Fans in Malaysia should tune into 8TV this New Year's Day at 1:00pm to catch the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards. Madonna was the opening act with her debut live performance of her hit single, Hung Up held in Lisbon, Portugal last month. Madonna also presented the Free Your Mind award to Sir Bob Geldof during the show.

Madonna is still doing great in the German single charts. Hung up has been holding the number one position since November 18th!
This single has turned out to be Madonna's most successful single ever in Germany!

Madonna is featured in two categories in the Hello! magazine 2005 end of year online poll - fans can vote for Madonna in the Most Attractive Woman and Most Elegant woman categories. Click here to vote.

Madonna features on the cover (and has a two-page article inside) of the December 2005/January 2006 issue of French magazine Le Mag - Madison Nuggets.

Madonna will appear on Style Network's Isaac show on Monday 02 January at 7:00pm (the show will be repeated at 11:00pm and again on Tuesday at 11:00am).

Madonna - Episode #130
MTV's Vanessa Manillo, comedienne Judy Gold, and Isaac chats with Madonna.

madonnalicious now brings visitors a new download to this site in the form of CBS' Late Show With David Letterman.
The show was originally broadcast in the US on 20 October 2005, and was notable for the fact that Madonna got back into the saddle for the first time since her riding accident in August.

The NAB has announced that pop diva Madonna and punk rockers Good Charlotte have joined the radio industry's 'Radio: You Hear It Here First' campaign.
Launched in January 2005, the 'Radio: You Hear It Here First' campaign features testimonials from newly emerging and legendary recording artists, describing how radio played a key role in advancing their careers.
'Madonna is a superstar with an unparalleled following,' said David J. Field, president & CEO of Entercom Communications and chairman of the NAB Radio Board. 'It would be difficult to find a more effective spokesperson to communicate free, local radio's strengths.'

A previously unseen outtake from the Lorenzo Agius shoot (originally for Ladies Home Journal) features on the cover of the January 2006 edition of the Singapore version of Harpers Bazaar. A six-page article inside the magazine is also illustrated with pictures from the Ladies Home Journal photoshoot.

Fans in the US have another chance to watch Madonna's tour documentary I'm Going To Tell You A Secret on the VH1 Classic channel tonight at 10:00pm.

The January 2006 issues of Spanish magazines Rolling Stone and Woman both feature Madonna articles - click on the images to enlarge and read.

Fans can vote for Madonna as their Woman of the Year at the website of the Italian version of Vanity Fair - click here to vote.

The holiday edition of UK magazine star (09 January 2006 issue) features a full page article on Madonna's latest fashion styles - click to enlarge.

The most popular radio station in Canada CKOI 96.9FM has elected Hung Up as the number one single of 2005. It is also still number one on the daily countdown for 65 days.

Here are a further selection of clips of Madonna's appearances that visitors to the site may have missed due to having problems with the previous download host.

Madonna claimed the Christmas number one spot on the European singles chart with Hung Up, which continues to sit at the top for a sixth week.

Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor drops down to number two in the European albums chart, after four weeks at number one - leaving the seasonal top spot to Robbie Williams' Intensive Care.

The supplement to UK industry magazine Travel Weekly called TW2 features Madonna on their cover to illustrate an article on how the stars keep fit.

Madonna will feature on the cover of the February 2006 issue of the Italian version of Rolling Stone music magazine.

Some fans have had trouble downloading the files madonnalicious has offered recently, but now as a seasonal treat I have uploaded them to another (hopefully more downloader friendly) site where everyone can download the clips from.

madonnalicious brings you some more fan footage shot at Madonna's G-A-Y concert in London last month. This footage was shot by DitaParlo03 from the balcony and contains some great Madonna moments.

Included in the footage are clips from Hung Up, Get Together and I Love New York.

Confessions On A G-A-Y Dance Floor - Fan Footage - 19 November (MPG) - 3:51 sec - 39.2Mb
Click on the link - wait 45 seconds - download the file

madonnalicious can now bring more news that a Madonna concert was being broadcast on Saturday 31 December at all Wal-Mart stores in the US in their electronics department and on Wal-Mart TV Network monitors throughout stores.

We have now learnt that this concert will be the KoKo concert performed last month in London BUT edited for Wal-Mart audiences (no swearing, no crotch grabbing).

The current edition of German magazine Gala (15 December issue 51) features a six page spread of Madonna pictures shot by Lorenzo Agius which were originally featured in the US magazine Ladies Home Journal earlier this year.

Madonna has left the mysticism and has been reborn as a dancing queen. With her new looks and style, the 47-year old is back as a fashion-icon for fourteen year olds as well as fourty year olds.
The middle-aged popstar is still superior as a trendsetter. In addition to that, she made herself to be the world's most famous brand.
'She has mastered to be hot for three decades by constantly reinventing herself. She shops for spirituality as well as a new style, new sound and PR-strategies,' writes Danish paper Politiken.
With her new album 'Confessions On A Dance Floor' Madonna's back with the discoballs and the dance floor.
The female pop icon of all times must count as a shopoholic on the spiritual market, and has flirted with buddhism, shintoism, hinduism, taoism and kabbalah, a jewish mysticism. But, now that she's thrown herself into a futuristic discoparty, she, again, meets her time as 'the material girl'.
Young girls and forever young mothers pull out the sidebangs and joins the dance.
Trendanalyst and costumedesigner Lisy de Rohan Birkeland establishes:
- It's unbelievable. My husband asked our daughter, Sophie (10), if she thought Madonna was too old for this. The answer was a firm 'no', Madonna was not too old to be interesting.

Doesn't it seem desperate of a 47 year old woman to appear as a teenager?
- Madonna's really good to hit the time right and handles it well to pull back soon enough, she never takes it too far, so that it looks ridiculous. She has skills and intelligense to master this challenge, and always makes sure to have great helpers, says Lisy de Rohan Birkeland.

Madonna passes as the ultimate fashion-cameleon and has changed her style from being platinumblond in the 80's via Dominatrix, New Age and british nobility in the decades that followed.
A postmodern icon they like to call her. Or as her former boyfriend and rapper Vanilla Ice said it: 'If she was a painting, she would be an abstract Picasso. She has so many faces.'
In addition, Madonna made it trendy to be a housewife, at least a mother. The mature Madonna is not just a libertarian, but a mother. A mother of morals.
Husband and partner through the past five years, the british filmdirector Guy Ritchie, brought the American Madonna to the British suburbs. With her into the marriage, she had her 9 year old daughter Lourdes, that Madonna had with her personal trainer Carlos Leon during the shooting of 'Evita'. Rumours has it that Leon was paid a big amount of money to not demand custody.

In an interview with British TV personality Michael Parkinson, recently shown on TV, Madonna talked about her children, the daughter Lourdes (9) and Rocco (5), which are not allowed to watch TV. And they have to clean up after themselves. Lourdes corrects her mother for her provocative style in clothing, Madonna admits in an interview with British Radio 1.
- If I pick her up from school, she asks me to dress normally, says Madonna.

