Madonna has filmed an episode of Pimp My Ride for MTV UK.

The episode entitled Pimp Madonna's Ride will air in mid-February (possibly on Sunday 19 February), featuring host Tim Westwood and Madonna.

It was shot a couple of weeks ago and is currently in post-production.

The latest issues of Japanese magazines Elle and Glamourous both feature articles about Madonna - click to enlarge and read the articles.

Our main focus this entire week is to get Hung Up to retire on MTV TRL at #1! There are only four more days to Madonna's first TRL video retirement!

We've come a long way; let's make it a HUGE ending for the video on TRL! Please call 1-800-DIAL-MTV (1-800-342-5688) and vote online at www.mtv.com

Dolce & Gabbana's latest fashion show in Paris last week featured models wearing tshirts with the Confessions On A Dance Floor album cover design on them.

DIVA (Diverse and Inclusive Visionary Artists) and Warner Bros Records cordially invites our friends from Los Angeles and all her fans over the world for the exclusive Los Angeles official release of Madonna's new single Sorry.
Hear the new single first as DIVA kicks off Grammy Awards! Enter to win fabulous prizes! Special performance by Ari Gold at 9 pm. DJ Scotty K spins.

Doors open at 4 pm. Sunday 05 February. Here Lounge in West Hollywood.

Be among the first to hear the exclusive debut of Sorry Remix by Pet Shop Boys in Los Angeles! Sorry single giveaways, albums, posters and more!

For more information, email us at queerdiva@gmail.com

Madonna's next single Sorry will be released in three formats in the UK on Monday 20 February, available as a 2-track CD, Maxi CD and DVD.

The 2-track and Maxi feature exclusive remixes of the album track Let It Will Be which was recorded at her incredible live show at London's KOKO in November.

Here is a look at the Sorry promo CD - click to enlarge:

The UK TV premiere of Madonna's new video, Sorry, will now be aired on Channel 4 on Wednesday 08 February at 11:05pm.

Here is the final cover for the Region 2 release of Madonna's 1986 film Shanghai Surprise which is due for release on Monday 27 February.

Fans can vote in an online poll asking Who would you like to see most as a surprise performer at this year's Grammys? - to vote for Madonna click here.

Madonna's worldwide coverage on Elle magazine continues, here is the cover of the Norwegian version of the magazine which is out now.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has just published its updated list of the 150 highest selling artists ever. Madonna appears at number 4, right behind the Beatles, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley, with a total of 275 Millions records sold worldwide from 1984 to late 2005. Congratulations to our queen of the dance floor!

01. The Beatles 40 400,000,000 UK 60s (1962-1970) Rock/Pop Guinness/EMI
02. Michael Jackson 14 350,000,000 US 70s-00s (1979-) Pop/R&B MJ Stats
03. Elvis Presley 150 300,000,000 US 50s-70s (1956-1977) Country/Rock
04. Madonna 16 275,000,000 US 80s-00s (1984-) Pop WBR [1]
05. Nana Mouskouri 450 250,000,000 Greece 60s-00s (1959-) Pop [2][3]

Madonna has splashed out £900,000 on a second London home - so she can move in even more staff.
The pop diva’s new mews property is at the end of the garden of her plush Mayfair mansion.
The star - who also owns an estate in the English countryside and homes in Los Angeles, New York and Miami - already owns the property adjacent to her new house.
One of the singer’s neighbours told Britain’s The Sun newspaper: 'She loves her home in London but has always wanted more space. Properties here often aren’t as big as the enormous places you can get in Los Angeles.'
'She had been after the mews house next door for a couple of years. She asked the banking consultant neighbour who owned it if he was prepared to sell and eventually he agreed.'
The source added: 'Madonna likes the added security she will have owning the house next door. She has had big security problems in the past.'
'She plans to move in more of her staff next door now and she said she could do with the extra office space.'

Fellow fansite M.Nu have published some pictures of Madonna leaving Paris yesterday after her short trip to meet Jean-Paul Gaultier.

For more and larger pictures please visit their site.

According to unsubstantiated claims appearing online, the pop superstar will play shows throughout June and July in America, including five dates at Shea Stadium in New York City. The news comes amid industry reports that promotional king-pin Arthur Fogel has been signed for the live follow-up to last year's 'Re-Invention' tour.
Fogel, who put together the 'Re-Invention' jaunt and the 2001 'Drowned World' tour, is said to be fronting the 2006 outing, which will promote last year's 'Confessions On A Dance Floor' album, reports Billboard.
The tour, which is set to commence in America, apparently spans the globe, concluding with shows in Australia in mid to late September.

From Hello! Magazine:
Jean Paul Gaultier's most famous client Madonna dropped in fashionably late to his show in Paris. But the singer - who aided the designer's rise to fashion stardom by wearing the famous conical bra he created - could be forgiven her tardiness. So celebs and models alike waited patiently until proceedings started an hour behind schedule.
The 47-year-old performer seemed pensive as she took her seat in thigh-high boots and a black coat. Later, however, she was seen in animated discussions with flamenco idol, Joaquin Cortes, and fashionistas in the front row.

