Many are questioning whether the option for fans to purchase the album as part of a tour ticket package skewed the initial numbers reported by Billboard Magazine. With 185,000 copies sold as part of this deal, only 179,000 can constitute individual album sales.

This explains a lot.

reMaiNDA'd

Stroke, stroke
Stroke, stroke

There's no blood flow
There's no blood flow

Come on, stroke
Let your body sag to the music, hey, hey, hey
Come on, stroke
Let your body go limp, you know, you can't help it

Look around everything you see is blurry
It's everything that you see
You try everything you can to get up
But it ain't happenin', G

When all else fails and you long to be
Something better than you are today
I know a place where you can get away
It's called the ER, and here's what it's for, so

Come on, stroke
Let your body sag to the music, hey, hey, hey
Come on, stroke
Let your body go limp, you know, you can't help it

All you need is some blood thinner
So use it that's what it's for
Go inside, for your finest inspiration
Your walker will open the door

It makes no difference if you've veiny arms
If you look like a boy
If the heart's pumping, it will give you new life
You're a faded star, yes, that's what you are, you know it

Stroke

carrion_luggage: Stroke, stroke
Stroke, stroke

There's no blood flow
There's no blood flow...

*snerk*

Awesome.

Worse than milli vanilli? and whatsername simpson?

Im on the Madonna health plan -- i eat all the bacon i want and by time i have a heart attack Madonna will be dead and the doctors will be able to replace all my clogged arteries with her giant arm veins.

Oh look, the slutty has-been who makes terrible music and had to appeal to a dance crowd fascinated with ecstasy can't sell records any more. The fact that anybody bought the record to begin with is a travesty in itself.

Smart, businesswoman, breaking records, jealous, ageist, sexist, trailblazer, yada yada yada.

Walker: Madonna and Lionel Richie at the top of the charts? What is this, 1984?

Apropos of something (possibly...maybe...perhaps...)

The week of Sunday September 16, 1984

(per Billboard)

(the week's top singles)
1. Missing You - John Waite
Let's Go Crazy - Prince and the Revolution
She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
Drive - The Cars
If This Is It - Huey Lewis and the News
The Warrior - Scandal featuring Patty Smyth
The Glamorous Life - Sheila E.
I Just Called To Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
Cover Me - Bruce Springsteen
Stuck on You - Lionel Richie
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker, Jr.
Hard Habit To Break - Chicago
Dynamite - Jermaine Jackson
Lucky Star - Madonna
When You Close Your Eyes - Night Ranger
Lights Out - Peter Wolf
Torture - The Jacksons
Sunglasses At night - Corey Hart

(the week's top L.P.s)
1. Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution
Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
Sports - Huey Lewis and the News
Private Dancer - Tina Turner
Heartbeat City - The Cars
1100 Bel Air Place - Julio Iglesias
Can't Slow Down - Lionel Richie
Out of the Cellar - Ratt
"Ghostbusters" (Soundtrack)
Break Out - The Pointer Sisters
No Brakes - John Waite
Signs of Life - Billy Squier
"Eddie and the Cruisers" (Soundtrack) - John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Victory - The Jacksons
Stay Hungry - Twisted Sister
Madonna - eponymous
Midnight Madness - Night Ranger
She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper
Warrior - Scandal featuring Patty Smyth
Eliminator - Z.Z. Top

(the week's top C&W singles)
1. Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room - Merle Haggard
Turning Away - Crystal Gayle
Everyday - The Oak Ridge Boys
Uncle Pen - Ricky Skaggs
To Me - Barbara Mandrell and Lee Greenwood
You're Gettin' To Me Again - Jim Glaser
I Don't Know A Thing About Love - Conway Twitty
If You're Gonna Play In Texas - Alabama
The Lady Takes The Cowboy
Everytime - Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers Band
I Could Use Another You - Eddy Raven

Couldn't happen to a nicer twat.