Madonna lives out the dream american women have about the british upper classes, thinks Lisy de Rohan Birkeland.
- Madonna is living a fantasy life in one way. A little upper class and a real mother for the children on one hand, while in the professional life, she can take it all out and be 80's stylish.

Doesn't she lose credibilty from all the image changes?
- No, her changes doesn't happen that often, there's always something new and surprising coming out of it, and it's really well thought through. So, the credibility is not harmed.

That's Jan Walaker, editor in art and lifestyle magazine Hot Rod, completely agreeing with.
- This is about Madonna making music that offers the best of disco in the year 2005, soundwise. I notice that in parties with people younger that me, and the ones my age, that's Madonna's age, this is just as catchy. If she hadn't proved this, we would have seen through her and she wouldn't have captured us with her style.

Madonna has always been a big star in the gay community. When VG earlier this fall asked if this had anything to do with them looking on her as a glamourous diva, Madonna answered:
- No, that's too shallow. Under each surface, there is depth, and this goes deeper than that.

Members of Madonna's official fanclub ICON (who joined/renewed after 03 October 2005) will soon be receiving their 'Mystery Package'.
The package consists of a Confessions.... tin which contains a tshirt and a membership card.

Fans can vote for their favourite music moment of 2005 at AOL Canada - Madonna's Return is listed in the poll and you can vote at: www.channels.aol.ca

Members of Madonna's official fanclub ICON (members before 03 October 2005) should have or will soon be receiving the latest issue of the fanclub's magazine.

 

Saturday 31 December 2005: Madonna on WMTV:
Watch Madonna in concert on Saturday, December 31st at 7PM in all time zones. See this exclusive in-store event only in the electronics department and on Wal-Mart TV Network monitors throughout the store.

This news item was posted at www.walmart.triaddigital.com/Walmart-Events.

At the moment we have no idea what it this concert is about....so if there is anyone from Wal-mart who can shed some light on this please contact us!

Madonna is featured on the cover of the Winter 2005 edition of french publication Tendances Magazine (issue 4).

 

Music website www.hitz.fm is running a poll to find out who fans want as the websites Artist of the Month for January 2006.

Madonna is currently in fourth place behind Ricky Martin, Mariah Carey and Ashlee Simpson - to vote for Madonna visit www.hitz.fm

A Madonna party is taking place in Israel on Thursday 29 December at G Spot.

For more information click on the flyer or visit www.gspotclub.co.il

News is coming in from Warner Brasil about the release dates for the highly anticipated Madonna tour DVDs:

Madonna's tour documentary, I'm Going To Tell You A Secret is set for release in the week beginning 06 February 2006.

The Re-Invention World Tour 2004 (Live From Portugal) DVD is set for release in the week beginning 13 March 2006.

Fans should remember however that these dates are always subject to change....as we have seen many times before!

madonnalicious visitor Nihan has sent in this sweet story about one of his school pupils class projects regarding heroes:

I am a teacher in Turkey. Last week I gave some homework to my students and it was a project to tell the class about their hero.
It turned out that seven-year-old Ela's hero was Madonna. She handed in the project and I was so touched (as a Madonna fan of course). I think there must be a Madonna fan in the family (Mother or Father most probably).
When I asked her why she had chosen Madonna, she said she was so beautiful and talented, her songs were great and also her books were so enjoyable and beautiful. Most interesting part of the project is the Superman body with Madonna head. It's hilarious! And Ela has an explanation to it of course: 'She can fly like Superman!'

Madonna has hit back at newlywed Sir Elton John after he criticised her for not attending his pre-wedding party on Monday 19 December.
British newspaper the Daily Mirror reported John labelled the Material Girl a 'miserable cow' after she snubbed his star-studded bachelor party at London nightspot Too2Much, which was held ahead of the Rocket Man hitmaker's civil partnership ceremony with David Furnish yesterday.
In response, Madonna's spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg tells PageSix.com, 'Madonna wishes Elton all the best, and hopes married life will make him a happier person.'

Madonna is the cover star of the latest issue of Record Collector (January 2006 issue). Madonna is placed at number one in the list of the 100 Most Collectable Divas feature, thanks to the 12" picture disc of Erotica. Also included is a great discography with many single sleeves in full colour.

Visit Madonna's official website www.madonna.com to listen to an audio holiday message from Madonna to her fans.

madonnalicious visitor Heinz took this great picture of Madonna as she left the Radio 1 studios after co-hosting the Jo Whiley show on Wednesday 14 December in London.

Hung Up has remained at the top of the UK airplay chart for an amazing 7th week.
It's audience last week was down a bit but is still an impressive 89.75 million (an amazing 27 million ahead of the second placed song).

Madonna has been featured in the Mexican press a lot recently. Madonna featured on the cover of Dia Siete (11 December issue), Gente Erotica (December 2005 issue), Marvin (December 2005 issue) and Top (06 November 2005 issue).

 

 

Madonna is determined to inject a little festive cheer into her family Christmas this year - by stocking up on her favourite beer.
The Material Girl has ordered 300 pints - a whopping £1,000 - of award winning Folly ale for herself and husband Guy Richie.
Beer fans describe the ale as a 'traditional, full-bodied Yorkshire bitter', and one Folly drinker said: 'I'm not surprised she fell in love with Folly because it's a wonderful pint.'
Bosses at the Wharfedale brewery in Skipton were only too happy to deliver the booze to Madonna's mansion in Wiltshire - 275 miles away.
Earlier this year, the beer-loving pop queen had gallons of Timothy Taylor's Landlord bitter delivered to her home.
The singer had 72-pint firkins sent miles from the brewery to her £9 million mansion at a price of £80 each.
Timothy Taylor brewer boss Charles Dent, who sent the casks to the 'Like a Virgin Singer' from the brewery on West Yorkshire, said: 'It's a jolly good beer and a lot of girls like it.'

A download is now available of Madonna's appearance on the Japanese TV show Smap x Smap that was recorded earlier this month, and broadcast on Monday 19 December.
Madonna performs Hung Up on the show and a funny interview follows afterwards.

Smap x Smap - Hung Up And Interview - Broadcast 19 December (WMV) - 12:05 sec - 26.6Mb
Click on the link - choose FREE - then scroll to the bottom of the page - wait for the download ticket

If the first link doesn't work, download it at: www.megaupload.com/?d=CP6MICAW

Fans can now watch Madonna's interview to promote Confessions On A Dance Floor with Swedish TV which aired recently. To view the video visit www.svt.se

Madonna is featured in the latest issues of two Spanish magazines.
A two-page article is featured in Semana (21 December issue) and a four-page article runs in Vanidad (December 2005/January 2006 issue).

Fans can now vote in the Rolling Stone Readers Poll 2005 - Madonna is nominated in Album Of The Year, Best Female Performer and Best Dressed.