From Women's Wear Daily:
Madonna, absent from fashion’s front row for years, unleashed pandemonium at the couture shows here Wednesday afternoon when she arrived at Jean Paul Gaultier.
The paparazzi surged dangerously, with camera crews sneaking in between the rows to get footage of the pop superstar. Dressed all in black with wraparound sunglasses, Madonna told WWD, 'Gaultier is going to design the costumes for my next show. We are going to discuss the details tomorrow.'
Once her bodyguards cleared the runway, Madonna jumped from her seat to greet French photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino before the show. As it turns out, the queen of pop is quite the polyglot, finding time to exchange a few words in Spanish with her front-row neighbor, flamenco dancer Joachim Cortez.

An In-Line skater has been hand-picked to star in pop star Madonna's new music video.
Max Freeman, has already been filmed to accompany Sorry, the second single from her album, Confessions On A Dance Floor.
Former Ratton and Sussex Downs College student Max went to London to take part in the shoot.
It is the first time he's been involved in a music video, but he's hoping it won't be the last.
'I had an audition before Christmas and got a call back last week telling me that I needed to be in London the following day,' he said.
'I was very excited as it was my first appearance in a pop video and I'd not done anything like it before.'
'I've been skating since I was 14 years old after becoming interested in it from going to the Skate on the seafront.'
'Although I was skating before the event, it gave me new ideas about tricks and it continued from there.'
'I've been lucky enough to take part in competitions around Europe and really enjoy it, but it's for pleasure and not to make money.'
The shooting of the video took place over two gruelling days of filming.
The first shoot started at 11am and finished at 1am, with the second starting at 8am and finishing at 1am.
The 20-year-old, of Shalfleet Close, also managed to speak to the normally very private superstar.
'Madonna was nice and we spoke for a bit,' he said. 'She was only on set for a fraction of the hours the rest of us were there for.'
'They shot the bits she needed to be in and then she went home.'
'The hours were long and it was hard work, but very enjoyable.'
Max hasn't yet seen the final version of the video and will be waiting like the rest of the pop star's fans for its release.
But he gave no secrets away about the theme.
He added, 'I know the lyrics off by heart now. I would love to do another video, but I'll have to wait and see what happens in the future.'

Madonna and Guy spent a night out dining at London restaurant Locanda Locatelli with Brad Pitt and Jamie Oliver this week - to view the pictures click here.

A Gilles Bensimon shot of Madonna also graces the cover of the February 2006 issues of Greek and Russian Elle magazine.

 

Madonna has accepted Jon Bon Jovi's apology for criticising her parenting skills, but is still waiting for Sir Elton John to apologise for his regular attacks on her.
The Bon Jovi frontman slammed the Material Girl last year for bringing her children Lourdes and Rocco to public events.
After Madonna's spokeswoman denied the superstar had ever brought the kids to a film premiere, Bon Jovi apologised, saying, 'Let me apologise because I don't know the woman.'
In response to Bon Jovi's apology, Madonna's rep Liz Rosenberg tells the New York Daily News, 'Now that is a gentleman - unlike Elton John, whose favourite hobby is trashing Madonna.'
John hit the headlines in 2004 when he falsely accused Madonna of lip-syncing on her ReInvention World tour and berated her for failing to attend his pre-'wedding' bash before his civil partnership ceremony to David Furnish last month.

Fans now have a chance to download Madonna's 2003 appearance on the UK music show, TOTP, where she performed Hollywood.
The caption at the start and end of the clip states American Life as this clip was originally shown to promote the album and not the single.

By far the juiciest bit of info we've extracted from Sundance has nothing to do with the film festival. Instead, it is all about the woman that has changed the landscape of pop music and defined a generation, Madonna.
We have it on VERY GOOD AUTHORITY that her Madgesty is flying out to Los Angeles for the Grammy awards, and you know we're going to be all over that.
What more, M. is going to not only make an apperance at the show, but she will also make a cameo at our friends at Warner Bros.' official post-Grammy party.
PLUS, and this is where it gets very interesting. We also hear that Madonna's business partner, Guy Oseary, is throwing a Grammy after-party solely for the Queen of Pop.
Now, call us conspiracy theorists, but....if Madonna is not nominated for a Grammy (her brazilliant album didn't come out in time) and they are still throwing a party for her, that must mean only one thing: she is performing!

Another Gilles Bensimon shot graces the cover of the February 2006 issue of the Ukrainian version of Elle magazine.

Pop superstar Madonna has angrily hit back at rumours her five-year marriage to Guy Ritchie is in trouble.
The Hung Up hitmaker, who uncharacteristically cancelled her performance at the NRJ Music Awards in Cannes, France, on Saturday, has been dogged by speculation about her relationship with the 37-year-old director in recent weeks.
The New York Daily News recently claimed, 'The couple have split but they're keeping it quiet.'
However, the singer's spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg insists their relationship is as strong as ever, revealing Ritchie and children Lourdes and Rocco last week visited Madonna on the London set of her new video Sorry.
She says, 'Guy came on the set to visit. Mr and Mrs Ritchie seemed comfortable and adoring of each other.'
'My sense is that they're quite a happy, content couple.'

