Why do people admire Madonna?

Answer 1

Why is Madonna the Queen of Pop?

Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone August 16, 1958) is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur is the Queen of Pop.

Reasons? The data compiled by Mediatraffic is taken into consideration of Madonna's sales/career from 1983 to 2010. Her 2 previous Hard Candy and Celebration albums ( (3.6 + 1.5 = 5.1 million copies) is reportedly sold around 187 million records in her career. Thus, it automatically qualifies her for the title of the World's Best-Selling Female Artist of All Time. Overall, she sits at #5 behind Pink Floyd, Elvis and The Beatles. The current record holder The Beatles sold around 346.5 million records (last update 12/2007) as the Best Selling Artist of All Time. Across the pond, US's top selling female title goes to Barbra Streisand followed by Madonna and Mariah Carey in 3rd ranking.

Facts proving Madonna as the world's best selling female recording artist of all time. Since her debut in 1982, Madonna has released many chart-topping albums and singles, and has sold more than 250 million albums and 150 million singles worldwide (excluding 2005 Confessions On A Dance Floor and Hard Candy 2008). On the United World Chart, April 2008 "4 Minutes" the 1st single from Hard Candy became Madonna's 13th Number One single, and her 9th number One Single in under 8 years.

Madonna holds the record for the artist with the most Number One hits worldwide.

*Most Successful Singles Artist (1999-2008)

*Artists with Most Weeks at #1 (76 weeks including 4 Minutes)

*Most Time Spent at the Number One spot by an artist in a year-20 Weeks- "American Pie"(8 Weeks) and "Music"(12 weeks) in 2000. 16 Week -"Hung Up" (9 Weeks) and "Sorry"(7 Weeks) in 2006.

Also, Madonna holds the record of 39 #1 Hot Dance Club Play hits in the US, the most for any female rock artist. Madonna is also the female artist with The Most Certified Singles (gold and platinum) in the U.S. surpassing The Beatles' record. RIAA named Madonna The Best Selling Female Rock Artist of the twentieth century.

Madonna's 11th studio album, Hard Candy has debuted #1 in more than 27 key players/countries for overall music markets including Canada and the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, Finland and Slovakia.

4 Minutes featuring Justin Timberlake has grasped her 13th Number One in the U.K singles chart a record for any female. The single has also broken records in the UK, where it became Madonna's 61st Top 10, more than any other female solo artist. Vogue is the biggest hit for Madonna in the UK.

Her tour "Sticky and Sweet" is the most successful tour ever by a solo artist. August 2008, Madonna's "Sticky & Sweet" has drawn more than 3.5 million fans in 32 countries and has grossed $408 million, it was announced today by Live Nation, the tour's global producer. "Sticky & Sweet" is also the second highest grossing tour of all time. Only behind Rolling Stones' Bigger Bang tour of 2005-2007 that grossed a total of $558 million.

Madonna set an attendance record for the biggest crowds in history in Zurich, Switzerland, where she drew the largest audience ever assembled for a show in that country (72,000). Her Gothenburg, Sweden show, seen by 119,000 fans, broke the record for highest grossing multiple shows in the country's history. In Helsinki, Finland, "Sticky & Sweet" sold more than 85,000 tickets, making it the biggest single show by an artist in history for all of Scandinavia. In London, she performed in front of 74,000 fans with over 12 million dollars in ticket sales, Madonna surpassed all previous records at both the old and new Wembley Stadiums. In New York City, Madonna's four sell-outs at Madison Square Garden shows added up to a record breaking 23 sold out performances since 2001 at that venue - a record for most appearances for a single artist in this decade. "Sticky & Sweet" broke Madonna's previous record of most successful tour by a solo artist with her 2006 Confessions Tour, which grossed $194 million.

Madonna is the top earning female singer in the world with an estimated net worth of over $400 million. Regarded as "one of the greatest pop acts of all time", she has been dubbed the "Queen of Pop" by the media. The 2008-2009 tour was the first under Madonna's $120 million, 10-year multi-rights deal with Live Nation.

Answer 2

Because her music manages to break on the charts around the world, that's a feat that Evan Micheal Jackson can't beat,he did have hits worldwide but Madonna has done it in probely every country. Also her albums are very good in a way all songs from them could be released,other singers just make the singles good then the rest of the album crap. he has broken a lot of ecords, so many i can't Evan list them all, she has the most number 1's on the us dance charts, o singer has ha more than 20 number 1's on this chart, Madonna has had 40, with Janet Jackson the closest with 16. Madonna has writton the most numbe 1'sin the UK for a female artist 12 of her own and one for garry barlow called love won't wait i could go on but there is too many