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Confessions on a Dance Floor
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Studio album by Madonna
Released 15 November 2005
Recorded 2005
Genre Pop, dance, Electropop, house
Length 56:28 - CD
55:57 - iTunes Unmixed
60:00 - Special Edition
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Madonna, Stuart Price, Mirwais Ahmadzaï, Bloodshy & Avant, Bagge & Peer
Professional reviews
Madonna chronology
Remixed & Revisited
(2003)		Confessions on a Dance Floor
(2005)		Confessions Remixed
(2006)
Confessions on a Dance Floor is the tenth studio album by pop singer Madonna, released on 15 November, 2005 by Warner Bros. Records. It sold 2 million copies in its first week of release in Europe. As of October 2007, according to Warner Bros., the album has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide. It debuted at number one in 29 countries, a world record for a solo artist.[1] The album was Madonna's third consecutive #1 debut on the Billboard 200 album sales charts. This marks all of her studio albums for the decade as #1 debuts so far. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album in 2007.

Album history

Confessions on a Dance Floor has become one of Madonna's most successful albums, with international hits such as "Hung Up" and "Sorry". The album led to the most successful concert tour of her career, the Confessions Tour. It was co-produced by Stuart Price and contains collaborations with Mirwais Ahmadzaï, Bloodshy & Avant and Bagge & Peer.

Of the album, Madonna said:

"I wanted a record with no ballads. I wanted there to be no breaks, with one song segueing into the next -- just like in a disco. (...) Whenever I make records, I often like the remixes better than the original versions. So I thought, screw that. I'm going to start from that perspective. I want to hear all these songs in a club. I approached the album from more of a DJ's point of view, but Stuart [Price] is a DJ. That really influenced the vibe -- the dance aspect -- of the record."[2] (...) "We listened to a lot of other people's records when we were making this - obviously ABBA and Giorgio Moroder - so to me it's more of an homage to other people's records than mine. If there are references to earlier records it's probably done unknowingly, part of our molecular structure; it comes out again and again, hopefully not too boringly and repetitive."[3]


After the huge success of the album, a limited-edition Triple-LP remix compilation titled Confessions Remixed was released. It contained tracks from the album all remixed by Stuart Price. It was a limited edition release with three records, only three thousand of which were pressed.

Formats

  • CD - A 12-track continuous mix, much like a DJ set list. Each track is selectable.
  • Deluxe Edition CD - Released in December 2005, includes "Fighting Spirit" (a bonus track), a 40 page picture book from the Steven Klein photo session; an 80 page blank journal book, which also includes some journal entries from Madonna; a one month free ICON fanclub membership, and a unique slipcover housing. The CD's tracks are a continuous mix, except for the bonus track. Each track is selectable.
  • iTunes Download (Deluxe Edition) - A digital download with 12 separate tracks. It also includes a digital artwork booklet and the "Hung Up" video.
  • iTunes Download (Non-Stop Mix, Deluxe Edition): A digital download which blends the 12 songs into one long track. It also includes a digital artwork booklet and the "Hung Up" video.
  • iTunes Download (Regular Edition) - A digital download with 12 separate tracks. (Does not include a digital artwork booklet or the "Hung Up" video.)
  • iTunes Download (Non-Stop Mix, Regular Edition): A digital download which blends the 12 songs into one long track. (Does not include a digital artwork booklet or the "Hung Up" video.)
  • 2-LP Vinyl Set - Double album promo pack (PRO-A-101706-A). The same 12 tracks as the CD.
  • Limited edition 2-LP Pink Vinyl Set - Double album. The same 12 tracks as the CD.
  • Confessions Remixed - Triple LP Vinyl Set. Full remix set by Stuart Price was released on April 11 2006, with a limited print of only 3,000 copies in the U.S.
  • Japanese Exclusive CD+DVD Tour Edition - Released August 23rd 2006 is the Japan only exclusive Tour Edition. Disc 1 contains the regular CD. Disc 2 is a DVD containing the previously commercially unavailable music videos for Hung Up and Sorry plus their "Making of" featurettes that were shown earlier in 2006 on MTV channels around the world. (WPZR30184-5)

Singles

# Title Date
1."Hung Up"October 2005
2."Sorry"February 2006
3."Get Together"June 2006 (US) & July 2006 (UK)
4."Jump"November 2006

Promotion



In order to promote the album with emerging media, Madonna set up the 1-888-2-CONFESS hotline. Callers were instructed to call in with their confessions, and, as they came in, some were selected to be part of a Podcast released on iTunes for approximately six weeks before the album was released.