A download is now available of Madonna's 2001 speech at the award ceremony of The Turner Prize, which is awarded to artists.
Madonna caused a scandal at the time by swearing on live TV (the award ceremony is always broadcast live on Channel 4), and made plenty of headlines around the world over her highly intentional slip of the tongue!

Hung Up was #3 (up from #4 on Friday) on MTV's Total Request Live, marking it's 42nd day on the countdown. If Hung Up spends 8 more days on the top 10 countdown, it will be retired to TRL's Retirement Home.
It was mentioned, again today, that if Hung Up retires, it will be the first video of Madonna's to be retired on TRL. Let's all get Hung Up back to the top, and retire it!

Vote at www.mtv.com and by calling 1-800-DIAL-MTV (1-800-342-5688).

For the tenth consecutive week Madonna's Hung Up is Europe's number one single!

Madonna was named Best International Female Artist at the NRJ Music Awards which took place in Cannes last night.

Madonna herself did not perform or pick up the award in person as previously hoped, due to having to complete the Sorry video shoot in London.

According to sources at Billboard.com, Arthur Fogel president of TNA International, Live Nation's global touring division, has nailed down the promotion rights for the as-yet-unannounced 2006 tour by Madonna.

He has previously worked with Madonna on the Drowned World and Re-Invention tours and Madonna herself describes him as: '....knowing how to make the impossible possible....he's a touring genius.'

Madonna has won both the Best Single Of The Year Award for Hung Up and the Best Solo Artist in the 2005 Virgin Music Awards.

Here is another chance for fans who missed the links that madonnalicious published this week to download the excellent 1990 BBC Omnibus Madonna documentary.

The documentary features interviews with Madonna's early mentors and influences, great concert footage and an interview with Madonna herself.

The BBC Radio One website has published a picture of Madonna onset of the Sorry video shoot.

Madonna is pictured with the fans who were lucky enough to win the BBC Radio One competition to meet Madonna onset!

Sorry has now been moved from the B playlist to the A playlist on BBC Radio One, which means Madonna's next single should get a lot more UK airplay!

The Gilles Bensimon photographs of Madonna are now appearing on different countries versions of Elle (February 2006 issues).
Shown below are the Croatian and Slovenian versions of the magazine.

 

A reporter from BBC Radio One had attended the Sorry video shoot and that the theme is apparently this major dance off between Madonna in one cage and another dancer in another cage. It is like a sequel to Hung Up.

Madonna's hair and style is exactly the same, but this time she's in a white leotard and clad in diamonds.

madonnalicious visitor Jacopo attended the Dolce and Gabbana party at the Metropol, here is a report and picture:

The night inspiration was the seventies, but actually the real inspiration was Madonna and her latest trend.
A huge disco ball was in the middle of the club and the first song of the night was Hung Up (radio version and Stewart Price remix ). But the amazing part was the use of 15 dancers who were dressed up in the very style Madonna has been wearing recently. When Hung Up was played the crowed went wild!

The UK TV premiere of the video for Madonna's next single is scheduled to air on Friday 03 February at 8:25pm on Channel 4.

Friends are worried that the hardest-working woman in show business is whittling her body down to a stub.
'She looks way too thin,' one insider tells us. 'It's scary. Everyone around her is buzzing that she's working herself right into exhaustion.'
Even after breaking her collarbone and fracturing three ribs in a horseback-riding accident, the 47-year-old singer has stuck to a strict exercise routine. She's said to do between two and three hours a day of Ashtanga yoga and Pilates, plus swimming, weight training and cycling.
She says her husband, Guy Ritchie, expects nothing less.
'I wish I were comfortable enough to look zaftig,' Mrs. Ritchie recently told Elle magazine. 'But I choose men who like carved-out women, the can-you-run-for-the-bus kind of guy. I'm naturally inclined toward men like that.'
She's also been rehearsing like a dervish for the video for 'Sorry,' the second single off her hit album 'Confessions on a Dance Floor.'
Her tireless publicist, Liz Rosenberg, was in London yesterday for the video shoot.
'I'm about 40 feet away from her,' she told us, 'and she looks pretty hot to me.'
Rosenberg acknowledged that some recent paparazzi photos show her client looking less than rested.
'How would you look with 10-hour dance rehearsals?' she added. 'Maybe she's working harder than usual, but that's what you have to do before a video.'
The mother of two, who last week became the oldest person ever nominated for a best pop act BRIT Award, doesn't look like she's about to let up. We hear she's in talks to do a show-stopping number at next month's Grammys.
Rosenberg would say only, 'I've heard rumors to that effect.'

Here are the latest pictures of Madonna around town in London over the past few days. Visit fellow fansite M.Nu for larger versions of the pictures.

Here are three links where fans can vote for Sorry on Canada's biggest radios stations:

CKOI at www.ckoi.com
Mix 96 at top6@themix.com
Radio Énergie at www.radioenergie.com

At last the official cover for Madonna's next single has been revealed by Warner Netherlands. There is also an interesting story behind the photograph used:

Warner Netherlands has revealed the cover picture for the Sorry single. We at Mad-Eyes can now confirm that we were contacted by Madonna's management in December, concerning this single cover. After seeing our pictures from the G.A.Y. gig, made by Mad-Eyes photographer Marcin Kokowski, they expressed intrest in using one of them for the single artwork. As you can see in the result, they did indeed!
Giovanni Bianco reworked the picture, changing the hair colour to red, like he did for the album cover. Warner asked us not to break the news yet, but now Warner Netherlands has revealed the final cover through the Dutch fanclub MadonnaNed.