To take part in the vote visit: www.rssurvey.com

Madonna is the cover star of the Chilean version of the music magazine Rolling Stone (December 2005 issue).

This cover is the same as the US version of the magazine that was published last month.

Madonna's 1986 film Shanghai Surprise is finally getting a Region 2 DVD release.
The DVD is scheduled to be released in the UK on Monday 27 February 2006 and comes as a widescreen edition, which is probably superior to the previously available full screen Region 1 release version.

Madonna's night on the town in October at New York City clubs, MisShapes and the Roxy, to promote her new album is covered in the UK gay magazine Attitude.

On Radio Énergie, one of the biggest radio station in Canada (Québec), they asked listeners to vote for the favorite French and English language song of the year, and Hung Up is in the list. You can vote for the song here: www.radioenergie.com

A Madonna party is taking place on Saturday 07 January in Antwerp, for more information click on the flyer or visit www.goc-antwerpen.be

I want fellow fans to know that Madonna is still going strong in Norway! 'Hung Up' is holding on to it's #2 spot after dropping from #1 last week. (The history of 'Hung Up' is #10 (based on two days presale) - #1 - #1 - #1 - #1 - #2 - #2.)
'Confessions On A Dancefloor' is currently at #3, after being #1 for four weeks!

One month on from Madonna's Confessions On A G-A-Y Dance Floor concert, fans can now download some great footage shot by madonnalicious visitor Aaron Paul.

Included in the footage are clips from Hung Up, Get Together, Let It Will Be, Everybody and Jump. The footage is shaky at the start but boy does it improve!

Confessions On A G-A-Y Dance Floor - Fan Footage - 19 November (MPG) - 7:17 sec - 74.4Mb
Click on the link - choose FREE - then scroll to the bottom of the page - wait for the download ticket

If the first link doesn't work, download it at: www.megaupload.com/?d=CP6MICAW

Fans can vote for the best Vanity Fair Italia cover of 2005.

Madonna's cover number 46/47 is currently in second place in the poll with 14%.

To vote visit www.voguevanity.it

madonnalicious visitor Garrett has sent in this news about Madonna on TRL:

Please encourage everyone to keep voting for Madonna's 'Hung Up' video on TRL.
It has been on the countdown about 26 times. If a video is still on the countdown after 50 times, they retire the video. That would be a huge accomplishment for Madonna. 'Hung Up' is her first video to make it to #1 on TRL and let's make it her first video to be retired on TRL as well.
Here is the link to vote: www.mtv.com/onair/trl/vote

Madonna is featured on the cover of two January 2006 magazines. French magazine Astro Femina features an article entitled The Comeback of the Dancing Queen
Greek magazine Soul looks at the most outrageous false rumours published throughout her career including marrying Prince, singing the Titanic theme, playing Samantha in Sex and the City.

 

Madonna is having a great success in Spain. Confessions On A Dance Floor remains at #3 for the 3rd week in the album chart.
Hung Up is still at #1 since the first day on the singles chart, and now it remains #1 for the 3rd week in a row in the most important radio station in Spain, 40 Principales. This is the first time Madonna is at #1 for more than 2 weeks in this chart. In 1989 she was 2 weeks with Like A Prayer.

A stash of £4 bottles of Kabbalah water that leotard-clad Madonna left behind after her latest show at G-A-Y is making a fortune for gay charities.
My source down at the London club tells me: 'She left loads of the Madge water behind so we've been flogging it for £20 a pop. The cash is going to charity though.'

Confessions On A Dance Floor is listed as one of the Top 50 albums of 2005 by US music magazine Rolling Stone - the album is listed at number 22.

Sunday's edition of UK newspaper The Observer featured a look back at a year in music. Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor is featured at 26 in the list of top music, and Madonna's G-A-Y concert is listed as the biggest live draw of the year.

 

Madonna and her producer Stuart Price attended Coldplay's concert at Earls Court in London on Thursday 15 December, madonnalicious visitor Amar was also there and had this story to tell:

Just before the concert started my brothers and I were in Block One so on our right people were walking back n forth and I knew she was going to be there because she mentioned it on Radio One and YES I saw her!
We shouted Madonna Madonna and she was shocked because I didn't think she that anyone would see her....when we shouted she looked right up at us.
She had straight hair....real pretty....She had no guards and was walking like any other person there in a dark purple coat and red lipstick!
I was in so much shock but my brother managed a great shot of them both looking at the camera and Stuart smiling!
What a high and then next minute Coldplay come on.....so I had a permanent high throughout!

At this show Coldplay performed a much longer version of Hung Up. madonnalicious visitor Tarik captured some of the song and you can download it here (Right Click And Save Target As): Coldplay - Hung Up - 1m43s - 862Kb (Audio Only)

Madonna's reteaming with her longtime choreographer, Jamie King, to direct her next video, 'Sorry,' which she'll shoot in January most likely in London, according to her rep.
King co-conceptualized her videos for 'Human Nature' and 'Don't Tell Me,' and directed her Drowned World and Reinvention tours.

Madonna in featured on the cover of World Of TV And Cinema and her Japan trip was covered by MK Boulevard - click on the images to enlarge.

 

From Balazs:
Here are some great chart news from Hungary!
Madonna is at #1 on 4 (of 5) Hungarian Music Charts.
Hung Up is #1 on the Hungarian Single Sales Chart for a 4th non consecutive week. This is the song's 5th week in this chart(1-1-1-2).
Hung Up is #1 on the Hungarian Airplay Chart for 4th consecutive week. (On it's 7th week 31-17-4-1-1-1). This means it's the most listened song in the country).
Hung Up is #1 on the Hungarian Radio Editor's Chart for 5th consecutive week. (On it's 7th week 21-4-1-1-1-1) This means it's the most played song in the country.
Hung Up is #1 on the Hungarian Dance Chart for 3rd consecutive week.
Finally Confessions On A Dancefloor is still at #5 on the Album Chart.

From Eva:
I just want you know that Madonna is #1 for second week consecutively on 40 principales Radio Station. Also I have learned that Hung Up is #1 in the singles chart.

From Khiem:
Just like to tell you that Hung Up is still the most requested song in Montreal CKOI radio station since its release, that's over 50 days ago! You can keep the streak going by voting at www.ckoi.com

From Mette:
Madonna has dropped from a 5th to 6th spot on the Danish album chart, but she's still the most played song on the Danish Club/DJ chart - for the 6th week in a row!

Germany:
There will be a Madonna release party in Munich, Germany. Optimolwerke Munchen. Club KELLER on Thursday 26 January 2006. The event starts at 9:00pm.

Philipines:
THE CLUB MADONNA PHILIPPINES YEAR-END PARTY
Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 6pm till the morning after
Richmonde Hotel Suites, San Miguel Ave., Ortigas Center, Pasig City

An intimate overnight, all night event filled with lots of truth-or-dare!
Celebrate the past full year with successful happenings from the club Meet and chill out with the gorgeous guys of Club Madonna Philippines that made all of it happen And of course....watch, dance & sing with Madonna till the morning after!