Track listing

  1. "Hung Up" (Madonna, Price, Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 5:36
  2. "Get Together" (Madonna, Bagge, Ã…ström, Price) – 5:30
  3. "Sorry" (Madonna, Price) – 4:43
  4. "Future Lovers" (Madonna, Ahmadzaï) – 4:51
  5. "I Love New York" (Madonna, Price) – 4:11
  6. "Let It Will Be" (Madonna, Ahmadzaï, Price) – 4:18
  7. "Forbidden Love" (Madonna, Price) – 4:22
  8. "Jump" (Madonna, Henry, Price) – 3:46
  9. "How High" (Madonna, Karlsson, Winnberg, Jonback) – 4:40
  10. "Isaac" ft. Yitzhak Sinwani (Madonna, Price) – 6:03
  11. "Push" (Madonna, Price) – 3:57
  12. "Like It Or Not" (Madonna, Karlsson, Winnberg, Jonback) – 4:31

Additional tracks

  1. "Super Pop" (Madonna, Ahmadzaï) - released via download to ICON fanclub members only - 3:42
  2. "Fighting Spirit" (Madonna, Ahmadzaï) - released on the Deluxe Edition CD as a bonus track - 3:32
  3. "History" (Madonna, Price) - released as B-side to the single Jump

Critical and commercial performance

The album has been a worldwide success receiving rave reviews from critics and fans. It went triple platinum in the EU in only a month, debuting the number one spot in 29 countries. On September 13 2006, IFPI credited the album 4x platinum for sales in Europe.[4]

In the United States, Confessions on a Dance Floor debuted at number 1, selling over 350,000 copies in its first week, taking the top spot from Carrie Underwood's Some Hearts album, which sold nearly 35,000 copies less. In the following week, Confessions on a Dance Floor sold 210,000 copies and slipped to #4 with a 39% of sales decrease. To date, the album has sold over 1.6 million copies in the U.S., a significant improvement over 2003's American Life (670,000 copies sold). It was the #22 best seller of 2006 in that country also (Billboard counted sales from November 2005 to December 2006).

According to the Daily Mail's Adrian Thrills, "Madonna is returning to reclaim her dance-pop crown with a record that pushes her, feet-first, back into club culture. Confessions on a Dance Floor... is not only the former Ms. Ciccone's best album since 1998's Ray of Light. It's a non-stop, rhythm-driven tour de force that ranks alongside anything she made in her chart-conquering heyday.

According to Rolling Stone, "This is an album designed for maximum volume. It's all motion, action, speed. The tracks are constantly shifting, with dizzying layers of sounds and samples dropping in and out, skittering and whooshing across the speakers. Unlike the crystalline precision of latter-day Madonna discs like Ray of Light and Music, the sonic signature here is a powerhouse density -- on tunes like "Future Lovers" and "Push", with its hypnotic tribal beat mixed with future trance. Not only do the twelve songs all blend together like a ready-made DJ set, it's as if they also come pre-remixed... Coming off her last album, the tepid American Life, the forty-seven-year-old mother of two wants to show that she can still stay up late.

Madonna won the "Best International Female Award" at the BRIT Awards 2006 and won "World's Best Selling Pop Artist" & "Best Selling U.S. Artist" at the 2006 World Music Awards for the album. She was nominated for five MTV Video Music Awards for her video Hung Up. She was nominated for "Best Album of the Year", "Best Pop", and "Best Female Artist" at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2006. Madonna then went onto winning an Ivor Novello Award in 2007 for "International Hit of the Year" for her single, "Sorry." The Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Confessions on a Dance Floor as the twenty-second top album of 2005, beating other top albums such as Missy Elliott's "Cookbook", and other albums from artists such as Mariah Carey, Franz Ferdinand and Stevie Wonder. In early 2007, she won her sixth Grammy award for "Best Dance/Electronic Album"

Confessions on a Dance Floor, and her follow up Confessions Tour, have given Madonna the most number of international music and tour awards she has ever won in a single year. Below is a list of all of the awards she has won in 2006.