I farking hate Madogma. Screw you madge you hateful biatch.

justintime233: I farking hate Madogma. Screw you madge you hateful biatch.

You'll get over it, Guy Richie.

Glitchwerks: justintime233: I farking hate Madogma. Screw you madge you hateful biatch.

You'll get over it, Guy Richie.

Ha! Much improved (and pithier) than what I was just about to submit.

Hardly promoted? I'm seeing commercials for this album all over the place. Actually, there are 3 commercials right now.

1) The commercial for the album itself
2) A commercial for her tie-in fragrance
3) A commercial for some contest having to do with the album concert tour

So, not getting that point.

Isitoveryet: forgot to mention, could also be a testament to how shiatty the new talent out there is, or how good she is.

both ways.

Neither. People don't buy albums/records/CDs any more.

Is MDNA a new kind of STD?

PowerSlacker: Isitoveryet: forgot to mention, could also be a testament to how shiatty the new talent out there is, or how good she is.

both ways.

Neither. People don't buy albums/records/CDs any more.



Adele can't hear you over the sound of cash registers ringing up her album, which is selling hundreds of thousands of copies a week more than a year after release.

So long as she keeps those forearms/hands covered, and properly shaves her daughter's unibrow, she has my leave to do as she wishes.

taxandspend: Adele can't hear you over the sound of cash registers ringing up her album

McDonald's can't hear you over the sound of all the hamburgers it sold in the last minute.

/because volume sales = quality

Funbags: McDonald's can't hear you over the sound of all the hamburgers it sold in the last minute.

/because volume sales = quality

He made no comment about quality, nor did he imply that sales = quality. He was specifically replying to a post that said, "People don't buy albums/records/CDs any more."

In fairness, chances are anyone buying an overpriced concert ticket is a die hard fan and would have bought the album anyway. The fall-off tells you that anyone who gives a sh*t about Madonna has already bought the CD.

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I guess Madonna is going to find a way to kiss Selina Gomez onstage at an upcoming award ceremony... triggering a gag reflex rather than a collective "schwing".

taxandspend: PowerSlacker: Isitoveryet: forgot to mention, could also be a testament to how shiatty the new talent out there is, or how good she is.

both ways.

Neither. People don't buy albums/records/CDs any more.

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Adele can't hear you over the sound of cash registers ringing up her album, which is selling hundreds of thousands of copies a week more than a year after release.

that may be, but she's fat.

AeAe: taxandspend: PowerSlacker: Isitoveryet: forgot to mention, could also be a testament to how shiatty the new talent out there is, or how good she is.

both ways.

Neither. People don't buy albums/records/CDs any more.

[media1.biola.edu image 620x388]

Adele can't hear you over the sound of cash registers ringing up her album, which is selling hundreds of thousands of copies a week more than a year after release.

that may be, but she's fat.

You sound poor.

Why is there a picture of Rhoda Morganstern with the article?

All I hear when I see Madge is, "Haters gonna hate."

Hate on!

skinink: I still miss the "Boy Toy" Madonna. That woman was smoking hot.
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I respectfully disagree -- She looked weird then and she looks weirder now.

My Demographic Needs Allusions? Make Donations Not Albums?

Glitchwerks: You'll get over it, Guy Richie.

Heard a funny interview with him once where he said sleeping with her was like sleeping with a piece of gristle. Knowing fark, that might have been plundered on here already.

scalpod: AeAe: taxandspend: PowerSlacker: Isitoveryet: forgot to mention, could also be a testament to how shiatty the new talent out there is, or how good she is.

both ways.

Neither. People don't buy albums/records/CDs any more.

[media1.biola.edu image 620x388]

Adele can't hear you over the sound of cash registers ringing up her album, which is selling hundreds of thousands of copies a week more than a year after release.

that may be, but she's fat.

You sound poor.

Do I? I'm more middle class. Maybe upper middle.

I just don't like fat people. because they're fattttt.

Pandora's Litterbox: The week of Sunday September 16, 1984

(per Billboard)

(the week's top singles)

I was 13 in 1984, so I remember all of those singles and most of those albums..

