The New Jersey date (10/04/08 East Rutherford, Izod Center) has now been changed to Oct 4. instead of Oct 3. Oct. 3 is a Friday and we know how Madonna doesn’t like to perform on Fridays!
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by Jason Gregory
09 May 2008
Madonna has refused to confirm whether Justin Timberlake will make a special guest appearance during her headlining performance at One Big Weekend.Madonna is scheduled to perform on Saturday (May 10th) at Maidstone in Kent.
In an interview with the BBC, the singer said: “I don’t know if Justin’s going to be there or not so stay tuned.”
Timberlake surprised fans when he appeared alongside Madonna at a show in New York last week.
The singer is just one of a host of special guests that appears on Madonna’s new album ‘Hard Candy’, which topped the charts in the UK and America.
Source: http://www.gigwise.com/news/43034/justin-timberlake-to-join-madonna-at-one-big-weekend
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May 9 08:02 AM US/EasternAuthorities in Malawi are set to grant full adoption rights of an African boy to US pop star Madonna, a high court official indicated Friday, citing a leaked document. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the court in Lilongwe would hear a full review on May 15 of an 18-month interim custody order granted in 2006 for Madonna to adopt David Banda.The court had also received recommendations from the ministry of women and child development to make the adoption permanent. The document, referring to Madonna’s filmmaker husband Guy Ritchie and herself, said: “Mr and Mrs Ritchie have shown a strong commitment in providing the infant with all essential needs like love, safe home environment, care, protection, material as well as emotional support.”
The document, filed by an official of the ministry identified as Simon Chisale, said David, the son of peasant farmer Yohane Banda, had “bonded well with the couple and other key members of the household.”
The report said David, plucked from an orphanage in poor health, “continues to develop into a happy thriving toddler. His survival, growth and development is excellent.”
The celebrity couple were being monitored at their London home whether they were suitable parents for David by Malawian social workers.
The official said Madonna, who is expected to return to Malawi next week to continue her charity work, will not be required during the hearing, which will be held in camera.
“She will have to come to court to sign the full adoption documents later,” the official said.
A coalition of rights groups, the Human Rights Consultative Committee, as “friends of the court” have challenged the adoption and are seeking a full review of the interim order granted to Madonna.
The interim order elapsed in April after it was controversially granted in 2006 allowing Madonna to take David out of Malawi.
The ruling sparked a heated debate about adoption laws in the poor southern African nation where AIDS has left one million orphans.
The rights groups claim that existing legislation does not allow for intra-country adoptions and accuse Madonna of using her vast wealth to fast-track the adoption process.
Source: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080509120110.1su2v615&show_article=1
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1 MADONNA HARD CANDY 279,522 741 999 280,273
2 CAREY*MARIAH E=MC2 95,405 181,889 -48 741,506
3 LEWIS*LEONA SPIRIT 83,903 95,623 -12 479,758
4 JENNINGS*LYFE LYFE CHANGE 80,086 369 999 80,460
5 DEF LEPPARD SONGS FROM THE SPARKLE LOUNGE 54,793 115 999 54,912
6 ROOTS RISING DOWN 53,697 225 999 53,924
7 PORTISHEAD THIRD 52,848 170 999 53,020
8 MUDCRUTCH MUDCRUTCH 38,189 297 999 38,486
9 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC VOL. 27-NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL 30,735 32,224 -5 614,896
10 MCGRAW*TIM GREATEST HITS 1 & 2 29,315 18 999 29,333
11 SWIFT*TAYLOR TAYLOR SWIFT 29,025 26,830 8 2,871,528
12 WINWOOD*STEVE NINE LIVES 26,386 223 999 26,653
13 JUNO SOUNDTRACK 25,719 30,738 -16 699,254
14 ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS SOUNDTRACK 23,408 25,168 -7 671,654
15 SIMON*CARLY THIS KIND OF LOVE 23,073 127 999 23,200
16 JOHNSON*JACK SLEEP THROUGH THE STATIC 22,743 23,953 -5 1,104,089
17 FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS 22,474 52,133 -57 74,844
18 STRAIT*GEORGE TROUBADOUR 22,431 28,969 -23 315,180
19 CAILLAT*COLBIE COCO 21,754 18,699 16 1,530,836
20 MONTANA*HANNAH/CYRUS*MILEY BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT 21,693 25,891 -16 238,815
21 AUGUSTANA CAN’T LOVE CAN’T HURT 21,375 30 999 21,405
22 OTTO*JAMES SUNSET MAN 20,675 24,450 -15 128,650
23 SPARKS*JORDIN JORDIN SPARKS 19,637 19,326 2 716,538
24 BEDINGFIELD*NATASHA POCKETFUL OF SUNSHINE 19,104 6,390 199 201,958
25 LIL MAMA VYP-VOICE OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE 18,605 56 999 18,663
work it, mama!