Awards

  • Rockbjörnen (Sweden)
  • Best International Album, Confessions on a Dance Floor
  • Pink Paper Awards
  • Best Album, ''Confessions on a Dance Floor"
  • Best Single, "Hung Up"
  • Best Musical Artist
  • Best Live Event, "KoKo Club Mini-Show"
  • NRJ Music Awards (France)
  • Best International Artist
  • Virgin. Net Music Awards
  • Best Solo Female Artist
  • Best Song, "Hung Up"
  • Boyz Awards
  • Best Album, Confessions on a Dance Floor
  • Best Single, "Hung Up"
  • Best Solo Star
  • Best Pop Act
  • TRL Awards
  • Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Retired Videos Award for "Hung Up"
  • BRIT Awards
  • Best International Female Artist
  • NME Awards
  • Sexiest Female Artist
  • ECHO Awards (Germany)
  • Best Rock/Pop International Female Artist
  • Hit of the Year for "Hung Up"
  • Space Shower Music Video Awards (Japan)
  • Best International Video for "Hung Up"
  • Arion (Greece)Music Awards[5]
  • Best Selling Single, "Hung Up"
  • Best Selling Album, Confessions on a Dance Floor
  • 21st Annual International Dance Music Awards
  • Best Pop Dance Track for "Hung Up"
  • Best Dance Video for "Hung Up"
  • Best Dance Artist Solo
  • Salut! d'Or Awards (France)
  • Best International Female Singer
  • Best Song, "Hung Up"
  • Best Video, "Hung Up"
  • Amadeus Music Awards (Austria)
  • Best International Hit Single, "Hung Up"
  • Popcorn Awards (Hungary)
  • Best International Hit Single, "Hung Up"
  • Shangay Awards (Spain)
  • Best International Album, Confessions on a Dance Floor
  • Best International Artist
  • Wembley Arena's Square of Fame[6]
  • First star to be honoured in the venue's new Square of Fame.
  • Wembley Arena's Female Artist of the Year Award 2006
  • for eight sold-out dates of the Confessions Tour
  • Billboard Touring Awards
  • Top Boxscore Award ($22 million, eight-sellout stand at London's Wembley Arena)
  • World Music Awards
  • World's Best Pop Artist
  • Best Selling U.S. Artist
  • Grammy Award
  • Best Dance/Electronic Album
The album's third single, "Get Together", was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Dance Recording

Alleged boycott by American radio stations

A petition set up by fans alleging that U.S. Clear Channel radio stations were boycotting Madonna's singles made headlines when thousands of fans signed it, complaining that U.S. radio refused to play new Madonna singles since the release of her American Life album in 2003 because she publicly spoke of disapproval against the war in Iraq. Clear Channel had started campaigning for the war in Iraq before the war even started.

The single "Hung Up" reached #16 on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart, and #7 on the Billboard Hot 100, also because of strong digital sales. The following singles "Sorry" and "Get Together" received little to no airplay on Pop radio stations, with "Sorry" peaking at #58 on the Billboard Hot 100 partially because of strong single sales.

Despite the lack of radio play, TV support remained strong enabling the album to go onto sell over 1.6 million copies in the U.S alone.

Certifications, Peaks & Sales

Country Peak Position Certification (If Any) Sales/shipments
Australia12x Platinum [7]140,000+
Austria1
Belgium1Platinum [8]40,000+
Brazil1Gold [9]100,000+
Bulgaria14x Platinum2,000+
Canada15x Platinum500,000+
Denmark12x Platinum [10]60,000+
Finland1Platinum [11]54,588+
France1Diamond [12]750,000+
Germany15x Gold [13]580,000+
Greece12x Platinum [14]50,000+
Hungary22x Platinum [15]20,000+
Ireland14x Platinum [16]60,000+
Israel1Gold20,000+
Italy14x Platinum [17]450,000+
Japan5[18]2x Platinum [19]500,000+
Mexico1Platinum [20]100,000+
Netherlands1Platinum [21]80,000+
New Zealand5Platinum [22]15,000+
Norway1
Poland2Platinum [23]40,000+
Portugal12x Platinum [24]40,000+
Russia1Diamond [25]100,000+
Spain12x Platinum [26]160,000+
Sweden12x Platinum [27]120,000+
Switzerland13x Platinum [28]120,000+
United Kingdom14x Platinum [29]1,250,000+
United States1Platinum [30]1,645,000+ [31]

