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Sunday, August 21, 2022

Madonna: Top 100 Songs

Madonna

Top 100 Songs

The dance-pop singer and record executive (Maverick Records) was born Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone on August 16, 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. She was the third of six children born to an Italian-American. Her mother died of breast cancer when Madonna was only five. She was raised in a Catholic family in the Detroit suburbs and was a straight A-student who was on the cheerleading squad and studied ballet.

She went to the University of Michigan on a dance scholarship, but left in 1977 for New York, dreaming of being a ballet dancer. She performed with the Alvin Ailey dance troupe and studied with Martha Graham before forming the dance/po group the Breakfast Club. She signed to Sire Records as a solo artist in 1982.

She quickly established herself as a master of controlling “the media and the public with her music, her videos, her publicity, and her sexuality.” AMG She was “arguably…the first female pop star to have complete control of her music and image.” AMG She was named the most successful female recording artist of all time by Guinness World Records in 2000. She has sold an estimated 275 million albums worldwide and 75 million singles.

She was married to actor Sean Penn (1985-89) and British director Guy Ritchie (2000-08). She was also featured in movies such as Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Dick Tracy (1990), A League of Their Own (1992), and Evita (1996), the latter of which won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

For a complete list of this act’s DMDB honors, check out the DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry.

Click here to see other acts’ best-of lists.

Awards:

Top 100 Songs

Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards. Songs which hit #1 on various charts are noted. (Click for codes to singles charts.)

DMDB Top 1%:

1. Like a Prayer (1989)
2. Like a Virgin (1984)
3. Vogue (1990)
4. Music (2000)
5. Into the Groove (1985)
6. Take a Bow (1994)

DMDB Top 2%:

7. Ray of Light (1998)
8. Hung Up (2005)
9. Crazy for You (1985)
10. Papa Don’t Preach (1986)

11. Holiday (1983)
12. 4 Minutes (with Justin Timberlake, 2008)

DMDB Top 5%:

13. Justify My Love (1990)
14. Don’t Cry for Me Argentina (1996)
15. Live to Tell (1986)
16. Borderline (1984)
17. Material Girl (1984)
18. Frozen (1998)
19. Express Yourself (1989)
20. I’ll Remember (1994)

21. American Pie (2000)
22. This Used to Be My Playground (1992)
23. Open Your Heart (1986)
24. Beautiful Stranger (1999)
25. Who’s That Girl? (1987)

DMDB Top 10%:

26. La Isla Bonita (1987)
27. Lucky Star (1984)
28. Die Another Day (2002)
29. Don’t Tell Me (2000)
30. Angel (1985)

31. Secret (1994)
32. True Blue (1986)
33. You Must Love Me (1996)
34. Sorry (2006)
35. Oh Father (1989)
36. Cherish (1989)
37. You’ll See (1995)

DMDB Top 20%:

38. Deeper and Deeper (1992)
39. Human Nature (1995)
40. Causing a Commotion (1987)

41. Dress You Up (1985)
42. Rain (1993)
43. Erotica (1992)
44. Me Against the Music (with Britney Spears, 2003)
45. Rescue Me (1990)
46. Give It 2 Me (2008)
47. What It Feels Like for a Girl (2001)
48. The Power of Goodbye (1998)
49. Hanky Panky (1990)
50. Celebration (2009)

51. Keep It Together (1990)
52. Bedtime Story (1994)
53. American Life (2003)
54. Love Don’t Live Here Anymore (1984)
55. Fever (1992)
56. Bad Girl (1992)

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

57. Give Me All Your Luvin’ (with Nicki Minaj & M.I.A., 2012)
58. Burning Up (1983)
59. Nothing Really Matters (1998)
60. Gambler (1985)

61. Santa Baby (1987)
62. Hollywood (2003)
63. Jump (2005)
64. Girl Gone Wild (2012)
65. Get Together (2005)
66. Love Profusion (2003)
67. Miles Away (2008)
68. Ghosttown (2015)
69. Living for Love (2014)
70. Bitch I’m Madonna (with Nicki Minaj, 2015)

71. Everybody (1982)
72. Sooner or Later (1990)
73. Dear Jessie (1989)
74. Drowned World/Substite for Love (1998)
75. One More Chance (1995)
76. Spotlight (1987)
77. Nothing Fails (2003)
78. Crave (with Swae Lee, 2019)
79. Now I’m Following You (with Warren Beatty, 1990)
80. The Look of Love (1987)

