On December 27 2003, Madonna’s Nothing Fails/Nobody Knows Me single hit #1 and her collaboration with Britney Spears, Me Against The Music hit #2 on Hot Dance Singles Sales chart in US: it was the first time an artist had occupied the top 2 positions on the Singles Sales chart since Puff Daddy in 1997.
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Those three songs from the American Life era-Nobody Knows Me, Nothing Fails and In the Zone were simply a case of Madonna not being at her best-in fact, the tunes in question caught her at a low point and nadir.