Confessions On A Dance Floor won the Rockbear Award forBest International Album on Sunday 15 January.
The Rockbear Award is voted for by the general public and is run by the biggest newspaper in Sweden.
Madonna has now won six Rockbears in total, with the most recent one before this being in 1998.

Madonna continues her domination of the European charts - she remains on top of both the continent's singles and albums best-seller lists.
The Material Girl's Hung Up is spending its ninth successive week at number one on the singles chart, while its parent album Confessions On A Dance Floor climbs a place to put it back atop the albums chart.

Madonna's Hung Up now spends it's 10th week in the UK singles chart, beating her previous record of 9 consecutive weeks with both Like A Virgin and Vogue!

Visit fellow fansite M.Nu for larger versions of these pictures of Madonna leaving her pilates session in London this week.

Fans can now download Madonna's two performances of Hung Up and Get Together on the French TV show Star Academy. Madonna gives an energetic and lively performance of both songs - much to the Star Academy contestants delight!

Madonna has been nominated in the Best Female category in the ECHO German Music Awards. It is not known yet whether she will attend the ceremony or not.

The award ceremony will be broadcast on Sunday 12 March at 8:15pm on RTL.

Madonna is the #1 on the Top 5 Most Searched Artists on both the MSN USA and Yahoo Mexico Search Engines.

Madonna was photographed yesterday as she left her pilates session in North London - for larger versions of the pictures visit fellow fansite M.Nu

Madonna is still at #1 in the Italian singles charts with Hung Up for the 9th consecutive week. Confessions On A Dance Floor rose from #6 to #5 for her 8th consecutive week in Italian Album top ten chart!

Hung Up is still #1 in the German single charts. She's now been at the top position for NINE weeks!

Today is the last chance for fans to vote for Madonna in the category of Best International Female Artist in the NRJ Music Awards. To vote click here.

Here are two news titbits regarding Madonna's next single Sorry:

Madonna's Sorry single (Radio Edit) has been listed for release to mainstream pop radio on 2/7 in the US.

Sorry debuts on the U.S. Dance Charts (courtesy of Billboard Radio Monitor) as the highest new entry of the week at #12.

In the latest edition of Billboard magazine in the US, Confessions On A Dance Floor rebounds from #21 to #15. Still a top-15 disc eight weeks after it's release!

From Madonna's official website www.madonna.com:

We’ve been talking about it a lot in the recent weeks… And we are happy to announce that Madonna’s official online store is now open! Discover a full range of new Madonna branded products devoted to her new album. From t-shirts to accessories, slipmats, keyrings and CDs, you will find everything you’ve been waiting for. No more excuses, you now can become the real king/queen of the dance floor. Visit the store at www.madonna.com/store

The grand opening of ICON merchandise store is coming this week! In addition to offering all the OFFICIAL Madonna items in the Madonna.com store, the ICON store will feature EXCLUSIVE items unavailable on Madonna.com or anywhere else. Most importantly, ICON members get 10% off their purchases. Join ICON here.

The remixers for 'Sorry' have just been confirmed and include:

Pet Shop Boys
Man With Guitar
Paul Oakenfold
Green Velvet

In madonnalicious' third and final installment, here are the Madonna Confessions On A Dance Floor tracks that you might hear when you next go shopping:

From Brian:
Boots superstore in Oxford Street (Sedley Place), London, UK have seemed to have the ENTIRE Confessions On A Dance Floor album played on a near constant loop ever since it was released!

From Chris:
Just to let you guys know, I put madonna's 'Sorry' on CB2's January mix and 'Future Lovers' on our February mix to play instore. The CB2 stores are a new concept from the popular american Crate and Barrel home furnishings company.

From Eric:
I work in California at Jamba Juice and I'm pleased to announce that our January CD has not only one, but two Madonna songs! We're playing the radio version of 'Hung Up' and the unreleased song, 'Super Pop'. I was very surprised and happy to hear 'Super Pop', and the customers seem to enjoy the song because of its disco vibe.

From John:
Armani Exchange on Union Street in San Francisco is playing Jump, Get Together, and Let It Will Be. Last month, they played Hung Up.

From M:
I work for M-A-C Cosmetics in Neiman Marcus in Dallas and we're constantly playing 'Confessions On A Dance Floor' because we get to pick what we want to listen to. However, our regional manager sends us a CD to play on themed days on Saturday and this time it had, 'Hung Up', 'Sorry' and 'Dress You Up' (always is a favourite). Also the Armani Make Up area is corporate and they have to play what they are told to play and but 'Isaac' gets a lot of play there and so does a mix of 'Get Together' which I have never heard before. Chanel also plays the entire album.

From Mariam:
I heard 'Let It Will Be' on the rotation at a Rave store in Seattle, Washington. They were really blasting it, as I was outside the store and could hear it! Very cool!

