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"The road to a #1 hit is paved with good intentions..."

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First look to high quality Sunsilk commercial

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MadonnaTribe exclusive:

Sunsilk have contacted earlier this evening to offer details about their new commercial featuring Madonna and her new song 4 Minutes.

MadonnaTribe can also show its readers an high quality version of the commercial in its full untouched glory, courtesy of Sunsilk.

Click HERE to download it.

Source: Madonna Tribe

Interview with M by RTL Boulevard in HQ

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Sonia Kruger about ''Hard Candy'' CD and Madonna

DrownedMadonna.com talked with people at Mix Mornings with Sonia & Todd show.

"As bizarre as it sounds the album looks like a jam donut with a pink icing," they told DrownedMadonna.com. "Looks like something you’d want to eat!"

"Sonia found Madonna to be really down to earth and really relaxed about her future," they added. "Sonia gave her some Australian gifts including traditional Aboriginal clapping sticks as well as a didgeridoo - Madonna said her kids would absolutely adore the gifts."

Source: Drowned Madonna

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All is well and wonderful in the Ritchie household

"I am delighted to confirm that Mr and Mrs Guy Ritchie remain happily married.", Liz Rosenberg, Madonna's US spokeswoman, said today.

"Though they were in different countries recently - Madonna in the US doing promotion for her upcoming album Hard Candy and Guy finishing up post-production on his new film RocknRolla as well as completing a Nike commercial and working on several scripts in England - the family are joyfully back together at home in London."

"All is well and wonderful in the Ritchie household," Liz also said.

Source: Yahoo! Music News (found on MadonnaTribe)

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'4 Minutes' already the Best Selling Track on 7digital!

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''4 Minutes" is only available as pre-order on UK 7digital.com, but it is already the Best Selling Track! "4 Minutes" will be available as digital download tomorrow.

Source: Drowned Madonna

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The return of Logan

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The new Sunsilk commercial sees the return of Logan, who directed the original promo video for Get Together, the third single off Confessions On A Dance Floor.

In this commercial he reprises the nice techniques that he introduced in the Get Together video, creating an original landscape with different Madonnas from many of her classic videos, moving and dancing on a digital environement.

Source: MadonnaTribe

All you UK people go buy 4 Minutes on the iTunes music store!

4 Minutes On-Air with Ryan Seacrest

Hey, how come you guys didn't paste the youtube link for miles away preview!?

For those who haven't seen in yet there's a preview of madonnas new song "Miles Away"

Rough translation:
Takuya (SMAP) is featuring a new dorama and madonna is singing the theme song.

the link snot to work... anyway here it is: http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=tV930lZmM7A

I already did on the previous page.

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Audience members that attended THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW today got a Madonna TREAT! Ellen danced to M's new single "4 Minutes"! Its a long segment and Ellen also discusses M's new CD "Hard Candy". It airs on TUESDAY in the U.S.....

Source: ICON boards

hi, maybe this isn't allowed...but i figured here would be the best place to ask...could anyone upload "take a bow" and "oh father" mp3's for me? xD then PM me with them? or just reply with them? xD i really want good quality versions of them :(

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Originally Posted by Vinylfantasy (Post 1376580)

I already did on the previous page.

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Source: ICON boards

Damn! I can't compete with you when it comes to madonna! :P
I hven't seen it.. that's why I pasted the link.

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Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan (Post 1376586)

I gotcha covered. :)

I've been listening to a better quality version of 4 Minutes. I don't like Timbaland's part in the beginning, but apart from that my first impression is positive. I'm not really a fan of Justin and wasn't happy when I heard he'd be working with Madonna, but I actually like his contribution to this song. He avoids the things that have tended to annoy me about his singing, and he and Madonna sounds surprisingly good and natural together.

Do you have the full album of Hard Candy? where can I download it?

The album isn't out until the end of April. Please buy it and support Madonna. :D

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Vodafone customers get 7 tracks from ''Hard Candy'' a week early!

Vodafone Group Plc said that with Warner Music International it has completed an agreement allowing new music and mobile content from Madonna’s highly anticipated new ’Hard Candy’ album to be distributed and promoted exclusively to Vodafone customers around the world, prior to the April 28 global release of Madonna’s 11th studio album for Warner Bros. Records.

From April 21, a total of seven tracks from ’Hard Candy’, with songs by the multi-platinum, Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and video visionary, will be released at a rate of one a day counting down the week before the album is available. Each track will remain live for 24 hours for download before being replaced by the next one, the companies noted.

In addition, Vodafone customers in selected markets including Spain, Portugal, Germany and Belgium will get exclusive mobile access to the newly released single ’4 Minutes’, effective immediately.

As part of this unique music experience, Vodafone customers in all participating territories will have access to Madonna’s mini site on Vodafone live! which will include one week of exclusive, associated mobile content, including ringtones, ringback tones and SMS tones.

Vice Chairman WMI and President, Warner Music Europe, John Reid, said, “This is an innovative way to reach millions of Madonna fans around the world, building anticipation and excitement around this landmark release and helping to create a real event for Vodafone customers.”