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Madonna - Hard Candy
Warner Bros. - 758.000 - 1 week at No.1 - Largest Sales Increase
http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm
it has also been reported that hard candy had sales of 44k last week, combining sales from this week, brings its total sales to 802.000. ^5 queen, rock that casbah!
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4 Minutes - Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake
Warner Bros. - 487.000 - 4 weeks at No.1
http://www.mediatraffic.de/tracks.htm
smash it down, chick!
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by Paul Grein in Chart Watch
Madonna lands her seventh #1 album as Hard Candy debuts in the lead position. In the 52 year history of Billboard’s weekly album chart, only one female artist-Barbra Streisand–has had more #1 albums. Madonna is also second only to Streisand for the longest span of #1 albums. Streisand’s span a little more than 33 years, from People in October 1964 to Higher Ground in November 1997. Madonna’s span a little more than 23 years, from Like A Virgin in February 1985 to Hard Candy.
The two women would seem to have little in common. Streisand is renowned as one of the most gifted vocalists of all time. Madonna’s innate vocal talents are fairly modest. As she has pointed out, she didn’t go into music because she thought she had a spectacular voice but because she had something to say.
The two women were received differently from the outset. Streisand’s debut album won a Grammy for Album of the Year. By the time she was 27, Streisand had also won an Emmy and an Oscar, representing a rare degree of affirmation by the show business establishment. Madonna, by contrast, had a hard time at the outset even being taken seriously in the music industry. She didn’t win a Grammy until 1992, and then only in a lower-profile video category. She didn’t have a really good night at the Grammys until 1999, when she won three awards, including Best Pop Album and Best Dance Recording.
For all their differences, the two women also have a lot in common. A friend summed it up by saying they’ve both got a lot of gumption (though he didn’t use the word “gumption”). In both cases, their cultural significance was apparent early on. Streisand made the cover of TIME in April 1964, two weeks before her 22nd birthday. Madonna was on TIME’s cover in May 1985, a few months before she turned 27.
Madonna famously bowed before Streisand when the veteran diva made a surprise cameo appearance in a “Coffee Talk” sketch on Saturday Night Live in February 1992. (You can watch the video at the end of this week’s blog.) Less famously, but significantly, when Billboard ran a special issue saluting Streisand in December 1983, Warner Bros. made a point of taking the back-cover ad to promote Madonna. The Madonna ad was headlined “A Star Is Born”–the title of Streisand’s 1976 movie musical. That week, Madonna’s “Holiday”–her first Hot 100 single–was in its first week in the top 40. For such a newcomer to invite any comparisons to the top female star of a generation took a lot of nerve.
Madonna has not equaled Streisand’s success in films, despite a critically-hailed performance in Desperately Seeking Susan and a Golden Globe-winning turn in Evita. Nor has Madonna equaled Streisand’s success on Broadway in Funny Girl. They’ve had about equal success in TV, though comparing Streisand’s classy, Emmy-winning specials with Madonna’s dozens of trend-setting music videos is a bit like comparing apples and bustiers.
While it may be hard to believe, especially given the erotic photo on the cover of Hard Candy, Madonna will turn 50 on Aug. 16. When Streisand was the same age, she was basking in the success of her lavish, four-disk career retrospective Just For The Record. Since then, Streisand has had two #1 albums, Back To Broadway and Higher Ground, but for the most part, she has seemed content to let her recording career wind down. Having recently signed a major deal with Live Nation, Madonna seems likely to remain active as a recording act.