A Madonna party is taking place on Friday 20 January - click on the flyer to enlarge and for more information.

www.madonna.com have confirmed that Madonna will be at the Brits Awards in London on Wednesday 15 February as an award presenter.

There is no news on whether she will perform at the show yet as not all the performers have been announced/confirmed.

Fans can vote for Madonna as Best Pop Act at the Brit Awards 2006 - of the three categories Madonna is shortlisted in fans can only vote for Best Pop Act, as the other categories are decided by the music industry.

The voting regulations state that only one vote per voting method will be counted. You need to register to vote BUT this enters you in a draw to win tickets to the show! The voting opens today and closes on Sunday 29 January 2006.

So let your voice be heard, vote for Madonna by visiting www.brits.co.uk/vote

Since the release of Confessions on a Dance Floor - and its chart-topping hits - the ultimate style chameleon has been channeling her club-kid roots. Madonna showed off her new Disco 2000 look - bright leotards, sequin berets, and low-rise jeans from Prada’s new denim line for ELLE’s cover story.
Between shots she gravitated toward ’70s-inspired pieces including Sergio Rossi’s platform shoes and Neil Lane’s disco-ball earrings while her stylist, Arianne Phillips, revealed that when it comes to basics, big-name designers do the trick. Phillips identified Jeremy Scott’s new travel tote, Dolce & Gabbana’s shrunken leather jacket, and Viktor & Rolf’s playful takes on simple dresses and blouses as some of the Material Girl’s off-camera favorites. And Madonna’s must-have accessory? A pair of aviator shades to keep her forever cool in the limelight’s glare.

From Gary:
I thought I would let you know we have A listed 'Sorry' on Gaydar Radio www.gaydarradio.com - we all love it here!

From Jim:
Just wanted to let you know Madonnna's single Sorry is single of the week on Scott Mills show on BBC Radio One and will be played everyday this week.

According to www.allcharts.org 'Hung Up' is currently number one single in the world at the moment and has been for 6 weeks.
'Confessions On A Dance Floor' is the number two album in the world behind Eminem's greatest hits.

The latest issue of Fudge Magazine, a music and movies oriented magazine in the Philippines, features Madonna on the cover of it's 2005 year-end issue.

This issue just came out this month and there's a 6-page article inside about Madonna and the new album.

Click on the image to enlarge.

Madonna continues to sit atop the European singles chart for a staggering eighth successive week with her smash hit Hung Up.
The Material Girl's dance track keeps The Black Eyed Pea's My Humps at number two, while Eminem track When I'm Gone is at number three.
Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor remains at number two in the European albums chart.

The shortlist for the Brit Awards 2006 has just been announced and Madonna has been nominated in the International Female Solo Artist category. Also in the category are Bjork, Kelly Clarkson, Mariah Carey and Missy Elliott.

Confessions On A Dance Floor has also been nominated in the International Album category - also in this category are Arcade Fire (Funeral), Green Day (American Idiot), Kanye (Late Registration) and U2 (How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb).

Madonna is also nominated in the Best Pop Act category facing competition from James Blunt, Katie Melua, Kelly Clarkson and Westlife.

The award show takes place at Earls Court in London on Wednesday 15 February 2006, and is shown on TV the following night on ITV1.

Part of the reason Madonna keeps in such good shape is that she's afraid of getting fat, she reveals in the February issue of Elle, on stands Thursday. 'I wish I were comfortable enough to look zaftig,' she told the mag, 'but I choose men who like carved-out women, the can-you-run-for-the-bus kind of guy. I'm naturally inclined toward men like that.'
The singer traces her desire to win men over back to her relationship with her father, who she said doesn't get excited about much of anything. 'A good part of my life was spent trying to wow him, to get his approval,' she said. Even so, she doesn't think her fame will help any man in her life, especially the big guy upstairs. 'In the big picture, it means very little,' Madonna said. 'At the end of my life, God doesn't give a sh--.'

Fans in Finland have a chance to catch Madonna's tour documentary, I'm Going To Tell You A Secret on Wednesday 18 January at 9:30pm on Nelonen.

For the first time in 23 years Madonna is inviting a member of ICON, The Official Madonna Fan Club, to come to the set of her new video for SORRY. The contest begins today - and ends very very soon!
Don't miss your chance to win this rare opportunity. For more details, go to www.iconmadonna.com and sign in using your username and password.

Before the video for Madonna's next single is shot, madonnalicious takes a look back at the making of the Hung Up video. This clip which was made by MTV is a great look behind the scenes of the video shoot, looking at choreography and wardrobe.
Madonna appears to be having a great time on the shoot, and the clip also features interviews with Madonna, video director Johan Renck and Stuart Price.

madonnalicious visitors just can't stop hearing tracks from Madonna's new album whilst out shopping, which is giving the whole album great exposure:

From Alan:
I work in T K Maxx Kidderminster and Madonna’s 'Like It Or Not' has just been added to the airplay, usually more songs are added from the chosen albums as weeks pass, so in T K Maxx and T J Maxx stores worldwide, Madonna’s new album can be heard!

From Andy:
I work as a Manager at the Wet Seal Inc. store and currently for our January CD they are playing a Madonna 'Hung Up' Remix and 'Isaac'. People are always singing along to 'Hung Up' while they are shopping in our store.