Exclusive to Club Madonna Philippines members. To be a part of the club just register at forum.clubmadonna.ph

Door charge: Php 400 (inclusive of great food and luxurious hotel accomodation)

Send an SMS to Meister @ 0916-2825034 (Globe) for more information.
Lots of Madonna prizes and freebies to be given away!

 

Germany:
Time goes by so slowly for those who wait....The Waiting has an End....
Dj Dimitri presents 10 Years of Madonnaparty.com (1996 - 2006)
Date: Saturday 7th January 2006 Starts 11:00pm
Location Dixon Hill, Stuttgart

Dimitri plays 100 % pure Madonna music.
The first 100 Guests will get an special give away present.

At their Earls Court concert in London last night, Coldplay added a version of the Hung Up chorus to their performance of God Put A Smile Upon Your Face.

As Chris Martin sang Every little thing that you say or do, I'm hung up, I'm hung up on you, he gradually got louder and louder and the crowd really went wild!

Madonna is believed to be attending Coldplay's concert tonight in London.

madonnalicious visitor Ant has sent in these great pictures he took when Madonna was arriving and leaving the BBC Radio 1 studios in London yesterday.

Was a great few hours, and the guy who got picked to be on the Madonna wars, was outside with us. So on the way out we pointed out to her that he was the guy that one the competition so should stopped and shook his hand. She was in a very good mood as signed some autographs too. I was really lucky and she signed one my photos from GAY that I took myself.

 

 

The great news that Billboard posted online today is that Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor is now certified platinum in the USA.

The second part of the Harry Smith interview with Madonna in Japan for CBS' The Early Show is now available to download.

CBS The Early Show - Broadcast 13 December (MPG) - 5:46 sec - 57.7Mb
Click on the link - choose FREE - then scroll to the bottom of the page - wait for the download ticket

From Fernando:
If you haven't noticed, our Queen is slowly slipping down the Billboard Hot 100. It is our duty to call into our local radio stations and request Hung Up and keep Madonna at least in the Top 10. She is down to #14 from #8 last week....please request!

From Marcus:
Please can people keep voting at TRL again for 'Hung Up'? It keeps falling down the chart and now it is down to #4. I think that if we get it back to #1, it will keep album sales up and will lead into 'Sorry' being pushed on MTV.
Vote at www.mtv.com/onair/trl/vote

From Matthew:
Confessions On A Dance Floor has sold several ten thousand copies in Hong Kong, meaning it will be certified Double Platinum very soon!
Moreover, Confessions On A Dance Floor has been Number 1 at Hong Kong Records Company music chart for over 4 weeks!

From Pablo:
I just want you to know that 'Hung Up' is #1 in Much Music´s Top 20 (ARGENTINA) this week and 'Confessions On A Dance Floor' in its third week at #2 in Argentina.

Visit fellow fansite www.madonna-tv.com to download a small preview clip of Madonna's appearance on the Japanese TV show Smap x Smap.

Madonna's full appearances on the show take place on Monday 19 December 2005 and Monday 16 January 2006.

Madonna's official fanclub website ICON have confirmed the news madonnalicious brought you exclusively yesterday about a new photoshoot:

Madonna is busy preparing for her new photoshoot that will be featured in an upcoming issue of Harper's Bazaar. She will be collaborating with photographer Solve Sundsbo. This is a brand new photographer collaboration for Madonna.

madonnalicious can add that the shoot is due to take place around 15/16 December and is a move away from her current 'disco' look. We can also reveal that very high platform shoes have been requested for the shoot!

Madonna is considered one of the hottest performers around for many reasons.
Physically, she's in great shape and, professionally, her latest album, 'Confessions On A Dancefloor' is No. 1 in 29 countries, including Japan, where co-anchor Harry Smith recently had an exclusive interview with her.
In Part One of the interview, seen on The Early Show Monday, Madonna and Smith chatted about how driven she still is to be the best she can possibly be and give her fans all she has to offer.
In the portion of their talk shown Tuesday, Madonna explained to Smith how she stays so physically fit.
'It's hard work, bro,' she chuckled. 'I exercise. I take good care of myself. I get facials. I get massages. I eat very healthy. I stay out of the sun. I don't drink very much, except when I come to Japan. And, I don't know. It's - it takes a lot of work.'

To read the rest of the article click here.

Here are some pictures of Madonna arriving at the BBC Radio 1 studios this morning for her co-host slot on the Jo Whiley show.

Please visit fellow fansite M.Nu for more and larger versions of the pictures.

Our very special guest on the show today (Wednesday) was Madonna, who was Jo Whiley's co-host for the morning.
Amongst other things Madonna talked about life as a mum, her new album 'Confessions On A Dance Floor', and admitted she doesn't know what panto is!
You can also hear Madonna choose her very own Changing Track by Prince, and she spoke about what it was like to work with him.
And two of her biggest fans battled it out in Madonna Wars!

Fans can listen to the show again online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/jowhiley

Confessions On A Dance Floor and Hung Up both feature on Slant magazine's top ten lists for album and singles.

You can check out their comments at www.slantmagazine.com

Here is a quick reminder for fans that Madonna will be co-hosting the Jo Whiley Radio 1 show today. The show airs from 10:00am-12:45pm (GMT).

You can listen to the show online at: www.bbc.co.uk/radio1

A download is now available of Part 1 of CBS' The Early Show interview that aired in the US yesterday morning. The program features both backstage and show footage at the Tokyo concert and an interview with Harry Smith.

CBS The Early Show - Broadcast 12 December (MPG) - 9:04 sec - 61.3Mb
Click on the link - choose FREE - then scroll to the bottom of the page - wait for the download ticket

madonnalicious is hearing news that Madonna may be doing a new photoshoot very soon for US fashion magazine Harpers Bazaar.

It is understood that the clothes and shoes for the shoot have already been sent to Madonna's stylist Arianne Philips in preparation for the shoot.

Here are some screen captures from the first part of Madonna's interview in Japan with CBS' Harry Smith for The Early Show that was broadcast in the US.

Madonna’s unstoppable winning streak as the queen of pop in Europe continues as she sits atop both the continent’s singles and albums charts for the fourth and third weeks respectively.

The 47-year-old’s dance anthem Hung Up remains the number one single in Europe, while her latest album Confessions On A Dance Floor is also at number one.