Personnel

  • Madonna - Lead vocals, backing vocals, guitar
  • Stuart Price - Producer, keyboards, synthesizers, vocoders, programming, sequencing, sampling
  • Roberta Carraro - Keyboards, Bass, Drums, Harmonica
  • Photography: Steven Klein
  • Art Direction and Graphic Design: Giovanni Bianco
  • Legal: Grubman Indursky
  • Management: Guy Oseary and Angela Becker
  • Mixing: Mark "Spike" Stent at Olympic Studios and Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles (Except: "Forbidden Love" which was mixed by Stuart Price at Shirland Road)
  • Recording: Stuart Price at Shirland Road (Except: "How High" and "Like It Or Not" which were recorded at Murlyn Studios, Stockholm and Shirland Road, "Future Lovers" was recorded at Mayfair Studios.)
  • Assistant Engineer: Alex Dromgoole
  • Second Assistant Engineer at Olympic: David Emery
  • Second Assistant Engineer at Record Plant, Los Angeles: Antony Kilhoffer
  • Mastering: Brian "Big Bass" Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering

Trivia

  • Madonna had joked with Apple Inc.'s CEO Steve Jobs on a video conference in September, 2006, saying the title was "Revenge of the Broken Arm" while her arm was in a sling, considering her accident on her 47th Birthday just a few weeks before.
  • Three non-album tracks from the album's recording sessions were released. "Fighting Spirit" was released as a bonus thirteenth track on a special edition of the album, "Super Pop" was available for free download to all Madonna fan club members, and "History" was released as the B-side for the album's fourth single, "Jump."
  • While Madonna has performed the song "Let It Will Be" in numerous promotional performances and during her 2006 world tour, she has yet to perform the song in the album version found here. All live performances of the song have been based on the Stuart Price remix of the song, known as "The Paper Faces Mix."
  • Producer Stuart Price revealed during an interview that the majority of the album was recorded at his flat. A mentally disturbed woman who wails for hours is a neighbor of his, and that if you listen closely you may hear her on some of the tracks in the background.[32]

Notes

1. ^ Guinness Book of Records 2007
2. ^ Madonna Confesses. Retrieved on November 11, 2005.
3. ^ The Observer. November 20 2005.''
4. ^ http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/plat_month_20060913.html ifpi.com
5. ^ http://www.madonnatribe.com/news/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1512 Madonnatribe.com
6. ^ http://www.madonnatribe.com/news/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2454 Madonnatribe.com
7. ^ ARIA
8. ^ IFPI Belgium
9. ^ ABPD
10. ^ IFPI Denmark
11. ^ IFPI Finland
12. ^ .Disque En France
13. ^ IFPI Germany
14. ^ [1]
15. ^ MAHASZ
16. ^ IRMA – Irish Charts
17. ^ IRMA – Irish Charts
18. ^ Archives of Japanese Oricon weekly albums chart (4th week of November 2005)
19. ^ RIAJ Certification Awards June 2006
20. ^ AMPROFON
21. ^ NVPI
22. ^ RIANZ
23. ^ ZPAV
24. ^ AFP – Year 2006, Week 19
25. ^ AFP – Year 2006, Week 19
26. ^ PROMUSICAE
27. ^ IFPI Sweden – 2006 Certifications
28. ^ IFPI Switzerland
29. ^ BPI
30. ^ Billboard – Ask Billboard
31. ^ Billboard – Ask Billboard
32. ^ Dominican Today.
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Madonna
Studio albumsMadonna (1983) Like a Virgin (1984) True Blue (1986) Like a Prayer (1989) Erotica (1992) Bedtime Stories (1994) Ray of Light (1998)
Music (2000) American Life (2003) Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) TBA (2007)
CompilationsYou Can Dance (1987) The Immaculate Collection (1990) Something to Remember (1995) GHV2 (2001)
(2001) Remixed & Revisited (2003) Confessions Remixed (2006) Best of Remixes (2007)
SoundtracksWho's That Girl (1987) I'm Breathless (1990) Evita (1996) The Next Best Thing (2000)
Live albumsI'm Going to Tell You a Secret (2006) The Confessions Tour (2007)
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