From Mandonna:
Thought you'd like to know that 'Like It Or Not' was getting airplay in Melbourne, Australia department store MYER all throughout the Christmas/New Year sales.

From Mario:
I'm an assistant manager at ALDO in Tucson, Arizona. I was so happy when I first heard 'Hung Up' being played on our holiday mix CD. Another song on the CD was 'Jump', people were pleasantly surprised to find out it was a new Madonna song.

From Paul:
Just letting you know that 'Push' has been playing in H & M stores across London.

From Tony:
Future Lovers, Forbidden Love, Jump, and Get Together are all being played in Bebe stores in the US.

Fellow fansite MadonnaTribe are reporting that the video for Sorry will be shot in London next week on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 January.

They also report that Sorry will be available as a DVD single.

Following on from the news that Jump is being played as part of the US Old Navy store's Winter Mix, we now have more news about where you can hear Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor tracks in stores worldwide:

From Adam:
Madonna's Hung Up is now being played on this months mix at GAP stores in the UK. I work in the store and each time it is on we crank it up full blast, and all the staff and customers get real into it!

From Josh:
I do stock at Express, and thought I'd let you guys know that we had started playing our Holiday Mix Vol1 last month which happens to include 'Get Together' and 'Jump'. If that's not awesome enough, we'll be playing 'Sorry' for our Holiday Mix Vol2 begining next week. I think it's great becuase it exposes people to more of Madonna's great new album, and maybe boost sales.

From Octavio:
I currently work as a buyer for Abercrombie & Fitch stores and we have added Madonna's 'Let It Will Be' on this month's soundtrack. The store is very popular here in the states with the younger generations - so I think it is great to have this exposure.

From Vickster:
'Jump' is also being played in Monsoon stores in the UK. I was in the Winchester store last Thursday and it was on their soundtrack.

Gwyneth Paltrow's young daughter Apple is huge fan of her mother's celebrity pal Madonna.
The 20-month-old tot, whose father is Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, prefers the Material Girl's number one hit Hung Up to her dad's rock sounds.
Paltrow says, 'Apple loves to dance. She absolutely loves Hung Up by 'Dadonna' - that's how she pronounces Madonna.'
'We have it on repeat in our house. She demands to hear it over and over and over.'

Visit fellow fansite DrownedMadonna for some HQ scans from the February 2006 issue of US magazine Elle. The magazine features 6 wonderful pictures shot by Gilles Bensimon, and an interview with Madonna.

From Angelo:
The local dance radio station in Toronto - Z103.5 - has been playing 'Sorry' for about 3 weeks now. It's on their daily charts and has remained a fixture ever since they started playing it. It's the album version and gets stopped right as 'Future Lovers' starts to fade in.

From Danielle:
'Sorry' has been all over Sirius satellite radio this weekend. 'Hung Up' is also still on heavy rotation on stations like The Beat and Sirius Hits.

From Jeff:
103.5 in Toronto has been playing Sorry for over a week now and last night it was at #2 on the Top Ten.

From Josué:
I am currently visiting my hometown of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. I was surprised to see how popular 'Hung Up' is here. It is massively played on the radio and in clubs, even mixes I've never heard before. I was also surprised to hear 'Sorry' already being played on the radio. In fact, when I mention 'Hung Up' people here refer to it as 'the old Madonna song'....'Sorry' is the new jam in the Caribbean!

From Michael:
Sorry was #2 on our local radio stations Suburban 5 at 5, in Melbourne, Australia. This is a countdown that counts down the most requested songs of the day. It was second to Hung Up which held the #1 position today. This was on Foxfm Melbournes #1 Hit radio station. You can vote for Sorry and Hung Up at www.fox.com.au

Madonna is nominated for Best International Female and Best Pop Act at the NRJ Radio Awards in Finland Thursday 19 January.

Please visit www.nrjradioawards.com and vote for her!

Fans can also vote for the Virgin.net Music Awards 2005 where Madonna is a nominee in three categories: Best Single, Best Album and Best Solo Artist.
Madonna is leading the three categories but, particularly for the second one, she loses ground day after day.

Keep voting at www.virgin.net/music/awards2005

The Keith Haring Show exhibition at the La Triennale di Milano gallery in Italy features an installation video which contains a clip of Madonna singing Dress You Up at Keith Haring's birthday party at the Paradise Garage in 1984.

The exhibition runs until Sunday 29 January and more information about the exhibition and gallery can be found at www.triennale.it

Boo (from the MadonnaTribe forum) managed to capture this clip of Madonna and it can be downloaded at this link.

I am writing you to let you and all the other Madonna maniacs know that I just came back from the Milan exposition of Keith Haring at the Triennale.
In there you can see some exclusive pictures of Madonna and Keith but what really shocked me was an exclusive video of Madonna performing LIVE Dress you Up at Keith Haring's Birthday!
I never knew of this performance and I was absolutely blown away. She wears a pink dress with the Ketih Haring drawings and she starts singing the song from a bed. The clip is only 1 minute long but it's GREAT!
The exposition is on until 29th of January and for those of you living in Italy it's worth a visit (and not just for Madonna!).

From James:
WKTU 103.5FM in New York City has started to play Sorry this weekend.