Madonna's latest album, 'Confessions On A Dance Floor,' has already sold over 4 million copies worldwide.
As part of the promotion, Madonna made her first trip to Tokyo in 12 years, and she asked The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith to come along for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look (video) at things.
Wherever she goes, Smith says, it's an international event. Photographers catch her every move.
The Japanese journalists wanted to know every detail, from what Madonna missed about their country to what she likes about herself.
On the former, she said she missed the heated toilet seats, among other things.
As for the latter, she told the Japanese press corps, 'I'm resilient. Does that translate, resiliency? No, not stubborn, resilient; that's the wrong way to describe it.'
But, says Smith, Madonna is the ultimate performer and her latest album is a celebration of dance.
The highlight of the trip was a special club show, and Smith caught up with her backstage before she went on.
'The invitation that I got was, I could come to Tokyo as long as I would dance,' Smith reminded Madonna.
'Are you ready to do your disco roll?' she asked Smith.
Then Madonna showed him some basic moves, and Smith responded by rolling his arms.
'You gotta pump your hip....Go, Harry!' Madonna told Smith. 'Just wave your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care.'
Smith admitted he didn't get 'the whole thing with the hands' but, undaunted, Madonna showed him some more moves.
Getting serious, Smith asked what it means to her to 'go out in front of 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 hundred people. This place is just jammed tonight.'
'I like that,' Madonna replied.
'They're here for really, literally, a once in a lifetime experience,' Smith said.
'I like these gigs,' Madonna said. 'I like these small, tiny, intimate gigs, where I can feel everybody.'
Madonna told Smith she 'always' rehearses, and had gone through the entire show earlier in the day.
Turning to the camera to address viewers of The Early Show, Madonna kidded, 'There's a rumor going around that I'm a perfectionist. But it's just a rumor.'

To read the rest of the article visit www.cbsnews.com

200 pictures have been uploaded to the galleries, you can view these pictures here.

madonnalicious is now offering fans the chance to download the ABC Primetime interview that was originally broadcast last month.

The interview contains great video footage shot by Madonna and her team as she prepares to face the public and promote her new album.

ABC Primetime Interview - Broadcast 05 November (MPG) - 9:04 sec - 90.0Mb
Click on the link - choose FREE - then scroll to the bottom of the page - wait for the download ticket

Australian breakfast show Sunrise (Channel Seven) will air a Madonna interview with Molly Meldrum on Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 December at 7:50am.

When it comes to watching a superstar up close, it doesn't get any better than this: Madonna performing a secret club gig in Tokyo to an audience of about 1500 people.
And yes, I was lucky enough to be in the audience inside Studio Coast - Tokyo's hottest nightclub - on Wednesday night, watching the singer perform five tracks off her new album Confessions On A Dance Floor.
So has Madonna still got it? You better believe it. Dressed in a leotard and low-slung pants, Madonna belted out a terrific, energetic version of her single Hung Up (surely the best dance track of the year) plus tracks off her album including I Love New York,and Let It Will Be.
That's not to mention her upbeat finale: a reprisal of the first song Madonna released, the track titled Everybody from 1982 that was an underground dance club hit in New York.
Apart from the powerful and exciting delivery of the songs themselves, the highlight was watching Madonna dance.
Backed by a small group of dancers, the 47-year-old looked truly amazing as she busted her moves on stage. (In a nod to the 1980s, there was even some crotch-grabbing at one point as Madonna teased and taunted her Japanese fans.)
'I feel very liberated when I dance,' Madonna told S during an exclusive interview before the nightclub performance. 'I have to say it is one of my greatest passions, it's how I started out. My career began as a dancer obviously and I use my dance training in everything I do.'
'I think that's one of the reasons I called my record Confessions On A Dance Floor, because I feel like when I'm dancing I'm free. And I can be who I want to be - there's a kind of truth to that.'
In person, Madonna is everything you'd imagine and more. Not only is she lightning sharp with a noticeable sense of humour, she's warmer than you'd expect and strikingly intelligent. It's hard not be inspired by such an extraordinary icon.
At the moment Madonna is not committing herself to an Australian tour. But insiders say that if she makes it back to Japan for a full-blown tour next year as part of a global concert schedule, she may just tack on dates in Australia and New Zealand. If her Tokyo showcase was any indication, those concerts would be mind-blowing.

Madonna's 1987 film Who's That Girl will be released on DVD in North America on February 14 2006.

A Region 2 edition of the disc (suitable for the UK) will be released ashort while later on March 12 2006.

Madonna's recent interview and performances on Parkinson will be broadcast tonight (Monday 12 December) on the Norwegian TV station TV Norge at 9:30pm.

madonnalicious visitor Joey has sent in this news about an event in NYC this week:

I thought fans -particularly in NYC - should know that there's a cool party in NYC on Wednesday 14 December at Club Web.
I heard it's going to be a one-of-a-kind party in NYC where an entire night is devoted to her. The cool thing is fans can dance to the entire album plus very cool remixes of her past hits.
They will also show a lot of her recent European promos and many more surprises.

For more information click on the flyer.

I'm Going To Tell You A Secret director Jonas Akerlund was asked by the press at the London premiere of the film about what didn't make the cut.

He replied: That's the secret....well there's going to be a few things on the DVD though, there's going to be a pretty good selection of deleted scenes on the DVD.

Please note there is still no confirmed date for the release of the DVD yet.

You can view the interview online at: www.kamera.com

Madonna's London documentary premiere and her appearance at Stella McCartney's store are featured in the latest editions of two UK magazines.
The magazines are new! (19 December issue 143) and star (12 December issue).

Pop music icon Madonna says she is still trying to live each day as though it was her last on Earth.
As some proof of that, the 47-year-old performer is currently far from home, on tour in Japan to promote her new album, 'Confessions On A Dance Floor.'
Co-anchor Harry Smith goes behind the scenes with Madonna on the road in Tokyo for an exclusive two-part interview to be broadcast on The Early Show Monday, Dec. 12, and Tuesday, Dec. 13 (7 AM-9 AM. ET/PT).
This intimate look at the life of the 'material mom' features exclusive footage from her Tokyo performance, her first in that city in 12 years.
In the interview, Smith tells Madonna that she strikes him as the kind of person who lives every day as if it’s her last. She agrees, with reservations. 'I'd like to think I live my life that way, and we should all live our lives that way,' she says. 'But there are days that I don't, and I regret that I don't. But I think it's a good motto to live by. I would love to get to the end of every one of my days and think, 'Did I do everything I meant to achieve? If this were the last day of my life on Earth would I be happy about it?' I'd say 75 percent of the time, yes, but 25, no.'
The pop icon’s new album has been number one in 29 countries. She thinks that means that she still is connecting to people. 'So when I go to that city and I do a show, I'm going to give them my all, because they're giving me their all by buying my record. And there's some kind of circuitry there,' she says. 'And I don't ever do a show half-assed. That's just not the way I am.'
Madonna Louise Ciccone has traveled a long road from her roots in Bay City, Mich., and even from her early successes in the 1980s as the queen of 'Truth or Dare'-style pop. She now lives primarily in London with her husband, director Guy Ritchie, and two children, daughter Lourdes and son Rocco.
Madonna tells Smith that Lourdes does not want to be a singer. She wants to be a dancer, and refuses to let her mother watch rehearsals of her upcoming performance in 'The Nutcracker.'
'Her whole thing has been, 'Please don't come to the rehearsals. I want to surprise you.' She's very dedicated to what she does. She has a very clear idea of what she wants to do,' says Madonna.

