Revolver - UK press release

(A UK Warner Press Release)

Hot on the spurs of Madonna’s Top 3 single "Celebration", the Queen of Pop releases her brand new explosive and highly energised single "Revolve" featuring Lil Wayne out December 14, 2009.

The track features on Madonna's Greatest Hits Record, "Celebration", which charted at No.1 in the UK and brings Madonna level with Elvis Presley's record of eleven UK number one albums. No other solo artist can match this achievement. Only The Beatles, with a total of fifteen, have had more number one albums in chart history.

"Celebration" has sold over 2 million copies worldwide already, including 300,000 (platinum) in the UK. "Revolver", which was recorded in New York is written and produced by Madonna and features contributing rap vocals by Lil Wayne.

Included on the CD are the following indispensable remixes:

"Revolver” Madonna vs David Guetta (One Love Remix)
"Celebration" (Akon Remix)

"Celebration" - the definitive greatest hits CD covers the expanse of the Material Girl's extraordinary career of hits including "Everybody","Express Yourself", "Vogue" and "4 Minutes". The Celebration DVD includes Madonna's best videos including several that have never before been available on DVD. Madonna has racked up a record-smashing 63 UK Top Ten hits, 13 UK No.1 singles as well as 11 UK No.1 albums. A multi Grammy award winning singer, writer and producer, she has had more UK number 1's than any other female artist and is the most successful female solo artist ever.

Don't miss a rare 2-part Madonna interview with Ben Shephard on GMTV, December 7th and 8th, where she discusses her life and extensive career.

{As it looks like reports were right!!! We have a new single release and let's hope it won't be just for UK. Don't forget to buy the single!!!}

"Celebration" nominated for a grammy

Last night the 2009 grammy's nominations were announced and Celebration is now nominated for a Grammy award for best dance recording.

Here are the nominations:

Best Dance Recording

(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances. Vocal or Instrumental. Singles or tracks only.)

Boom Boom Pow

The Black Eyed Peas

will.i.am & Jean Baptiste, producers; Dylan Dresdow, mixer

Track from: The E.N.D.

[Interscope Records]

When Love Takes Over

David Guetta & Kelly Rowland

David Guetta & Frederic Riesterer, producers; Veronica Ferraro, mixer

Track from: One Love

[Astralwerks]

Poker Face

Lady Gaga

RedOne, producer; Robert Orton, RedOne & Dave Russell, mixers

Track from: The Fame

[Streamline/Interscope/Konlive/Cherrytree]

Celebration

Madonna

[Warner Bros.]

Womanizer

Britney Spears

K. Briscoe, producer; Serban Ghenea, mixer

Track from: Circus[Jive/Zomba]

The competition is severe as Celebration has to fight the monster hit "Boom Boom Pow" which stayed atop of the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks as well as the likes of Britney Spears (Womanizer, 1# Hot 100) and Lady Gaga (Poker Face, 1# Hot 100).

Interesting Facts:

1#: All songs have reached the number 1 spot in the Billboard Club/Dance Chart.

2#: Madonna must compete David Guetta who remixed Revolver and is rumoured to be a/the producer of Madonna's next album.

In case you are wondering, Celebration the album, the DVD collection and the video of the track weren't eligible to be nominated because they were released after the deadline. Celebration was just in time as it was release just 1 month before the deadline.

So let's Celebrate these achievement for Madge and hope that Madonna will take home her tenth Grammy.

Raising Malawi - World's Aids Day

Raising Malawi Executive Director Philippe van den Bossche posted this entry on the site's blog today, on World AIDS Day.


Today is World AIDS Day - a time for us all to pause and to reflect. We could spend the day giving you shocking statistics, but today we wish to share with you stories of courageous people, not so different from you and me.


In Malawi, HIV/AIDS impacts everyone - mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and even sons and daughters. Loving people of flesh and blood, who are just trying to make the best of their situation. Edith and her son Sinode were one such family. Watch their story in the video embedded here:

In some areas of Malawi it can cost $2 to travel to proper medical care. For many Malawians like Edith, this is an expense well beyond their means.

It takes the kind of strength and determination Edith exhibited just to make it to a hospital. Her courage not only inspires me, but will no doubt be an incredible life lesson for her son.

Many of us can relate to the experience of having to care for family members or raise children while being sick ourselves. But few of us have had to overcome the financial and logistic hurdles that Edith faced to receive basic medical care.

Learn more about Edith's story here.

Sinode and many other children in Malawi need our help. They have witnessed the courage of their parents and family members, but too many are now left alone, orphans raising orphans.

Today, on World AIDS Day, I encourage you to think of the faces of this epidemic - beautiful, courageous people confronting a life-threatening disease with incredible bravery.

The people of Malawi have shown great depth of character, but now it's up to us to ensure the future of their next generation. It is the children of Malawi that will raise their great nation.

Check out more and donate at raisingmalawi.org - Madonna will match your contribution.

On the Cover - Madonna & Herb Ritts

An iconic Madonna pose from The Immaculate Collection photo session graces the cover of issue 58 of Stern Fotografie Portfolio, out in March next year.

The Stern Portfolio series is a fantastic collection of photographic monographies - now published in hardback a few times a year and focusing on the greatest photographers of our time.