81. Where’s the Party? (1986)
82. I Want You (with Massive Attack, 1995)
83. Another Suitcase, Another Hall (1996)
84. Little Star (1998)
85. Medellin (with Maluma, 2019)
86. Something to Remember (1990)
87. Revolver (with Lil’ Wayne, 2009)
88. Bye Bye Baby (1992)
89. Masterpiece (2012)
90. Physical Attraction (1983)

91. Turn Up the Radio (2012)
92. Hey You (2007)
93. What Can You Lose (with Mandy Patinkin, 1990)
94. I Don’t Search I Find (2019)
95. I Rise (2019)
96. Love Song (with Prince, 1989)
97. Spanish Eyes (1989)
98. Impressive Instant (2000)
99. Hold Tight (2015)
100. More (1990)

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Saturday, August 16, 1986

Madonna’s True Blue hit #1

First posted 3/26/2008; updated 11/25/2020.

True Blue

Madonna

Released: June 30, 1986

Peak: 15 US, 16 UK, 114 CN, 12 AU

Sales (in millions): 7.8 US, 1.96 UK, 26.3 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: dance pop

Tracks:

Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts.

  1. Papa Don’t Preach (6/26/86, 1 US, 1 UK, 16 AC, sales: 0.5 m)
  2. Open Your Heart (12/6/86, 1 US, 4 UK, 12 AC)
  3. White Heat
  4. Live to Tell (4/12/86, 1 US, 2 UK, 1 AC)
  5. Where’s the Party?
  6. True Blue (10/4/86, 3 US, 1 UK, 5 AC, sales: 0.5 m)
  7. La Isla Bonita (3/21/87, 4 US, 1 UK, 1 AC)
  8. Jimmy, Jimmy
  9. Love Makes the World Go Round

Total Running Time: 40:25

Rating:

3.940 out of 5.00 (average of 31 ratings)

Quotable: “One of the great dance-pop albums.” – Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Awards:

About the Album:

This is “the album where Madonna truly became Madonna the Superstar – the endlessly ambitious, fearlessly provocative entertainer that knew how to outrage, spark debates, get good reviews...and make good music while she’s at it.” STE Madonna set herself an extremely high bar with 1984’s Like a Virgin, but managed to top herself with True Blue. The former album went to #1 for three weeks; True Blue spent five weeks at the pinnacle. Virgin landed four top 5 hits, including the #1 title cut while True Blue pulled off five top 5 hits, three of which went to #1.

That included, including the first single, the ballad Live to Tell. It was also used in the film At Close Range, featuring actor Sean Penn, whom Madonna married in 1985.

“Madonna's third album was a huge musical leap forward.” KB True Blue demonstrates how Madonna uses “the music to hook in critics just as she’s baiting a mass audience with such masterstrokes as Papa Don’t Preach.” STE “With its gorgeous pseudo-classical strings intro, [it] is a sumptuous airwaves banquet, as Madonna wrestles with the have-the-baby-or-give-it-up dilemma (abortion’s not in the picture) in newly gritty tones.” KB

“It’s easy to position anti-abortionism as feminism, but what’s tricky is to transcend your status as a dance-pop diva.” STE “Most of the songs share a jittery dance-pop sound, edgy, distracted, and nerve-jangling but simultaneously invigorating and exhilarating and almost dangerously giddy – a perfect soundtrack for the mid-‘80s.” KB

True Blue finds Madonna “consciously recalling classic girl-group pop” STE with the title cut and “the fine-but-nothing-special Jimmy Jimmy” KB She also “deepen[s] the dance grooves” STE with “the hedonist’s credo of Where's the Party” KB and Open Your Heart, which is a “marriage of jitter-pop and wistful melody underscores the singer’s yearning but forceful stance (‘You better open your heart to me, buster’).” KB

Elsewhere, we see Madonna exploring “Latin rhythms” STE with “the subtle and pretty Latin pastiche La Isla Bonita” KB, “making a plea for world peace (Love Makes the World Go Round)” STE, and, with Live to Tell, delivering a “a riveting ballad, lushly melodic yet spare and haunting – a place, as the song says, where beauty lives.” KB

This is “one of the great dance-pop albums, a record that demonstrates Madonna’s true skills as a songwriter, record-maker, provocateur, and entertainer through its wide reach, accomplishment, and sheer sense of fun.” STE “A quintessential ‘80s pop artifact.” KB

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