In addition to being second only to Streisand as the female vocalist with the most #1 albums, Madonna is second only to Mariah Carey for most #1 singles on Billboard’s Hot 100. Madonna has had 12, to Carey’s 18. So you can make a reasonable argument that Madonna is the top female recording act (albums and singles combined) of the rock era. For a woman who is not a great singer to have achieved such a feat says two things–that Madonna has tremendous will and fortitude and that values in pop have changed. Under the new rules (which Madonna helped to write), vision and image matter more than pure vocal ability.
Hard Candy is Madonna’s fourth consecutive studio album to reach #1, the longest such streak of her career. It follows Music, American Life and Confessions On A Dance Floor. At her white-hot heyday in the ‘80s, Madonna reached #1 with three successive studio albums, Like A Virgin, True Blue and Like A Prayer. It’s striking that Madonna has had more #1 albums since 2000 than she did in the ‘80s. (And it’s curious that she had none at all in the ‘90s.)
Hard Candy is the third consecutive #1 album by a female solo artist, following Leona Lewis’ Spirit and Mariah Carey’s E=MC2. This is the first time that three female solo artists have made #1 in succession since Monica, Beyonce and Ashanti scored in June and July 2003. This is also the second time in the past three weeks that female solo artists have locked up the top three spots on the pop album chart. (Men, we’re getting whooped here.)
Hard Candy opens with sales of 280,000. That’s the third highest weekly sales total of 2008, following E=MC2 (463,000) and Jack Johnson’s Sleep Through The Static (375,000).
Lewis’ “Bleeding Love” holds at #1 on Hot Digital Songs for a fourth week, with 217,000 paid digital downloads. This is the fifth time that the smash has topped 200,000 in weekly sales, which extends the record that Lewis set last week. And this is the seventh week in a row that the #1 title on this chart has topped 200K, which is also a new record. I see growth in this field!
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Dear Madonna fans,
Madonna, the world’s tastiest sweetheart, has announced more non stop treats for her legions of legendary & devoted fans. Following the latest news that “HARD CANDY” has debuted at Number 1 around the globe, it has been confirmed that Madonna’s “STICKY & SWEET TOUR” will begin (hip) hopping around the world on August 23 in Cardiff, Wales with stops in major European markets through September, including London (September 11) and Paris (September 20).
The U.S. leg of the “STICKY & SWEET TOUR” begins October 3 at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with stops at New York’s Madison Square Garden on October 6 and 7, followed by performances in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and more, before stopping at Miami’s Dolphin Stadium on November 26. Madonna’s “STICKY & SWEET TOUR” will also visit Mexico and South America later this year. (Show dates, and on sale information in these markets will follow at a later date.) Visit Madonna.com news to read the full press release now.
TOUR ITINERARY 2008
Additional dates and venues to be announced.
Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet tour will also visit Mexico and South America later this year. Show date and on sale information to follow.
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1 1 LEWIS*LEONA BLEEDING LOVE - SINGLE
2 2 LIL WAYNE LOLLIPOP
3 3 JORDIN SPARKS DUET NO AIR
5 4 USHER LOVE IN THIS CLUB
6 5 RAY J FEAT. YUNG BERG SEXY CAN I
4 6 MADONNA 4 MINUTES
7 7 CAREY*MARIAH TOUCH MY BODY
19 8 NATASHA BEDINGFIELD POCKETFUL OF SUNSHINE
8 9 SARA BAREILLES LOVE SONG
14 10 JESSE MCCARTNEY LEAVIN’
15 11 DANITY KANE DAMAGED
11 12 FLO RIDA LOW/JEALOUS
13 13 JOHN MAYER SAY
12 14 MILEY CYRUS SEE YOU AGAIN
9 15 CHRIS BROWN FOREVER
10 16 CHRIS BROWN WITH YOU
16 17 ONEREPUBLIC STOP AND STARE - STILL BULLETED
17 18 RIHANNA DON’T STOP THE MUSIC (JODY DEN
23 19 PLIES FEATURING NE- BUST IT BABY (PART 2)
26 20 COLBIE CAILLAT REALIZE
20 21 COLBY O’DONIS FEATU WHAT YOU GOT - STILL BULLETED
18 22 ROSS*RICK BOSS
22 23 BUCKCHERRY SORRY
21 24 TIMBALAND/ONEREPUBLIC APOLOGIZE - SINGLE
28 25 2 PISTOLS FEATURING SHE GOT IT
– 57 MADONNA GIVE IT 2 ME
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