) �Don�t Tell Me� and �Music� are honored as two of the Most Performed Pop Songs Of 2001 at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* (17) Marcus Sessions, a 28-year-old obsessive Madonna fan, is suspended from his job as an ice cream seller at Wyndhams Theatre, London, England; her spokeswoman says she will speak to the theatre to discuss the way staff are hired.
* (20) �Don�t Tell Me� and �Music� are honored as two of the Most Performed Songs Of 2001 at the 19th annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* (23) Madonna opens in David Williamson�s West End play Up For Grabs at Wyndhams Theatre, London, England.
* Jun (2) In a telephone interview with The British Sunday People, Tony Ciccone (Madonna�s father) announces that she is pregnant; a statement by publicist Liz Rosenberg is released denying the rumors and confirms it is �completely untrue�.
* (11) �Madonna�s Liquid Assets� premieres on A&E-TV�s Biography.
* (17) �Don�t Tell Me� is honored as one of the Most Performed Dance Songs Of 2001 at the 15th annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* (20) Madonna is #4 with an income of $43 million in Forbes magazine�s list of top 100 highest paid entertainers of 2002.
* Jul (8) Madonna begins filming a cameo appearance as a fencing instructor for James Bond movie Die Another Day (starring Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry, directed by Lee Tamahori) at Pinewood Studios, London, England.
* (13) Madonna plays her final performance in David Williamson�s West End play Up For Grabs at Wyndhams Theatre, London, England.
* (16) Madonna is honored as �Most Popular Fitness Role Model� in SHAPE magazine�s Readers Choice Awards 2002.
* Aug (5) Mad�house�s remake of �Like A Prayer� (1989) is released as a UK single.
* (17) Madonna and Guy celebrate her 44th birthday with a Japanese-theme party for 50 invited guests at their estate in Beverly Hills, CA.
* (22) Madonna begins filming �Die Another Day� video at Hollywood Center Studios, Hollywood, CA, directed by Traktor.
* (24) Swept Away official website is launched by Sony Pictures.
* (27) Madonna is listed in Guinness World Records 2003 for Best-Selling DVD Single (�What It Feels Like For A Girl�).
* Sep (4) In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine, Madonna causes a controversy among the residents of a rundown housing estate in London, England when she says: �I love the way the city looks, minus all the council estates randomly and profusely built up everywhere�; the citizens are outraged by her comments and complain that her attitude is rude, arrogant and ridiculous.
* (9) Kelly Osbourne�s remake of �Papa Don�t Preach� (1986) is released as a single.
* (17) Madonna Live! Drowned World Tour 2001 wins Best TV Concert Of The Year on the online 2nd annual AOL TV Viewer Awards.
* (19) Swept Away is screened at AMC Movie Theatre for the Condé Nast Traveler All-Star International Film Forum, New York, NY. Madonna is named VH1�s Sexiest Artist Of Rock & Roll on its list of �100 Sexiest Artists�.
* (26) Madonna is voted �The Greatest Woman In Music History� in a viewers poll on VH1-UK music channel: she is officially the most successful female recording artist of all time with worldwide sales of over 140 million records.
* (27) �Die Another Day� single (theme from James Bond film Die Another Day) premieres on Z100 radio station in New York, NY.
* (30) Madonna tapes an interview with Larry King at the Four Seasons Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* Oct (2) Swept Away Movie Special premieres on MTV.
* (3,4) Madonna is interviewed on CBS-TV�s Entertainment Tonight, NBC-TV�s Today, Extra, Access Hollywood and E!-TV�s E! News Live.
* (7) Madonna attends a press conference in Beverly Hills, CA to promote Swept Away.
* (8) Madonna and Guy attend the world premiere of Swept Away at the Vista Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.
* (10) �Die Another Day� video premieres on MTV. Madonna is interviewed by Larry King on CNN-TV�s Larry King Live.
* (11) Swept Away is released in US by Sony Pictures. Madonna appears via telephone call to MTV�s Total Request Live (TRL) at 3:30 pm ET and speaks with host Carson Daly about the release of Swept Away and �Die Another Day� video.
* (13) Swept Away hits #24 at the US box-office with $354,052 on its opening weekend.
* (14) Madonna and Lourdes attend the opening of Gianni Versace Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.
* (17) Rolling Stone: Top 100 Albums Of All Time includes Ray Of Light at #29, Music at #52, Like A Prayer at #62 and The Immaculate Collection at #99: Madonna has more albums on the list than any other female solo artist.
* (18) Swept Away is released in Canada by Sony Pictures.
* (19) �Die Another Day� debuts at #41 on Hot 100 Singles chart in US and is the highest-debuting song of the year 2002.
* (22) �Die Another Day� single is released in US.
* (24) Swept Away is removed from all US movie theatres by Sony Pictures after only 2 weeks of release.
* (26) �Die Another Day� climbs up to #28 on Hot 100 Singles chart in US: it is her 44th Top 40 single and she surpasses Aretha Franklin to become the top female solo artist with the most Top 40 hit singles in music history.
* (27) Swept Away grosses a total of $598,645 US at the box-office.
* (28) �Die Another Day� single is released in Europe.
* (31) Rolling Stone: Women In Rock - The 50 Essential Albums includes Like A Prayer at #16.
* Nov (1) Madonna is named Britain�s highest earning music star of the year 2002 with $56 million on Sunday Times newspaper�s annual list.
* (3) �Die Another Day� hits UK #3.
* (4) Madonna is interviewed by WKTU (New York, NY) and KIIS-FM (Los Angeles, CA) radio stations to promote �Die Another Day�.
* (7) Madonna participates in a live telephone interview with Paul Bryant on Z100 radio in New York, NY.
* (9) �Die Another Day� hits US #8: it is her 35th Top 10 hit and becomes the second artist with the most Top 10 singles behind Elvis Presley (38). �Die Another Day� hits #1 on Hot 100 Singles Sales and Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales charts.
* (12) Madonna contributes �Die Another Day� to Die Another Day: Music From The Motion Picture soundtrack CD.
* (16) �Die Another Day� hits #1 in Canada, Italy and Spain.
* (18) Madonna meets Queen Elizabeth II at the world premiere of Die Another Day at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England.
* (22) Die Another Day (which features Madonna in a cameo appearance) is released by MGM.
* (24) Die Another Day hits #1 at the US box-office with $47 million on its opening weekend.
* (30) �Die Another Day (Remixes)� hits #1 for 2 weeks on Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in US: it is her 28th #1 hit single on the dance charts.
* Dec (3) Body Of Evidence (1993) is released on DVD.
* (4) Madonna and Lourdes attend the premiere of English National Ballet�s �The Nutcracker� at the Colliseum Theatre, London, England.
* (26) Madonna is named Top Female UK Singles Artist Of All Time in The Guinness Book Of Hit Singles edition of the 100 Most Successful Artists in the 50-year history of the British chart.
* (28) Madonna is Top Hot Dance Maxi-Singles Sales Artist and �Die Another Day (Remixes)� is Top Hot Dance Maxi-Singles Sales in Billboard magazine�s The Year In Music survey of 2002.
* (29) Madonna is the second highest-earning woman in Britain with an income of $43 million in The Mail newspaper�s annual list.

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* Jan (3) Madonna is nominated for 4 Grammy Awards: Record Of The Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ("Music"), Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Recording Package (Music).
* (4) VH1 - 100 Greatest Albums Of Rock N Roll includes Like A Prayer at #100.
* (9) Madonna contributes "Lucky Star" (1984) to Snatch: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD. Madonna is #4 on Mr. Blackwell's 41st annual list of the worst-dressed women of 2000.
* (14) In Canada, "Music" and "American Pie" are named the No. 1 and No. 2 Top Singles Of The Year 2000 - it is the first time in Canadian chart history that an artist holds both the top 2 positions on the year-end music charts.
* (16) "Don't Tell Me" single (which includes a bonus CD-ROM video) is released.
* (18) Madonna and Guy attend the Los Angeles premiere of his film Snatch at the Directors Guild of America. Madonna wins Best Single ("Music"), Best Video ("Music") and Best-Dressed Artist in Rolling Stone magazine's 25th annual Readers Poll.
* (20) Madonna wins Best International Female Artist and Best International Album (Music) at the 2nd annual NRJ Music Awards at the Midem Music Conference, Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.
* Feb (3) "Don't Tell Me" hits US #4 - it is her 34th Top 10 US single and surpasses The Beatles to become the second artist behind Elvis Presley with the most Top 10 hits on the US charts.
* (7) Madonna is named Best International Female Artist at the 3rd annual NRJ Radio Awards in Heron City, Stockholm, Sweden.
* (11) Madonna begins filming "What It Feels Like For A Girl" video in Los Angeles, CA, directed by Guy Ritchie.
* (18) Madonna writes a letter to the Los Angeles Times newspaper in defense of controversial rap artist Eminem over the public and media criticism of his offensive song lyrics and Grammy Award nominations: "What is the big deal about Eminem? Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I find the language of George W. much more offensive. I find the hypocritical nature of most popular figures in our culture much more offensive. I like the fact that Eminem is brash and angry and politically incorrect. At least he has an opinion. He's stirring things up, he's provoking a discussion, he's making people's blood boil. He's reflecting what's going on in society right now. That is what art is supposed to do. And after all he's just a boy. Thank God he's rebellious and not well-groomed. He gets my vote. Yours truly, Mrs. Ritchie".
* (21) Madonna performs "Music" at the 43rd annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA.
* (23) Madonna announces she is planning her first concert tour in 8 years and rehearsals are scheduled to begin in April 2001.
* (25) "The First Los Angeles Madonna Convention" is held at The Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.
* (26) Madonna wins Best International Female Solo Artist at the 20th annual Brit Awards at Earl's Court, London, England.
* (27) "Music" video is certified gold (50,000 units). Madonna wins Best International Female Artist at the 41st annual Edison Music Awards at the Amsterdam Convention Factory in Amsterdam, Holland.
* Mar (3) Madonna wins Best International Album (Music) and Best International Hit ("Music") at the 12th annual Danish Music Awards at the Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark.
* (5) Robert Podesta, 51, pleads guilty for having secretly filmed the baptism of Madonna and Guy's son Rocco on Dec 21, 2000 in Dornoch, Scotland and the court orders the destruction of the videotape; Podesta is to appear in court on March 29.
* (7) "Material Girl" (1985) is #161 on the list of "365 Songs Of The Century" by The Recording Industry Assocation Of America (RIAA) and the National Endowment For The Arts (NEA).
* (9) In Hungary, Madonna wins Best International Pop Album Of The Year (Music) at the Golden Giraffe Awards.
* (13) Music is named Best Selling Dance Recording Of The Year at NARM's 43rd annual Best Seller Awards in Orlando, FL.
* (14) Madonna holds open auditions for dancers for her world tour at Musical Theatre Works, New York, NY.
* (16) MTV and VH1 networks announce that Madonna's new video "What It Feels Like For A Girl" will be broadcast only once on March 20 at 11:30 pm amid controversy over its violent content.
* (20) "What It Feels Like For A Girl" video world premieres on America Online (AOL), MTV, VH1 and MuchMusic at 11:30 pm EST.
* (22) In Canada, MuchMusic network announces it will continue to broadcast "What It Feels Like For A Girl" video.
* (24) Madonna wins a Razzie Award for Worst Actress in The Next Best Thing at the 21st annual Golden Raspberry Awards at the Radisson-Huntley Hotel's Garden Room, Santa Monica, CA.
* (25) Madonna is signed to star in a $1.4 million, 7-minute commercial for BMW car company to be directed by Guy Ritchie.
* (28) Madonna begins filming BMW commercial "Star" in Los Angeles, CA, co-starring Clive Owen and directed by Guy Ritchie. "Don't Tell Me" single is certified gold (500,000 units). Madonna wins Best Dance Artist - Solo, Best Dance Video ("Music") and Best Pop 12-Inch Dance Record ("Music") at the 16th annual International Dance Music Awards in Miami Beach, FL.
* (29) Robert Podesta is fined $1,440 for having filmed the baptism of Madonna and Guy's son.
* Apr (5) Madonna begins tour rehearsals at Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, CA. In Switzerland, Madonna is named the most successful singles artist of all time in Swiss music history: she has spent 497 weeks on the singles charts.
* (11) Madonna wins Favorite International Solo Artist at the Capital FM Awards at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, England.
* (16) Madonna announces 18 official dates for "Drowned World Tour 2001" which will begin on June 5 at the Cologne Arena, Cologne, Germany and will end Sept 9 at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA.
* (22) Madonna and Guy Ritchie are #6 on The UK Sunday Times list of Britain's richest people with a joint fortune of $260 million.
* (24) "What It Feels Like For A Girl" DVD video single is released.
* (26) In UK, Madonna breaks box-office records for the fastest-selling concerts at Earl's Court, London, England: 16,000 tickets for July 4 concert are sold-out in only 15 minutes and 80,000 tickets for 5 extra dates (July 6,7,9,10,12) are sold-out in only six hours.
* (27) Madonna sets more box-office records as tickets for 2 concerts in Germany and France are sold-out in only 30 minutes.
* May (1) "What It Feels Like For A Girl" is released as a maxi-single in US.
* (2) Madonna wins Best Music Web Event for Brixton Academy webcast at the 1st annual NetSounds Awards at the NetSounds Online Music Conference at the Hilton Hotel, London, England.
* (3) America Online (AOL) announces it will sponsor "Drowned World Tour 2001".
* (4) Madonna cancels her first 2 concerts at the Cologne Arena, Cologne, Germany (June 5,6) due to technical problems and the tour will instead begin on June 9 at Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain.
* (7) VH1 - 100 Greatest Videos Of All Time includes "Like A Prayer" #2, "Justify My Love" #7, "Ray Of Light" #40, "Material Girl" #54, "Like A Virgin" #61 and "Borderline" #84.
* (10) Madonna is #2 on The Lycos 50 list of the "Top 25 Most Popular Celebrity Moms Online" based on web user searches.
* (12) "What It Feels Like For A Girl" DVD hits US #2 on Top Music Videos chart.
* (14) Madonna sets more box-office records as 100,000 tickets for the US leg of her tour are sold-out within hours.
* (15) "American Pie" is honored as one of the Most Performed Songs Of 2000 at the 49th annual BMI Pop Awards at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* (16) "Don't Tell Me" wins Video Of The Year and Best Direction Of A Female Artist for its director Jean-Baptiste Mondino at the 10th annual Music Video Production Association (MVPA) Awards at the Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA.
* (17) Madonna is named one of Britain's "Worst Dressed Celebrity" at Prima magazine's Fashion Awards in London, England.
* (19) "What It Feels Like For A Girl" hits US #23.
* (21) VH1 - Top 100 Most Shocking Moments In Rock N Roll includes Madonna's Sex book at #11 and "Like A Prayer" video at #87.
* (22) Madonna, Like A Virgin and True Blue are re-released on CD with re-mastered sound and bonus dance mixes.
* (24) HBO-TV announces it will broadcast Madonna's concert live from The Palace Of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI on Aug 26.
* (27) Madonna continues rehearsals for "Drowned World Tour 2001" at the Great Western Forum, Inglewood, CA.
* (29) Lucrezia's remake of "Live To Tell" (1986) is released as a maxi-single.
* (30) Madonna sets box-office records as 3 concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY sell-out in less than 35 minutes.
* (31) A trailer for Madonna's BMW commercial "Star" is available to download on the internet at www.bmwfilms.com.
* Jun (4) Madonna arrives in Barcelona, Spain with family and tour crew for "Drowned World Tour 2001".
* (5) Shadows And Fog (1992) is released on DVD.
* (7) "Star" commercial premieres on the internet at www.bmwfilms.com. "Music" is honored as Top Dance Song at the 14th annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Atlanta, GA.
* (9,10) "Drowned World Tour 2001" opens with 2 sold-out concerts at Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona, Spain.
* (13,14,15) Madonna performs at the Fila Forum, Milan, Italy.
* (18) In Germany, a 26-year-old man named Aaron wins "In Bed For Madonna" contest sponsored by German online tabloid Thema1 for a ticket to Madonna's concert in Berlin on June 22 in exchange for sex with the website's columnist.
* (19,20,22,23) Madonna performs 4 sold-out concerts at Max-Schmeling-Halle, Berlin, Germany.
* (24) In Berlin, Madonna makes a silent visit to ex-Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen with actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
* (26,27,29,30) Madonna performs at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France.
* Jul (1) "The Virgin Tour 1985" is voted #4 in Spin magazine's list of "Top 10 Tours That Changed The World".
* (4,6,7,9,10,12) Madonna performs 6 sold-out concerts at Earl's Court, London, England.
* (21,22) Madonna opens the 12-city North American leg of "Drowned World Tour 2001" at First Union Center, Philadelphia, PA.
* (25,26,28,30,31) Madonna performs 5 sold-out concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY.
* Aug (1) Madonna: An Intimate Biography, by J. Randy Taraborrelli, is released. MTV - 20th Anniversary: Top 100 Best Videos Poll includes "Ray Of Light" #4, "Frozen" #50, "Justify My Love" #76 and "Like A Prayer" #88.
* (2) Madonna performs at Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ.
* (3) Madonna cancels a second scheduled concert at Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ, due to laryngitis.
* (7,8) Madonna performs at the Fleet Center, Boston, MA.
* (10,11) Madonna performs 2 sold-out concerts at MCI Center, Washington, DC.
* (11) Rocco Ritchie celebrates his 1st birthday.
* (14) Madonna performs at the National Car Rental Center, Sunrise, FL. Madonna is #2 in Billboard magazine's "Top Ten Concert Grosses" for 2 concerts at the Fleet Center, Boston, MA with sold-out crowds of 29,886 and gross sales of $3,503,520.
* (15) During a second sold-out concert at the National Car Rental Center, Sunrise, FL, Madonna is surprised by husband Guy Ritchie when he appears onstage to present her a chocolate cake for her 43rd birthday.
* (19,20) Madonna performs at Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA.
* (21) Madonna is #1 in Billboard magazine's "Top Ten Concert Grosses" for 5 concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY with sold-out crowds of 79,401 and gross sales of $9,297,105.
* (25) Madonna performs at The Palace Of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI and is profiled on CNN-TV's People In The News.
* (26) Madonna Live! Drowned World Tour 2001 is broadcast live on HBO-TV from The Palace Of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI and seen by 5.7 million viewers - it is the network's third highest rated prime-time concert special since 1997.
* (28,29) Madonna performs at the United Center, Chicago, IL.
* Sep (1,2) Madonna performs 2 sold-out concerts at the MGM Grand Garden, Las Vegas, NV.
* (5,6) Madonna performs at Oakland Arena, Oakland, CA.
* (9) Madonna performs a sold-out concert at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA.
* (11) Madonna postpones a scheduled concert at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA due to terrorist airplane attacks on the World Trade Center, New York, NY and the Pentagon, Washington, DC. (The concert is re-scheduled for Sept 15).
* (13) Madonna donates proceeds from her concert at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA to victims of terrorist attacks.
* (14) During a third sold-out concert at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA, Madonna leads a prayer for peace and urges President George W. Bush to show restraint in retaliating for terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
* (15) "Drowned World Tour 2001" ends at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA.
* (18) "Impressive Instant" is released only to club DJs in US. Madonna is #1 in Billboard magazine's "Top Ten Concert Grosses" for 4 concerts at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA with sold-out crowds of 61,464 and gross sales of $8,303,165.
* (27) Madonna wins Best Online Live Music Event for Brixton Academy webcast at the 1st annual UK Online Music Awards at the Ocean Music Venue, London, England.
* (28) In Malta, Madonna begins filming Love, Sex, Drugs And Money (a remake of 1975 Italian film Swept Away), co-starring Adriano Giannini, Bruce Greenwood and Jeanne Tripplehorn, directed by Guy Ritchie.
* Oct (5) Warner Bros Records announces that Madonna will release GHV2, a new greatest hits album of 15 songs from 1991-2001 and will also release "Drowned World Tour 2001" concert video and DVD on Nov 13.
* (10) Microsoft announces it has licensed "Ray Of Light" for $15 million as the official theme song in their advertising campaign for the new operating system Microsoft Windows XP.
* (11) The Immaculate Collection is certified 10x platinum (10 million units) - the best-selling greatest hits album by a female artist.
* (15) Microsoft Windows XP commercial with "Ray Of Light" premieres on TV.
* (20) Madonna arrives in Sardinia, Italy to continue film production on Love, Sex, Drugs And Money.
* (21) Evolution: Madonna TV special premieres on VH1.
* (30) Madonna launches Maverick Musica, a new Latin record label by Maverick Records.
* Nov (2) "GHV2 Megamix" video world premieres on MTV.
* (4) Madonna is named Britain's highest-earning woman with an annual income of 30 million pounds ($43.8 million).
* (5) "GHV2 Megamix" video premieres on VH1.
* (6) The books Madonna by Andrew Morton and Goddess: Inside Madonna by Barbara Victor are released.
* (12) Madonna is honored by the Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA) with a Diamond Award for sales of more than 10 million units of The Immaculate Collection.
* (13) GHV2: Greatest Hits Volume 2 CD is released. "Drowned World Tour 2001" is released on home video and DVD.
* (15) Madonna completes filming Love, Sex, Drugs And Money in Sardinia, Italy.
* (17) "Impressive Instant" hits #1 on US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. A real estate group from Ohio purchases Madonna's childhood home in Rochester Hills, MI for $331,000 in a 12-minute property auction.
* (20) "GHV2 Megamix" single is released only to club DJs in US to promote GHV2: Greatest Hits Volume 2 CD.
* (24) "GHV2 Megamix" video hits #11 on VH1.
* (28) Madonna is #3, #4, #5 and #8 on Top 10 Grossing Concert Events Of 2001 by Amusement Business.
* Dec (1) GHV2: Greatest Hits Volume 2 hits US #7 and "Drowned World Tour 2001" hits US #1 on Top Music Videos chart. Madonna wins Outstanding Creative Achievement, Record Production/Single for "Music" at the 17th annual Technical Excellence & Creativity (TEC) Awards at the Marriott Marquis, New York, NY.
* (3) Madonna is voted the #2 Greatest Female Rock And Pop Artist Of All Time by readers of Q magazine.
* (9) Madonna presents the Turner Prize of $28,600 to artist Martin Creed for his controversial work "The Lights Going On And Off" at a ceremony at the Tate Britain Gallery in London, England. During the live telecast, Madonna causes a controversy when she says: "At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty, I would like to say, right on motherfuckers, everyone is a winner!" Her strong language prompts Channel 4 TV network to issue an immediate apology to its viewers.
* (11) GHV2 (Limited Edition) CD is released in US.
* (12) Madonna participates in a live webchat on MSN. GHV2: Greatest Hits Volume 2 is certified 1x platinum (1 million units).
* (18) Madonna and Guy attend the premiere of film Mean Machine at the Odeon in London, England.
* (18,19) Madonna is featured in a 2-part interview on NBC-TV's Today.
* (20) Madonna is named the Most Influential Person In The World by Euro RSCO Worldwide, an advertising agency network.
* (21) Madonna is #4 on Top 10 List Of Biggest Concert Grossers Of 2001 with $74 million (47 dates).
* (22) Madonna is honored with her own plaid tartan by the Scottish Highland Tourist Board in recognition of her contribution to Scottish tourism and as a first wedding anniversary present.
* (27) In UK, Madonna is #5 on Top 10 Pop Idols Of All Time poll conducted by Vizzavi. Madonna is #6 on the list of Top 40 North American Concert Tours Of 2001 by Pollstar ($54.7 million US for 28 concerts).
* (28) "Don't Tell Me" is #6 in USA Today newspaper's list of the "Best Singles Of 2001".
* (29) Madonna wins Top Hot Dance Club Play Artist in Billboard magazine's The Year In Music annual survey.
* (31) Madonna is named one of the "25 Most Intriguing People Of 2001" by People magazine.