Fans can vote for Madonna on www.hellomagazine.com/vote/endoftheyearpoll2005 in the first category for Most Memorable Red Carpet Appearence for her appearence in Lisbon at the MTV European Music Awards. Fans can vote every 10 minutes.

Visit fellow fansite www.madonna-tv.com to download various clips of news reports about Madonna's concert and press conference in Japan last week.

Spanish fans can catch Madonna's 1991 film A League Of Their Own (Ellas Dan El Golpe) will be broadcast tomorrow (Monday 12 December) at 2:30am on Antena 3.

Madonna was featured on the cover of the most important newspaper in Venezuela called El Nacional last Saturday. That same day she also featured in the magazine supplement of Panorama taking a look at Madonna's past releases.

 

According to an article in today's edition of UK tabloid newspaper The Sun Madonna is in talks to perform at next years Brit Awards.

It would be the first time Madonna has performed at the Brits since 1995, and would probably perform Sorry at the show at Earls Court in London on Wednesday 15 February.

A source close to Madonna said: The Brits is being talked about but nothing has been signed. It’s been a great year for Madonna and she will be a strong contender for awards.

Madonna is featured on the cover of two more magazines this month. Pictured below are the Spanish music magazine Revista 40, and the Mexican satelite TV magazine Sky View (which is also available in other South American countries).

 

Madonna has revealed she is praying for Kylie Minogue, while the Melbourne-born pop singer battles breast cancer.
'I think about her all the time,' Madonna said. 'She's always in my prayers.'
Madonna's mother, Madonna Louise Ciccone snr, died of breast cancer when the singer was a child. The reigning queen of music, now 47, said she had thought about writing personally to Minogue, but had not yet found out the best way to contact her in France.
'I keep meaning to write her letters, but I don't know how to get in touch. Obviously there's a way to,' Madonna said. '(But) I do wish her all the best.'
The singer said she believed in Minogue's fighting spirit. 'I think that she's a tough cookie and I think she's going to be all right,' she said.
Madonna's candid comments about Minogue came during a visit last week to Japan, where she was promoting her new album, Confessions on a Dancefloor, which debuted at No. 1 in more than 25 countries, including Australia.
Madonna's association with Minogue stretches back a number of years. Minogue has always named Madonna as a role model.
Madonna, who enjoys supporting younger artists, famously showed her interest in Minogue's career by wearing a 'Kylie' T-shirt on stage. The outfit started something of a trend for slogan T-shirts among some of the world's biggest artists.
Both women are among the few musicians in the world to have No. 1 hits in three separate decades.

Madonna is featured on the covers of the latest issues of two magazines from Denmark and Turkey.

A classic Confessions.... shot is featured on Danish magazine Gaffa and a great shot from Hung Up features on Turkish magazine Haftalik.

 

Meister from Club Madonna Phillipines has sent in this news:

Warner Music Philippines had just informed us that Confessions On A Dance Floor has sold over 18,000 units here in our country, making it certified GOLD!

Make Madonna's Hung Up number one at MTV Latin America by voting here.

BBC Radio 1 are expecting lots of fans to take a photo opportunity on Wednesday 14 December when Madonna co-hosts the Jo Whiley show on Radio 1.

Great Portland Street will be shut off to all traffic to allow Madonna to beat the London traffic and arrive on time for her show at the Radio 1 studios.

The Jo Whiley show airs from 10:00am-12:45pm - fans can listen online here.

Here is a picture from Madonna's show last night at Tokyo's Studio Coast club.

Madonna will probably sing her new single 'Sorry' at the NRJ Awards at the end of January in France but she needs your support at those awards:

Vote for her on nrjmusicawards.nrj.fr in the category of 'Best International Female Of The Year' where the competition is particularly hard (and it seems that you can vote as much as you want!).

Also do not forget to vote on www.virgin.net where Madonna has lost some ground these last few days (see 'Best Single', 'Best Album' and 'Best Solo Artist' categories).

madonnalicious visitor Zaki was one of the lucky competition winners who attended Madonna's concert at Studio Coast last night. Here is a picture of the outside billboard and the ticket - which unfortunately fans had to hand in at the event!

 

Madonna is back in Japan for the first time in 12 years to promote her new album 'Confessions On A Dance Floor.' The album is already a big hit around the globe and has taken over the #1 spot in charts in 28 countries, including Japan.
A rare opportunity was given to the press to meet with the 47-year-old so-called queen of pop and throw questions at her during her stay in Japan.

What is the concept for the album?
I wanted to make a record that people could put on when they are getting ready to go out, having a party, working out, and driving in a car. From beginning to end, you just want to keep dancing for one hour non-stop.

Why is it a glittery disco?
I wanted to make a dance record. I don't think the songs are superficial. I think there are a lot of songs especially towards the end that are quite insightful and confessional. If you look from the surface, you might think that it's superficial, but if you listen to lyrics all the way through from beginning to end, I don't think you will have that opinion.

There is a noticeable European influence on this album. What were the inspirations?
I take my inspiration from everywhere. In this record in particular, I was inspired by the music of Giorgio Moroder, Abba, Chic, Pet Shop Boys, Cerrone, and a lot of other people, but those are the main inspirations and I guess most of those artists are Europeans.

Do you think about fans when making music? Or do you just do as you want?
My music and my ideas for my music come from inside and from whoever I am collaborating with. It's not that I sit around consciously thinking about my fans. On the other hand, I do think when I am writing music - Will people understand this? Will this appeal to people so that it touches their heart? Will it inspire them? So I am somewhere in the middle between being true to myself and thinking about what the outside world would think about.

There is a rumor that your husband, Guy Ritchie, walked out of the room when he heard the single 'Hung up.'
My husband did not walk out of the room when he heard the song. That is a lie. He likes the song very much.

There is the line 'Gomennasai' (sorry) in the song. Why did you pick Japanese? Are you interested in Japanese or Asian cultures?
I've always been interested in the Japanese culture. The line 'Gomennasai' comes from my Japanese cook. I just asked him how to say I'm sorry in Japanese. I've always been influenced in many ways. Some of my videos and some of my performances on stage have been inspired by Japanese cinema, martial arts, music, fashion, and food. So I could say honestly that it's been a big influence in my life in many areas. My work has always been influenced by Japanese culture.

It's been a very long while since you last came to Japan, 12 years. What makes you feel you are back in Japan? I've missed the heated toilet seats.

What are some things you want to do during your stay in Japan?
I would like to buy presents for my children at Kiddyland. The best toys are in Japan.

Have you eaten Japanese food?
I've only eaten Japanese food. I love Japanese food. I have a Japanese cook in London that travels with me everywhere. I probably eat more Japanese food than you do.

