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Why hasn't Madonna had a #1 in the U.S. since 2000?
Here’s a list of her singles which have charted on the Billboard Hot 100 since 2000:
American Pie #29
Music #1
Don’t Tell Me #4
What It Feels Like for a Girl #23
Die Another Day #8
American Life #37
Me Against the Music #35
Hung Up #7
Sorry #58
4 Minutes #3
Give It 2 Me #57
Celebration #71
Give Me All Your Luvin’ #10
I can understand why she’s struggling to get a hit single in today's music industry, but her success on the Hot 100 diminished over 12 years ago. 4 Minutes was a hit, but I doubt it would’ve peaked as high as it did if Justin Timberlake wasn’t featured on it. Give Me All Your Luvin’ peaked at #10 in 2012, but it fell out of the chart within a couple of weeks.
Did American radio stations turn their backs on Madonna because of American Life? Did it cost her more hit singles? Confessions on a Dance Floor sold well despite only one top 10 hit, but it's her last album to be awarded a platinum certification. Music remains her last #1 single on the Hot 100. What happened? Will she ever get another big U.S. hit single? Cher peaked at #1 in 1998 with Believe, but it was a different industry back then.
Other older female artists have also struggled on the Hot 100 for a while now. Janet Jackson’s last #1 single was in 2001, her last platinum album was in 2006 (thanks to shipments). Celine Dion’s last #1 single was in 1998, her last platinum album was in 2007. Mariah Carey’s last #1 single and platinum album was in 2008.
American Pie #29
Music #1
Don’t Tell Me #4
What It Feels Like for a Girl #23
Die Another Day #8
American Life #37
Me Against the Music #35
Hung Up #7
Sorry #58
4 Minutes #3
Give It 2 Me #57
Celebration #71
Give Me All Your Luvin’ #10
I can understand why she’s struggling to get a hit single in today's music industry, but her success on the Hot 100 diminished over 12 years ago. 4 Minutes was a hit, but I doubt it would’ve peaked as high as it did if Justin Timberlake wasn’t featured on it. Give Me All Your Luvin’ peaked at #10 in 2012, but it fell out of the chart within a couple of weeks.
Did American radio stations turn their backs on Madonna because of American Life? Did it cost her more hit singles? Confessions on a Dance Floor sold well despite only one top 10 hit, but it's her last album to be awarded a platinum certification. Music remains her last #1 single on the Hot 100. What happened? Will she ever get another big U.S. hit single? Cher peaked at #1 in 1998 with Believe, but it was a different industry back then.
Other older female artists have also struggled on the Hot 100 for a while now. Janet Jackson’s last #1 single was in 2001, her last platinum album was in 2006 (thanks to shipments). Celine Dion’s last #1 single was in 1998, her last platinum album was in 2007. Mariah Carey’s last #1 single and platinum album was in 2008.
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Nice to see your obsession with Madonna is ongoing. I thought by now you might be over it.
Songs like Sorry were not played much at all on US radio, because at that time radio was playing mostly R&B and hip hop and they wouldn't play a dance based song.
As already mentioned it's the lack of airplay in America that has prevented Madonna from gaining another #1 hit.
For eg; Hung Up was practically #1 in every country...except the US where song stalled at #7
The answer? Radio turned against her after American Life + her age. Even "4 Minutes" which peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 didn't go top 10 on radio airplay (#11) and that was with Justin Timberlake.
Most of the fans are 8-18 and they are not interessed in people who older their parents
I remember when i was young i sure didnt care about singers who were 50+ years old
A 57 year old prancing about in next to nothing singing flakey songs? Yes the public are going to lap that up , not!
As for airplay in America you do realise it's request based not like Radio1/2 where DJ's choose. They play what the public request the most and nowadays, it isn't Madonna.
Time for Madonna fans to wake up, smell the coffee, get over it and stop flooding the forum!
She's had a better run than most (all!).
Firstly, Madonna is 56 not 57. Secondly, she wasn't 56 in 2000. Thirdly, you know bugger all about how radio stations work in the USA so pipe down. An massive amount of them are owned by companies with links to the Republican party and it was his that hurt her most of all since The American Life album, which deeply offended them.
So quit spreading your ignorance on a subject which you claim not to care about.
She will still continue to sell tours & albums, like all artists that have been around a while.
Couldn't agree more, I think the media and some fans are turning it into something it isn't. Many artists have had a far shorter career in charts yet continue to make music and have continued their career without the chart success. It doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong or their career is over.
I highly doubt this. Morrissey's You Are the Quarry has a song called "America is Not the World" which was definitely played on the radio here in the US and that album is actually Morrissey's highest charting album in the US at #11 on the Billboard 200.
As I said, it's more to do with her music being bloody awful since the Ray of Light album than anything else!
I wouldn't go that far. I'd say it was more because the type of music she makes these days is a Dance Pop genre that just isn't popular at all in the US.
It's the same reason why Kylie Minogue isn't popular in the US. Her last song to even break the top 100 was Slow back in 2004, and it only reached #91.
Neither Kylie or Madonna have had a big hit in the UK for years. So I'd say it's mainly down to the quality of their work. I can't even name any recent Madonna songs, they ate that unmemorable.
Well it's a fact. You only have to see what happened to the Dixie Chicks when they spoke out against Bush and the Iraq war. They were blacklisted. And Morrisesy's fans are hardcore liberals..no 11 though..
.Madonna is a worldwide superstar. It hurt her immeasurably.
If it chart positions are truly based on quality, then why have there been almost no big hits by people over 40 recently. A lot of older artists continue to release new material. Is it really possible that all of them release low quality material? Or is there some other reason their songs aren't hits?
And why is there this idea that unless Madonna has a big hit she's a failure? That doesn't seem to be the approach to other older artists. People seem to be happy they are still releasing records and praise them for not just going greatest hits tours.
When Madonna was interviewed by Howard Stern, he asked her something about creating another big hit. She said she didn't know about having another hit, but she wanted to continue making music because that's what she loves. I think she's pretty realistic about the fact that she may not have another big hit no matter how good a song is because of her age and time in the music business. Too bad other people aren't as realistic in their expectations of her.