MADONNA 2000

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» 2000

* Jan (1) Madonna and Guy Ritchie celebrate the new millenium at Donatella Versace's party at the Versace Mansion in Miami, FL.
* (3) In Israel, Madonna is named Female Artist Of The Decade by listeners of Galgalatz radio station.
* (4) Madonna is nominated for 2 Grammy Awards: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Song Written For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media ("Beautiful Stranger").
* (10) Madonna begins filming "American Pie" video in London, England, directed by Phillip Stolzl.
* (14) "Beautiful Stranger" wins Best Song at the 3rd annual Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards in Las Vegas, NV.
* (18) "Beautiful Stranger" is named the most-played song on UK radio in the year 1999: it was played 44,483 times to an audience of 1,468,204 radio listeners which makes Madonna the first female solo artist to top the Radio Airplay chart in England.
* Feb (2) Madonna is interviewed on ABC-TV's Entertainment Tonight.
* (4) Madonna and Benjamin Bratt (co-star of The Next Best Thing) guest on NBC-TV's The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
* (5) Madonna is a special guest at the 27th annual Evening Standard British Film Awards at the Savoy Hotel, London, England.
* (11) "American Pie" video premieres on MTV.
* (14) Madonna attends the London premiere of film The Talented Mr. Ripley at the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square.
* (22) The Next Best Thing: Music From The Motion Picture soundtrack CD is released and includes 2 new songs by Madonna: "American Pie" (a remake of 1971 Don McLean classic) and "Time Stood Still".
* (23) "Beautiful Stranger" wins Best Song Written For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media at the 42nd annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA.
* (26) MTV - Top 25 Most Played Music Videos includes "Like A Virgin" #8 and "Vogue" #18.
* (28) "American Pie" single (from The Next Best Thing) is released.
* (29) Madonna and Guy Ritchie attend the New York premiere of The Next Best Thing at the Loews Cineplex Theatre. Madonna Exposed - The Next Best Thing Movie Special premieres on VH1.
* Mar (1) Madonna guests on MTV's Total Request Live (TRL) at the MTV Building in Times Square, New York, NY.
* (2,3) Madonna is interviewed by Matt Lauer on NBC-TV's Today.
* (3) The Next Best Thing is released nationwide. Madonna is featured in an interview on MTV's Fanatic.
* (4) "American Pie" hits US #29.
* (5) The Next Best Thing hits #2 at the US box-office with $5.8 million on its opening weekend.
* (16) The Immaculate Collection is certified 9x platinum (9 million units), Ray Of Light is certified 4x platinum (4 million units).
* (20) Madonna announces she is 3-months pregnant with her second child and the father is Guy Ritchie.
* (23) Madonna and Guy attend the re-opening of the Tate Britain Gallery, London, England.
* (25) Madonna wins a Razzie Award for Worst Actress Of The Century at the 20th annual Golden Raspberry Awards at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Academy Room, Los Angeles, CA.
* Apr (7) "Beautiful Stranger" wins Best Cinematography In A Music Video at the 9th annual Music Video Production Association (MVPA) Awards at the Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA.
* (20) Madonna begins filming "Music" video in Los Angeles, CA, directed by Jonas Akerlund.
* (25) "Beautiful Stranger" is honored as one of the Most Performed Songs From A Motion Picture at the 15th annual ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* May (21) The Next Best Thing has grossed a total of $14.9 million US at the box-office.
* (25) "Beautiful Stranger" wins PRS (Performing Rights Society) Most Performed Work at the 45th annual Ivor Novello Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, England.
* (31) A copy of Madonna's new single "Music" is illegally downloaded on the internet by Napster months before its release date and her record company is threatening legal action.
* Jun (1) Madonna attends a charity dinner hosted by HRH Prince Charles at his Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire, England.
* (6) Madonna attends the London premiere of The Next Best Thing at the Odeon West End Theatre, Leicester Square.
* (7) "Nothing Really Matters" is honored as one of the Most Performed Dance Songs Of 1999 at the 13th annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards in the Hammerstein Ballroom at Manhattan Center, New York, NY.
* (13) Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) is released on DVD.
* (18) In Singapore, Madonna is named Best Female Artist at the 1st annual Radio Music Awards at the Harbour Pavilion.
* Aug (1) The official website www.MadonnaMusic.com is launched by Warner Bros Records.
* (2) "Music" video premieres on MTV.
* (11) Madonna gives birth to a 5-lb, 9-oz boy, Rocco Ritchie, at 11:59 am at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, Los Angeles, CA.
* (22) "Music" single is released.
* (24) Madonna files a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) of the United Nations for ownership of the internet address www.madonna.com, a pornographic website presently owned by New Jersey entrepreneur Dan Parisi.
* (26) Madonna becomes the first female solo artist to have 10 No. 1 singles in UK with "Music".
* (29) The Next Best Thing is released on home video and DVD.
* Sep (5) "Music" DVD video single is released.
* (16) "Music" hits US #1 for four consecutive weeks - it is her 12th No. 1 and 33rd Top 10 single in US.
* (18) Madonna participates in her first live online chat on America Online (AOL).
* (19) Music CD is released. Madonna attends the Music launch party at the club Catch One, Los Angeles, CA.
* (22) Madonna makes a surprise in-store appearance at the Virgin Megastore, West Hollywood, CA, to sign copies of Music CD.
* (23) "Music" DVD hits US #3 on Top Music Videos chart.
* (24) Music has sold 420,000 US copies in one week and hits #1 in 23 countries such as: Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, US.
* (26) Madonna announces she will perform mini-concerts in New York and London clubs in Nov 2000.
* Oct (3) Madonna is certified 5x platinum (5 million units), Something To Remember is certified 3x platinum (3 million units).
* (7) Music hits US #1 for one week - her first No. 1 album in 11 years.
* (10) VH1 - 100 Greatest Dance Songs includes "Vogue" #4 and "Into The Groove" #40.
* (16) Madonna wins her case for ownership of the internet address www.madonna.com and the World Intellectual Property Organization orders businessman Dan Parisi to transfer the site back to her.
* (17) Madonna begins filming "Don't Tell Me" video in Los Angeles, CA, directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
* (24) Madonna contributes "Shanti/Ashtangi" to all-star Tibetan benefit CD Mantra Mix.
* (25) Music is certified 2x platinum (2 million units), "Music" single is certified 1x platinum (1 million units).
* (26) RIAA Top Selling Artists: Madonna is #10 with 57 million certified units in US.
* Nov (1) Guinness World Records: Madonna is the most successful female solo artist for selling 130 million records (singles and albums) and having 35 Top 10 singles and 12 Top 10 albums in US with a UK total of 47 Top 10 singles and 14 Top 10 albums.
* (3) Madonna guests and performs "Don't Tell Me" on CBS-TV's Late Show With David Letterman.
* (5) Madonna performs a mini-concert at the Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY.
* (7) Madonna announces she will perform at Brixton Academy, London on Nov 28 - her first UK concert in 7 years.
* (10) "Music" wins Best Pop Clip Of The Year at the 22nd annual Billboard Video Awards at the Universal Hilton, Los Angeles, CA.
* (11) Madonna guests and performs "Don't Tell Me" on Wetten Dass TV show in Freiburg, Germany.
* (12) Madonna is interviewed on CNN-TV's World Beat.
* (13) Madonna is named Best International Female Artist at the 4th annual Premios Amigo Awards in Madrid, Spain.
* (16) Madonna performs "Music" at the 7th annual MTV Europe Music Awards at the Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden and wins 2 awards: Best Female and Best Dance Act.
* (17) "Don't Tell Me" video world premieres on BBC1-TV's Top Of The Pops in London, England.
* (18) Madonna is interviewed on NRJ Radio Show at the Champs Elysées in Paris, France.
* (19) Madonna performs "Music" and "Don't Tell Me" and is interviewed on Nulle Part Ailleurs TV show in Paris, France.
* (20) Madonna is interviewed on TF1's Journal de 20 Heures in Paris, France.
* (24) Madonna performs "Don't Tell Me" on BBC1-TV's Top Of The Pops in London, England.
* (25) Rolling Stone & MTV: The 100 Greatest Pop Songs includes "Like A Virgin" #4, "Vogue" #19 and "Papa Don't Preach" #62.
* (27) "Don't Tell Me" video premieres on VH1.
* (28) Madonna performs a mini-concert at Brixton Academy, London, England, which is webcast live on the internet on Microsoft Network (MSN) at 8:00 pm GMT and seen by 9 million viewers in UK, US and Europe - it is the biggest live webcast ever and breaks the record of 3 million set by Paul McCartney's online concert at Liverpool's The Cavern Club in 1999.
* (30) In UK, Madonna's house is burglarized while she and her family are asleep: reports confirm that thieves stole her boyfriend's Range Rover and various other items; the vehicle is recovered and the matter is being investigated by police.
* Dec (2) Madonna performs "Don't Tell Me" on Carramba Che Fortuna TV show in Rome, Italy.
* (7) Madonna announces her engagement to Guy Ritchie and that they will marry in Scotland on Dec 22, 2000.
* (15) Madonna purchases an $8 million estate in London, England. "Music" is named Single Of The Year by People magazine.
* (17) "Music" is voted Best Pop Single and Best Pop Album in Dotmusic.com Records Of The Year Readers Poll.
* (18) Madonna and her family arrive in Scotland to begin wedding preparations; upon her arrival at Inverness Airport, she is greeted by journalists, fans and a bagpiper who welcomes her with a rendition of "Like A Virgin".
* (21) Rocco Ritchie is baptized at Dornoch Cathedral, Dornoch, Scotland.
* (22) Madonna and Guy Ritchie are married at Skibo Castle in Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland with Gwyneth Paltrow, Stella McCartney, Sting, George Clooney, Jon Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams, Rupert Everett and others in attendance.
* (23) Madonna and Guy leave Scotland for their honeymoon: it is reported that they will spend Christmas with Sting and his wife Trudi Styler at their holiday-weekend estate in Wiltshire, England.
* (25) Madonna performs "Music" on a special Christmas episode of BBC1-TV's Top Of The Pops in London, England.
* (29) Madonna is named Woman Of The Year, Hype Of The Year (Madonna at Brixton) and "Music" is named Best Promo Video Of The Year by the writers of Dotmusic.com.
* (30) Madonna wins Top Hot Dance Club Play Artist, Top Hot Dance Club Play Single ("Music") and Top Hot Dance Maxi-Singles Sales ("Music") in Billboard magazine's The Year In Music survey.

