When Madonna’s Celebration Tour opens at London’s O2 Arena on Saturday — after a three-month delay due to a health scare in June that led the Queen of Pop to be hospitalized for several days — it will ...

It’s been 42 years since Madonna arrived on the scene with a post-disco anthem inviting everybody to “get up and do your thing.” Decades later, in an interview with Rolling Stone, the global pop icon ...

Madonna‘s had an impressive array of No. 1 songs, but she’s also had something rarer: an impressive array of No. 2 songs. Some of her defining hits just missed the top spot. Here’s a nostalgic look ...

Britney Spears is one of numerous female pop stars who will be forever compared to Madonna. Fascinatingly, Spears said two of Madonna’s songs sound timeless to her. The two songs have nothing in ...

The Queen of Pop's monumental masterpiece is still the standard for confessional pop. By Jon O'Brien After a quiet 1988 (her most notable pop culture moment was an acting gig in a Broadway production ...

Madonna is embarking on her first greatest hits tour with direction from sought-after producer Stuart Price, and the event is expected to include 40 of the legendary singer’s best songs spanning her ...

In 2004, Rolling Stone launched its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. Tabulated from a massive vote that had artists, industry figures, and critics weighing in, the list has been a source of ...

She’s the Queen of Pop. She helped shape what culture was in the latter decades of the 20th century and into the 21st. She was unafraid to speak her mind, take a risque photo, feature a specific ...

No singer can combine seemingly vapid lyrics with a bubblegum beat and transform it into an iconic anthem quite like Madonna. After all, that’s exactly why she is known as the Queen of Pop, and that’s ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Madonna's "Love Won't Wait" debuts just outside the top 40 on ...