XXL
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Britney does those and charges like 1000
NO THANKSMadonna does the odd album signing here and there (Music, American Life)
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You don't need to be desperate to sell your tickets to meet a few people from your fanclub every show. Yes, they are a lot of people on the fanclub, but she could do a lottery system to be fair, and pick 10-15 people a show.
And they would all meet Madonna and get a group picture with her or something.
when 3 million people have showed up at your last tour, meeting 10 per show doesn't seem quite fair anyway.
fans would find things to complain about (as per usual with her). she can't live like that.
she gives so much to us fans, even without endless autograph signing sessions or meet and greet stuff
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Regarding meet and greet it's not so much about not needing it for ticket sales (and obviously she doesn't anyway) but that it's not Madonna's style. That's more in the range of an act/ product like Gaga. Even when she was starting out touring wise do you remember her doing this sort of things? That's also why she rarely signs autographs. At certain levels of fame it's not recommendable, if u start signing one, people expect you to do that always.
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And about the UK dates not selling....Please really? You believe peoples economy is right now like in the great shape to expensive tickets? She will sell them but so many people can't afford to pay the tickets right now for a concert in July!!!!
The UK dates will sell out. No worries. In 2008 the economy was no less shitty than it is today and she still managed to sell out 2 stadiums and three arena gigs, 9 months later (*waits for the usual suspects to point out she cancelled some 2009 gig in Manchester*). She is going to have another record-breaking tour. She is Madonna not some average pop starlet.
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4min did better? Of course fuking idiots it was the digital single and the physical single with remixes!t!! This fucking moronns didn't even have release the vinyl to be played at clubs!!!
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I actually still like Lady Gaga, but this statement is very true. I believe her to be very talented, but she is not changing the culture in the way Madonna has.
Thank God some of her fans will admit that
Not only she is not impacting culturally but she isn't creating anything new either
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im still trying to figure out exactly what 'magic' 4M had vs. GAYL LOL??
exactly it's not like 4 min is this vastly superior track to GMAYL
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GODDAMMIT CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHAT IS GOING ON WITH MIAMI AKA FLOPIAMI
Calm down Madonna is coming there too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DocrzG24eg&list=UUiBgyZIZJTdsW8CAAEnV85Q&index=86&feature=plcp
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you can make a long list of specific Madonna controversies, I can't think of any for Gaga; just stunts like meat dresses and arriving in an Egg. A good Madonna controversy left people dabating a topic.
A topic of cultural and social interest. Not selling her cheap pyramid-shaped headphones thru some supposedly edgy cheap video.
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Kurt, I totally respect what you're saying. And again, I do think what Madonna was going was leaps and bounds ahead/more controversial than what Gaga is doing, partly because of the time period and partly because it was just more sophisticated and "new." But I think what Gaga is doing falls into the same "brand" of provocation. She's obviously influenced by that period of Madonna's career and it shows. I'm not saying it's on the same level, just that I think part of her decline in popularity right now is because of it.
12:51, I'm not sure it's just because Gaga won't "go away." There are plenty of artists who have been as prolific and in your face (Rihanna, Beyonce, Mariah). Hell, she's only been around for four years. Mariah put out an album a year for a decade! I think overexposure definitely plays a part, but I think if she were still releasing songs like "Just Dance" or even "Bad Romance," she'd be doing better. (Not that she's doing bad - she sold the same amount of albums in 2011 that she did in 2010 and 2009, and BTW was the third biggest selling album of last year, and it included four Top 10 hits, one of which was #1 for six weeks.) But I truly believe that the "Gaga fatigue" is partly due to her pushing certain cultural buttons. When BTW came out, I saw loads of people on other boards saying that she was instantly going to shrink her fanbase because the song was so "gay." To keep things on topic, Madonna was always popular with the gays for obvious reasons (like Gaga), but it's when she really started mining that demographic (LAP, "Vogue," Erotica) that she became a gay "icon."
sorry but everything Gaga has ever done to this point is SO GAY, and in a poor way too. nothing groundbraking or truly shocking in her brand of provocation. there is nothing to shrink. her real fanbase was gay and will stay gay till the end of her career (which she's doing everything she can to sabotage herself)
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It always makes me laugh how people keep trashing Guy here making out he's some hated, has been. He's just had another worldwide smash hit with the second Sherlock Holmes film. He's not an unpopular figure here in Britain at all in spite of what the lambs here might say. He pretty much keeps out of the limelight, he's been very discreet about his divorce and just gets on with his film making. However, the poor lambs here will never forgive him for the divorce.
As for Madonna, I think there is a respectful indifference towards her, like many great artists of her era. If she does something great, it will do well but if it's average, people will ignore it. They know she can deliver so they'll just wait until she does.
I have nothing but admiration for Guy. I love some of his films and I recognise he has talent in his field. The second installment of Sherlock Holmes did as well as the first one grossing over half a billion dollars
I am glad he has found some commercial success too at last coz I honestly think doing Swept Away with Madge back then in 2001 interrupted his ascending trend (especially if you consider the gap between the numbers of Lock stock and the numbers and exposure his second outing Snatch received). I was agreeing with Wright's general implication that Madonna's success in the UK was independent of the fact that she was married to Guy just as it stands alone now that they're not married anymore.It was however a good phase in Madonna's career PR wise since the WHOLE WORLD loved to see her being the *upper middle class American wife of a "Britsh film-director" (with aristo background etc), currently residing in London*. It sort of exemplified her own nickname of "Queen of Pop".
I have a lot of sympathy for Guy and I do think that those saying that because she and Guy parted ways, the UK public has turned their back on M and the press started depicting her as a rude materialistic bitch are talking bullshit. However it must also be noted that Madonna's level of fame was and still is huge compared to Guy's.
