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.”
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!
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!
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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.
On December 28 2014, Madonna and her children went to Gstaad, Switzerland for a skiing holiday in the mountains.
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.
On December 26 1998, the fourth single from Madonna’s Ray of Light album, The Power of Good-Bye, peaked at #2 on the United World Chart.
Billboard’s Larry Flick had this to say about the single release of The Power of Good-Bye in the September 12, 1998 issue of the magazine:
Next to the title track to Madonna’s glorious Ray of Light opus, this is the tune that radio programmers and diehard fans have long been clamoring to be released as a single. With a little help from co-producers William Orbit and Patrick Leonard, the diva brilliantly nestles a dewy love ballad within a cutting-edge electronic pop framework. You can listen to this track a dozen times and still pluck something new from the richly layered arrangement, which is anchored by a crisp shuffle beat and sweetened by occasional orchestral string flourishes and contrasting acoustic guitar strumming. All the while, Madonna performs with a confidence that allows her to flawlessly merge a widened vocal range with a considerable dose of raw emotion and soul. Although this gem would find instant success on its own, look for The Power of Good-Bye to be bolstered by its prominent play during the hotly anticipated new WB TV series Felicity.