MADONNA 1999

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» 1999

* Jan (1) Madonna is voted Artist Of The Year by readers of the music internet website Rock On The Net.
* (4) Ray Of Light is voted Favorite Album Of The Year by Billboard magazine.
* (5) Madonna and Ray Of Light are nominated for 6 Grammy Awards: Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year, Best Pop Album, Best Dance Recording, Best Recording Package and Best Short-Form Music Video.
* (9) Madonna begins filming "Nothing Really Matters" video in New York, NY, directed by Johan Renck.
* (12) Madonna is #2 on Mr. Blackwell's 39th annual list of the worst-dressed women of 1998.
* (18) Madonna guests on CNN-TV's Larry King Live.
* (21) Madonna wins Best Female Artist and Best Dance/Electronica Artist in Rolling Stone magazine's 23rd annual Readers Poll.
* (29) Ray Of Light is voted Pop/Rock Album Of The Year by Playboy magazine.
* Feb (2) Madonna signs a long-term licensing and marketing contract with Sony Signatures: she will lend her name and image to fashion designers and manufacturers of fragrances, cosmetics and collectibles, and Swiss watchmaker Ebel.
* (5) Madonna is interviewed on ABC-TV's Entertainment Tonight.
* (6) Madonna wins Best International Female Artist and Best International Album (Ray Of Light) at the 10th annual Dansk Grammy Awards at Tivoli's Garden Concert Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark.
* (8) Madonna wins Female Artist Of The Year at the 1st annual NRJ Radio Awards at Cirkus in Stockholm, Sweden.
* (10) Madonna attends a reception at Astra in the D&D Building, New York, for the unveiling of Esquire magazine's March 1999 issue about the AIDS crisis in which she is featured on the cover with other AIDS activists.
* (13) "Nothing Really Matters" video premieres on MTV.
* (16) Madonna attends the Los Angeles premiere of Guy Ritchie film Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.
* (22) Max Factor announces a $6.5 million agreement with Madonna to collaborate on a line of several new cosmetic products, and she will also appear in TV commercials and ad campaigns which will run in Europe, Japan and Asia.
* (24) Madonna performs "Nothing Really Matters" at the 41st annual Grammy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA; Ray Of Light wins Best Pop Album, Best Dance Recording, Best Recording Package and Best Short-Form Music Video.
* Mar (2) Maverick Recording Company and Warner Bros. Inc. announce a long-term extension of their joint venture which also includes a new long-term contract with Maverick partners Madonna, Guy Oseary and Ronnie Dashev.
* (3) Madonna is voted Electronic Artist Of The Year and Ray Of Light is voted Electronic Album Of The Year in the 2nd annual Sonicnet / Addicted To Noise Readers Poll.
* (4) Madonna wins Best International Female Artist at the 39th annual Edison Music Awards in Amsterdam, Holland.
* (9) "Madonna - Ciao Italia: Live From Italy" (1988) is released on DVD.
* (15) Madonna is named one of People magazine's "25 Legends Of The Past 25 Years".
* (17) Madonna wins Best Dance Artist - Solo and Best Dance Video ("Ray Of Light") at the 14th annual International Dance Music Awards at the Winter Music Conference in Miami, FL.
* (19) Madonna attends Sony Music's pre-Academy Awards party at Mondrian Hotel's Asia de Cuba restaurant, Los Angeles, CA.
* (20) Madonna begins filming Max Factor commercial in Los Angeles, CA, directed by Alek Keshishian.
* (21) Madonna attends the Vanity Fair post-Academy Awards party at Morton's restaurant, West Hollywood, CA.
* (29) Evita: The Complete Motion Picture Music Soundtrack is certified 5x platinum (5 million units).
* Apr (5) Madonna is voted the Most Positive & Influential Sexual Voice Of The Past 35 Years in a USA Today online survey.
* (9) "Ray Of Light" wins Pop Video Of The Year and "Frozen" wins Best Special Effects In A Music Video at the 8th annual Music Video Production Association (MVPA) Awards at the Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.
* (13) "Nothing Really Matters" single is released.
* (14) Ray Of Light wins Best Foreign Album Of The Year at the Fryderyk Music Awards in Warsaw, Poland.
* (20) Four Rooms (1995) is released on DVD.
* (23) Madonna begins filming The Next Best Thing, starring Rupert Everett and Benjamin Bratt, directed by John Schlesinger.
* (25) Madonna is featured in various photographs in The UK Sunday Times for the Max Factor campaign.
* (30) The Max Factor commercial premieres on TV in Europe.
* May (1) Madonna begins filming "Beautiful Stranger" video at Universal Studios, Los Angeles, CA, directed by Brett Ratner.
* (2) Madonna wins Best International Pop/Rock Album (Ray Of Light) and Best International Music Video ("Frozen") at the 6th annual Croatian Porin Music Awards in Makarska, Croatia.
* (8) "Nothing Really Matters" hits US #93.
* (11) Madonna & Ricky Martin duet "Cuidado Con Mi Corazon (Be Careful With My Heart)" is featured on his CD Ricky Martin.
* (13) Ray Of Light is named one of Rolling Stone magazine's "Essential Recordings Of The 90s".
* (17) "Frozen" is honored as one of the Most Performed Songs Of 1998 at the 16th annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* (19) "Beautiful Stranger" video premieres on MTV. Madonna is interviewed by Charlie Rose on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes II.
* (23) Guinness Book of Records - Top 100 Singles includes "Crazy For You" #16 and "Holiday" #33.
* (26) "Ray Of Light" is honored as Top ASCAP Dance Song at the 12th annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards in the Hammerstein Ballroom at Manhattan Center, New York, NY.
* Jun (1) "Beautiful Stranger" single (from film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me) is released.
* (8) "The Immaculate Collection" (1990) is released on DVD.
* (10) Madonna and Rupert Everett attend the Los Angeles premiere of his film An Ideal Husband.
* (16) Madonna is interviewed on ABC-TV's Entertainment Tonight.
* (29) Madonna files a $2.5 million lawsuit against her ex-financial advisors, Padell, Nadell, Fine, Weinberger & Co. for malpractice and breach of contract: she claims to have paid $2 million in New York state income taxes in 1992 after the firm prepared her taxes saying she was a California resident; Madonna seeks $2 million in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages.
* (30) Madonna completes filming The Next Best Thing in Los Angeles, CA.
* Jul (15) "Beautiful Stranger" is the most-played song on radio ever in UK: it was played 2,462 times in only one week.
* (17) During a 2-week vacation in Europe, Madonna attends the Versace Fashion Couture party at Man Ray Club in Paris, France.
* (24) "Beautiful Stranger" hits US #19.
* (26) "Beautiful Stranger" wins Best Pop Song Of The Year on BBC2-TV's Gaytime TV Awards in London, England.
* Aug (2) Madonna attends the Talk magazine launch party on Liberty Island, Manhattan, NY.
* Sep (9) Madonna wins Best Video From A Film for "Beautiful Stranger" and co-presents with Paul McCartney the Best Video Of The Year award to Lauryn Hill for "Doo Wop (That Thing)" at the 16th annual MTV Video Music Awards at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, NY. (Madonna is crowned Most Honored Artist Of The 20th Century in the 15-year history of the MTV Video Music Awards with a career total of 18 awards).
* (12) Madonna and Lourdes attend the Versace Spring 2000 Show at the Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY.
* (30) "Blond Ambition Tour" is named The Greatest Concert Of The 1990s by Rolling Stone magazine.
* Oct (7) Madonna wins Favorite Female Artist at the 1st annual ARTIST Direct Online Music Awards in Los Angeles, CA.
* (13) Madonna attends the Details magazine party at the Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY.
* (17) Madonna receives death threats from a telephone caller on her way to London, England to begin work on a new album; upon their arrival at Heathrow Airport, Madonna and Lourdes are escorted by police but there are no incidents.
* Nov (1) Guinness World Records: Madonna is the most successful female solo artist for selling 120 million albums worldwide.
* (7) Madonna is #5 on "Top Entertainers Of The Half-Century (1950-2000)" list by Entertainment Weekly magazine.
* (9) "Madonna: The Video Collection 1993-99" is released on home video and DVD. Madonna is named Top-Selling Female Rock Artist Of The Century by the Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA).
* (13) In UK, Madonna is voted Female Performer Of The Millenium on Channel 4's Music Of The Millenium Poll.
* (17) Madonna is voted Favorite Female Music Artist Of The 80s (37.8% votes) on AccessHollywood.com - Millenium Poll.
* (27) "Madonna: The Video Collection 1993-99" hits US #3 on Top Music Videos chart.
* (30) MTV & TV Guide's Top 100 Videos Ever Made includes "Vogue" #2, "Express Yourself" #10 and "Lucky Star" #50.
* Dec (1) Madonna is crowned Artist Of The Millenium by MTV Asia. Madonna is voted #3 Artist Of The Decade and "Beautiful Stranger" is #2 Song Of The Decade in RollingStone.com and TDK's "90s Music Time Capsule" Online Survey.
* (5) Madonna presents the Male Celebrity Style Award to Rupert Everett at the 5th annual VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards at the Lexington Avenue Armory, Manhattan, NY.
* (12) Madonna is #8 on The Detroit Free Press newspaper's "100 Greatest Artists & Entertainers Of Michigan's Century".
* (14) Madonna is voted Female Artist Of The Century by readers of SongLink International, a UK songwriters and music magazine.
* (18) Madonna is #3 on VH1-UK's "Millenium Honors List" of the top 100 greatest artists of the millenium.
* (25) Madonna is featured in Billboard magazine's "Totally 90s - Diary Of A Decade": Top Pop Artist Of The Decade #6, Top Pop Female Artist Of The Decade #4, Hot 100 Singles Of The Decade "Take A Bow" #24 and "Vogue" #93.
* (28) Madonna is honored as Female Artist Of The Millenium by Radio Tel Aviv in Israel.
* (30) In Australia, Madonna is voted #1 "Female Music Star Of The Millenium" in a Virtual Time Capsule by 2DayFM radio station.
* (31) MuchMusic: Top 100 Videos Of The Century includes "Express Yourself" #3, "Ray Of Light" #8 and "Like A Prayer" #47.

MADONNA 1998

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» 1998

* Jan (7) Madonna begins filming "Frozen" video in the Mojave Desert, CA, directed by Chris Cunningham.
* (13) Madonna is #3 on Mr. Blackwell's 38th annual list of the worst-dressed women of 1997.
* (18) Madonna presents the award for Best Actor In A Motion Picture, Musical Or Comedy to Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets at the 55th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* Feb (14) Madonna performs a surprise mini-concert at 2:00 am to a sold-out crowd of 2,500 at The Roxy Club, New York, NY to promote her new CD Ray Of Light - it is her first club performance in 14 years.
* (16) "Frozen" video premieres on MTV.
* (17) Madonna arrives in London, England to begin her European promotional tour for Ray Of Light.
* (21) Madonna performs "Frozen" on BBC1-TV's National Lottery Show in London, England.
* (24) Madonna performs "Frozen" at the San Remo Song Festival in San Remo, Italy.
* (27) Madonna performs "Frozen" and is interviewed on TF1's Les Années Tubes TV show in Paris, France.
* (28) Madonna performs "Frozen" on Wetten Dass TV show in Duisberg, Germany.
* Mar (1) Inside Madonna TV special premieres on MTV.
* (2) Madonna completes her European promotional tour for Ray Of Light in Madrid, Spain.
* (3) Ray Of Light CD and "Frozen" single are released.
* (6) Madonna visits Toronto, ON, Canada to promote Ray Of Light: she attends a press conference at The Sutton Place Hotel and is interviewed live at 6:00 pm on MuchMusic TV.
* (10) "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" wins Favorite Song From A Movie (Evita) at the 4th annual Blockbuster Entertainment Awards at the Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.
* (13) Madonna guests and performs "Frozen" on NBC-TV's The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
* (15) Madonna attends the New York premiere of film Wide Awake (starring Rosie O'Donnell) at the Ziegfeld Theatre.
* (21) Ray Of Light hits US #2.
* (23) Madonna presents the Oscar for Best Original Song to James Horner and Will Jennings for "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic at the 70th annual Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA.
* (24) Evita is released on DVD.
* (25) Madonna begins filming "Ray Of Light" video in Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY, directed by Jonas Akerlund.
* Apr (1) Madonna attends the premiere of film Mercury Rising in Beverly Hills, CA.
* (4) Madonna presents the Kids' Choice Blimp Award for favorite movie to Titanic and introduces a live performance by Cleopatra at the 11th annual Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards at the UCLA Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA. "Frozen" hits US #2.
* (12) Madonna Rising TV special premieres on VH1.
* (22) Madonna attends the New York premiere party of film Two Girls And A Guy at the club Moomba. Ray Of Light is certified 2x platinum (2 million units).
* (27) Madonna performs "Frozen" with the East Harlem Violin Project at the 9th annual Rainforest Foundation Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, and also joins Elton John, Sting, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Herbie Hancock, Roberta Flack, Emmylou Harris and Joe Cocker in a rendition of The Beatles' "With A Little Help From My Friends" and "Twist & Shout".
* (28) Madonna attends the New York premiere of film Artemisia.
* (30) "Frozen" single is certified gold (500,000 units).
* May (8) Madonna is signed to co-star with Rupert Everett in Paramount Pictures film The Next Best Thing.
* (12) "Ray Of Light" video premieres on MTV.
* (18) "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" is honored as one of the Most Performed Songs Of 1997 at the 15th annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* (21) Like A Virgin is certified 10x platinum (10 million units).
* (29) Madonna guests on CBS-TV's The Oprah Winfrey Show: she performs "Ray Of Light" and "Little Star".
* Jun (23) "Ray Of Light" single and video single are released.
* (25) Madonna begins filming "Drowned World/Substitute For Love" video in London, England, directed by Walter Stern.
* (30) Madonna - BIOrhythm TV special premieres on MTV.
* Jul (1) Madonna and Lourdes attend a Spice Girls concert at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY.
* (7) Madonna is the centre of a controversy when The London Daily Mirror accuses her of exploiting the late Princess Diana's tragic death in "Drowned World/Substitute For Love" video; a spokeswoman for Madonna releases a statement explaining that the video has nothing to do with Princess Diana and her life or her death.
* (11) "Ray Of Light" hits US #5. "Ray Of Light" video single hits US #4 on Top Music Videos chart.
* (25) "Drowned World/Substitute For Love" video premieres in Europe. "Ray Of Light" wins Video Of The Year at the 1998 VH1 Viewer's Vote Awards.
* Aug (1) Madonna is named VH1's Artist Of The Month.
* (8) Madonna begins filming "The Power Of Good-Bye" video in Los Angeles, CA, directed by Matthew Rolston.
* (12) Madonna is interviewed on ABC TV's Entertainment Tonight.
* (14) Madonna wins Best International Act at the German VIVA Comet Media Awards at the Akropolis in Cologne, Germany.
* (16) Madonna celebrates her 40th birthday. Madonna: Behind The Music documentary premieres on VH1.
* (24) "Drowned World/Substitute For Love" is released as a UK single.
* (25) Madonna reads the poem "Bittersweet" on Deepak Chopra's 2-CD set A Gift Of Love - Deepak & Friends Present Music Inspired By The Love Poems Of Rumi.
* (31) Madonna is interviewed on the set of "The Power Of Good-Bye" video on ABC-TV's Entertainment Tonight.
* Sep (5) "Drowned World/Substitute For Love" hits UK #10.
* (10) Madonna performs "Shanti/Ashtangi" and "Ray Of Light" at the 15th annual MTV Video Music Awards at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA; "Ray Of Light" wins Best Video, Best Female Video, Best Direction, Best Choreography, Best Editing and "Frozen" wins Best Special Effects. "Ray Of Light" single is certified gold (500,000 units).
* (9,10) Madonna is featured in a 2-part interview on ABC-TV's Good Morning America.
* (11) "The Power Of Good-Bye" video premieres on MTV.
* (16) The World Vaishnava Association (WVA) condemns Madonna's performance of "Shanti/Ashtangi" at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept 10 as sacrilegious in which she wore a holy facial marking and a see-through blouse. The New York Post announces that Madonna is dating 29-year-old British film director Guy Ritchie.
* (17) Madonna releases a statement against the WVA's criticism of her MTV performance: "The essence of purity and divinity is non-judgement� they should practice what they preach� if they're so pure, why are they watching MTV?"
* (24) Madonna accepts the Best International Video award for "Ray Of Light" via taped message at the 9th annual MuchMusic Video Awards at the Chumcity Building, Toronto, ON, Canada.
* (27) Madonna is guest of honor at the 14th annual AIDS Walk Los Angeles at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, CA.
* (28) Madonna narrates a chapter of "The Emperor's New Clothes" story on the Starbright Foundation benefit CD The Emperor's New Clothes: An All-Star Retelling Of The Classic Fairy Tale.
* (29) "The Power Of Good-Bye" single is released.
* Oct (15) Madonna is featured in book Ladies Home Journal's 100 Most Important Women Of The 21st Century.
* (21) Madonna presents the Man Of The Year Award to Sting at GQ's Men Of The Year Awards at Radio City Music Hall, New York.
* (22) "Borderline", "Papa Don't Preach", "True Blue" and "You Must Love Me" singles are certified gold (500,000 units).
* (23) Madonna performs "The Power Of Good-Bye" at the 4th annual VH1 Fashion Awards at the Theatre in Madison Square Garden, New York, NY; she is honored with the Gianni Versace Tribute Award and wins Most Fashionable Artist.
* (30) Madonna begins a European promotional tour for "The Power Of Good-Bye" single.
* Nov (1) Madonna makes a surprise appearance in London, England to present a lifetime achievement award to film director Alan Parker (Evita) at the Directors' Guild of Great Britain dinner in his honor on a boat on the River Thames.
* (7) Madonna performs "The Power Of Good-Bye" on Wetten Dass TV show in Linz, Austria.
* (9) Madonna is interviewed on NRJ Radio Show in Paris, France.
* (10) Madonna performs "The Power Of Good-Bye" and "Drowned World" on TF1's Les Années Tubes TV show in Paris, France.
* (12) Madonna performs "The Power Of Good-Bye" at the 5th annual MTV Europe Music Awards at the Fila Forum in Milan, Italy and wins 2 awards: Best Female and Best Album (Ray Of Light).
* (14) Madonna attends a press conference at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden - her first visit to Sweden in 8 years.
* (15) Madonna performs "The Power Of Good-Bye" and is interviewed on Luuk TV show in Stockholm, Sweden.
* (17) Madonna performs "The Power Of Good-Bye" and "Drowned World" on El Septimo De Caballeria TV show in Madrid, Spain.
* (19) Madonna performs "The Power Of Good-Bye" on BBC1-TV's Top Of The Pops in London, England.
* (20) Madonna is interviewed by Johnny Vaughan on his BBC-TV show in London, England.
* (28) "The Power Of Good-Bye" hits US #11.
* Dec (6) Madonna narrates "The Camel Dances" story on animated HBO-TV special Rosie O'Donnell's Kids Are Punny.
* (7) Madonna congratulates Tony Bennett on his 50th anniversary in show business via taped message during his A&E-TV special Tony Bennett - Live By Request: An All-Star Tribute.
* (9) Madonna attends the 9th annual Fire & Ice Ball at Universal Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
* (11) Ray Of Light is certified 3x platinum (3 million units).
* (26) Madonna wins 2 Billboard Music Awards: Top Dance Club Play Artist and Top Dance Club Play Single ("Ray Of Light").
* (30) In Denmark, Madonna and Ray Of Light are named the most popular artist and album of 1998.