Even in this trashy tabloid TV report, you hear some of those journalists pointing out why of all people Madonna chose Guy back in 1999/2000. He was a rising star on his own of course but once he was associated to M (she is so big to overshadow everything else) the press started to label him as a Madonna man, rather than Guy Ritchie, the film-director.
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http://www.facebook.com/newsofmad?sk=wall
Madonna au Québec le 1er Septembre devant 80 000 personnes .. Sold Out en 2h30 !
Madonna in Quebec on September 1 for 80,000 people... Sold Out in 2 h 30!
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http://www.madonnatribe.com/news/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6542
Second Date at the O2 World in Berlin sold out in minutes!
Madonna did it again in Berlin!
Tickets for the extra date at the O2 World on June 30 went on general sale this morning, and in a bunch of minutes only spare seats in the higher price category were left, making this a second instant sell-out!
At 53 it's the first time in Madonna's career that she announces a tour and people are buying tickets without having first listened to the entire album. If this is measure of a flop and not of ongoing (if not increasing) demand and popularity then tell me who is having it better than M is
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I'll be at the Edinburgh performance in July!! Woohoo!!
I want to get an Early Acess Golden Circle ticket for Edinburgh. Is it specified somewhere at what time Early Access ticket holders get to enter the stadium vs the time of regular GC ticket holders?
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No no - you've misunderstood. It states that I have:
Package includes the following:
* gold circle standing ticket
* Early Access Pass - access the venue before standard ticket holders
* exclusive gift
* commemorative tour laminate
The person I was quoting said that there was NO Gold Circle in Berlin, but my ticket details suggest otherwise. The "Early Access to the venue" is clearly stated everywhere, so there won't be any problems with this.
I see. Great then
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I find this thread hilarious only from the assumption that some people think Guy Ritchie is some popular icon in the UK. He is and always was a joke. An upper class guy trying to pass himself off as a mock cockney geezer. He has had a couple of successful films, but he is more famous for who he married (and divorced), and the divorce certainly has done nothing to dent Madonna's popularity. If anything the fact they are good friends and have worked to have a good post divorce relationship for the sake of their children has only added to admiration for her.
Brilliantly explained
Now some people on here need to study this and stop speaking nonsense
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That video is a great example of mass hysteria.
Yeah, I was speaking to my good friend Lady Jane Darling and she told me that she would never buy another Madonna record again! I mean, what with her not being a Great British housewife anymore. The WI are organising a protest and the general public are supporting a Madonna embargo. I just hope I don't see her around London or I might have to give her a piece of my mind! #shakes fist# Toodlepip old chum!P.S 12:51 I think you give media reports way too much credence. I think it may be more reliable to go from life experience.
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Thinking about doing to Milan, coming from USA. I still see 'hot tickets' available 328,25 € (Madonna - Hot Ticket Milano 14 Giugno - Tickets for MILANO
Thu, 6/14/12, 8:01 PM Stadio Meazza Piccolomini, 5, 20149 MILANO). Does anybody know what this means or where the seat is?
Any thoughts on Prato A? Is it just a crazy stampede?
Prato A S&S for Milan was more orderly than the mess that took place in Rome 9 months before. Still if you hold a Prato A ticket for the Milan date make sure to arrive at the venue well-ahead of the opening of the gates, to secure you're one of the first among those holding a Prato A (Golden Circle) ticket. Also bear in mind that there's also people with an Early Access Prato A ticket, which means (unless LN screws up again) they will be let in first anyway.
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together with this:
4:21 her sugar is rraaw
In the BBC clip the smiling faces u see among the audience, you know they must be upset about the divorce now
They won't buy a ticket for this tour. She is not married to their British friend Guy Ritchie any more
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I didn't even realise it was Jessie J. It just sounded like another dire Katy Perry song.
By the way for those clulessly saying that Madonna British Housewife was Madonna at her worst
Madonna Lady of the Manor 2000 - 2008 was in fact one of the most successful moments in Madonna's career PR wise
A Lady of the Manor singing a song like IMPRESSIVE INSTANT, donning a leotard for a 70's inspired dance record and begging people to see her toned 50-year-old booty get down.
FACT: Madonna was the most written about celebrity in the UK between 2000-2010, the fact that her and her British husband split is not likely to change things. She still has several properties there, spends time working there and has an half British son, right?
2009 she sold out two wembley arena gigs after having filled wembley stadium barely 9 months before and that was post-divorce, right? And Celebration? And working with a complete British cast? Please.
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They were playing Jessie J this evening so they haven't got a problem with trashy pop!
Give me "GMAYL-Madonna-not-at-her-best" over any of those younger stars really mediocre productions 6 studio albums in 6 years type of thing ANY DAY
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Both of my "Early Access" emails for Berlin state that I have a "Gold Circle" standing ticket....?
I told you
Hopefully it won't turn into 2008 again
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A lot of negativity aimed at M on her own boards from her own fans. Frequently.
The same people that keep saying HC was a flop. The 15th best-selling album of the year. An album that had virtually no promotion at all on TV. Stop obsessing over Madonna chart position and appreciate the fact that at her age and after thirty years she still manages to look like she does, gets asked to take part in one of the biggest TV ventures ever, perform like she does AND score a top ten hit.
And the ones questioning her ability to generate more sold-out performances in the UK market are even more ridiculous.
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The endless flop chanting is devoid of any base and it's getting tired. These shows have been put on sale not even a couple of weeks ago. An album isn't out yet and the tour isn't to start for another 5 months. Some people on here need to get a grip of reality. It's like some are wishing for this era to be a flop.