From Marc:
Sorry is the MegaHit on Radio 3FM www.3fm.nl next week. This implies high rotation!

From Nicole:
Just to let you know Sorry has begun air play on Australian radio. Both the shorter version and the Pet Shop Boys remix have been played.

From Pascal:
You can vote now for 'Sorry' on CKOI (where 'Hung Up' has been #1 for 2 months) at www.ckoi.com

Hung Up is now in the UK Top 10 for a 9th consecutive week, this amazing song has set a new record.
No other Madonna single has stayed in the UK Top 10 for more consecutive weeks than Hung Up. The only other Madonna singles to notch up 9 consecutive weeks are Like A Virgin and Vogue. They both dropped out the Top 10 after 10 weeks so if Hung Up can hang on until next week it will claim the record for itself!

Madonna's song Jump is being played at Old Navy department stores nationwide across the USA! - this is part of the store's Winter Mix.

It was confirmed today that Madonna will be performing at the NRJ Music Awards that take place in Cannes, France on Saturday 21 January.

Fans should keep voting for Madonna in the Best International Female Artist category to ensure she doesn't go home empty handed! To vote click here.

madonnalicious has some news from Warner Music Belgium regarding the premiere date of the video for Madonna's next single Sorry.

The video will be seen for the first time on Wednesday 08 February and the single will be released in Europe on Monday 20 February.

According to www.htfr.com the vinyl version of Confessions On A Dance Floor, which is due to be released in February, will be produced in pink vinyl!

The February 2006 issue of Portugese magazine Click In features Madonna on the cover and a six page article inside talking about her career and new single Sorry.

Click on the image to enlarge.

Today's edition of the Daily Mirror featured a small piece of news regarding the upcoming Brit Awards in it's 3am Girls column.

They stated that Madonna is rumoured to be opening the show, which takes place at Earls Court in London on Wednesday 15 February.

The show will be broadcast on ITV1 on Thursday 16 February, and the nominations are announced on Tuesday 10 January.

Madonna is featured on the cover of the February 2006 issue of the US version of Elle magazine, which is just appearing in US stores now.
An eight page article inside includes pictures previously seen in the French version of Elle from last year shot by Gilles Bensimon, but best of all the magazine features some fabulous previously unseen shots from the same session.

Fans should keep voting for Madonna in the category of Best International Female Artist in the NRJ Awards - to vote visit www.nrjmusicawards.nrj.fr

madonnalicious now takes a look back to when the buzz about Confessions On A Dance Floor was just beginning. Madonna made an appearance on MTV TRL on Monday 17 October 2005. Now for the first time on madonnalicious this show is now available to download in three parts.

According to BBC Radio 1 chart of the year, Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor was the #14 best selling album, and Hung Up was the #10 in the best selling single of the year in the UK.
Not bad for records that have only been on sale for 7 or 8 weeks of 2005!

A six-page article is featured in the January 2006 issue of Austrian magazine Woman. It is a similar article to the one in German magazine Gala last month.

DIVA (Diverse and Inclusive Visionary Artists) is proud to announce that Madonna has been chosen as one of the six artists vying for it's first DIVA Artist of the Year for 2006.

Artist of The Year is bestowed to a creative individual for his or her contribution in promoting and supporting multi-ethnic, people of color and/or inclusive positive gay and lesbian artistic achievement in the media (film, television, theater, arts and fashion), for the year ending 2005.

DIVA is proud to announce that we have selected Madonna as one of the six outstanding men and women who have given the greatest gift of maverick vision and unforgettable artistic endeavor to the creative LGBT audiences for the past year. Other nominees include directors Ang Lee, Gregg Araki and Patrik Ian-Polk; outspoken artists Margaret Cho and Kanye West.

Please take a moment to cast your vote, choose your favorite DIVA Artist of the Year, and let your voices be heard by our nominees for their well-deserved recognition.

The winner will be determined by the entire DIVA membership. Please submit your vote no later than Friday 13 January to: QueerDIVA@gmail.com

DIVA Artist of The Year final results will be announced at our GENDER BLENDER Golden Globes Viewing Party event at East | West Lounge on Monday 16 January, to be followed by a special awards ceremony in March 2006.

madonnalicious visitor ehm has sent in this great story about how Madonna is getting the people of Philadephia back into the groove:

I am a native of Philadelphia where I have been a successful dancer/singer and aerobic instructor. I am a dedicated fan of Madonna!
I teach aerobics at a local gym named The 12th St. Gym located in the heart of the city of Philadelphia. For the new year I decided to change the name of my class and spice it up a little. It is called Madonnalicous Cardio Groove.
The entire 1 hour aerobic class uses Madonna song's remixed by myself. So far it has been one of the most popular classes in the gym. And I also feel that I am helping getting the word out to people how great Confesions On A Dance Floor is!
Some of my students have told me that they were not sure if the should buy the CD, but after hearing it in my class they went out and bought it!

Madonna was featured in Bolivian magazine Cosas - the article looked at Madonna's new album and her appearance on German TV show Wetten Dass....?

Madonna's cameo performance as Verity, the fencing instructor, can be seen tonight in an airing of Die Another Day - the film airs in the UK at 9:00pm on ITV1.