MADONNA 1997

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» 1997

* Jan (3) Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon is baptized at St. Jude Melkite Catholic Church, Miami, FL. Evita is released in 20 US cities.
* (5) Evita hits #20 at the US box-office with $2.22 million during its limited weekend release.
* (9) Madonna guests on CBS-TV's The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
* (9,10) Madonna is featured in a 2-part interview with Matt Lauer on NBC-TV's Today.
* (10) Evita is released nationwide.
* (12) Evita hits #2 at the US box-office with $8.4 million on its nationwide opening weekend (704 theatres).
* (13) Madonna is interviewed on CBS-TV's This Morning.
* (14) Madonna is #3 on Mr. Blackwell's 37th annual list of the best-dressed women of 1996.
* (15) Evita wins Best Motion Picture, Musical Or Comedy at the 1st annual Golden Satellite Awards in Los Angeles, CA.
* (19) Madonna wins Best Actress In A Motion Picture, Musical Or Comedy in Evita at the 54th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA; Evita wins Best Motion Picture, Musical Or Comedy and "You Must Love Me" wins Best Original Song, Motion Picture (Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice).
* (24) Evita: The Complete Motion Picture Music Soundtrack is certified 1x platinum (1 million units).
* Feb (1) Evita: The Complete Motion Picture Music Soundtrack hits US #2.
* (11) "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" (from Evita) is released as a maxi-single in US.
* (16) Madonna makes a special appearance at Elizabeth Taylor's 65th birthday party at The Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.
* (24) Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration Of Life premieres on ABC-TV.
* Mar (1) "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" hits US #8.
* (3) Madonna is named Most Successful International Female Artist at the 6th annual Echo Awards in Hamburg, Germany.
* (14) Madonna wins the American Moviegoer Award for Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor in Evita.
* (18) "Another Suitcase In Another Hall" (from Evita) is released as a UK single.
* (24) Madonna performs "You Must Love Me" from Evita at the 69th annual Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA and it wins the Oscar for Best Original Song by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice.
* (29) "Another Suitcase In Another Hall" hits UK #7.
* Apr (8) Evita: The Complete Motion Picture Music Soundtrack is certified 2x platinum (2 million units).
* (19) Madonna is featured in a special pre-taped video at the 10th annual Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards in Los Angeles, CA.
* (27) Evita has grossed $49 million US and a global total of $140.9 million.
* (29) Madonna contributes "Freedom" (recorded in 1994) to the Rainforest Foundation benefit CD Carnival!.
* May (15) Like A Prayer is named one of the "200 Best Albums Ever Made" by Rolling Stone magazine.
* (19) "You'll See" is honored as one of the Most Performed Songs Of 1996 at the 14th annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* (20) "Madonna: The Girlie Show - Live Down Under" (1994) is released on DVD.
* Jun (28) Madonna attends the Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield heavyweight fight at the MGM Grand Garden, Las Vegas, NV.
* (30) Madonna begins recording a new album with producer William Orbit at Larrabee Studios North, Los Angeles, CA.
* Jul (16) Like A Prayer is certified 4x platinum (4 million units).
* (28) Madonna writes a one-page tribute to Time magazine in memory of the late Gianni Versace, who was murdered on July 15.
* (29) Evita: Music From The Motion Picture CD (highlights from Evita soundtrack) is released in US.
* Aug (5) Evita is released on home video.
* (19) "Buenos Aires" (from Evita) is released only to club DJs and radio stations in US to promote Evita on video.
* (26) Truth Or Dare (1991) is released on DVD.
* (30) Evita: Music From The Motion Picture hits US #167.
* Sep (3) In an interview with The London Times, Madonna speaks about the death of Princess Diana, who was killed in a car accident in Paris, France on Aug 31, 1997.
* (4) Madonna makes a special appearance to introduce a live performance by Prodigy at the 14th annual MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY.
* (8) Madonna attends a memorial service for Gianni Versace at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, NY.
* (9) A League Of Their Own (1992) is released on DVD.
* Nov (1) "Buenos Aires" hits #3 on US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
* (3) Madonna attends Marc Jacobs fashion show at the opening of New York City's 7th On 6th annual Fashion Week.
* (13) Madonna, Tina Turner and Courtney Love are photographed on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine's 30th anniversary issue.
* Dec (8) Madonna attends the Gianni Versace tribute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, Manhattan, NY.

MADONNA 1996

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» 1996

* Jan (2) The trial of Robert Hoskins begins at the Criminal Courts Building, Los Angeles, CA; Madonna's lawyer, Nicholas DeWitt, files a motion to seek approval from the court that she videotape her testimony, but it is rejected by Judge Jacqueline Connor who orders Madonna to testify in court.
* (3) Madonna appears at the Criminal Courts Building, Los Angeles, CA in Courtroom 116 to testify against Robert Hoskins.
* (6) "Oh Father" hits UK #16.
* (8) Robert Hoskins is found guilty and convicted on 5 charges of assault, stalking and threatening to kill Madonna.
* (11) Madonna is #1 on Mr. Blackwell's 36th annual list of the best-dressed women of 1995.
* (12) Four Rooms is released nationwide.
* (17) Madonna accepts an award for David Bowie, who is unable to attend his induction into the 11th annual Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, NY.
* (18) Something To Remember is certified 1x platinum (1 million units).
* (20) Madonna arrives in Buenos Aires, Argentina to begin film production on Evita.
* (25) Madonna receives death threats from Argentine conservatives who are enraged and insulted that she is playing Eva Peron in Evita; since her arrival in Argentina, over 50 walls throughout the city have been spray-painted with the words: Viva Evita! Fuera Madonna! (Long Live Evita! Get Out, Madonna!).
* Feb (6) Madonna and the cast of Evita attend a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
* (13) Madonna begins filming Evita, co-starring Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce and Jimmy Nail, directed by Alan Parker.
* (24) Madonna is the centre of a controversy when animal-rights group PETA places a full-page advertisement in Billboard magazine as an attack on her for promoting bullfighting in "Take A Bow" and "You'll See" videos.
* (27) "You'll See" single is certified gold (500,000 units).
* Mar (4) Madonna is named Most Successful International Female Artist at the 5th annual Echo Awards in Hamburg, Germany.
* (10) Madonna lip-synchs "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" for a scene in Evita before a crowd of 2,000 extras on the balcony of the Casa Rosada, the same location where the late Eva Peron addressed her people 50 years earlier.
* (11) "One More Chance" is released as a UK single.
* (19) "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (a remixed version of 1978 Rose Royce song originally recorded by Madonna in 1984 on Like A Virgin album) is released as a US single.
* (22) Robert Hoskins is sentenced to 10-years in jail for stalking and threatening to kill Madonna. Girl 6 is released.
* (23) "One More Chance" hits UK #11.
* (24) Madonna wins a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress in Four Rooms at the 16th annual Golden Raspberry Awards at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Academy Room, Los Angeles, CA. Madonna arrives in Budapest, Hungary to continue filming Evita.
* Apr (1) "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" video premieres on VH1.
* (16) Madonna announces she is 4-months pregnant by her 29-year-old boyfriend and personal trainer, Carlos Leon.
* (29,30) Madonna is interviewed by Bryant Gumbel on NBC-TV's Today.
* May (3) Madonna continues film production on Evita at Shepperton Studios in London, England.
* (18) "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" hits US #78.
* (20) "Take A Bow" is honored as one of the Most Performed Songs Of 1995 at the 13th annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* (28) Madonna completes filming Evita in London, England after 84-days of production and a $60 million budget.
* Jun (11) Blue In The Face is released on home video.
* (13) A New Madonna: The Making Of Evita special (hosted by Kurt Loder) premieres on MTV.
* Jul (16) Four Rooms is released on home video.
* (18) Madonna makes a special appearance to introduce a live performance by Me'Shell NdegeOcello at the 9th annual Commitment To Life benefit for AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA.
* Aug (6) Madonna and brother-in-law Joe Henry contribute a remake of "Guilty By Association" to Vic Chesnutt tribute CD Sweet Relief II: Gravity Of The Situation - The Songs Of Vic Chesnutt. Girl 6 is released on home video.
* Oct (8) "You Must Love Me" video premieres on MTV.
* (14) Madonna gives birth to a 6-lb, 9-oz girl, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, at Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, CA.
* (29) "You Must Love Me" single (from Evita) is released.
* Nov (12) Evita: The Complete Motion Picture Music Soundtrack 2-CD set is released.
* (15) Madonna appears via telephone call from Rosie O'Donnell on CBS-TV's The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
* (18) Something To Remember is certified 2x platinum (2 million units).
* (23) "You Must Love Me" hits US #18.
* Dec (3) "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" video premieres on VH1.
* (4) Madonna is honored with the Artist Achievement Award at the 7th annual Billboard Music Awards at the Aladdin Hotel Theatre For The Performing Arts, Las Vegas, NV. (It is her first public appearance since the birth of her daughter).
* (10) The Making Of Evita book, written by Alan Parker with a preface by Madonna, is released.
* (12) Madonna attends a press conference to promote Evita at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Marina Del Rey, CA.
* (13) Madonna guests on CBS-TV's The Oprah Winfrey Show.
* (14) Madonna attends the world premiere of Evita at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA.
* (16) Madonna is profiled on NBC-TV's Access Hollywood and is also featured in an interview on ABC-TV's Entertainment Tonight.
* (17) Madonna is interviewed on CTV's Canada A.M.
* (18) Madonna arrives in London, England to begin her world tour of Evita premieres.
* (19) Madonna attends the premiere of Evita at the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square in London, England.
* (20) Madonna attends the premiere of Evita at the Cinema Etoile in Rome, Italy.
* (23) Madonna completes her world tour of Evita premieres in Madrid, Spain and returns home to US for the Christmas holidays.
* (25) Evita is released in New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA.
* (29) Evita grosses $334,440 during its Christmas holiday release in New York and Los Angeles.
* (30) Madonna is named one of the "25 Most Intriguing People In The World For 1996" by People magazine.

MADONNA 1995

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» 1995

* Jan Madonna releases her second book: The Girlie Show, with 70-pages of photographs, capital letter text and a 3-song live CD from "The Girlie Show" world concert tour of 1993.
* (5) "Secret" single is certified gold (500,000 units), Bedtime Stories is certified 1x platinum (1 million units).
* (11) Madonna is #10 on Mr. Blackwell's 35th annual list of the worst-dressed women of 1994.
* (30) Madonna and Babyface perform "Take A Bow" at the 22nd annual American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA.
* Feb (9) "Madonna: The Girlie Show - Live Down Under" video is certified gold (50,000 units), Like A Virgin is certified 9x platinum (9 million units) and True Blue is certified 7x platinum (7 million units).
* (13) Madonna makes a surprise appearance on CBS-TV's Late Show With David Letterman.
* (18) Madonna performs "Secret" and "Take A Bow" on Wetten Dass TV show in Ravensburg, Germany.
* (20) Madonna performs "Bedtime Story" at the 14th annual Brit Awards at the Alexandra Palace, London, England.
* (22) Madonna performs "Take A Bow" at the San Remo Song Festival in San Remo, Italy.
* (25) "Take A Bow" hits US #1 for 7 weeks - her first #1 single in 3 years.
* (27) "Take A Bow" single is certified gold (500,000 units), Bedtime Stories is certified 2x platinum (2 million units).
* Mar (1) Madonna begins a series of promotional ad campaigns in various North American magazines for Gianni Versace fashions.
* (13) After 10 years with CAA, Madonna changes agents by signing with the William Morris Agency.
* (15) Madonna is signed to star as the late Eva Peron in film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical Evita.
* (16) The Immaculate Collection is certified 6x platinum (6 million units).
* (18) Madonna hosts a pajama party for 1,500 fans at Webster Hall, New York, NY, to celebrate the premiere of "Bedtime Story" video broadcast live on MTV and also reads a bedtime story of Miss Spider's Tea Party by David Kirk.
* (21) Madonna is featured in a public service announcement for VH1.
* (27) Madonna attends the post-Academy Awards party at Chasen's restaurant, Los Angeles, CA.
* Apr (13) "Bedtime Story" single is released.
* (25) After signing with the William Morris Agency on March 13, Madonna changes agents again by switching to ICM.
* (29) "Bedtime Story" hits US #42.
* May (6) "Bedtime Story" drops to #52 and completes Madonna's run of 32 consecutive Top 40 US hits.
* (15) "I'll Remember (Theme From With Honors)" is honored as one of the Most Performed Songs Of 1994 at the 12th annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* (19) "Human Nature" video premieres on MTV.
* (29) Robert Hoskins, 37, is shot by a security guard outside Madonna's Castillo del Lago estate, Los Angeles, CA for trespassing on her property and threatening to marry or kill Madonna. Hoskins, who is shot in the arm and hip, is arrested on $150,000 US bail; Madonna is not at home during the incident.
* Jun Madonna films a cameo appearance as the madam of a telephone sex service for Spike Lee movie Girl 6.
* (1) Madonna attends the Parkinson's Disease Foundation salute to Muhammad Ali at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York, NY.
* (6) "Human Nature" single is released.
* (24) Madonna makes a surprise appearance to introduce a live performance by UNV at KISS-FM and Aquafina's 3rd annual KISS & Unite concert at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, Irvine, CA.
* (27) Madonna reads the poem "If You Forget Me" by Pablo Neruda on The Postman (Il Postino) soundtrack CD.
* Jul (15) "Human Nature" hits US #46.
* Aug (17) Madonna celebrates her 37th birthday party at The Delano Hotel, Miami, FL.
* Sep (7) Madonna presents the Best Rap Video award to Dr. Dre for "Keep Their Heads Ringin'" and wins Best Female Video for "Take A Bow" at the 12th annual MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY.
* (24) Madonna arrives in London, England to begin 2-month recording sessions for Evita movie soundtrack.
* Oct (1) Madonna attends the London premiere of film Assassins (starring Antonio Banderas).
* (2) Madonna begins recording Evita soundtrack at CTS Studios, London. "I Want You" video world premieres on VH1.
* (13) Blue In The Face is released in US.
* (17) Madonna (with Massive Attack) contribute a remake of 1976 song "I Want You" to Marvin Gaye tribute CD Inner City Blues: The Music Of Marvin Gaye.
* (18) "You'll See" is available for downloading on the internet at www.wbr.com.
* (19) "I Want You" video is featured on MTV documentary Inner City Blues: The Music Of Marvin Gaye.
* (21) "I Want You" video hits #11 on VH1.
* (23) Madonna begins filming "You'll See" video in London, England, directed by Michael Haussman.
* Nov (2) "You'll See" video premieres on MTV. Madonna performs "You'll See" on BBC1-TV's Top Of The Pops in London, England.
* (7) Something To Remember greatest ballad hits CD is released.
* (21) "You'll See" single is released.
* (22) Madonna is interviewed by Jane Pratt on VH1's VH1 To One.
* (25) Something To Remember hits US #6.
* Dec (3) Madonna attends the 1st annual VH1 Fashion & Music Awards at Lexington Avenue Armory, Manhattan, NY: she presents the Fashion's Future award to Gucci's Tom Ford and receives the Most Fashionable Artist award by ex-husband Sean Penn.
* (13) Madonna is interviewed by Forrest Sawyer on ABC-TV's PrimeTime Live.
* (16) "You'll See" hits US #6.
* (21) Madonna is subpoenaed to testify against her stalker, Robert Hoskins, at the Criminal Courts Building, Los Angeles, CA on Jan 3, 1996; if she ignores the order, a $5 million warrant will be issued for her arrest.
* (23) Madonna wins 2 Billboard Music Awards: Top Hot 100 Singles Artist - Female and Top Hot Dance Club Play Artist.
* (25) Four Rooms is released in US. "Oh Father" is released as a UK single.

MADONNA 1994

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» 1994

* Mar (8) "I'll Remember (Theme From The Motion Picture With Honors)" single is released.
* (12) Madonna makes a surprise unannounced appearance at the AIDS Dance-A-Thon benefit in San Francisco, CA.
* (15) Madonna attends the 8th annual Soul Train Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA.
* (17) "I'll Remember (Theme From With Honors)" video premieres on BBC1-TV's Top Of The Pops.
* (20) Madonna wins a Razzie Award for Worst Actress in Body Of Evidence at the 14th annual Golden Raspberry Awards at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Academy Room, Los Angeles, CA.
* (21) "I'll Remember (Theme From With Honors)" video premieres on MTV.
* (31) Madonna guests on CBS-TV's Late Show With David Letterman: during the 20-minute interview, she says the word "fuck" 13 times, makes obscene remarks and wisecracks, refuses to leave the set and is rude to her host; her lewd and vulgar behavior causes a public and media controversy and Letterman also expresses his displeasure by her appearance on his show.
* Apr (26) "Madonna: The Girlie Show - Live Down Under" is released on home video and laserdisc. Madonna attends the Los Angeles premiere of Alek Keshishian film With Honors.
* May (14) "Madonna: The Girlie Show - Live Down Under" hits US #3 on Top Music Videos chart. Madonna attends the opening of Planet Hollywood restaurant in Miami, FL.
* (18) Madonna makes a surprise appearance on NBC-TV's The Tonight Show (hosted by Jay Leno).
* (28) "I'll Remember (Theme From With Honors)" hits US #2.
* Jun (14) "I'll Remember (Theme From With Honors)" single is certified gold (500,000 units).
* (15) Dangerous Game is released on home video.
* (24) Madonna attends "The Beat Goes On: The LifeBeat Benefit Concert" at the Beacon Theatre, New York, NY.
* Jul Madonna films a cameo appearance as a singing telegram girl for Wayne Wang and Paul Auster movie Blue In The Face.
* (19) Madonna contributes "Goodbye To Innocence" to benefit CD Just Say Roe.
* (26) Madonna files a temporary restraining order against 26-year-old Todd Lawrence, a deranged fan who is stalking Madonna at her Los Angeles, CA mansion and also claims to be her husband.
* Aug (23) Todd Lawrence is sentenced to one-year in jail on misdemeanor charges for stalking Madonna.
* Sep (1) Madonna is named Diva Of The Decade by CD Review magazine.
* (8) Madonna and David Letterman present the Best Video Of The Year award to Aerosmith for "Cryin'" at the 11th annual MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY.
* (14) "Secret" single is available for downloading on the internet on America Online (AOL) and CompuServe.
* (20) "The Immaculate Collection" video is certified 3x platinum (300,000 units).
* (27) "Secret" single is released.
* (29) Madonna and 3 ex-dancers reach an out-of-court settlement on a lawsuit they filed against her in 1992.
* Oct (4) "Secret" video premieres on MTV.
* (5) Madonna arrives in Paris, France on a promotional tour for her new CD Bedtime Stories.
* (15) Madonna participates in Jean-Paul Gaultier's spring/summer 1995 ready-to-wear collection fashion show in Paris, France.
* (25) Bedtime Stories CD is released.
* Nov (1) Madonna is voted Worst Actress, Worst Female Singer and Most-Overexposed Celebrity in US magazine reader's poll.
* (3) Madonna begins filming "Take A Bow" video in Ronda, Spain, directed by Michael Haussman.
* (5) "Secret" hits US #3.
* (12) Bedtime Stories hits US #3.
* (16) Madonna begins filming Four Rooms: she appears as a witch in "The Missing Ingredient" segment starring Tim Roth, Sammi Davis, Amanda de Cadenet, Valeria Golino, Ione Skye, Lili Taylor, Alicia Witt and directed by Allison Anders.
* (29) Madonna: Innocence Lost, a made-for-TV movie based on Christopher Andersen's 1991 book Madonna Unauthorized, premieres on Fox-TV. (Madonna is played by 26-year-old newcomer Terumi Matthews).
* (30) "Take A Bow" video premieres on MTV.
* Dec (5) Madonna begins filming "Bedtime Story" video at Universal Studios, Los Angeles, CA, directed by Mark Romanek.
* (6) "Take A Bow" single is released.
* (12) Madonna attends the New York premiere of Robert Altman film Ready-To-Wear (Pręt-A-Porter).

