American radio hangs up on Madonna

[DeclinetoState]

Another Dixie Chick?
By Michael Paoletta

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Madonna is in the midst of a sold-out North American trek that may end up being the top-grossing tour ever by a female artist. But this on-the-road success is not carrying over to American radio, which largely snubbed the first three singles from her latest album.

"Hung Up" got middling airplay on mainstream top 40 outlets, "Sorry" was barely played, and "Get Together" has been all but ignored by pop stations. (Her album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor," has sold a healthy 1.5 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.)

Naturally, the disconnect has left executives at her Warner Bros. label -- and more than a few fans -- wondering, what gives?

More than 3,300 fans have signed an appeal at http://www.petitiononline.com. The "End the Madonna on U.S. Radio Boycott" petition is addressed to Clear Channel Communications CEO Mark P. Mays.

Message boards at Entertainment Weekly and VH1, among others, are rife with everything from support for Madonna to conspiracy theories about why she can't crack the radio dial.More at Reuters (http://today.reuters.com/news/ newsarticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyid=2006-07-21T232422Z_01_N21174835_RTRUKOC_0_US-MADONNA.xml&src=rss&rpc=22).

Poor Madonna.

:biggrin:

[gnome]

I wonder if it could be as simple as her stage show drawing more interest than her music alone.

[JonECat]

She's just becoming a nostalgia act. Pretty soon she'll be playing state fairs alongside Herman's Hermits and Def Leppard. Her tour is not selling well either so its not just radio.

[Wyatt_Junker]

Hey, at least the Leppard could still rock the trailer court. Madonna's always been a gay burlesque show.

Her next stop; geriatric stripper.

(Nothing like seeing grandma tease you when she takes off each velcro fastener on the undergarment while blowing you a kiss. That shit is hot.)

[DesertFox]

Madonna pushed the envelope so long that it shriveled up like a spider in a burning match and blew away. She done showed us everything she gots, and to our surprise it looked just like what everybody else gots. When two mounds and a hairball are your act, people lose interest after awhile, and you can't see them on radio anyhow.

I can't name a single song Madonna's ever done. Prolly I'd recognize a tune if I heard it but I can't think of one on my own power.

[Wyatt_Junker]

Well, there was that one where she was molested by her father. Papa don' preach. And the one where she got molested for the very first time. And that other one... where she was molested.

[JonECat]

Hey, at least the Leppard could still rock the trailer court. Madonna's always been a gay burlesque show.

Her next stop; geriatric stripper.

(Nothing like seeing grandma tease you when she takes off each velcro fastener on the undergarment while blowing you a kiss. That shit is hot.)


Now, I didn't say Leppard was bad (even though they haven't released a decent album since 'Hysteria' but that's another thread). Also, Madonna's new album is an all-disco-techno album, how many disco-techno-dance stations are around that aren't on Satellite Radio?


*crickets*

I rest my case.

[Lubbock]

WITH GREAT PRIDE, I can truthfully say that I have never heard Madonna's voice --speaking or singing.

[BEST45CAL]

Madonna was hot...back in 1984 when she was like 28 years old or something.

She had a concert in Glendale, AZ this past June (the Confessions Tour)and one of the screeching DEMANDS from this harridan, was that the arena air conditioning had to be SHUT OFF during the concert! She said that the cold air will harm her vocal cords.

Glendale, AZ...in June...with no AC. It was hot, not from her performance, but because it was really freakin' hot inside the arena! Almost 90 degrees!

It was her first time back to the valley in about 21 years and this is what she does to her fans. She makes them sweat like pigs in a sauna for 2 hrs while she prances around on stage, pretending to be 25 years old and singing off key.

Lots of "broken hip," "hot flash," "Depends" and "Geritol" jokes on the local morning radio and TV programs after her concert.

Funny thing, was that her crown of thorns and mock crucifixion didn't piss off her fans, but not having the AC on...oh HELL NO! We ain't havin' that!

Sad...