A download is now available of the Madonna interview featured on the Style Network show Isaac yesterday in the US.

Pop superstar Madonna is such a fan MTV show Pimp My Ride she is planning to copy the car makeover concept for her new music video.
The thirty-minute show, which quickly became one of the music channel's most popular, sees a hip team of mechanics revamp ageing vehicles for young contestants.
And the Material Girl is keen to follow suit - by transforming a battered Ford Cortina into a classier set of wheels for next single Sorry, which will also feature a cameo appearance from the show's host DJ Tim Westwood.
A source tells The Sun, 'Madonna really loves the MTV show. She wanted to do a video with a rags-to-riches story, taking a battered old British banger and turning it into something special.'
'Her record company contacted the MTV producers behind Pimp My Ride and they came up with a storyboard and car for the video.'
The new single will reportedly be remixed by the Pet Shop Boys.

We can confirm that Pet Shop Boys have remixed Madonna's next single, 'Sorry', which will be released in February. At the moment we do not know whether 'Sorry (PSB Maxi-Mix)' will be commercially released or only made available on promo copies to club DJs.
Chris and Neil remixed the track in December and Neil added some vocals to it.
Further release details will be here when we have them.

A Madonna cover and 9-page article is featured in the latest issue of free Hong Kong gay magazine DS.

From Alex:
Hung Up is Madonna's most successful singel in Austria EVER! She is still No. 1 after six weeks. And Hung Up on is named The Most Popular Song of 2005 on Austria's biggest Radiostation Ö3. Confessions On A Dance Floor is now at #4 in the charts after spending three weeks at #1!

From Frank:
Not only does she have THE Number 1 single of 2005 on Montreal's French-language station CKOI, but on Mix96, the English-language station, she has the current Number One on the Weekly singles and Number One for daily requests....this is for HUNG UP....the buzz for SORRY is already beginning!

From Meister:
After going down to #2 last week, 'Hung Up' regains the top spot this week, on it's 5th week in MTV Asia's Chart Attack. The MTV Asia Chart Attack is a weekly video charts show being shown in MTV Southeast Asia and MTV Philippines.
To check out the latest chart attack, click on this URL: www.mtvasia.com

From Madav:
MTV Europe aired the 'Top 100 of 2005' this weekend. Madonna's 'Hung Up' video won first place!

From Shreverds:
LOGO, a gay television channel here in the US, has been airing the top videos of 2005 on their program The Click List. Viewers log onto the station's website to vote. Surprising no one, Madonna comes in at number one with Hung Up!

Here's a rarely seen picture of Madonna and Jonathan Moffet, her drummer during Live Aid 1985 and on the Who's That Girl and Blond Ambition tours.

From Hector:
Confessions On A Dance Floor is Gold in Mexico for over 50,000 copies sold, according to a source of Warne Bros Mexico and its close to the 75,000 copies. The album is Number #2 in Mexico City and #1 in other cities like Guadalajara or Monterrey.

from Liam:
Confessions on a Dancefloor has moved up from #9 to #8 and has gone 2x Platinum in Australia. Platinum sales in Australia is 70,000 copies.
Hung Up has dropped from #6 to #7 and has gone Platinum in Australia.
Hung Up is #1 on the ARIA Dance Charts.
Since the single and album have been released in November, Madonna has stayed strong in the Australian top 10 singles and albums!

On New Year's Eve WalMart stores across the US played Madonna's KoKo concert on all their TV monitors throughout the stores, madonnalicious visitor Fernando has this story to tell about the night:

My name is Fernando and I'm a senior in high school. As an after school job I am a cashier at Walmart. I was estastic to hear about the Madonna Walmart concert that would be airing on all the TV's throughout the store.
I was at my register, working with a customer, and that's when I heard the familiar melody of Hung Up. I looked up at the television screens and there she was dancing on stage in her purple gucci jacket! I yelped from all the excitement, scaring my customer half to death. I told her that my idol was on TV and she just looked at me like I was an idiot.
Luckily I had to take returns to the toys department and put them in their places. I took my time as I watched and listened to the entire concert. Madonna looked great, she looked like she was having tons of fun on stage and the audience was just going crazy! Man, I wish I was there!

From AC:
I just wanted to let you know that I heard the Danish radio premiere of Sorry the day before yesterday on Radio NRJ Denmark, so I guess it's been released to the entire world now.

From Daniel:
As you can see on www.ckoi.com/top50 Madonna tops the year end top 50 in Montreal!

From Eiler:
Hung Up is still No. 1 in the Faroe Islands. This is the single´s fourth week at the top spot and hence it became the Christmas No. 1 in one of the smallest countries in the world!

From Jey:
www.fusionchicago.com have just started playing 'Jump,' in their standard music rotation.

She received my prestigious Celeb Of The Year award in 2004 and she's done it again. But we'd expect nothing less from the Queen of Pop. She's still every bit the true superstar and without doubt the master of re-invention.
Selling over 250 million albums during the span of her extraordinary two-decade career and after celebrating her 47th birthday in August, she proved she's a real action girl. She took a tumble off a horse breaking her collar bone, hand and cracking three ribs in the process, but has jumped straight back on again. Long may she reign.