MADONNA 1993

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» 1993

* Jan (6) Erotica is certified 2x platinum (2 million units).
* (9) Madonna attends a press conference to promote her new film Body Of Evidence at the Rihga Royal Hotel, Manhattan, NY.
* (11) Madonna is interviewed by Valerie Pringle on CTV's Canada A.M. and on ABC-TV's Entertainment Tonight.
* (14,15) Madonna is featured in a 2-part interview with Bryant Gumbel on NBC-TV's Today.
* (15) Body Of Evidence is released nationwide.
* (16) Madonna is musical guest on NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live: she performs "Fever" and "Bad Girl".
* 17) Body Of Evidence grosses $6.5 million at the US box-office on its opening weekend.
* (18) Madonna is interviewed on CBS-TV's This Morning.
* (20) Madonna guests on Parita Doppia TV show to promote Body Of Evidence in Rome, Italy.
* (30) "Deeper And Deeper" hits US #7.
* Feb (8) Madonna begins filming Dangerous Game, co-starring Harvey Kietel and James Russo, directed by Abel Ferrerra.
* (11) "Bad Girl" video premieres on MTV.
* (17) A League Of Their Own is released on home video.
* (25) "Bad Girl" single is released.
* Mar (4) Madonna wins Worst Video ("Erotica"), Worst Album Cover (Erotica) and Sexiest Female Artist in Rolling Stone magazine's 17th annual Readers Poll.
* (22) "Fever" (a remake of 1958 Peggy Lee song) is released as a UK single.
* (27) "Bad Girl" hits US #36.
* Apr (3) "Fever" hits UK #6. (In US, "Fever" is unreleased as a single and only appears on B-side of "Bad Girl" CD maxi-single).
* (27) Madonna is honored for Best Songwriting for "This Used To Be My Playground" at the 8th annual ASCAP Film & Television Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* May (11) "Fever" video premieres on MTV.
* (13) Madonna performs "Fever" and a rendition of "The Lady Is A Tramp" on the 1,000th episode of The Arsenio Hall Show at the Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA. (The show will air on Fox-TV on May 14).
* Jun (16) Madonna signs a contract with ABC-TV to jointly develop and produce TV specials, movies and a 4-hour miniseries.
* (18) Body Of Evidence is released on home video.
* (21) "Rain" video premieres on MTV. Madonna attends the New York premiere of film Sleepless In Seattle.
* Jul (1) "Rain" single is released.
* (8) Madonna begins rehearsals for a new tour called "The Girlie Show".
* Aug Madonna interviews Rosie O'Donnell for an article titled "Coming Up Rosie!" in Mademoiselle magazine.
* Sep (2) Madonna performs "Bye Bye Baby" at the 10th annual MTV Video Music Awards at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA; "Rain" wins Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography.
* (9) Dangerous Game premieres at the 50th annual Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.
* (11) "Rain" hits US #14.
* (20) The Immaculate Collection is certified 4x platinum (4 million units).
* (25,26) "The Girlie Show" opens with 2 sold-out concerts at Wembley Stadium, London, England.
* (28,29, Oct 1) Madonna performs at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France.
* Oct (2) Madonna's concert at the Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany is cancelled due to technical difficulties.
* (4) Madonna performs at Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv, Israel, despite protests staged earlier by jewish groups to cancel her show.
* (5) Madonna is profiled on A&E-TV's Biography.
* (7) Madonna performs at Inonu Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey.
* (11,12) Madonna opens the North American leg of "The Girlie Show" at the SkyDome, Toronto, ON, Canada.
* (13) Madonna attends the New York premiere of film Farewell, My Concubine, co-released by Maverick Pictures for US release.
* (14) Rolling Stone: The 100 Top Music Videos includes "Express Yourself" #10, "Like A Prayer" #20, "Borderline" #24, "Vogue" #28, "Justify My Love" #43 and "Oh Father" #66 - Madonna has more videos on the list than any other artist or group.
* (14,15,17) Madonna performs 3 sold-out concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY.
* (19) Madonna performs at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA.
* (21) Madonna performs at The Palace Of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI.
* (23) Madonna performs at Olympic Stadium, Montreal, QC, Canada.
* (26) Madonna performs at Juan Ramon Loubriel Stadium, San Juan, Puerto Rico and causes a controversy when she pulls a Puerto Rican flag to her crotch in front of 26,000 fans; the Puerto Rican House of Representatives charges her with desecration of the flag and passes a resolution to condemn her.
* (30,31) Madonna performs at the River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
* Nov (3) Madonna performs at Morumbi Stadium, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
* (6) Madonna performs to a sold-out crowd of 120,000 at Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
* (10,12,13) Madonna performs 3 sold-out concerts at Hermanos Rodriguez Autodromo, Mexico City, Mexico (which grosses a record $8,928,000) despite attempts by religious groups to keep her out of the country.
* (17) Madonna arrives in Sydney, Australia and, as a gift, she is presented with a didgeridoo, a sacred Aboriginal instrument that only men are allowed to play or touch; the Australians are enraged to see her accept it as a gift.
* (19) Madonna performs at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia. Dangerous Game premieres in New York, NY.
* (20) Madonna - Live Down Under: The Girlie Show (taped Nov 19 at Sydney Cricket Ground) is broadcast on HBO-TV. In Australia, Madonna cancels a scheduled concert at Sydney Cricket Ground due to severe weather conditions.
* (24) Madonna performs at Brisbane Anz Stadium, Brisbane, Australia.
* (26,27,29) Madonna performs 3 sold-out concerts at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia.
* (27) Madonna is named Most Popular International Solo Female Artist at the 3rd annual Australian Music Awards.
* Dec (1) Madonna performs at Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia.
* (3,4) Madonna performs 2 sold-out concerts at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia.
* (7,8,9) Madonna performs at the Fukuoka Dome, Fukuoka, Japan.
* (13,14,16,17,19) "The Girlie Show" ends with 5 sold-out concerts at the Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan.

MADONNA 1992

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» 1992

* Jan Madonna and photographer Steven Meisel begin work on a book of erotica and sexual fantasies in Miami, FL.
* (21) A lawsuit is filed against Madonna by 3 ex-dancers: Oliver Crumes, Kevin Stea and Gabriel Trupin - they are charging her with invasion of privacy, fraud and deceit, intentional misrepresentation, suppression of fact, and intentional infliction of emotional distress for exposing their private lives in her 1991 film documentary Truth Or Dare.
* Feb (22) Madonna makes a surprise guest appearance in "Coffee Talk" skit with Mike Myers, Roseanne Arnold and Barbra Streisand on NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live.
* (25) "Madonna: Blond Ambition World Tour Live" wins Best Music Video - Long Form at the 34th annual Grammy Awards at Radio City Music Hall, New York.
* Mar (5) Madonna wins Best-Dressed Female Artist in Rolling Stone magazine's 16th annual Readers Poll.
* (20) Shadows And Fog is released.
* (30) Madonna attends Swifty Lazar's annual post-Academy Awards party at Spago's restaurant, Los Angeles, CA.
* Apr Madonna begins filming Body Of Evidence, co-starring Willem Dafoe and directed by Uli Edel.
* (20) Madonna signs a $60 million, seven-year contract with Time Warner Inc. as a joint venture to form a new multi-media entertainment company: she is made CEO of her own record and music publishing company called Maverick, which will also include TV, film, merchandising and book publishing divisions; she also re-negotiates and extends her contract with Sire Records: a $5 million advance per album, a 20% royalty rate and all her future recordings will be released by Maverick/Sire Records.
* (30) A black bustier worn by Madonna in "Open Your Heart" video is stolen from Frederick's Of Hollywood's lingerie museum during the 3-day riots in Los Angeles, CA.
* May (6) Frederick's Of Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA offers a $1,000 reward for the return of Madonna's bustier.
* (29) The FBI recovers 44 nude photographs of Madonna from a collection used for her upcoming Sex book: a man is arrested in West Hollywood, CA for trying to sell the pictures for $100,000 to an undercover FBI agent.
* Jun (8) Madonna begins recording sessions for Erotica album at Soundworks, New York, NY.
* (16) Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell (co-star of A League Of Their Own) guest together on Fox-TV's The Arsenio Hall Show.
* (18) "This Used To Be My Playground" single (from A League Of Their Own) is released.
* (25) Madonna attends the New York premiere of A League Of Their Own at the Ziegfeld Theatre.
* (30) "This Used To Be My Playground" video premieres on MTV. Madonna contributes a remixed version of "Supernatural" (originally released on B-side of "Cherish" single in 1989) to AIDS benefit CD Red Hot & Dance.
* Jul (1) A League Of Their Own is released nationwide.
* (7) Madonna contributes "This Used To Be My Playground" to Special Olympics benefit CD Barcelona Gold.
* Aug (8) "This Used To Be My Playground" hits US #1.
* (16) "Madonnathon 92: The 1st International Madonna Appreciation Convention" is held at the Holiday Inn, Southfield, MI.
* Sep (10) "This Used To Be My Playground" single is certified gold (500,000 units).
* (23) Madonna is featured in a public service announcement on MTV's Rock The Vote.
* (24) Madonna exposes her breasts in front of 6,000 people at a Jean-Paul Gaultier fashion show benefit at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA; the show raises $750,000 for the American Foundation For AIDS Research (AMFAR).
* Oct (2) "Erotica" video premieres on MTV.
* (4) Madonna visits Milan, Italy to begin her Sex and Erotica promotional tour: she attends the opening of Milanese Fashion Week and is presented with a Telegatto Award for Best International Female Artist.
* (5) Madonna is guest of honor at a disco party hosted by Italian designers Dolce and Gabbana in Milan, Italy. In US, NBC-TV's Friday Night Videos announces it will not broadcast "Erotica" video because of its controversial images of sex and bondage.
* (7,8) Madonna visits Hamburg, Germany to promote Sex and Erotica.
* (9) In Paris, it is announced that Madonna owes $2 million to the French government in back taxes from 2 concerts in 1987.
* (10) Madonna visits Paris, France on her Sex and Erotica promotional tour.
* (11) Madonna guests on 7 Sur 7 TV show in Paris, France.
* (12) Madonna visits London, England to complete Sex and Erotica promotional tour.
* (13) "Erotica" single is released. Madonna is interviewed on BBC1-TV's Jonathan Ross Presents �
* (14) Madonna denies she owes $2 million to France in back taxes and says: "I think the commissioner just wants to meet me".
* (15) Madonna is guest of honor at her Sex book party at the Industria Superstudio, Manhattan, NY.
* (20) Erotica CD is released.
* (21) Sex, a 128-page book of erotica and sexual fantasies written by Madonna, photographed by Steven Meisel, designed by Fabien Baron and edited by Glenn O'Brien, is released; the spiral-bound, metal-covered book is wrapped in a silver mylar bag with a copy of "Erotica" CD single, an 8-page comic book and priced at $49.95 US. Shadows And Fog is released on home video.
* (22) Sex has sold a record 150,000 US copies on its first day of release.
* (23) In Europe, Sex has sold over 100,000 copies in 2 days: England (100,000), France (25,000) and sold-out in Australia.
* (24) "Erotica" hits US #3.
* (26) In Japan, Sex is banned due to its controversial photos which violate the country's censorship law.
* (30) In Mesa, AZ, public libraries have cancelled Sex book orders after local residents have called to protest its purchase.
* (31) Sex has sold a record 500,000 copies in only one week.
* Nov (1) Sex hits #1 on the Washington Post non-fiction bestseller list.
* (3) Sex is banned in New Delhi, India and police officials announce they will confiscate copies of the book entering the country.
* (7) Erotica hits US #2.
* (8) Sex hits #1 on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list.
* (16) Madonna attends the New York premiere of Spike Lee film Malcolm X at the Ziegfeld Theatre.
* (21) Madonna is named Most Popular International Solo Female Artist at the 2nd annual Australian Music Awards.
* (24) "Deeper And Deeper" video premieres on MTV.
* (26) In Paris, a Catholic group called The Future Of Culture files 2 lawsuits against Madonna and her publisher for corrupting the French youth with pornography and to have all copies of Sex book destroyed.
* Dec (1) Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles, CA declares this day "Frederick's Of Hollywood Day" to celebrate the return of Madonna's bustier which was stolen on April 30 during the Los Angeles riots.
* (6) Madonna wins Best Female Solo Singer and Most Fanciable Female at the 5th annual Smash Hits Awards in London, England.
* (7) The Future Of Culture group loses a court battle against Madonna to have copies of her book destroyed in France.
* (10) "Deeper And Deeper" single is released. "Erotica" single is certified gold (500,000 units).
* (14) Madonna wins the Sour Apple Award given to a celebrity "who most believes his or her own popularity" from the Hollywood Women's Press Club at the 52nd annual Golden Apple Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* (19) Sex is voted Hype Of The Year by readers of NME magazine in UK.
* (28) Madonna is named one of the "25 Most Intriguing People In The World For 1992" by People magazine.

MADONNA 1991

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» 1991

* Jan Madonna begins filming Shadows And Fog, starring John Malkovich and Mia Farrow, directed by Woody Allen.
* (3) Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, CA, accuses Madonna of anti-semetism over the lyrics of "Justify My Love" CD single remix called "The Beast Within" and wants copies of her single removed from record stores
* (4) Madonna releases a statement of denial about the anti-semetic lyrics of "Justify My Love" CD single remix: "I certainly didn't have any anti-semetic intent when I included a passage from the Bible on my record. It was a commentary on evil in general. My message, if any, is pro-tolerance and antihate. The song is, after all, about love".
* (5) "Justify My Love" hits US #1.
* (13) Madonna presents the Best Foreign Film award for The Nasty Girl to its director Michael Verhoeven at the 56th annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards in the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY.
* (18) The Immaculate Collection is certified 2x platinum (2 million units).
* (19) "The Immaculate Collection" hits US #1 and "Justify My Love" hits US #2 on Top Music Videos chart.
* (26) The Immaculate Collection hits US #2.
* (28) "Vogue" wins Favorite Dance Single at the 18th annual American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA.
* Feb (2) "Madonna: Blond Ambition World Tour Live" hits US #2 on Top Laserdisc Sales chart.
* (6) "The Immaculate Collection" video is certified multi-platinum (150,000 units).
* (18) "Crazy For You" is re-released as a UK single.
* (21) "Rescue Me" single is released.
* (22) "Justify My Love" single is certified 1x platinum (1 million units), "Justify My Love" video is certified 8x platinum (400,000 units).
* (25) Madonna presents a lifetime achievement award to Andrew Lloyd Webber at the Los Angeles Music Centre Benefactors' dinner at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA.
* (27) "The Immaculate Collection" video is certified 2x platinum (200,000 units).
* Mar (2) "Crazy For You" hits UK #2. "Rescue Me" enters the US singles chart at #15 - the highest entry by a female artist.
* (3) "Vogue" wins International Single Of The Year at the 20th annual Juno Awards at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC.
* (7) Madonna wins Best Single ("Vogue"), Best Video ("Vogue"), Best Tour (Blond Ambition Tour), Best-Dressed Female Artist and Sexiest Female Artist in Rolling Stone magazine's 15th annual Readers Poll.
* (20) "Madonna" video is certified multi-platinum (100,000 units).
* (23) "Rescue Me" hits US #9.
* (25) Madonna performs "Sooner Or Later" from Dick Tracy at the 63rd annual Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA and it wins the Oscar for Best Original Song by Stephen Sondheim; her escort at the awards is Michael Jackson.
* Apr (21) Madonna participates in the 3rd annual AIDS Dance-A-Thon at the Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA.
* May (6) Madonna attends the Los Angeles premiere of Truth Or Dare, a film documentary of "Blond Ambition World Tour 1990", directed by Alek Keshishian, at the Pacific Cinerama Dome.
* (7) Madonna admits to her bisexuality in a controversial 2-part interview with The Advocate magazine.
* (8) Madonna attends the New York premiere of Truth Or Dare at the Ziegfeld Theatre.
* (9) "Like A Virgin" video (from Truth Or Dare) premieres on MTV. Madonna is interviewed on ABC-TV's Good Morning America.
* (10) Truth Or Dare is released nationwide.
* (11) Madonna makes a special guest appearance in "Wayne's World" skit on NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live.
* (12) Madonna arrives in Cannes, France for the 44th International Cannes Film Festival.
* (13) Madonna attends the premiere of Truth Or Dare at the Cannes Film Festival. (In Europe, it is re-titled In Bed With Madonna).
* (13,14) Madonna is featured in a 2-part interview with Regis Philbin on CBS-TV's Live With Regis & Kathie Lee.
* (15) In Bed With Madonna is released in France.
* (16) Madonna attends the premiere of Spike Lee's Jungle Fever at the Cannes Film Festival.
* (17) Truth Or Dare is released to 538 US movie theatres.
* (19) Truth Or Dare hits #3 at the US box-office with $3.38 million on its opening weekend.
* (22) Madonna attends model Naomi Campbell's 21st birthday party at Laura Belle restaurant, New York, NY.
* (24) "Rescue Me" single is certified gold (500,000 units).
* Jun (6) "Holiday" video (from Truth Or Dare) premieres on MTV.
* (15) "Holiday" is re-released as a UK single and hits #5.
* Jul (8) Madonna begins filming A League Of Their Own, starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis, directed by Penny Marshall.
* (17) In Bed With Madonna premieres at the Marble Arch Odeon in London, England.
* (18) Madonna is named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People Of 1991" by People magazine.
* Aug (7) Madonna attends the Los Angeles premiere of film Paris Is Burning.
* Sep (5) "The Immaculate Collection" wins Best Long-Form Video at the 8th annual MTV Video Music Awards at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA.
* Oct (9) Truth Or Dare is released on home video.
* (27) Madonna wins Best Female Solo Singer and Most Fanciable Female at the 4th annual Smash Hits Awards in London, England.
* (30) Madonna completes filming A League Of Their Own in Evansville, IN.
* Nov (23) Madonna is named Most Popular International Solo Female Artist at the 1st annual Australian Music Awards.
* (27) Madonna contributes a pre-taped monologue on ABC-TV special MTV 10.
* Dec (4) The Immaculate Collection is certified 3x platinum (3 million units). A rumor is announced that Madonna has tested HIV positive for AIDS: a statement denying the rumor is released by her representatives.
* (8) In a TV Guide magazine interview, Madonna causes a controversy when she complains about filming A League Of Their Own in Evansville, IN: she calls the town "boring", complains that the house she rented didn't have cable and says, "I may as well have been in Prague" - the citizens of Evansville are enraged by her comments: 300 townspeople gather in a parking lot to spell her name inside a circle with a line through it and send her a televised message: "Madonna, get a life!".
* (10) Madonna is honored with the Award Of Courage by the American Foundation For AIDS Research (AMFAR) at a Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel dinner, Beverly Hills, CA.