If there ever will be any star like you to come in future, it would be your daughter without a doubt. Do you have any plans for your daughter? I don't need to teach my daughter how to be a superstar; she's already acting like one. My daughter loves to dance. She studies classic ballet. You could say she's a diva already. She doesn't say to me she wants to be a singer. She tells me she wants to be an actress and ballerina. I encourage her to do those things as long as she takes it seriously and works hard and has a lot of discipline.

Is there anything you keep in mind or a certain way to act toward your children to keep them in the right direction?
I like to teach them the things that I believe in, that is, we are all responsible for our actions and words. So we need to think before we speak and before we act. Once you accept that responsibility, I think you become more a conscious person. And so to say that is the first thing. I try to remember that myself and teach it to my children.

Are you planning any movie-related work?
The next thing I want to do in regard to film is direct. It would be a love story that will inspire many people.

Are you planning any tours in near future?
If I go on tour, I will come here. Hopefully it would be around the end of the summer.

Any last words for your fans in Japan?
I just want to say thank you for all of your support throughout the 20 years of my career. I hope you can forgive me for staying away for so long. And I look forward to come back very soon.

George Michael's documentary film A Different Story takes a look at his career to date, and it also features Madonna in one memorable scene.

It is a clip from the MTV Video Music Awards in 1989, in which a theatrically-smoking Madonna introduces George Michael by saying she 'wants his sex' and would like him as her 'Father Figure' before showing tremendous insight by hailing him as a 'true diva'.

The film is released at selected British cinemas from Friday 9 December.

Fans in the UK who missed the first screening of Madonna's documentary can catch it again on Saturday 10 December at 10:35pm on digital channel E4 it will also be repeated an hour later on E4+1.

The new editions of UK magazines heat (10-16 December issue) and OK! (13 December issue 499) both feature articles on Madonna's appearance at the turning on of the Christmas lights at Stella McCartney's London store.

madonnalicious visitor Dan has sent in the first report from Madonna's concert at the Studio Coast club in Tokyo tonight:

Madonna hit Tokyo tonight and the city was buzzing. Around a thousand contestant winners waited to get inside the utlra modern Studio Coast complex situated right on Tokyo Bay.

Featuring state of the art sound and light systems this seems to be the kind of place Madonna is gearing to for her next tour. The place was packed with the Japanese A-list - not to mention fans starved of their idol for 12 years.

The place erupted as madonna emerged form behind a video screen for Hung Up wearing her purple leotard and pedal pushers. After Hung Up she said she was 'so fucking happy' to be back in Tokyo and she had missed her Japanese friends.
The show didnt drop in energy from there - going through Get Together, I Love New York, Let It Will Be and Everbody.

I have been a Madonna fan for 14 years an this is the first time I have seen her in the flesh. I was literally a metre away. She looked so young and well - everything and more that you would expect. She made eye contact, pointed and smiled at me twice during the show - I guess my English face stuck out amongst all of the Japanese faces!

A funny part of the show was before I Love New York. A fan had a sign reading - 'Your majesty - If you dont like my country then f*ck off!'. Madonna assured us she loved Tokyo and after I Love New York took the sign from the fan and ripped it up.

She had just as fun a time as we did. She was Madonna. She was awesome.

Here is a picture of a truck featuring a lit up Madonna banner that was being driven around Tokyo today. The truck was also blasting out Hung Up!

Madonna swept back into Japan for the first time for 12 years to promote her new album, revealing a love of all things Japanese: food, fashion, men and - most of all - heated toilet seats.
The pop icon, whose glitterball disco album 'Confessions On A Dance Floor' debuted at number one in 25 countries including the United States, Britain and Japan, also said she hoped to return here on any future tour.
'I've always been interested in Japanese culture. Some of my videos and my performances on stage have been influence by Japanese music, fashion, martial arts,' the American diva said this week.
'I love Japanese food,' she added. 'I probably eat more Japanese food than you do.'
She even learnt a sprinkling of the local lingo for the trip: 'Gomennasai' (sorry), she said. 'My Japanese cook taught me that.'
But above all, 'I've missed the heated toilet seats,' she told the few hundred star-struck journalists who quizzed the pop diva on her inspirations, ideas on parenting, advice for young Japanese and views on Japanese boys.
'You're very cute,' she replied to a male reporter who plucked up the courage to ask this last question.
Madonna took a break from the pop scene earlier this year after breaking several bones falling from her horse on her 47th birthday.
But she looked fully recovered as she posed for the paparazzi in knee-high, lace-up black leather boots and burgundy sequined trousers and matching top.
The 'Queen of Pop' arrived in Japan on Tuesday with a few dozen strong entourage and was met by a couple of hundred fans at the airport. While here she is due to perform at some club events to drum up interest in her album.
'Confessions On A Dance Floor', a collection of frothy disco numbers, marks a return to the songstress's dance days after a foray into semi-acoustic sounds with her 2003 album 'American Life'.
She said she wanted to make a record that 'from beginning to end, you just want to dance to for an hour.'
The multi-Grammy Award winning singer, composer and actress has reinvented herself more times than perhaps any other artist and since meeting film director husband Guy Ritchie has embraced the image of an English country wife.
'Like a cat with nine lives, I keep coming back,' she quipped.
Madonna also has ambitions to direct a film. But, unlike her husband who is known for his black comedies set in the London underworld such as 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels', she says she would prefer to make a love story.
'I want to make a story that will really inspire people,' she added.
Just as soon as she is finished with that heated toilet.

Here is the first picture of Madonna at the Japanese press conference that took place in Tokyo earlier today.

Madonna's Hung Up was voted back to the #1 position yesterday on MTV'S TRL.

Fans can keep voting for Hung Up at: www.mtv.com/onair/trl/vote

Fans in the UK can now pick up a copy of French Elle and US Rolling Stone magazines which are now available in selected stores and newsagents now.

 

Abba stars have said they consider Madonna's sample of their song in Hung Up to be a tribute.
The new track, which went to number one last week, used part of the Swedish band's Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man After Midnight) for its hook.
Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus told Reuters that they allowed the use only because Madonna's song was so good.
'I see that as a tribute,' said Ulvaeus, explaining: 'We almost always say no to these things. Madonna's assistant came over to Sweden and played the track, and it was so catchy that Benny and I immediately said 'Yes'. We have loads of offers like that but we never say yes, but in this case it was so cleverly done.'

Madonna will take part in a press conference tomorrow (Wednesday 07 December) in Japan and then do a club concert similar to the KoKo and G-A-Y shows.

The concert will take place at Studio Coast, the biggest club in Japan, which also appropriately has one of the biggest glitterballs in the world as well!

madonnalicious visitor Ste has sent in this news about Madonna on UK radio:

Just to let you know that this weekend we are having a Madonna weekend on the Century FM radio network (Century in North-West and North-East, Ocean FM in the south and Century Digital nationwide).
Century is one of the biggest radio networks in the UK and we are right behind the new Madonna stuff. We will be playing a Madonna song every hour, right back from the early stuff to present.