Madonna was already featured on this big sized, high quality publication in their issue devoted to Bettina Rheims in 1999 - also appearing on the cover - and more recently in the Steven Klein.

An announcement about the next installment in the series states that this new Stern Fotografie volume "features the best - some unpublished - portraits of those whom Herb Ritts immortalized."

Thanks to MadonnaTribe

Madonna - Celebration Promotion: Interview GMTV

After only a few USA appearances to promote Celebration, the Queen shot a load of interviews in a hotel two months ago which were made for many European & Japanese channels. Now we learn that Madonna has shooted yet another interview, this time for british chanel GMTV. The interview is on heavy promotion, even named the hottest interview of the year. Make sure to catch it, Monday 07 December and Tuesday 08 December.



Here's the ad:

P.S. Madge looks very hot here!!!

P.S.2 The interview will air around the time that Revolver is being released so that must be why this interview airs two months after it was shot!!!

SING Campaign - 2nd anniversary

SING, the Annie Lennox song performed with the "Choir of 23" international singers and including Madonna was released two years ago today, December 1st, to coincide with World Aids Day.

To celebrate SING's second anniversary, Annie Lennox is auctioning five very special prizes. The money raised will help prevent the spread of HIV in South Africa, where 1,000 people die from AIDS-related causes every day. Moreover, approximately a third of all pregnant women there carry the virus, and without intervention, a third of their children will be born with HIV. Unless they get diagnosed and treated, half of all children with HIV die before their first birthday.

But it doesn't have to be like this. With appropriate intervention and treatment, these babies can be born HIV free. The SING campaign is trying to ensure that every single person living with HIV has access to treatment and support. Since 2007, SING has raised over $2 million, and helped over 100,000 people affected by HIV in the Eastern Cape of South Africa - but there is much more work to be done, and we need your help to do it.

Click here to visit the website and place your bid today!


Thanks to MadonnaTribe.

Rupert Everret and Madonna: Not friends, any more

In 2000 Madonna and Rupert Everret starred in The next best thing, a film about two friends having a baby. Rupert and Magde were for a lot of years friends but they have now fallen appart. Rupert has given an interview in the Guardian talking about the Queen. Here's the part:

…What’s more, he has a special knack of always being where the action is: in Moscow with the tanks and Yeltsin during the 1991 coup, strolling through downtown Manhattan on 11 September, nightclubbing in Miami with Gianni Versace before he was shot, sleeping with Béatrice Dalle when she was the most desirable woman in France, having an affair with Paula Yates when she was one half of the most famous couple in Britain. Not forgetting his most publicly defining role: gay best friend to Madonna.
Or at least he was. Until she read his book.

“She really didn’t like it.”

Didn’t she, I say? But it’s very affectionate.

“I think it is very affectionate, and certainly with her I was very careful to only write things that were. But she felt it was an infringement of privacy.”

In fact, it is mostly very affectionate. Of their first meeting, he writes: “She had the cupid-bow lips of a silent screen star, and it was obvious that she was playing with Sean [Penn]’s cock throughout the meal. She was mesmerizing. She oozed sex and demanded a sexual response from everyone. It didn’t matter if you were gay. You were swept up all the same.”

When I read it a second time around, though, I think I spot some of the areas of potential concern. His observation that she smells “vaguely of sweat”, to take one example. Or that, like all Hollywood’s alpha females, she’s something of a “she-man”. Or just possibly it was this bit that she didn’t care much for: “Just like America, everything about Madonna had changed. And what had happened had been carefully wrapped in psychological clingfilm and locked inside an interior fridge. Sometimes, in moments of stress, Madonna had power cuts and the old whiny barmaid came screaming out of the defrosting cold room.”

Still, I say, it’s not like you give anything away.

“No I don’t, but goddesses like that are obsessed with their public image and want to control everything about it, so if anyone is to tell anyone anything about her it’s got to be her.”

So has she forgiven you for that now?

“No.”

Really?

“Elephants don’t forget.”

Has she not forgiven you in a jokey way, or has she really not forgiven you?

“She doesn’t trust me any more.”

You'll See

In 1995 Madonna gave to her fans one amazing, female empowerment-ing ballad called You'll See. The beautiful song was part of the 3 new songs in the ballad compilation Something to Remember which was released in early November, 1995. The song was released as single and peaked at 6# in the USA, 5# in the UK and fared at number 1 in Spain and Japan. The video was the sequel to Take a Bow, shot with the same director and co-star. It showcases Madonna leaving her abusive lover.

Now 14 years after the release, Susan Boyle the Britain's Got Talent runner-up, covers the song for her debut album I Deamt A Dream which contains other songs covered by the talentive Susan. She has loved the song for years, and she used to sing it in audition in which she was turned out; Susan would burst to tears and then say: "You'll See".

In why she decided to have the song in her album she said: "At school, I felt very frustrated, very lonely - people didn't want to sit next to me in class. I was often bawling my eyes out and it does tend to chip away at your personality" She continued saying that "That's a statement I was trying to make, you may have done that to me when I was younger but you can't do that to me now."

P.S. Sorry for the intervention, but Susan is great and her voice is amazing! If you like it make sure to purchace the album!