MADONNA 1990

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» 1990

* Jan Warner Bros Records releases a full-page advertisement in magazines which proclaims Madonna as "Artist Of The Decade".
* (6) "Oh Father" hits US #20 and completes her run of 16 consecutive Top 5 singles in US.
* (9,10,11) Madonna holds open auditions for male dancers for her new world tour at Landmark Studios, Hollywood, CA.
* (23) Like A Prayer is certified 3x platinum (3 million units).
* Feb (2) "Keep It Together" single is released.
* (14) Bloodhounds Of Broadway is released on home video.
* Mar Madonna breaks box-office records as 1,500 concert tickets are sold to fans across America in only 68 seconds.
* (1) "Vogue" video premieres on MTV.
* (8) Madonna wins Worst Female Singer and Worst Video ("Like A Prayer") in Rolling Stone magazine's 14th annual Readers Poll.
* (12) Like A Prayer is named The Grand Prix Album Of The Year at the 4th annual Japan Gold Disc Awards in Tokyo.
* (30) "Vogue" single is released.
* (31) "Keep It Together" hits US #8.
* Apr (11) "Keep It Together" single is certified gold (500,000 units).
* (13,14,15) "Blond Ambition World Tour 1990" opens with 3 sold-out concerts at the Marine Stadium, Makuhari, Japan.
* (20,21,22) Madonna performs 3 sold-out concerts at Nishinomiya Stadium, Osaka, Japan.
* (25,26,27) Madonna performs 3 sold-out concerts at Yokohama Stadium, Yokohama, Japan.
* May (1) Madonna guests on Fox-TV's The Arsenio Hall Show.
* (4,5) Madonna opens the 12-city North American leg of "Blond Ambition World Tour 1990" at The Summit, Houston, TX.
* (7,8) Madonna performs at the Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX.
* (11,12,13,15) Madonna performs 4 sold-out concerts at the Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA.
* (18,19,20) Madonna performs at the Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA.
* (19) "Vogue" hits US #1 for 3 weeks.
* (22) I'm Breathless: Music From And Inspired By The Film Dick Tracy CD is released.
* (23) Bloodhounds Of Broadway (originally filmed in 1987-88) premieres on PBS-TV as an "American Playhouse" presentation.
* (23,24) Madonna performs at the Rosemont Horizon, Chicago, IL.
* (25) Madonna cancels a third scheduled concert at the Rosemont Horizon, Chicago, IL, due to laryngitis.
* (26) Madonna is honored with Pop Artist Of The Decade, Dance Artist Of The Decade and Dance Single Of The Decade ("Into The Groove") in Billboard magazine's "Music Of The 80s" Poll.
* (27,28,29) Madonna performs 3 sold-out concerts at the SkyDome, Toronto, ON, Canada: on May 29, police officers threaten to arrest her on the grounds of lewd and obscene behavior for a masturbation sequence but no charges are filed.
* (31) Madonna performs at The Palace Of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI.
* Jun (1) Madonna performs at The Palace Of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI and invites her father onstage to sing him "Happy Birthday". Madonna is controversially featured grabbing her crotch and breast on the cover of Interview magazine.
* (4,5) Madonna performs at The Centrum, Worcester, MA.
* (6) Madonna cancels a third scheduled concert at The Centrum, Worcester, MA, again due to recurring throat problems.
* (8,9) Madonna performs at the Capital Centre, Landover, MD.
* (10) Madonna and Warren Beatty attend the premiere of Dick Tracy in Washington, DC.
* (11,12,13) Madonna performs at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY.
* (14) "Vogue" single is certified 1x platinum (1 million units).
* (15) Dick Tracy is released nationwide. Madonna cancels a concert at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, again due to laryngitis.
* (16,17) Madonna performs at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA.
* (17) Dick Tracy grosses $23 million at the US box-office on its opening weekend.
* (20,21) Madonna performs 2 sold-out concerts at the Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, NJ.
* (22) "Hanky Panky" single is released.
* (23) I'm Breathless: Music From And Inspired By The Film Dick Tracy hits US #2.
* (24) Madonna performs an AIDS benefit concert in memory of artist Keith Haring at the Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, NJ, which raises $300,000 for the American Foundation For AIDS Research (AMFAR).
* (28) "Vogue" single is certified 2x platinum (2 million units) - the biggest-selling single by a female artist ever.
* (30) Madonna opens the European leg of "Blond Ambition World Tour 1990" at Eriksberg Stadium, Gothenburg, Sweden.
* Jul (2) In Italy, Roman Catholic groups condemn Madonna's concert as blasphemous due to her controversial show's sex and religion themes and plan to cancel her concerts in Rome and Turin.
* (3,4,6) Madonna performs 3 sold-out concerts at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France.
* (9) Madonna arrives on tour in Rome, Italy and holds a press conference at Rome Airport in which she defends her concert and also voices her opinions on artistic expression and freedom of speech.
* (10) Madonna performs at Stadio Flaminio, Rome, Italy.
* (11) Madonna's second scheduled concert at Stadio Flaminio, Rome, Italy is cancelled due to poor ticket sales and a union strike.
* (13) Madonna performs at Stadio Delle Alpi, Turin, Italy.
* (15) Madonna performs at the Olympic Stadium, Munich, Germany.
* (17) Madonna performs at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany.
* (20,21,22) Madonna performs 3 sold-out concerts at Wembley Stadium, London, England.
* (24) Madonna performs at Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam, Holland.
* (27) Madonna performs a sold-out concert at Vicente Calderon Stadium, Madrid, Spain.
* (28) "Hanky Panky" hits US #10.
* (29) Madonna performs at Balaidos Stadium, Vigo, Spain.
* (30) I'm Breathless: Music From And Inspired By The Film Dick Tracy is certified 2x platinum (2 million units).
* Aug (1) Madonna performs at Olympic Stadium, Barcelona, Spain.
* (5) Madonna - Live! Blond Ambition World Tour 90 is broadcast live on HBO-TV from Stade de l'Ouest, Nice, France and seen in more than 4.3 million households - it is the most-watched entertainment special in the network's 18-year history.
* Sep (6) Madonna performs "Vogue" at the 7th annual MTV Video Music Awards at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA; "Vogue" wins Best Direction, Best Editing and Best Cinematography.
* (7) Madonna is honored with the Commitment To Life Award and performs "Vogue" at the Commitment To Life IV benefit for AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) at the Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.
* (18) Madonna attends the New York premiere of Martin Scorsese film GoodFellas at the Museum Of Modern Art.
* (19) "Hanky Panky" single is certified gold (500,000 units).
* Oct (1) Madonna is named the top-earning female entertainer of 1990 by Forbes magazine with an annual income of $39 million. "Madonna: Blond Ambition World Tour Live" is released only on laserdisc.
* (2) Madonna attends the opening night of Martha Graham's 180th ballet "Maple Leaf Rag" at the City Centre, New York, NY.
* (16) Madonna visits Paris, France to attend fashion shows by Jean-Paul Gaultier and Thierry Mugler.
* (22) Madonna is featured in a public service announcement on MTV's Rock The Vote in which she is wrapped in the US flag and urges young people to register and vote; the ad causes a controversy with US Veterans of Foreign Wars who are enraged by her provocative use of the American flag and say that it borders on desecration.
* Nov (8) "Justify My Love" single is released.
* (9) Madonna begins filming "Justify My Love" video at Royal Monceau Hotel in Paris, France, directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
* (13) The Immaculate Collection greatest hits CD and video are released.
* (11) Madonna wins Best Female Solo Singer and Most Fanciable Female at the 3rd annual Smash Hits Awards in London, England.
* (15) Madonna is crowned "The Image Of The Eighties" by Rolling Stone magazine.
* (21) A $1 million lawsuit is filed against Madonna by her neighbor, Donald Robinson, who complains that the trees on her property are obstructing his view of the Hollywood Hills, CA.
* (24) The Immaculate Collection hits UK #1 for nine weeks and is the biggest-selling album in UK by a female solo artist.
* (27) MTV network excecutives announce it has banned "Justify My Love" video due to extremely strong displays of sexuality.
* (28) In Canada, "Justify My Love" video is also banned by MuchMusic network because of its sexual content.
* Dec (1) Madonna is named one of the 10 "Women Of The Year" by Glamour magazine.
* (3) Madonna is interviewed by via satellite from Los Angeles, CA by Forrest Sawyer to discuss censorship and her "Justify My Love" video world premieres in its entirety on ABC-TV's Nightline.
* (6) A Los Angeles Superior Court judge dismisses the $1 million lawsuit against Madonna filed by Donald Robinson and orders her to trim the trees on her property.
* (7) "Justify My Love" is released as the first-ever video single, priced at $9.98.
* (11) Madonna: The Royal Box, a box-set which includes The Immaculate Collection CD/video, postcards and poster, is released.
* (19) Dick Tracy is released on home video.
* (24) Madonna In Concert (taped at Olympic Stadium, Barcelona, Spain on Aug 1, 1990) is broadcast on BBC2-TV.

MADONNA 1986

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» 1986

* Jan "Borderline" is re-released as a UK single. Madonna and Sean begin filming Shanghai Surprise in Macau, China, directed by Jim Goddard and produced by ex-Beatle George Harrison's Handmade Films company.
* (18) "Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour" hits US #1 on Top Music Videos chart.
* Feb (15) "Borderline" hits UK #2.
* (20) Madonna and Sean attend the premiere of his film At Close Range at the Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, Germany.
* (21) Madonna and Sean arrive in London, England to complete filming on Shanghai Surprise; upon their arrival at Heathrow Airport, a photographer is knocked down by their limousine and they are later nicknamed "The Poison Penns" by the British press.
* (27) Madonna wins Worst-Dressed Female Artist in Rolling Stone magazine's 10th annual Readers Poll.
* Mar (6) Madonna and George Harrison hold a press conference at Kensington Roof Gardens, London, England to discuss the filming of Shanghai Surprise; when asked by a reporter to apologize for her and Sean's behavior towards the British press, Madonna answers: "I have nothing to apologize for".
* (11) Madonna is named Favorite Female Musical Performer at the 12th annual People's Choice Awards: she accepts her award on the set of Shanghai Surprise in London, England.
* Apr "Live To Tell" single and video (theme from film At Close Range) are released.
* (16) Madonna and Sean attend the Los Angeles premiere of his film At Close Range at the Bruin Theatre.
* May (31) "Live To Tell" hits #1 for 3 weeks on US Hot Adult Contemporary singles chart.
* Jun (7) "Live To Tell" hits US #1.
* (18) "Papa Don't Preach" single is released. (The song's lyrics about a teenage pregnant girl's decision to keep her baby causes a controversy with US organization Planned Parenthood).
* (30) True Blue LP is released. "Papa Don't Preach" video premieres on MTV.
* Jul Madonna and Sean begin rehearsals for a Lincoln Centre Theatre workshop production of David Rabe's play Goose & Tom-Tom, directed by Gregory Mosher which will be performed to a non-public audience for only 4 nights.
* Aug (16) Madonna and Sean celebrate her 28th birthday and their first wedding anniversary at Gotham Bar and Grill, New York. True Blue hits US #1 for 5 weeks and "Papa Don't Preach" hits US #1 for 2 weeks.
* (28) Madonna and Sean open in Goose & Tom-Tom at Lincoln Centre's Mitzi Newhouse Theatre, New York, NY.
* (29) Shanghai Surprise premieres at 400 US theatres.
* (31) Madonna and Sean play their final performance in Goose & Tom-Tom.
* Sep (5) Madonna is honored with the Video Vanguard Award for her visionary videos at the 3rd annual MTV Video Music Awards at the Palladium, New York, NY and at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA.
* (8) True Blue is certified 2x platinum (2 million units).
* (10) "True Blue" single is released.
* (19) Shanghai Surprise is released nationwide. Madonna attends the 2nd annual Commitment To Life benefit for AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) to honor Elizabeth Taylor at the Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.
* Oct (2) "True Blue" video (non-US version) premieres on BBC1-TV's Top Of The Pops.
* (11) Madonna makes a surprise appearance on the season premiere of NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live.
* Nov Madonna begins filming Who's That Girl, co-starring Griffin Dunne and Sir John Mills, directed by James Foley.
* (10) Madonna participates in an all-star AIDS benefit modelling fashion show at Barney's clothes store, New York, NY, which benefits the AIDS Research Clinic at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, NY.
* (15) "True Blue" hits US #3. (18) True Blue is certified 3x platinum (3 million units).
* Dec "Open Your Heart" single and video are released. Madonna wins a Billboard Music Award for Top Music Video ("Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour").

Madonna » 1987

* Jan (10) "Papa Don't Preach" is honored as America's Most Popular Video and World's Favorite Video at the 1st annual World Music Video Awards, produced by Canada's MuchMusic and Europe's Sky Channel.
* (26) Madonna makes a surprise appearance at the 14th annual American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, to accept her award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Video Artist ("Papa Don't Preach").
* Feb (3) True Blue is certified 4x platinum (4 million units).
* (7) "Open Your Heart" hits US #1.
* (26) Madonna wins Best Female Singer and Sexiest Female Artist in Rolling Stone magazine's 11th annual Readers Poll.
* Mar "La Isla Bonita" single and video are released. Madonna is voted "Favorite Artist Of Record Pirates" by Billboard magazine.
* (4) Shanghai Surprise is released on home video.
* (15) Madonna is named Favorite Female Musical Performer at the 13th annual People's Choice Awards.
* (29) Madonna wins a Razzie Award for Worst Actress in Shanghai Surprise at the 7th annual Golden Raspberry Awards at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Blossom Ballroom, Los Angeles, CA.
* (30) Madonna is a presenter at the 59th annual Academy Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA.
* Apr Madonna begins rehearsals for "Who's That Girl World Tour 1987".
* (2) Madonna wins Best Female Performance for "Papa Don't Preach" at the 5th annual American Video Awards at the Scottish Rite Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA.
* (25) Madonna becomes the only female solo artist to have 4 No. 1 singles in UK with "La Isla Bonita".
* May (2) "La Isla Bonita" hits US #4.
* (18) Madonna is honored for Best Songwriting for "Live To Tell" at the 4th annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA; the award is accepted on her behalf by brother-in-law Christopher Penn.
* Jun (9) Madonna makes her first TV talk-show appearance on NBC-TV's The Tonight Show (hosted by Johnny Carson).
* (14,15) "Who's That Girl World Tour 1987" opens at the Nishinomiya Stadium, Osaka, Japan.
* (20,21,22) Madonna performs 3 sold-out concerts at Korakuen Stadium, Tokyo, Japan. (During the Japanese leg of the tour, Madonna is honored with The Grand Prix Artist Of The Year Award by the Recording Industry Assocation of Japan).
* (27) Madonna opens the 19-city North American leg of "Who's That Girl World Tour 1987" at the Orange Bowl, Miami, FL.
* (29) Madonna performs at The Omni, Atlanta, GA.
* Jul "Who's That Girl" single and video (from Who's That Girl) are released.
* (2) Madonna performs at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, DC.
* (4) Madonna performs at CNE Stadium, Toronto, ON, Canada.
* (6,7) Madonna performs 2 sold-out concerts at The Forum, Montreal, QC, Canada.
* (9) Madonna performs at Sullivan Stadium, Foxboro, MA.
* (11) Madonna performs at the Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia, PA.
* (13) Madonna performs an AIDS benefit concert in memory of her friend Martin Bourgoyne at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, which raises $400,000 for the American Foundation For AIDS Research (AMFAR).
* (14) Like A Virgin is certified 7x platinum (7 million units).
* (15) Madonna performs at the Kingdome, Seattle, WA.
* (18) Madonna performs at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, CA.
* (20,21) Madonna performs 2 sold-out concerts at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA.
* (21) Who's That Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack LP is released.
* (24) Madonna performs at the Astrodome, Houston, TX.
* (26) Madonna performs at Texas Stadium, Irving, TX.
* (29) Madonna performs at St. Paul Civic Centre, St. Paul, MN.
* (31) Madonna performs at Soldier Field, Chicago, IL.
* Aug (2) Madonna performs at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI.
* (4,5) Madonna performs at Richfield Coliseum, Richfield, OH.
* (5) Madonna is interviewed by Jane Pauley on NBC-TV's Today and causes a controversy when she refers to her hometown of Bay City, MI as "a smelly little town" - a comment which enrages the citizens of Bay City.
* (6) Madonna attends the New York premiere of Who's That Girl at The National Theatre in Times Square.
* (7) Who's That Girl is released nationwide. Madonna performs at the Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, MI and apologizes to 42,000 fans for the comments she made about her hometown on NBC-TV's Today.
* (9) Madonna performs at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ. Who's That Girl grosses $2.5 million US on its opening weekend.
* (11) True Blue is certified 5x platinum (5 million units).
* (15) Madonna opens the European leg of "Who's That Girl World Tour 1987" at Roundhay Park, Leeds, England.
* (16) Madonna celebrates her 29th birthday at the Groucho Club, London, England.
* (18,19,20) Madonna performs 3 sold-out concerts at Wembley Stadium, London, England.
* (22) Madonna performs to a sold-out crowd of 250,000 at Wald Stadium, Frankfurt, Germany. "Who's That Girl" hits US #1.
* (25,26) Madonna performs at Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam, Holland.
* (28) Madonna arrives in Paris, France and attends a reception at City Hall to meet French prime minister Jacques Chirac and his family; she presents him with a cheque for $85,000 to benefit AIDS charities in France.
* (29) Madonna performs for 130,000 people at Parc de Sceaux, Paris, France - the highest attendance at a concert in France.
* (31) Madonna performs at Stade de l'Ouest, Nice, France.
* Sep "Causing A Commotion" single (from Who's That Girl) is released.
* (4) Madonna performs "Causing A Commotion" live by via satellite from the Stadio Communale, Turin, Italy and wins Best Female Video for "Papa Don't Preach" at the 4th annual MTV Video Music Awards at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA.
* (6) "Who's That Girl World Tour 1987" ends at the Stadio Communale, Florence, Italy.
* (12) Who's That Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack hits US #7.
* (29) Who's That Girl: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is certified 1x platinum (1 million units).
* Oct (5) Madonna is named top-earning female entertainer of 1987 by Forbes magazine.
* (12) Madonna contributes "Santa Baby" (a remake of 1953 Eartha Kitt song) to Special Olympics LP A Very Special Christmas.
* (24) "Causing A Commotion" hits US #2.
* Nov (2) True Blue wins International Album Of The Year at the 17th annual Juno Awards at the O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, ON.
* (11) Who's That Girl is released on home video.
* (17) You Can Dance, a greatest dance hits remix LP, is released.
* Dec Madonna is honored in The Guinness Book Of Records 1988 as the most successful singer for selling over 11 million copies of True Blue which hit #1 in 28 countries and establishing herself as the world's highest selling solo singing artiste.
* (4) Madonna files for divorce from Sean in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Los Angeles, CA.
* (16) Madonna and Sean decide to reconcile and she withdraws divorce papers filed in Los Angeles, CA on Dec 4.
* (17) "The Look Of Love" (from Who's That Girl) is released as a UK single and hits #9.
* (24) Madonna begins filming Bloodhounds Of Broadway, starring Matt Dillon and Jennifer Grey, directed by Howard Brookner.
* (26) Madonna wins 3 Billboard Music Awards: Top Pop Singles Artist, Top Pop Singles Artist - Female and Top Dance Sales Artist.

