MADONNA - Discography
American most popular singer, entertainer, songwriter, actress, director and businesswoman all in one. Madonna achieved popularity by mainstream music and music videos. People often referring her as the "Queen of Pop", Madonna has enormous influence by other artists.
Born August 16, 1958 in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to NYC to try herself in modern dance. First performance in the music dance groups like "Breakfast Club" and "Emmy" after that signed with Sire in 1982. She released her debut album, "Madonna". She followed it with a series of commercially successful albums, has been sold 300+ million records worldwide and is recognized as the best-selling female recording artist of all time by Guinness World Records.
Madonna has released 83 singles and 16 promotional singles and charted with 14 other songs. In 1982, she signed a contract with Sire Records and Warner Bros. Records, and released her first two singles before launching her eponymous debut album. Her first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100 was "Holiday" (1983), which peaked at number 16. The following year, Madonna released "Like a Virgin", which reached number one in Australia, Canada and the US; in the latter it spent six weeks at top of the chart.
The album Like a Virgin spawned three other top five singles: "Material Girl", "Angel", and "Dress You Up",
with "Angel" also peaking at number one in Australia. In 1985, Madonna released her second US number-one
single, "Crazy for You", and her first UK number-one single, "Into the Groove", both from feature film
soundtracks. "Into the Groove" also topped the charts in Italy and Spain. The following year, her third
studio album True Blue gave her three number-one singles: "Live to Tell", "Papa Don't Preach", and "Open
Your Heart". Two other singles from the album, "True Blue" and "La Isla Bonita", were top-five hits. In
1987, she scored another number-one single with "Who's That Girl". The title track from Madonna's fourth
studio album, Like a Prayer (1989), was her seventh single to top the Hot 100 chart, making her the female
artist with the most number-one singles in the 1980s (shared with Whitney Houston).
In 1990, Madonna hasreleased "Vogue" from the album I'm Breathless, which topped the charts in all major
music lists and markets.
"Vogue" was followed by "Justify My Love" and soundtrack single, "This Used to Be My Playground", becoming her subsequent chart topping songs.
Her fifth studio album, Erotica, was released in 1992, but failed to generate any chart-topping singles. Only the title track and "Deeper and Deeper", reached the top ten. In 1994, Madonna returned into the Hot 100 top-ten with the soundtrack single "I'll
Remember", which peaked at number two. Her album Bedtime Stories (1994) featured two top-five hits, "Secret" and "Take a Bow", the latter stayed on the top of Hot 100 chart for seven weeks,
making it her longest run at number one. "Frozen", from the 1998 studio album Ray of Light became her eighth single to debut at number-one in the United Kingdom. It was also her first chart topper there since 1990, and marked a major commercial comeback for her.
In 2000, Madonna scored her 12th US number-one single, "Music", from the album of the same name. Following
a commercial disappointment with her ninth studio album American Life in 2003, Madonna released "Hung Up",
from her tenth studio album Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005). The song became her biggest worldwide hit
song to date, it becomes number one in more than 40 countries and earned a place in the 2007 Guinness Book of
World Records for topping the charts in more countries than any other song. With "Hung Up" going platinum,
Madonna surpassed The Beatles for having most gold certified singles in the United States.
The album's second single, "Sorry", became Madonna's 12th number-one single on the UK charts. "4 Minutes", the lead
single from her 11th studio album, Hard Candy, scored Madonna her 37th Billboard Hot 100 top-ten, surpassing Elvis Presley as the artist with the most top-ten singles. She extended the record with the number ten reaching "Give Me All Your Luvin'", from her 2012 studio album, MDNA, which also topped the charts in Canada. With "Ghosttown", from Madonna's 2015 studio album Rebel Heart, topping the Billboard Dance Club Songs, she became the artist with the most number-one songs on an active Billboard chart. Madonna becomes 2000s as the best-selling singles artist of the decade in the US.
Highest ranking solo artist on the "Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists" as
well as having most top rated singles in the United Kingdom among female artists. Madonna has a record
157 number-one singles across all formats of the Billboard charts, the most for any artist. In February 2008, she has sold more than 115 million singles worldwide.