I went into my local HMV today, and in amongst the new releases section were a load of old Madonna singles which have been re-released on CD by Sire; the likes of Holiday, True Blue, Like A Prayer, Take A Bow, Cherish and Ray Of Light were all in there.

Has anyone else noticed these being sold in other record stores, and is there a specific reason why these songs have been re-released, other than one record company's attempt to extract more money from Xmas shoppers?

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no i havn' t noticed either, were they next to a more recent release of madonna's? i saw the other week that the sugababes single had their album placed next to it in the singles chart. It might have been to draw ppl's eye to the fact that there were more madonnas things available?