Madonna » 1988

* Jan In Italy, Madonna is the centre of a controversy between Roman Catholic groups and the residents of Pacentro who want to honor Madonna with the unveiling of a 13-foot statue of her dressed in a bustier; the Vatican and the mayor of Pacentro are outraged and fear that a statue of Madonna as a role model might corrupt the morals of Italian youths.
* (20) You Can Dance is certified 1x platinum (1 million units).
* (23) You Can Dance hits US #14.
* Feb (23) Madonna begins rehearsals in New York, NY for David Mamet's play Speed-The-Plow, co-starring with Joe Mantegna and Ron Silver, directed by Gregory Mosher.
* Mar (10) Madonna wins Worst Female Singer, Worst-Dressed Female Artist and Sexiest Female Artist in Rolling Stone magazine's 12th annual Readers Poll.
* (23) Madonna is certified 4x platinum (4 million units).
* (29) "Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour" video is certified multi-platinum (100,000 units).
* Apr (10) Madonna wins a Razzie Award for Worst Actress in Who's That Girl at the 8th annual Golden Raspberry Awards at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Blossom Ballroom, Los Angeles, CA.
* May (3) Speed-The-Plow opens on Broadway at the Royale Theatre, New York, NY.
* (24) "Madonna - Ciao Italia: Live From Italy" is released on home video.
* Jun (5) Madonna presents a special award to the founders of the South Coast Repertory of Costa Mesa, CA at the 42nd annual Tony Awards at the Minskoff Theatre, New York, NY.
* (27) Madonna and Sean attend the Mike Tyson vs Leon Spinks heavyweight fight at Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, Atlantic City, NJ.
* Jul (1) Madonna makes a surprise unscheduled appearance on NBC-TV's Late Night With David Letterman.
* (23) "Madonna - Ciao Italia: Live From Italy" hits US #1 on Top Music Videos chart.
* Aug (16) Madonna and Sean celebrate her 30th birthday and their 3rd wedding anniversary at a private party in New York, NY.
* Sep (4) Madonna plays her final performance in Speed-The-Plow on Broadway.
* (11) Madonna participates in "Sport Aid 88: The Race Against Time" marathon in New York, NY.
* (26) Madonna begins recording Like A Prayer LP in Los Angeles, CA with producers Patrick Leonard and Stephen Bray.
* Oct (5) "Madonna - Ciao Italia: Live From Italy" video is certified 1x platinum (100,000 units).
* Nov (16) Madonna attends the opening night of HurlyBurly (starring Sean Penn) at the Westwood Playhouse, Los Angeles, CA.
* Dec (12) Madonna signs a 2-year film contract with Columbia Pictures.
* (28) Madonna files assault charges against Sean at the sheriff's office in Malibu, CA: various newspapers and tabloids will report that Sean burst into their house and tied Madonna to a chair for 9 hours - both Madonna and Sean deny the stories.
* (31) Madonna and Sean are officially separated and will begin divorce proceedings.

Madonna » 1989

* Jan (5) Madonna files for divorce citing "irreconcilable differences" in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Los Angeles, CA.
* (18) Madonna purchases a $3 million estate in the Hollywood Hills, Hollywood, CA.
* (25) Madonna signs a $5 million contract with Pepsi-Cola for a series of TV commercials and sponsorship of a world tour.
* Feb (2) Madonna begins filming Dick Tracy, starring and directed by Warren Beatty. (During the year 1989-90, Madonna and Beatty will be involved in a highly-publicized romantic affair).
* (26) Madonna participates in an AIDS Dance-A-Thon benefit at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA.
* Mar (2) The Pepsi commercial "Make A Wish" premieres on NBC-TV's The Cosby Show and is seen by 250 million viewers in 40 countries - she is the first artist to use a new song ("Like A Prayer") in a promotional campaign before its official release.
* (3) "Like A Prayer" video premieres on MTV.
* (4) In Italy, the Roman Catholic group Famiglia Domani protest against the TV broadcast of "Like A Prayer" video and threatens legal court action for blasphemy because of its controversial religious symbolisms.
* (7) "Like A Prayer" single is released.
* (21) Like A Prayer LP is released.
* (30) The Reverend Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association (AFA) threatens a 1-year boycott of all Pepsi-Cola products due to "Like A Prayer" video controversy only if the company doesn't cancel its sponsorship of Madonna.
* Apr (4) Pepsi-Cola announces it has banned all US broadcasts of Madonna's commercial, cancelled her 1-year contract and sponsorship of a world tour due to numerous complaints and boycott threats from religious groups against her video.
* (5) Pepsi-Cola Canada announces it will continue to broadcast Madonna's commercial in spite of "Like A Prayer" video controversy.
* (22) Like A Prayer hits US #1 for 6 weeks and "Like A Prayer" hits US #1 for 3 weeks.
* May (9) "Express Yourself" single is released.
* (10) "Express Yourself" video (filmed on a $5 million budget - the highest in music video history) premieres on MTV.
* (16) "Like A Prayer" single is certified 1x platinum (1 million units).
* (23) Like A Prayer is certified 2x platinum (2 million units).
* (24) Madonna participates in "Don't Bungle The Jungle" benefit concert to save the world's rain forests at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY: she performs a rendition of Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" with comic Sandra Bernhard.
* (31) Madonna wins Best Female Vocalist at the 1st annual International Rock Awards at Lexington Avenue Armory, Manhattan, NY.
* Jul (15) "Express Yourself" hits US #2.
* Aug (11) "Express Yourself" single is certified gold (500,000 units).
* (16) Madonna celebrates her 31st birthday with Warren Beatty and other friends at the club Rubber, Los Angeles, CA.
* (21) "Cherish" video premieres on MTV.
* (29) "Cherish" single is released.
* Sep (1) Madonna is named Top Female Artist Of The 80s and the Artist With The Most Consecutive Top 10 Hits In The 80s with a total of 16 on the American Top 40 Book of Records countdown of the 1980s.
* (6) Madonna performs "Express Yourself" and presents the Video Vanguard Award to George Michael at the 6th annual MTV Video Music Awards at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA; "Express Yourself" wins Best Direction, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and "Like A Prayer" wins the Viewer's Choice Award.
* (19) Madonna and Sean's divorce is finalized.
* (21) Madonna is featured in People magazine's list of the "20 Who Defined The Decade".
* Oct (7) "Cherish" hits US #2 - Madonna overtakes The Beatles on the list of all-time consecutive top 5 singles in US (16 singles) and is also tied with Michael Jackson for the artist with the most consecutive top 10 singles in the 1980s (17 singles).
* (14) Madonna is named one of The Greatest Artists Of The Decade on NBC-TV's Friday Night Videos.
* (24) Madonna is chairperson for the AIDS benefit premiere of film It Had To Be You (starring Joe Bologna & Renee Taylor) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre, Beverly Hills, CA.
* Nov "Oh Father" single and video are released in US. "Dear Jessie" is released as a UK single and video.
* (2) Madonna is honored as Artist Of The Decade by Musician magazine.
* (3) Bloodhounds Of Broadway is released in New York, NY.
* (16) Madonna is #50 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Albums Of The 1980s".
* Dec Madonna is voted Artist Of The Decade by her fans on MTV's Rate The 80s special.
* (23) "Dear Jessie" hits UK #5. Madonna wins a Billboard Music Award for Top Adult Contemporary Artist.
* (24) Madonna is #4 on the list of "Top 20 Pop Artists Of The 80s" voted by readers of The Los Angeles Times newspaper.
* (25) Madonna is named one of the "25 Most Intriguing People In The World For 1989" by People magazine.

MADONNA 1984-1985

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Madonna » 1984

* Jan (14) Madonna performs "Holiday" on ABC-TV's American Bandstand (hosted by Dick Clark).
* (26) Madonna performs "Holiday" on BBC1-TV's Top Of The Pops in London, England during a promotional visit in UK and is also interviewed by Number One, The Face and Record Mirror magazines.
* (28) "Holiday" hits US #16.
* Feb Madonna performs on Channel 4 TV's The Tube in London, England. "Borderline" video premieres on MTV.
* (15) "Borderline" single is released.
* Apr Madonna begins recording sessions for her new Like A Virgin LP.
* May (31) Madonna is certified gold (500,000 units).
* Jun (16) "Borderline" hits US #10.
* Aug "Lucky Star" single and video are released.
* (14) Madonna is certified 1x platinum (1 million units).
* Sep Madonna begins filming Desperately Seeking Susan, starring Rosanna Arquette and directed by Susan Seidelman.
* (14) Madonna performs "Like A Virgin" and is nominated for Best New Artist Video ("Borderline") at the 1st annual MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY.
* Oct (20) Madonna hits US #8 and "Lucky Star" hits US #4.
* Nov (7) Madonna is guest of honor at a party at the club Private Eyes, New York, NY to celebrate the release of Like A Virgin.
* (12) Like A Virgin LP is released.
* (13) "Like A Virgin" video premieres on MTV.
* (17) "Like A Virgin" single is released.
* Dec (3) "Madonna" (a 4-videoclip collection: "Burning Up", "Borderline", "Lucky Star", "Like A Virgin") is released on home video.
* (5) Madonna is certified 2x platinum (2 million units).
* (13) Madonna performs "Like A Virgin" on BBC1-TV's Top Of The Pops in London, England during a promotional visit in UK.
* (22) "Like A Virgin" hits US #1 for six weeks - it is her first US No. 1 hit single.

Madonna » 1985

* Jan (10) Madonna begins filming "Material Girl" video in Los Angeles, CA, directed by Mary Lambert and meets 24-year-old actor Sean Penn on the set. "Like A Virgin" single is certified gold (1 million units).
* (23) Like A Virgin is certified 2x platinum (2 million units).
* (28) Madonna presents an award to Prince & The Revolution and is nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist at the 12th annual American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA.
* Feb "Material Girl" single and video are released.
* (5) Like A Virgin is certified 3x platinum (3 million units).
* (9) Like A Virgin hits US #1 for 3 weeks.
* (13) Madonna and Sean Penn have their first date at the club Private Eyes, New York, NY.
* (15) Vision Quest is released. "Crazy For You" and "Gambler" videos (clips from Vision Quest) premiere on MTV.
* Mar "Crazy For You" single (from Vision Quest) is released. Madonna begins rehearsals for "The Virgin Tour" in Los Angeles, CA.
* (23) "Material Girl" hits US #2.
* (29) Desperately Seeking Susan is released. "Into The Groove" video (from Desperately Seeking Susan) premieres on MTV.
* Apr "Angel/Into The Groove" is released as a 12-inch single.
* (10,12,13) "The Virgin Tour" opens with 3 sold-out concerts at the Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA.
* (15,16) Madonna performs at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR.
* (19,20) Madonna performs at the Open Air Theatre, San Diego, CA.
* (21) Madonna performs at the Pacific Amphitheatre, Costa Mesa, CA.
* (23) Madonna performs at the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA. Like A Virgin is certified 4x platinum (4 million units).
* (26,27,28) Madonna performs 3 sold-out concerts at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA.
* (30) Madonna performs at ASU Activity Centre, Tempe, AZ.
* May (3) Madonna performs at the Convention Centre, Dallas, TX.
* (4) Madonna performs at The Summit, Houston, TX.
* (5) Madonna performs at the Frank Erwin Centre, Austin, TX.
* (7) Madonna performs at UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA.
* (9) Madonna performs at the Sun Dome, Tampa, FL.
* (10) Madonna performs at the Orange County Civic Centre, Orlando, FL.
* (11) Madonna performs at the Hollywood Sportatorium, Miami, FL. "Crazy For You" hits US #1.
* (14) Madonna performs at The Omni, Atlanta, GA.
* (16) Madonna performs at Public Hall, Cleveland, OH.
* (17) Madonna performs at the Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, OH.
* (18,20) Madonna performs 2 sold-out concerts at the UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL.
* (21) Madonna performs at St. Paul Civic Centre, St. Paul, MN.
* (23) Madonna performs at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON, Canada.
* (25,26) Madonna performs at Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI.
* (25) "Madonna" hits US #1 on Top Music Videos chart.
* (28) Madonna performs at the Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA.
* (29) Madonna performs at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA.
* (30) Madonna performs at the Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA.
* (31) "Madonna" video is certified 1x platinum (50,000 units).
* Jun (1) Madonna performs at the Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD.
* (2) Madonna performs at The Centrum, Worcester, MA.
* (3) Madonna performs at New Haven Coliseum, New Haven, CT.
* (6,7,8) Madonna performs 3 sold-out concerts at Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY.
* (10,11) "The Virgin Tour" ends with 2 sold-out concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY.
* (24) Madonna and Sean Penn announce they will marry on Aug 16, 1985.
* (29) "Angel/Into The Groove" hits US #5.
* Jul "Into The Groove" (from Desperately Seeking Susan) is released as a UK single. "Holiday" is re-released as a UK single.
* (7) Penthouse magazine announces it will publish nude photographs of Madonna taken in 1979 during her early years.
* (8) Playboy magazine also announces it will also publish nude photographs of Madonna.
* (10) The Playboy magazine issue of nude Madonna photos is released.
* (13) Madonna performs "Into The Groove", "Holiday", "Love Makes The World Go Round" and joins The Thompson Twins for a rendition of The Beatles' "Revolution" at the Live Aid benefit concert at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA.
* (16) "Crazy For You" single is certified gold (1 million units). The Penthouse magazine issue of nude Madonna photos is released.
* (22) Like A Virgin is certified 5x platinum - the first solo album by a female artist to be certified for sales of 5 million copies.
* (30) "Angel/Into The Groove" 12-inch single is certified gold (500,000 units).
* Aug "Dress You Up" single and video are released.
* (2) Madonna loses a court battle against director Stephen Jon Lewicki over the video release of A Certain Sacrifice, a soft-porn movie Madonna filmed between 1979-81 during her early years.
* (3) "Into The Groove" hits UK #1 and "Holiday" hits UK #2 - Madonna is the only female artist ever to occupy the top 2 positions simultaneously on the UK charts.
* (16) Madonna and Sean Penn are married on her 27th birthday on a clifftop in Malibu, CA with Cher, Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Carrie Fisher, Diane Keaton, David Letterman, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, Steve Rubell and others in attendance, and will honeymoon at the Highlands Inn, Carmel, CA; after the honeymoon, Madonna begins work on a new album.
* Oct "Gambler" (from Vision Quest) is released as a UK single and hits #4.
* (1) A Certain Sacrifice is released on home video, priced at $59.95.
* (5) "Dress You Up" hits US #5.
* (6) Madonna and Rosanna Arquette participate in an all-star Pro-Peace Rally in Van Nuys, CA.
* (15) Madonna is certified 3x platinum (3 million units).
* Nov (6) Like A Virgin is certified 6x platinum (6 million units).
* (9) Madonna hosts the 1985-86 season premiere of NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live.
* (11) "Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour" is released on home video.
* Dec (3) "Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour" video is certified 1x platinum (100,000 units).
* (14) "Dress You Up" hits UK #5 - it is her eighth UK Top 10 hit of 1985 and becomes the only female artist in 30 years to have 3 records in the UK Top 15 charts.
* (21) Madonna wins 7 Billboard Music Awards: Top Pop Artist, Top Pop Album Artist - Female, Top Pop Singles Artist, Top Pop Singles Artist - Female, Top Dance Club Play Artist, Top Dance Sales Artist and Top Music Video ("Madonna").

» Madonna Career Diary (By Maurice Gravelle)

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» 1982

* Apr Madonna is signed to her first recording contract with Warner Bros/Sire Records.
* Oct "Everybody" is released as a 12-inch single in US. (A video for "Everybody" is made on a $1,500 budget, directed by Ed Steinberg and features Madonna at The Paradise Garage club in New York, NY but will not be released on MTV).
* Dec (25) "Everybody" hits US #107.

» 1983

* Jan (8) "Everybody" hits #3 on US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and fails to enter the Hot 100 singles chart.
* Mar "Burning Up/Physical Attraction" is released as a 12-inch single in US.
* May Madonna performs "Holiday" at Studio 54, Manhattan, NY.
* (21) "Burning Up/Physical Attraction" hits #3 on US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and fails to enter the Hot 100 singles chart.
* Jun Madonna performs "Holiday" at the Music Machine, London, England.
* Jul "Holiday" single is released. (A low budget video for "Holiday" is made but will never be commercially released).
* (27) Madonna LP is released.
* Sep (24) Madonna performs "Physical Attraction", "Everybody", "Holiday" and "Burning Up" at Uncle Sam's Club, Levittown, NY. "Holiday" hits #1 on US Hot Dance Music/Club Play Chart - it is her first No. 1 single on the dance charts.
* Oct "Burning Up" video premieres on MTV.
* (13) Madonna performs "Burning Up", "Everybody" and "Holiday" at Camden Palace's Thursday Party Night, London, England.
* (29) "Holiday" enters the Hot 100 US singles chart at #76.
* Nov Madonna films a cameo appearance as a nightclub singer for Harold Becker movie Vision Quest.

madonna biography

2008-08-21T02:13:00.000-07:00

Singer and dancer Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, born 1958) is a master marketer and sensational self-promoter who propelled herself to stardom, dominating pop charts, concert halls, film, and music video. She has been called "an outrageous blend of Little Orphan Annie, Margaret Thatcher, and Mae West," and "narcissistic, brazen, comic ... the Goddess of the Nineties."

Born in August 1958, Madonna Ciccone was the third child of six in a Catholic family living in Bay City, Michigan. Her father, Tony, a design engineer for Chrysler/General Dynamics, was a conservative, devout Roman Catholic and a first-generation Italian American. Madonna's mother and namesake was of French-Canadian descent. She died of breast cancer when Madonna was five years old.

Tony Ciccone moved the family to Pontiac, Michigan, and married one of the women hired to care for the Ciccone household. The adjustment was difficult for Madonna as the eldest daughter. She had considered herself the "lady of the house" and had received much of her father's affection and attention.In her younger school years Madonna acted in school plays. As she entered adolescence, Madonna discovered her love and talent for dancing, an activity she pursued under the direction and leadership of Christopher Flynn, her private ballet instructor. Dedicated and disciplined, Madonna worked hard, but played hard as well, something Flynn made easy by introducing her to the disco nightlife of downtown Detroit.