Madonna's appearance at G-A-Y is featured in the 01 December issue of French magazine Choc - click on the images to enlarge.

Fans in both the US and UK can catch a repeat of Madonna's recent 'horse-riding' appearance on The Late Show With Letterman.

The show airs tonight (Tuesday 06 December) in the US on CBS, and on ITV4 in the UK on Wednesday 07 December at midnight.

Here's a look at the 12" double disc vinyl version of Hung Up, the tracks are:

Disc One
Side 1 - Album Version 5:36
Side 1 - SDP Extended Vocal Mix 7:57
Side 2 - Bill Hamel Remix 6:58
Side 2 - SDP Extended Dub 7:57

Disc Two
Side 1 - Chus & Ceballos Remix 10:21
Side 2 - Tracy Young’s Get Up & Dance Groove Mix 9:03

 

Fans in Erie, PA, USA can party at the Madonna-Thon! on Saturday 10 December from 10:30pm at The Zone Dance Club, 133 West 18th Street.
There will also be a prize for the best Madonna look-a-like, for more information visit www.thezonedanceclub.com

Madonna arrived at New Tokyo International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo earlier today for a five day promotional visit to the country.

If there are any fans in Japan who want to share pictures, news and scans with madonnalicious visitors then please email us at: madonnalicious@gmail.com

A time capsule has been buried under what will be the pitch at London's new Wembley Stadium.
The Football Association's Sir Trevor Brooking, stadium architect Lord Foster and former Olympian Dame Mary Glen-Haig placed mementos in the capsule.
They include a signed England football shirt, 2012 Olympic bid memorabilia and part of the old stadium's twin towers.
The capsule is being buried before the new turf - which is being grown at a secret location until the stadium opens - is laid.

The capsule was buried on Sunday and a copy of the number one single and album at that time was also placed in the capsule. These CDs happened to be Madonna's Hung Up and Confessions On A Dance Floor!

The time capsule will not be reopened until 2055.

Madonna is nominated for Best International Female Artist and Best Pop artist at the NRJ Radio Awards 2006, which will be held in Helsinki, Finland on 19 January 2006.

Vote for Madonna here: www.nrjradioawards.com

And fans should remember to keep voting for Madonna as Best International Female Artist in the French NRJ Awards which take place in Cannes on 21 January 2006.

You can vote for Madonna here: www.nrjmusicawards.nrj.fr

A download is now available of the Confessions Of Madonna Channel 4 interview with Dermot O'Leary that was originally broadcast on Sunday 27 November - the file is quite large (177Mb) so please be patient while it downloads.

Confessions Of Madonna - Interview - Broadcast 27 November (WMV) - 47:59 sec - 177Mb
Click on the link - wait for the 45 second countdown - then click to download

madonnalicious visitor Chip has sent in this news about a charity AIDS auction to which Madonna is one of the many stars who have donated items for auctions:

Bid 2 Beat AIDS has begun! The eBay auction we have been working on for much of this year started December 1 (World AIDS Day). The items that went up December 1 are up for bid through December 11, but due to a massive swell of last-minute donations, we are STILL working feverishly to get everything up - new pieces will be posted throughout the week, and will be up for ten days from the date they go up. Take a look and see if there's anything you just can't live without. Remember, it benefits LIFEbeat, the Music Industry Fights AIDS.

Check out all the items in the auction at: www.search.ebay.com/bid-2-beat-aids

For more information visit: www.Lifebeat.org and www.Bid2BeatAIDS.com

The six Madonna items for auction can be found here.

Madonna features on the cover of the Croatian edition of the Fall/Winter issue of Cosmopolitan Style magazine, and on the cover of Spanish clubbing magazine DJ1.

 

Spotlight, the French Madonna magazine is reporting that Madonna's second single, Sorry will debut on the radio on Thursday 05 January 2006 and will then be released to buy on Monday 23 January 2006.

The magazine also hints that Madonna may attend the NRJ Awards in Cannes on Saturday 21 January 2006.

The latest issues of German magazines In and Star Style (01 December editions) both contain Madonna articles - click to enlarge.

The current edition of UK magazine star (05 December issue) features an article on Madonna's love for her Gucci jacket, which we have seen her wear in five different colours....so far! Although the sequin-covered jacket Madonna wore for G-A-Y was actually designed by Matthew Williamson!

Madonna's official website www.madonna.com have confirmed her promotional trip to Japan in this mailout:

Who hasn’t heard of the worldwide success of Madonna’s new album 'Confessions On A Dance Floor'. The album went straight to number one! After playing amazing performances in London earlier this month, Madonna is now about to leave Europe and fly to Japan, where she will spend some special time with her japanese fans! Go to Madonna.com for more details.

The latest edition of hot stars magazine (free with OK! magazine - 06 December issue 498) features a three page special on Madonna's appearance at G-A-Y.

Fans in Portugal can catch a repeat of the Drowned World Tour on channel Rtp2 this Saturday 03 December at 00:45am.

madonnalicious visitor BJ has sent in these pictures he took at the London premiere of I'm Going To Tell You A Secret on Tuesday 29 November.

 

from Alex C:
Madonna's album 'Confessions On A Dance Floor' debuted in the Greek charts at #1 and became GOLD (more than 30,000) from it's first week. The CD single 'Hung Up' debuted in the single charts at #2!

From Alex M:
Madonna is again No. 1 with Hung up and Confessions on a dancefloor in the German Music-Chart.

From Mike:
Just wanted to let you know that MIX 98.5 (WBMX) in Boston played 'Push' on Tuesday morning. They were talking about what an awesome song it is and how great the CD is.

From Pete:
'Hung Up' has reached #1 in Canada. The imported version is still on the charts at #23. What is impressive about this is that the domestic version of Hung Up was released in Canada AFTER the Confessions On A Dance Floor album was!

From Scott:
Hung Up holds steady at # 7 this week on the US Billboard chart, but keeps it's bullet - indicating it has gained in overall combined sales/airplay.

From Thomas:
Confessions On A Dance Floor was certified platinum (+40,000) in Denmark today. Sadly it falls from #1 to #5 this week despite its good sales.

madonnalicious visitor Matthew has sent in some pictures of the great Confessions On A Dance Floor displays in the Hong Kong Records store.

Jo Whiley has just announced that Madonna will co-host her BBC Radio One show on Wednesday 14 December - and fans outside the UK will be able to listen to this broadcast online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/

Here is a picture of Madonna leaving her gym in London on the morning of Tuesday 29 November.

Visit fellow fansite M.Nu for a larger version of the picture.

It has just been announced that Swedish TV channel TV4 will be airing Madonna's tour documentary on Tuesday 27 December at 7:30pm.

Fans in Holland will also get a chance to watch the documentary on TV channel Veronica at 8:30pm on Thursday 08 December.