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She may be a Material Girl but it seems Madonna, 55, is rather shrewd when it comes to hoarding (as opposed to spending) money. The pop star is the world's top-earning celebrity according to Forbes, raking in an estimated $125 million (£80 million) in the past year, mainly from her $305 million-grossing MDNA tour. The singer's fortune was also amassed by sales of clothing, fragrance and various investments. This is despite her latest album, MDNA, flopping with sales of fewer than 1 million copies and singles like "Give Me All Your Luvin" failing to impress in the charts. "Madonna, at age 55, just goes to show the incredible power of a successful music career," Forbes reporter Dorothy Pomerantz said, adding that 27-year-old pop singer Lady Gaga, who came tenth on the list with $80 million in earnings, is often said to be drawing inspiration from Madonna's four-decade-long career. "The young star [Lady Gaga] is certainly emulating Madonna when it come to raking in money," Pomerantz said. Lincoln film director Steven Spielberg came a distant second to Madonna on Forbes' list, with earnings of $100 million last year, most of which came from his back catalogue of hits including E.T. and Jurassic Park. Forbes compiles its annual list of celebrity earnings using input from agents, managers, producers and others to calculate its estimates for each celebrity's entertainment-related earnings. The figures do not reflect tax deductions, agent fees or "the other expenses of being a celebrity." Madonna's $125 million top spot compares with her previous peak of $110 million in 2009, but falls short of the $165 million taken in by Oprah Winfrey in the previous year, Forbes said. Talk show queen and media mogul Winfrey took a big pay cut this year according to Forbes, falling to number 13 on the list with earnings of $77 million. Tied in third place with earnings of $95 million in the past year were Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James, radio shock jock Howard Stern and X Factor and music mogul Simon Cowell. Others in the top 10 earners included TV host Glenn Beck, director Michael Bay of the Transformers franchise, and thriller novelist James Patterson, who Forbes said was now the best-selling author of all time. Both Spielberg and Bay also made last year's top 10, though with significantly larger earnings.

They are!. I'm guessing the format will follow for the 2014 calendar with pics from the MDNA Tour book hence the cover.

Good question, they need to hurry up with releasing it here. It wouldn't surprise me if it's released when the album is.

Turn it into love :)

Promo Flyer.. http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/musite/Nieuws%202013/compet1.jpg

The Immaculate Collection returns to the Irish Album chart at #77 (again!) - 229 weeks in the top 100.

Wow! Some shockers on this, Crazy For You for one.

December is my favourite picture.

Dido's Greatest Hits album is out November 25th according to her twitter page.

In 1986 one Madonna wasn't enough two were released a general Madonna one and a Desperately Seeking Susan calendar. http://win.madonnatribe.com/calendars/Images/danilo_calendar_001.jpg http://win.madonnatribe.com/calendars/Images/danilo_calendar_002.jpg But let's look at the general madonna one shot by Herb Ritts http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YA5Xo0e1b7I/TZVEVn7nhPI/AAAAAAAABS4/auigKLCo3vw/s1600/2.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PcuD3-Cx_SI/TZVEWtY01aI/AAAAAAAABS8/TjRYYNqWeic/s1600/3.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZbjI15MOFVE/TZVEXrXhutI/AAAAAAAABTA/dfa6HWc68-8/s1600/4.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-720scXi27so/TZVEYnKQCLI/AAAAAAAABTE/PGcBy2YcJbo/s1600/5.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SR7SXwneaQY/TZVEZt7AlfI/AAAAAAAABTI/ssXmAkgF44k/s1600/6.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PSF2NSkMIu8/TZVEa1B3QGI/AAAAAAAABTM/EPWk1L-0DK0/s1600/7.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jihVBSZ2lGg/TZVEb7p0k-I/AAAAAAAABTQ/c8Rpv6rFrOI/s1600/8.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ILKCW4W09Cc/TZVEc2XVRiI/AAAAAAAABTU/WXAdEygUf9Y/s1600/9.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aIh9T7PUimI/TZVEd5RZp4I/AAAAAAAABTY/4i-dGMoar_g/s1600/10.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_qSy7VnrKvc/TZVEezTPUuI/AAAAAAAABTc/GKRrVhmBlEY/s1600/11.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ku50yR0Alhw/TZVEhYh6tII/AAAAAAAABTg/mq2D0CDMmqI/s1600/12.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vaTh-1pgmlA/TZVEkCS239I/AAAAAAAABTk/P5BNwHUCoUo/s1600/13.jpg

Madonna gave this puppy that was used on Jean Paul Gaultier's 1994 fashion show with Madonna. She would give the dog to Liz Rosenberg and the dog passed away yesterday. http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/musite/Nieuws%202013/1174681_10151846165309402_947381393_n.jpg

Can't believe Amazon have the vinyl of STR for £11.

