On January 2 1999, Madonna’s The Power of Good-Bye peaked at #14 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart in the USA. The single remained #14 for 6 non-consecutive weeks.
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Today in Madonna History: January 1, 1983
On January 1 1983, Madonna’s first single, Everybody, climbed to #4 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the USA after 9 weeks on the chart.
Madonna talking about hearing Everybody for the first time on radio:
“I was living on the Upper West Side, 99th and Riverside, and about 7:00 at night I had the radio on in my bedroom, on WKTU, and I heard ‘Everybody’. I said ‘Oh, my God, that’s me coming out of that box.’ It was an amazing feeling.”
Today in Madonna History: January 1, 2016
Justin and I would like to wish all of our readers at Today in Madonna History a Happy New Year!
We’d like to extend a special thanks to Madonna for giving us her brilliant Rebel Heart album, the Living For Love, Ghost Town and Bitch I’m Madonna singles, and the refreshingly brilliant Rebel Heart World Tour in 2015.
We’re very excited for all of our readers who will see the tour in the next few months – you’re in for a treat!
Cheers to Madonna and cheers to all of us – we’re very happy to be healthy and alive and celebrating this fantastic living legend!
Today in Madonna History: December 31, 2014
On December 31 2014, Madonna tweeted:
Bitches i’m looking to the future and the future looks good! #rebelheart #unapologeticbitch
Today Justin and I are also looking to the future and the future does look good!
We would both like to thank all of our readers for supporting us over the last (almost) two years at Today in Madonna History.
We’re having a lot of fun putting this page together, and we hope you’re enjoying it as much as we are.
Please share it with your friends if you haven’t already – thanks!
We would also like to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year!
From both of us, Jay and Justin (Toronto, Canada)
Today in Madonna History: December 30, 1987
On December 30 1987, Madonna was featured on the cover of Smash Hits magazine. Before the Pet Shop Boys became famous, Neil Tennant interviewed Madonna for Smash Hits:
Neil Tennant: Where are you from?
Madonna: I come from a big Italian family. I have eight brothers and sisters. I was born in Detroit and then moved to Pontiac and then moved to another city just north of Detroit. Those are all car factory cities so everybody’s families worked in the car factories. I went to three different Catholic schools – uniforms and nuns hitting you over the head with staplers, very strict and regimented. To my superiors I seemed like a very good girl. I was very good at getting into these situations where I was the hall monitor and I reported people who weren’t behaving. And I used to torture people but in the end it came back to me.
Today in Madonna History: December 27, 2014
On December 28 2014, Madonna and her children went to Gstaad, Switzerland for a skiing holiday in the mountains.
Today in Madonna History: December 27, 2011
On December 27 2011, Madonna opened her third Hard Candy Fitness in Moscow, Russia.
The first Hard Candy Fitness was opened in Mexico City, and the second was opened in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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