On April 9 1983, Madonna’s Burning Up debuted at #66 on Billboard’s Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the USA.
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Today in Madonna History: April 8, 2003
On April 8 2003, American Life was released digitally as the lead single from Madonna’s ninth studio album of the same name.
American Life was written and produced by Madonna and Mirwais Ahmadzaï, and was released by Maverick Records.
Today in Madonna History: April 7, 2005
On April 7 2005, a new Versace campaign featuring Madonna appeared in Belgian Marie Claire.
Donatella Versace describes the campaign:
“When thinking of Madonna, you won’t picture an average business woman. But that’s exactly how she was photographed by Mario Testino for the latest campaign. Talking on the phone in her fancy office, Madonna shows off the summer collection.
She’s an icon, a chameleon, a trendsetter, and she’s the best in her profession. It doesn’t matter how old you are, everybody wants to identify himself with Madonna.”
Today in Madonna History: April 6, 2017
On April 6 2017, CNN published an article explaining why Madonna understands a little something about pulled Pepsi commercials:
In 1989, she starred in a Pepsi commercial that was pulled because of controversy over the music video for Like A Prayer, which featured burning crosses and showed Madonna kissing a black actor portraying a saint.
She reminded the world of this bit of pop culture history Wednesday when she posted on Instagram about the disastrous Pepsi ad featuring Kendall Jenner.
“When you wake up and realize that SHIT just really doesn’t make sense. Side Note: My Pepsi commercial was pulled 30 years ago because I was kissing a black saint! #ironic.”
Today in Madonna History: April 5, 2017
On April 5 2017, Madonna’s manager, Guy Oseary, Tweeted the following message to Pharrell Williams:
Happy Birthday @pharrell … need to get you back in the studio with the blonde in the photo.. have a great one.
What do you think? Should Madonna and Pharrell work together again? What is your favourite collaboration from them?
Today in Madonna History: March 15, 1999
On March 15 1999, Madonna’s publicist, Liz Rosenberg, confirmed to MTV News that a tour in support of Ray Of Light had been canceled. Instead, Madonna would be working on a number of other projects including:
- A new song with Ricky Martin for his next album
- A new song for the Austin Powers 2 soundtrack
- Assembling a new greatest hits album (Liz called it “The Immaculate Collection 2“) with a few new songs
- Starring in a new film, The Next Best Thing, with Rupert Everett
Liz had this to say:
“The starting date of the movie was postponed, and it created such a small window to turn things around and get into total tour mode and put together the kind of show Madonna does, with no stone unturned, that she thought it would be better to wait until 2000.”
Today in Madonna History: March 11, 1986
On March 11 1986, Madonna was named Favorite Female Musical Performer at the 12th annual People’s Choice Awards. Madonna accepted her award from the set of Shanghai Surprise in London, England.