08 Keep It Together 11 Vogue 07 Hanky Panky 09 Justify My Love 06 Rescue Me 07 This Used to Be My Playground 08 Erotica 08 Deeper and Deeper 08 Bad Girl 06 Fever 08 Rain 07 Bye Bye Baby 06 I'll Remember 06 Secret 09 Take a Bow 08 Bedtime Story 09 Human Nature 08 You'll See 08 One More Chance 09 Love Don't Live Here Anymore 09 You Must Love Me 07 Don't Cry for Me Argentina 06 Another Suitcase in Another Hall 10 Frozen 09 Ray of Light 10 Drowned World (Substitute for Love) 09 The Power of Goodbye 10 Nothing Really Matters 07 Beautiful Stranger

Celebration Tee's These Celebration Tees have been appearing in French Supermarkets in Nice. 100% official. http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/musite/1170662_392533630846347_348048599_n.jpg

Official Tee's Revolution of Love tee's £45 each!! (Out on Sept 16th) http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/musite/Nieuws%202013/MDN58412.jpg http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/musite/Nieuws%202013/MDN58427.jpg Defend Human Rights tee £31 http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/musite/Nieuws%202013/MDN58368.jpg

Something To Remember Vinyl album is out on Sept 9th in the UK (same day as the MDNA Tour).

Finally available to pre order on Amazon UK.

Cheers for doing this. I might have to buy the Killers greatest hits.

I know!!, my favourite is February can you imagine that shot in colour ;) amazing.

Pics from Madonna's party.. Does the corset look familiar ;) http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/musite/Nieuws%202013/1185042_705962412752445_2000954875_n.jpg http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/musite/Nieuws%202013/1002496_10201128744054505_863245169_n.jpg

10.0 Everybody 08.0 Burning Up 10.0 Holiday 10.0 Lucky Star 08.0 Borderline 09.5 Like a Virgin 09.0 Material Girl 07.0 Crazy for You 09.5 Angel 11.0 Into the Groove 07.0 Dress You Up 08.0 Gambler 08.0 Live to Tell 09.5 Papa Don't Preach 07.0 True Blue 08.0 Open Your Heart 09.0 La Isla Bonita 08.0 Who's That Girl 08.0 Causing a Commotion 09.0 The Look of Love 07.0 Spotlight 10.0 Like a Prayer 08.5 Express Yourself 07.0 Cherish 09.0 Oh Father 03.0 Dear Jessie

The Immaculate Collection returned to the Irish album charts last week at #77 and fell out on the chart this week. It's spent 95 weeks in the top 100 since 2003.

From the OCC: We show the Queen of Pop’s 1986 hit from the True Blue album some Pop Gem love. There’s not a lot to say about Madonna that hasn’t been said already. Master of reinvention, Queen of Pop, ambitious Material Girl – she’s been called them all. When you’re talking about a star as huge as Madonna, so globally hyper-mega-famous and instantly recognisable to any music fan, it can be easy to forget why she became such a massive icon in the first place: she is very good at being a popstar and has all the tunes. 13 Number 1 singles in the UK Her track record speaks for itself. She’s reached the peak of the Official Singles Chart 13 times – her first was Into The Groove in 1985 – and has enjoyed 12 Official Albums Chart Number 1s. Hit after hit after hit in a career spanning almost 30 years, from that very first UK chart entry in January 1984 (Holiday, which peaked at Number 6) to her most recent Top 40 entry Give Me All Your Luvin’. Birthday girl So in celebration of Madonna’s 55th birthday today, we thought it was about to time we showed a bit of love for the lady who paved the way for Kylie, Britney, Rihanna, Lady Gaga and a host of other female solo stars. Throughout her career she’s been unapologetic about expressing her sexuality and is always ready to get frank when necessary (and quite often when not, but that’s our Madge). The Pop Gem problem But which of Madonna’s track to pick as a Pop Gem? There are so many. We decided to cut out the Number 1s straightaway – as much as we love Into The Groove, Vogue, Music, Hung Up and the rest, they’ve had their time in the spotlight. So what about the classic tracks that didn’t make it to the top? We threw it out to our followers on Facebook and Twitter. Most of the suggestions were absolute corkers and we debated long and hard at Official Charts HQ, but the honour had to go to Open Your Heart, which made Number 4 at the end of 1986. The track was picked by Facebook follower James Masterton, a man of impeccable taste. The Number 1 that should’ve been? Open Your Heart suffered, in a way, from following the mega smashes Papa Don’t Preach and True Blue in 1986. Its parent album – also called True Blue – was an essential in every pop lover’s Christmas stocking that year and selling like rather warm baked goods, so Open Your Heart may have been overlooked simply because all the other tracks were so huge. 1986 was a stellar year for Madonna. The four singles she had in the Top 200 of the year sold just over 1.7 million copies combined in 1986. Papa Don’t Preach was the big one, coming in 8th for 1986 and shifting 583,000 copies that year. True Blue comes in next, selling 495,000 copies in ’86, the 11th best seller of the year. Open Your Heart settled for 170,000 sales in 1986 – not bad to say it was released in December. It managed to sell another 40,000 in 1987. That notorious video Its video caused quite a stir when first released, and featured Madonna playing the role of what you might call an exotic dancer if you were describing it to your gran. The video was also the first look the world got at Felix Howard – the rosy-cheeked 13-year-old who went on to be a magazine cover star and even co-wrote tracks for Sugababes and Amy Winehouse when he grew up. We’re not quite sure how Madonna feels about Open Your Heart. While it was a staple of her first three tours, it was pretty much ignored in Madonna’s live sets for 22 years, before reappearing in 2012’s MDNA tour. We, however, love it, like a favourite cardigan (cashmere) or extra scoop of ice cream. It always makes us feel good.

I hadn't forgotten Liam, just did a quick rushed post before I forgot. http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/musite/Nieuws%202013/kp.jpg

Madonna turns 55 today! http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/musite/Nieuws%202013/SAM_4347_resize.jpg