Despite the glamour and sophistication she developed with Flynn, who was more than 20 years older than she, neither Madonna's extracurricular activities nor her father's disapproval kept her from caring for her younger siblings and working hard in school. She graduated early from high school with mostly "A's" and was awarded a dance scholarship to the University of Michigan. She stayed two years before going to New York City in 1978 with $37 and a wealth of determination and ambition.

An apartment in an East Village tenement building surrounded by crime and drugs was the place from which she began her steady and focused climb to superstardom. Her first jobs included figure modeling for artists and acting in low budget movies. She danced briefly with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, studied for a time with Pearl Lang of the Martha Graham Dance group, and went to Paris as a short-lived singer/dancer with French disco artist Patrick Hernandez.

Talent, Determination, and Unbridled Ambition

Before she left for Paris, Madonna had developed a fascination with the music field. It started with rock and roll, playing drums and singing backup in several small bands. When she returned to New York she spent a lot of time writing songs, making demonstration tapes, and hanging out in such popular lower-Manhattan nightclubs as the Roxy and Danceteria. It was a simple, four-track demo called "Everybody" that earned Madonna a recording contract with Sire Records in October 1982.

The album Madonna sold few copies when it was first released in July 1983. However, repeated club performances and radio air-play of several cuts from the album eventually earned her three huge hits with "Holiday," "Lucky Star," and "Borderline." A flurry of chart-busting hits, videos, concert tours, and films followed. She seemed to have a Midas-like quality with most everything she did. Even a brief singing performance in a largely forgettable film, Vision Quest, resulted in the top-five love ballad "Crazy for You."

Her second album, Like a Virgin, released in late 1984, produced two number one hits--the title track and "Material Girl." Madonna was becoming an accomplished songwriter; she had written five of the songs herself. During the spring of 1985 she embarked on her first concert tour, which was so successful that she had to switch to larger venues as the tour progressed. On the heels of Like a Virgin came the detective/ comedy film Desperately Seeking Susan in 1985 (directed by Susan Seidelman and co-starring Madonna and Rosanna Arquette), which spawned another popular single and video, "In the Groove."

The tour had thousands of teenage girls all over the country tying lace bows on top of their heads, wearing underwear as outerwear, and walking the halls of schools and shopping malls as "Madonna wannabees." Madonna had become an icon as much as a singer to her fans.

Controversial Behavior Shared Center Stage

Madonna was married briefly to actor Sean Penn from August 1985 to early 1989; it was a marriage with many well chronicled ups and downs. In 1986 she released her third album, True Blue, from which three singles topped the charts: "Papa Don't Preach," about a pregnant teen who wants to keep her child; the title track, a light "girl loves boy" tune; and "Live to Tell," a soulful ballad from the soundtrack of At Close Range starring Sean Penn. In 1987 a movie starring Madonna called Who's That Girl was largely ignored, unlike the accompanying soundtrack and concert tour.

The release of Like A Prayer coincided with the breakup of her marriage, and included a fare-thee-well written by Madonna entitled "Till Death Do Us Part." However, it was the video of the title song portraying Madonna's confession to a priest followed by engaging in sexually suggestive behavior with him that caused a stir in the Catholic Church. The controversy resulted in a disagreement over a $5 million endorsement contract with the Pepsi company. Controversy again surrounded Madonna in 1990 when she was banned from MTV before 11 p.m. with the sexually explicit video "Justify My Love," a new track from her greatest hits album The Immaculate Collection.

Other films featuring Madonna include Shanghai Surprise (1986), in which she co-starred with then-husband Sean Penn; Dick Tracy (1989), the film that launched her short-lived affair with Warren Beatty and also was accompanied by a Madonna-sung soundtrack; and Truth or Dare, her own feature-length video/documentary compiled of footage from her Blonde Ambition Tour of 1990-1991.....Madonna returned to the charts in the summer of 1992 with the number one "This Used to Be My Playground," a single featured in the film A League of Their Own, which featured the singer in a small part. Later that year, Madonna released -Sex, an expensive, steel-bound soft-core pornographic book that featured hundreds of erotic photographs of herself, several models, and other celebrities -- including Isabella Rossellini, Big Daddy Kane, Naomi Campbell, and Vanilla Ice -- as well as selected prose. -Sex received scathing reviews and enormous negative publicity, yet that didn't stop the accompanying album, Erotica, from selling over two million copies. Bedtime Stories, released two years later, was a more subdued affair than Erotica. Initially, it didn't chart as impressively, prompting some critics to label her a has-been, yet the album spawned her biggest hit, "Take a Bow," which spent seven weeks at number one. It also featured the Björk-penned "Bedtime Stories," which became her first single not to make the Top 40; its follow-up, "Human Nature," also failed to crack the Top 40. Nevertheless, Bedtime Stories marked her seventh album to go multi-platinum.

Beginning in 1995, Madonna began one of her most subtle image makeovers as she lobbied for the title role in the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's +Evita. Backing away from the overt sexuality of Erotica and Bedtime Stories, Madonna recast herself as an upscale sophisticate, and the compilation Something to Remember fit into the plan nicely. Released in the fall of 1995, around the same time she won the coveted role of Evita Peron, the album was comprised entirely of ballads, designed to appeal to the mature audience that would also be the target of Evita. As the filming completed, Madonna announced she was pregnant and her daughter, Lourdes, was born late in 1996, just as Evita was scheduled for release. The movie was greeted with generally positive reviews and Madonna began a campaign for an Oscar nomination that resulted in her winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress (Musical or Comedy), but not the coveted Academy Award nomination. The soundtrack for Evita, however, was a modest hit, with a dance remix of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" and the newly written "You Must Love Me" both becoming hits.

During 1997, she worked with producer William Orbit on her first album of new material since 1994's Bedtime Stories. The resulting record, Ray of Light, was heavily influenced by electronica, techno, and trip-hop, thereby updating her classic dance-pop sound for the late '90s. Ray of Light received uniformly excellent reviews upon its March 1998 release and debuted at number two on the charts. Within a month, the record was shaping up to be her biggest album since Like a Prayer. Two years later she returned with Music, which reunited her with Orbit and also featured production work from Mark "Spike" Stent and Mirwais, a French electro-pop producer/musician in the vein of Daft Punk and Air.

The year 2000 also saw the birth of Madonna's second child, Rocco, whom she had with filmmaker Guy Ritchie; the two married at the very end of the year. With Ritchie as director and Madonna as star, the pair released a remake of the film Swept Away in 2002. It tanked at the box office, failing to crack seven digits, making it one of the least profitable films of the year. Her sober 2003 album, American Life, fared a little better but was hardly a huge success. That same year she released a successful children's book, -The English Roses (it was followed by several more over the coming years). Confessions on a Dance Floor marked her return to music and to the dance-oriented material that had made her a star; released in late 2005, it topped the Billboard charts, and was accompanied by a worldwide tour in 2006, the same year that I'm Going to Tell You a Secret, a CD/DVD made during her Re-Invention Tour, came out. In 2007 Madonna released another CD/DVD, Confessions Tour, this time chronicling her controversial tour of the same name.

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2008-08-19T00:02:00.000-07:00

madonna-history

2008-08-16T11:57:00.000-07:00

Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone urodziła się 16 sierpnia 1958 roku w Bay City, w stanie Michigan. Jeszcze w szkole zdecydowała, że chce podbić świat jako piosenkarka i tancerka. By ziścić swe marzenia w 1977 roku przeprowadziła się do Nowego Jorku, gdzie uczyła się tańca, a także występowała w zespołach tanecznych. Aby zarobić na czynsz rozpoczęła karierę fotomodelki, niejednokrotnie zdarzało jej się pozować nago.

W 1979 roku weszła w skład The Patrick Hernandez Revue, dyskotekowej grupy, której udało się zaistnieć w szerszym gronie utworem "Born to Be Alive". Podczas wyprawy z Hernandezem do Paryża wokalistka poznała Dana Gilroya, wkrótce jej chłopaka, z którym założyła w Nowym Jorku dyskotekowo-popowy zespół Breakfast Club. Co ciekawe, Madonna zaczęła w nim karierę od gry na perkusji. Szybko jednak zmieniła zdanie i zdecydowała, że woli stać za mikrofonem. W 1980 r. piosenkarka opuściła zespół, by ze swym byłym chłopakiem, perkusistą Stephenem Brayem, założyć formację o nazwie Emmy. Bray i Madonna szybko odchodzą i z tej grupy, i zaczynają pracować w duecie nad własnymi piosenkami disco. Taśma demo z tymi nagraniami trafia do nowojorskiego DJ-a i producenta - Marka Kaminsa. Kamins przekazują ją do Sire Records i w 1982 roku Madonna może się pochwalić pierwszym w karierze kontraktem płytowym.

Kamis wyprodukował też dwa single Madonny "Everybody" i "Physical Attraction", które ukazały się na przełomie 1982/1983 roku. W czerwcu 1983 r. do dyskotek trafia trzecia piosenka artystki "Holiday", której autorem jest Jellybean Benitez. Trzy miesiące później w sklepach znaleźć można pierwszą płytę wokalistki zatytułowaną po prostu "Madonna". Utwory z niej wciąż królowały jeszcze na listach przebojów, kiedy pod koniec 1984 roku pojawił się drugi album Madonny "Like A Virgin". Z okazji premiery artystka wystąpiła w nowojorskim Radio City Hall, śpiewając piosenkę tytułową w ślubnej sukni i kuszącej bieliźnie. "Like A Virgin" stała się wielkim przebojem. Bilety na koncerty towarzyszące promocji płyty sprzedały się zaledwie w dwie godziny. Kiedy drugi singel z tego albumu, dzisiaj już klasyk - piosenka "Material Girl" - stała się przebojem, Madonna wyruszyła w swoja pierwszą trasę koncertową, podczas której supportował ją zespół... Beastie Boys. Tournee promocyjne obejmowało koncerty w dwudziestu ośmiu miastach Stanów Zjednoczonych i zakończyło się występem w nowojorskiej Madison Square Garden.

W 1985 roku Madonna była sławna. Wokalistka sprzedała więcej płyt niż jakikolwiek inny wykonawca w tym samym czasie, w pismach "Playboy" i "Penthouse" pojawiły się jej akty z czasów, gdy pozowała nago, w kinach zaś można było zobaczyć debiut filmowy artystki. Wystąpiła wówczas w "Vision Quest" i "Desperately Seeking Susan".Tego samego roku Madonna wyszła za mąż za aktora Seana Penna. Ich burzliwe małżeństwo skończyło się w 1989 roku, w międzyczasie para niejednokrotnie trafiała na okładki tabloidów. Rozgłos, jak towarzyszył jej życiu osobistemu przydał się, by wypromować kolejną płytę, "Like A Prayer",Patrick Hernandez która została wydana w roku rozwodu. Krążek promował kontrowersyjny teledysk przedstawiający Madonnę śpiewającą utwór tytułowy na tle płonących krzyży oraz równie kontrowersyjna trasa koncertowa "Blond Ambition", wielkie sceniczne przedsięwzięcie, podczas którego Madonna występowała w odważnych, seksownych strojach projektu Jeana-Paula Gaultiera.

W 1990 r. Madonna wystąpiła u boku Warrena Beatty w ekranizacji komiksu "Dick Tracy". W tym samym roku do sklepów trafiła kompilacja jej największych przebojów, "The Immaculate Collection", na której znalazły się dwa nowe utwory - obrazoburczy singel "Justify My Love" oraz "Rescue Me", który przeszedł do historii jak najwyżej debiutujący na amerykańskiej liście przebojów utwór kobiecy.

Madonna, która słynęła już z zamiłowania do skandali, poszła za ciosem. W 1992 roku wydała płytę "Erotica", dobrze przyjęta przez krytykę, zapamiętaną także z powodu fotoalbumu "Sex", który równolegle z jej premierą ukazał się na rynku. Zawierał on erotyczne zdjęcia Madonny, a także modelek i gwiazd, takich jak Isabella Rossellini, Big Daddy Kane, Naomi Campbell i Vanilla Ice.

W 1994 piosenkarka wydała płytę "Bedtime Stories", a rok 1995 stał pod znakiem kina. Madonna wystąpiła w filmach "Blues In The Face" i "Four Rooms" ("Cztery pokoje"). Wywalczyła również główną rolę w musicalu Alana Parkera, "Evita", mówiącym o argentyńskiej bohaterce narodowej Evie Peron. Argentyńczycy głośno protestowali przeciwko obsadzeniu skandalizującej Amerykanki w roli czczonej przez nich Evy, występ okazał się jednak później największym filmowym sukcesem Madonny – jej rolę nagrodzono Złotym Globem. Dzięki obrazowi Madonna wylansowała także kolejny wielki przebój, pochodzący z filmowej ścieżki dźwiękowej utwór "Don't Cry For Me Argentina".

Po zakończeniu zdjęć gwiazda oświadczyła, że jest w ciąży. 14 października 1996 roku urodziła się jej córeczka, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon. Ojcem dziewczynki był ówczesny przyjaciel Madonny, Carlos Leon, Kubańczyk, trener fitness i aktor. Madonna całkowicie zmieniła swój wizerunek. Stała się niezwykle opanowana, skoncentrowana na duchowości.

Do pracy wróciła w 1997 r. Wspólnie z producentem Williamem Orbitem przygotowała "Ray Of Light", nowoczesny brzmieniowo, oparty na elektronice album, który zdecydowanie odświeżył jej klasyczny, popowy styl. Płyta ukazała się w 1998 roku i przyniosła ogromny sukces. Madonnę wyróżniono licznymi nagrodami, w tym MTV Video Music w kategoriach wideoklip roku i choreografia oraz nagrodą Grammy za najlepszy album pop i teledysk.

Po czterech latach od poprzedniego występu w filmie Madonna pojawiła się na ekranie u boku Ruperta Everetta w "The Next Best Thing" ("Układ prawie idealny" 2000).

W 2000 roku ukazał się kolejny album wokalistki, zatytułowany "Music". Madonna znów zaskoczyła krytyków, nagrywając longplay taneczny, bardziej klubowy. Podczas jego powstawania do współpracy zaprosiła po raz kolejny Orbita, a po raz pierwszy Mirwaisa.

W tym samym roku artystka urodziła syna Rocco, owoc związku z brytyjskim reżyserem Guyem Ritchiem, od grudnia 2000 roku męża artystki. W 2002 roku na ekrany kin wszedł film w reżyserii Ritchiego, w którym Madonna zagrała główną rolę – "Swept Away" ("Rejs w nieznane"). Obraz okazał się totalną klapą, a grę Madonny "nagrodzono" dwoma Złotymi Malinami – statuetkami za najgorszy film i dla najgorszych aktorów. W ten sam sposób wyróżniono drugoplanową rolę, jaką Madonna zagrała w kolejnym obrazie o przygodach agenta Jamesa Bonda, "Śmierć nadejdzie jutro" "Die Another Day" (2002).

Tytułowa piosenka filmu trafiła na wydany w 2003 roku album "Amercian Life", którego produkcją zajął się Mirwais. Jego promocja nie obeszła się bez skandalu. Tym razem kontrowersje wzbudził teledysk do singla "American Life", który przedstawiał horror wojny. Uznano, że klip, emitowany w czasie, gdy Ameryka jest w stanie konfliktu zbrojnego z Irakiem, jest wielce nie na miejscu. Po licznych perturbacjach Madonna zdecydowała się najpierw poprawić, a następnie nakręcić teledysk od nowa.

14 listopada 2005 roku odbyła się premiera kolejnego krążka gwiazdy - "Confessions On A Dancefloor". Tym razem Królowa Popu postanowiła ożywić rytmy disco rodem z lat 70. W kompozycji singlowej "Hung Up" wykorzystała fragment przeboju Abby "Gimme Gimme Gimme". Singlowa piosenka 47-letniej gwiazdy z miejsca trafiła na szczyt notowania "Billboardu" z muzyką taneczną. Na kolejnym singlu, już w 2006 roku (20 lutego) ukazał się utwór "Sorry". Na okładkę "małej płyty" trafiło zdjęcie, którego autorem jest Polak, Marcin Kokowski z Lublina.

Miesiąc później Madonna oświadczyła, że ma zamiar na dobre pożegnać się z karierą aktorską, ponieważ obawia się, że jej fatalna reputacja może pogrążyć każdy film.

30 kwietnia 2006 roku to data kolejnego debiutu w jej karierze. Tego dnia, w wielkim DJ-skim namiocie Sahara Tent, Madonna po raz pierwszy w historii wystąpi na festiwalu. Będzie to "Coachella Festival" w Indio, w Kalifornii.

2008-08-16T11:48:00.000-07:00

Weekend z Madonną - pięćdziesiąte urodziny gwiazdy w MGM HD!

MGM HD zaprasza na weekend z gwiazdą światowego formatu – madonna...

Weekend z Madonną - pięćdziesiąte urodziny gwiazdy w MGM HD!

MGM HD zaprasza na weekend z gwiazdą światowego formatu –madonną

MGM
HD zaprasza na weekend z gwiazdą światowego formatu – Madonną.Królowa muzyki pop od wielu lat śpiewa na scenach całego świata. Spełnia się
również w roli aktorki. Z okazji przypadających w tym roku,
pięćdziesiątych urodzin artystki, widzowie MGM HD będą mogli zobaczyć
ją w dwóch filmach – ciekawym dokumencie o niej samej oraz w znakomitej
komedii woody allena.

„w łuzku z madonna"– emisja: 23 sierpnia 2008 r., godz. 21:00
Film dokumentalny
USA, 1991
Reżyseria: alek keshishian
Występują: madonna

Reżyser
Alek Keshishian wyrusza w trasę z gwiazdą muzyki pop - Madonną.
Dokument składa się z przeplatanych ze sobą obszernych relacji z
występów i retrospekcji opatrzonych komentarzem samej piosenkarki.
Przedstawia Madonnę z dwóch różnych stron – z tej znanej publiczności
oraz mniej znanej, prywatnej.

„Cienie we mgle”- emisja: 24 sierpnia 2008 r., godz. 21:00
Komedia
USA, 1992
Reżyseria: Woody Allen
Scenariusz: Woody Allen
Występują:
Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, madonna, Jodie Foster, John
Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Donald Pleasence, Lily Tomlin

Hołd dla niemieckiego kina ekspresjonistycznego w reżyserii Woody'ego Allena.

Lata
międzywojenne. W mrocznym, spowity gęstą mgłą mieście gdzieś w Europie
Środkowej grasuje seryjny dusiciel. Zdesperowana grupa mieszkańców
powołuje straż obywatelską, której zadaniem jest schwytanie mordercy. W
środku nocy patrol straży budzi skromnego i lękliwego księgarza
Kleinmana, który musi przyłączyć się do obławy i pomóc w jego tropieniu.