INDIANAPOLIS, IN - FEBRUARY 02: Singer Madonna looks on on during a press conference for the Bridgestone Super Bowl XLVI halftime show at the Super Bowl XLVI Media Center in the J.W. Marriott ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Madonna hits the top 40 on a U.K. chart this week as “Like a Prayer ...

“Strike a pose” commands the Queen of Pop at the outset of one of her most recognisable singles. Yet Madonna’s perennial dancefloor-summoning monolith Vogue was originally rustled up as the cheap ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The singer kicked off her world tour in London. Madonna officially kicked off her Celebration World Tour in London over the weekend, wowing fans with a litany of hits and memorable surprises. Among ...

Hear five standouts from the set, and six we wish she’d played. By Caryn Ganz Lindsay is desperately seeking some time off this week, so I am the first of your guest playlisters: Caryn, the pop music ...

Madonna has never been afraid to make her fans wait. She said as much in her 2005 banger “Hung Up”: “Time goes by so slowly for those who wait.” It took her 40 years to stage her first greatest hits ...

DETROIT - It was the show Madonna fans had been clamoring for, for decades. Michigan’s “Material Girl” turned back the clock and took fans on a journey through her long and illustrious hits-filled ...

Madonna has revealed that she thinks her "most retarded" songs are the ones that become hits. The 51-year-old told Rolling Stone that she struggles to spot future chart-toppers when recording an album ...