Pop diva Madonna's latest album MDNA is the fastest selling international album in the India this year.
The album, in the first week of its release, has achieved a Gold status in India and is at number one on the national Planet M retail charts. Girl Gone Wild, a track from MDNA, released on March 26 worldwide and has debuted on top in the iTunes charts in 40 countries. The record has also witnessed the biggest one day pre sale on iTunes by any artist in history. It's the 8th time Madonna has returned to the top of the Billboard's Pop Charts with MDNA selling 359,000 albums according to Neilsen Soundscan and is the biggest selling first week debut this year. MDNA is Madonna's fifth studio album in a row and is available exclusively on Universal Music. "MDNA is a record that will excite the oldest Madonna fans as it will excite the youth with her eclectic mix of electronica & new world pop. The fact that she can still achieve GOLD status on launch itself proves that she is and will continue to be the real pop diva of our times," said Devraj Sanyal, Managing Director, Universal Music India and SAARC.  |
Playboy publishes nude photos of Madonna taken before she was famous. The singer did a number of nude photo shoots from 1977-1980, starting when she was an 18-year-old student at the University of Michigan looking for some extra cash and trying to form a band. Now a huge star, Playboy publishes some of the shots taken in 1979 and 1980 in a revealing spread. A year earlier, the magazine turned down nude photos of Miss America winner Vanessa Williams , which their rival Penthouse published. "We think Vanessa genuinely didn't know what she was doing, didn't know her photos might be published," the article states. "Madonna, on the other hand, posed repeatedly for two noted photographers who routinely publish what they shoot." One of the photographers, Lee Friedlander, says of the shoot: "She seemed very confident, a street-wise girl." Madonna has little to say on the matter, but doesn't shy away. "I'm not ashamed,...
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