Today in Madonna History: May 26, 1997

May 26, 2015 By Jay in 1997, May Tags: Lourdes Maria Ciccone, On the Cover of a Magazine, People Magazine 1 Comment

On May 26 1997, Madonna appeared on the cover of People magazine as part of the “New Sexy Moms” feature.

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

Even Madonna, who moved a month before Lourdes’s birth from her Hollywood Hills mansion to a more baby-friendly one-story spread in a quieter neighborhood, is becoming downright strait-laced. “TV is poison,” saying that she would forbid Lourdes to watch it. “To be plopped in front of a television instead of being read to or talked to or encouraged to interact with other human beings is a huge mistake.”

Today in Madonna History: May 25, 1985

May 25, 2015 By sonicboy19 in 1985, May Tags: Charts, Laserdisc, Madonna The Videos, VHS 1 Comment

On May 25 1985, Madonna’s self-titled video collection hit number-one on Billboard’s Top Music Videos chart in the U.S.

Released on VHS, Beta and 8″ LaserDisc, the “video ep” included four of her earliest music videos (while it excluded the low-budget and rarely seen video for Everybody, it included a previously unreleased extended version of the Lucky Star video). It marked Madonna’s first foray into the home video market.

Today in Madonna History: May 24, 1989

May 24, 2015 By sonicboy19 in 1989, May Tags: Benefit Concert, Charity Event, Don't Bungle The Jungle, I Got You Babe, Live Videos, Sandra Bernhard 1 Comment

On May 24 1989, Madonna participated in the Don’t Bungle The Jungle benefit concert to raise money and awareness for preserving the world’s rainforests. The event took place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY. Madonna performed a rendition of Sonny & Cher’s I Got You Babe with comedian and friend Sandra Bernhard.

Today in Madonna History: May 23, 1985

May 23, 2015 By sonicboy19 in 1985, May Tags: Canada, Certification, Like A Virgin (Album), Maple Leaf Gardens, Platinum, The Virgin Tour, Toronto 2 Comments

On May 23 1985, Madonna accepted a Canadian Quadruple Platinum certification award for shipment of over 400,000 copies of her second album, Like A Virgin, within Canada. The award was presented by WEA Canada’s VP of sales Garry Newman to Madonna and Sire Records president Seymour Stein prior to her sold-out Toronto concert at Maple Leaf Gardens.

Like A Virgin was eventually certified (in July, 1992) with the rare Canadian Diamond certification for shipment of over one million copies in Canada. The only other Madonna album to date to receive Diamond certification in Canada is True Blue, which managed to achieve the feat within a year of its release. To date, only eighteen albums in total (by any artist or musical group) have received a Diamond certification in Canada.

Today in Madonna History: May 22, 2002

May 22, 2015 By Jay in 2002, May Tags: ASCAP Pop Music Awards, Don't Tell Me, Music (Album) 1 Comment

On May 22 2002, Madonna won Most Performed Song and Best Dance Song for Don’t Tell Me at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards.

Today in Madonna History: May 21, 2006

May 21, 2015 By Jay in 2006, May Tags: The Confessions Tour 1 Comment

On May 21 2006, Madonna opened The Confessions Tour at the Forum in Inglewood, California. Madonna performed the show for three SOLD OUT nights at the Forum in front of 40,044 fans.

Ben Werner of The Orange County Register reported that “No one – but no one – stages elaborate eye-candy productions like Madonna, whose highly impressive Confessions Tour opened Sunday night at a packed Forum so sweltering it seemed as though it were being prepped for the world’s largest Bikram yoga session.”