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BuzzJack Music Forum _ Madonna _ Like A Prayer ● rank the singles

Posted by: Nina West 8th July 2020, 11:56 AM

Now we rank the singles from Madonna's game changing & iconic Like A Prayer album, which spawned 6 overall singles.

Simply rank the singles from this album from best to worst:

Like A Prayer
Express Yourself
Cherish
Oh Father
Dear Jessie
Keep It Together

Here's the videos to help with your decision making & just for fun...

Posted by: vibe 8th July 2020, 12:05 PM

Again all singles 9 and 10’s !!

10’s

1. Oh Father
2. Like A Prayer
3. Cherish
4. Express Yourself

9’s
5. Dear Jessie
6. Keep It Together (I prefer the live version , the album version doesn’t compare)

Till Death Do Us Part would have been a huge hit !!!

Posted by: gog_lad84 8th July 2020, 01:42 PM

Like A Prayer
Oh Father
Express Yourself
Cherish
Dear Jessie
Keep It Together

Posted by: Bjork 8th July 2020, 01:58 PM

agree, Til Death Do Us Apart is an 11/10

1 Like A Prayer
2 Cherish
3 Express Yourself
4 Oh Father

5 Keep It Together
6 Dear Jessie

Dear Jessie is very album filler, never would have chosen it as single, think they should have picked Oh Father for the UK too

Posted by: Nina West 8th July 2020, 06:29 PM

01. Like A Prayer
02. Express Yourself
03. Cherish
04. Oh Father
05. Keep It Together
06. Dear Jessie

Posted by: Nina West 8th July 2020, 06:41 PM

Some fan-made covers of 'Till Death Do Us Part'

Posted by: HausofGhibli 8th July 2020, 06:53 PM

01. Like A Prayer
02. Oh Father
03. Express Yourself
04. Cherish
05. Keep It Together
06. Dear Jessie

Would've loved Til Death to have been a single over the bottom 3 possibly!

Posted by: Hide&Seek 8th July 2020, 11:34 PM

1 Cherish
2 Keep It Together
3 Oh Father
4 Dear Jessie
5 Like a Prayer
6 Express Yourself

Posted by: ...ready for it 9th July 2020, 05:55 AM

1. Like A Prayer
2. Cherish
3. Express Yourself
4. Oh Father
5. Dear Jessie
6. Keep It Together

Posted by: vibe 9th July 2020, 02:24 PM

Dear Jessie outsold express yourself and cherish surprisingly.

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever 9th July 2020, 02:35 PM

01 Like A Prayer
02 Express Yourself
03 Cherish
04 Dear Jessie
05 Oh Father
06 Keep It Together

Posted by: Nina West 9th July 2020, 05:23 PM

Here's the fabulous official artworks for this era:

Posted by: HausofGhibli 9th July 2020, 05:35 PM

The Like A Prayer single artwork is a real favourite of mine. Such an iconic image!

QUOTE(vibe @ Jul 9 2020, 03:24 PM)

Dear Jessie outsold express yourself and cherish surprisingly.

This is a crazy statistic! Would never have imagined that, especially Express Yourself!

Posted by: Nina West 9th July 2020, 05:50 PM

The International artworks:

Posted by: slowdown73 10th July 2020, 05:53 PM

1. Like a prayer
2. Dear Jessie
3. Oh father
4. Cherish
5. Express yourself
6. Keep it together

Posted by: Liam.k. 13th August 2020, 02:57 PM

QUOTE(HausofGhibli @ Jul 8 2020, 07:53 PM)

01. Like A Prayer
02. Oh Father
03. Express Yourself
04. Cherish
05. Keep It Together
06. Dear Jessie

Would've loved Til Death to have been a single over the bottom 3 possibly!

Snap! I'd also have welcomed 'Til Death Do Us Part' as a single, probably in place of 'Dear Jessie' as way of a closing the chapter on Madonna/Sean as well as the year/decade. Then 'Keep It Together' released next would feel even more fitting.

Posted by: Euphorique 1st September 2020, 02:43 PM

1. Like A Prayer
2. Dear Jessie
3. Cherish
4. Keep It Together
5. Oh Father
6. Express Yourself

Posted by: Bjork 3rd September 2020, 10:03 AM

guess Dear Jessie sold better cos it was released around Xmas?

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever 3rd September 2020, 09:58 PM

01 Like a prayer
02 Express yourself
03 cherish
04 Dear jessie
05 oh father
06 keep it together

Posted by: pippa 4th September 2020, 08:17 PM

1 Like A Prayer
2 Cherish
3 Express Yourself
4 Oh Father
5 Dear Jessie
6 Keep It Together

Posted by: dandy* 4th September 2020, 08:55 PM

01 Like A Prayer
02 Oh Father
03 Express Yourself
04 Cherish
05 Dear Jessie
06 Keep It Together

I'm not surprised that Dear Jessie was the second biggest seller from this lot tbh. It's very different from what came before and would have appealed to a different audience from those who had already bought the album. I absolutely loved it as a kid, far more than I'd liked the other singles at the time and the video appealed to me too. My dad wanted to buy me The Immaculate Collection as a child but I was so disappointed that it didn't have Dear Jessie on it that I made him take it back and swap it for Like a Prayer!