Funbags: taxandspend: Adele can't hear you over the sound of cash registers ringing up her album

McDonald's can't hear you over the sound of all the hamburgers it sold in the last minute.

/because volume sales = quality

LEAVE PINK FLOYD ALONE

Pandora's Litterbox: Walker: Madonna and Lionel Richie at the top of the charts? What is this, 1984?

Apropos of something (possibly...maybe...perhaps...)

The week of Sunday September 16, 1984

(per Billboard)

(the week's top singles)
1. Missing You - John Waite
Let's Go Crazy - Prince and the Revolution
She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
Drive - The Cars
If This Is It - Huey Lewis and the News
The Warrior - Scandal featuring Patty Smyth
The Glamorous Life - Sheila E.
I Just Called To Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
Cover Me - Bruce Springsteen
Stuck on You - Lionel Richie
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker, Jr.
Hard Habit To Break - Chicago
Dynamite - Jermaine Jackson
Lucky Star - Madonna
When You Close Your Eyes - Night Ranger
Lights Out - Peter Wolf
Torture - The Jacksons
Sunglasses At night - Corey Hart

(the week's top L.P.s)
1. Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution
Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
Sports - Huey Lewis and the News
Private Dancer - Tina Turner
Heartbeat City - The Cars
1100 Bel Air Place - Julio Iglesias
Can't Slow Down - Lionel Richie
Out of the Cellar - Ratt
"Ghostbusters" (Soundtrack)
Break Out - The Pointer Sisters
No Brakes - John Waite
Signs of Life - Billy Squier
"Eddie and the Cruisers" (Soundtrack) - John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Victory - The Jacksons
Stay Hungry - Twisted Sister
Madonna - eponymous
Midnight Madness - Night Ranger
She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper
Warrior - Scandal featuring Patty Smyth
Eliminator - Z.Z. Top

(the week's top C&W singles)
1. Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room - Merle Haggard
Turning Away - Crystal Gayle
Everyday - The Oak Ridge Boys
Uncle Pen - Ricky Skaggs
To Me - Barbara Mandrell and Lee Greenwood
You're Gettin' To Me Again - Jim Glaser
I Don't Know A Thing About Love - Conway Twitty
If You're Gonna Play In Texas - Alabama
The Lady Takes The Cowboy
Everytime - Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers Band
I Could Use Another You - Eddy Raven

When music was good!!!

/part of the get off my lawn crowd and proud of it!

In other words, people initially rushed out to buy it just because Madonna's name was on it.

Dancin_In_Anson: Isn't that shiat illegal?

Depends

"In the past, both Bon Jovi and Tom Petty had "bundles" with CDs and tickets. They just weren't as successful. "

Deadmau5 called her out on glamorizing drug use, then she said "nah it's all cool bro, just talking about my mate's song about Molly, not MDMA", then she goes and releases an album specifically designed to be a play on MDMA. Gah.

/MDMA

Since she didn't make this CD for me and people my age, I'm wondering who she made it for. I loved her when I was in my teens and 20's, but this new stuff sounds like she made it only for gay men.

Tess Tickles: Since she didn't make this CD for me and people my age, I'm wondering who she made it for. I loved her when I was in my teens and 20's, but this new stuff sounds like she made it only for gay men.

What music for real men may look like

Isitoveryet: she's like salt and pepper, you just expect them to be on the table

i just hope she doesn't break a hip doing jumping jacks on stage.

Prince already did it.

Funbags: taxandspend: Adele can't hear you over the sound of cash registers ringing up her album

McDonald's can't hear you over the sound of all the hamburgers it sold in the last minute.

/because volume sales = quality

adele is a fad, nothing more. Kinda like when Avril Lavigne hit big with her first record. That thing stayed sold out for ever and every copy that hit stores sold immediately. 18 million. Right now Adele has sold about 20 million copies, give or take, of 21.

It means little.