Vodafone is the number one digital music service provider in the mobile telecommunications industry in Europe and number two digital music service provider overall in Europe.

Global Chief Marketing Officer, Vodafone Group, Frank Rovekamp, added, that the project was a result of their insight into what customers wanted and how they preferred to listen to music.

Sources: RTTNews and UTalkMarketing (found on Drowned Madonna)

BEAUTIFUL new Like A Virgin outtake.

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Europe loves '4 Minutes'

Madonna's new single charts very high is some European countries, that have already offered the single for purchase, only a day after it's official premiere.

iTunes:
Norway - #1
Denmark - #1
Sweden - #3
UK (iTunes)- #5
Ireland - #15

7Digital:
Europe - #1

...more countries to come...

Source: Madge-Tribe

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Info about the video

Denmark's no.1 radio station The Voice announced today that they will play the ''4 Minutes'' video anytime now on Voice TV, as they will get it before other media. Let's wait and see!!

Moreover, Danish fans can download the song through Danish itunes.dk right now. Cost 8 kr.

Source: Drowned Madonna

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Important news on ''4 Minutes'' video and single from Warner Music Canada!

There will be NO physical single release for "4 Minutes" in Canada. "4 Minutes" will be available as digital download only, via Rogers until March 24, then available through all digital outlets after that.

The video for "4 Minutes" is still TBC, tentatively April 7 for release.

Source: Drowned Madonna

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Paris Promotional Gig

According to Spanish site Katakamovil, Madonna will do a promotional gig in Paris on May the 6th aired by Vodafone as part of the new deal.

Source: Drowned Madonna

Listen to this beautiful fan acoustic cover of Miles Away!

I'm lame. Heard 4 Minutes for the first time today. Can I just say: best single since her Ray of Light days? :)

4 minutes is soooo amazing!

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Pharrell talks about Madonna

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Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of N.E.R.D. sat down for a long, strange interview about working with Madonna and what he’s been using to make beats. They are also playing Candy Shop in the background and it seems it's the same as the leaked demo.

Click here to watch the interview with Rolling Stone.

Source: Drowned Madonna

*caution, Pharrell is quite the pottymouth*

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Hard Candy #12 on the Amazon best sellers list

Madonna's new album, Hard Candy, is #12 on the Amazon best sellers list for CDs, and it isn't even out til April 29th.

Source: Madge-Tribe

The Sunsilk commercial now has vocals!

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New Q Cover!!

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Here's another first look coming from MadonnaTribe.com. As first reported by this site on February 29 2008, the Queen Of Pop will be gracing again the cover of UK magazine Q. Here's a first look at the Madonna issue that is going to be the May issue, with a an article titled " Stupid Questions: NEXT!".

This magazine, highly collected by fans, will be on sale in UK newsstands the first week of April and later available as an import in other countries. It can't be missed in your collections!

Source: article: Madonna Tribe, photo: Madonnalicious

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4 minutes is number 1 in Denmark's iTunes

The song entered Denmark's iTunes Top 100 at #12 on Monday, moving up to #5 and stayed there until Tuesday. Then it went up to #2 and a little later to #1, where it has stayed since.

Source: Madonna Tribe

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"4 minutes" Maxi for Germany!

Warner Music Germany has just confirmed that MADONNA's new single "4 Minutes" will be released in Germany as a physical maxi cd as well as a download.

Source: Madonna Fanzine

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Tour Rumours going round Live Nation!

Nothing is definitive or confirmed, but just a RUMOUR going round Live Nation. So keep it in mind!! But we think it's important to report what are the inside RUMOURS going round Live Nation right now:

Reports are coming in that Live Nation are putting the final touches to a sponsorship deal for Madonna's 2008/2009 world tour. An insider said "We are hoping to have tickets go on sale for all locations around May 2nd with pre-sale tickets going on sale on the 1st". They also said the tour will be huge with Madonna going to loads of far-out places. Tickets are expected to be highly priced with front row sections being charged a premium. Nothing has been officially announced yet but a press release will be issued as soon as the sponsorship deal is completed.

Source: Drowned Madonna

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Peter saves the World, London And Paris

Adding to the online news about Peter Rauhofer remixing the song, we previously exclusively reported that Tracy Young, Bob Sinclar, Tom Holkenborg aka JunkieXL all remixed the news single.

Today we can add that Rauhofer actually made a lot of mixes for this release and among them there are:

Peter Saves The World Mix
Peter Saves London Mix
Peter Saves Paris Mix

There isn't a final decision on how many of them will end up on the final release but we thought the remixes titles were a nice thing to report.

Source: MadonnaTribe

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''Hard Candy'' is currently #4 Amazon.com Most Selling Album!

Really good news from Amazon.com. We posted that ''Hard Candy" was #19 yesterday... and now it's already #4.

This is indeed an incredible success, being only a pre-sale!

Source: Madge-Tribe

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TBC - Madonna at The Olympia

French radio stations (among them Europe 1), are reporting that Madonna will play one of her promo tour gigs at the Olympia theatre in Paris on May 6th 2008. For the moment take this as an interesting rumour to report until we get more info.

Source: Madonna Tribe

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This one should be the album cover. :O