Madonna videography

Madonna videography
Madonna performing "Bitch I'm Madonna" at the Rebel Heart Tour (2015–2016). The song's music video became her first clip to cross 100 million views on platform Vevo.[1]
Music videos80
Concert tour videos11
Documentary videos2
Music video compilations4
Music video box sets2
Promotional video albums4
Video singles4

American singer Madonna has released 80 music videos, eleven concert tour videos, two documentary videos, four music video compilations, two music video box sets, four promotional videos, and four video singles. Nicknamed as the "Queen of Videos" or "Queen of MTV",[2][3][4][5] her music videos were often considered by critics as works of art, depicting various social issues. Her early videos also received a significant academic attention. Madonna has won 20 MTV Video Music Awards, including the 1986 Video Vanguard Award for which she became the first female honoree.[6] In 2003, MTV named her "The Greatest Music Video Star Ever", saying "Madonna's innovation, creativity and contribution to the music video art form" is what puts her at the top of the list.[7] In 2020, Billboard ranked her at the top of their list "100 Greatest Music Video Artists of All Time".[8]

Madonna's first video, "Everybody" (1982), was a low-budget work. Her first video to receive attention on MTV was "Borderline", followed by "Lucky Star" and "Like a Virgin", which popularized Madonna's image and fashion among the younger generation.[9][10] Her early videos were released commercially on Madonna (1984), which became the best-selling videocassette of 1985.[11] With the title track from her third studio album True Blue (1986), Madonna's impact on MTV and popular music was established when a contest entitled Making My Video, was held to create a music video for the song.[12] "La Isla Bonita" and "Who's That Girl", both released in 1987, showed Madonna's fascination with Hispanic culture and religious symbolism.[13] In 1989, the video of "Like a Prayer" portrayed her dancing in front of burning crosses, receiving stigmata, kissing a black saint and having sex with him in a church altar. It faced strong reaction from religious groups and media.[14] "Express Yourself" released the same year was critically appreciated for its positive feminist themes.[15]

In 1990, Madonna released the video for the song "Vogue", showing the underground gay subculture dance routine called voguing, and the glamorous look of golden era Hollywood.[16] She released her second video compilation, The Immaculate Collection (1990) to accompany the greatest hits album of the same name. She featured overtly sexual undertones with the videos of "Justify My Love" (1990) and "Erotica" (1992), which met with huge backlash.[17] By this point, Madonna had sold between 3 and 4 million copies worldwide of her video releases.[18][19] A toned down image of the singer appeared in the video for "Secret" from Bedtime Stories (1994).[20] Inspired by paintings of Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varo, the music video of "Bedtime Story" is permanently displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[21][22] Madonna incorporated Asian culture in the videos of "Frozen" and "Nothing Really Matters" from her 1998 album Ray of Light.[23] The video for its title track was a high-speed one, portraying Japanese people going through their daily lives, interspersed with Madonna in black denim dancing to the music.[24] Most of her 1990s videos were released on The Video Collection 93:99.

Madonna reinvented her image as a cowgirl on the videos for "Music" and "Don't Tell Me" from her eighth studio album, Music (2000).[25] Violence and vandalism were the themes of subsequent releases, "What It Feels Like for a Girl" (2001), "Die Another Day" (2002) and "American Life" (2003), the latter being pulled from release due to the Iraq war of 2003.[26][27][28] "Hung Up", lead single from Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) was a tribute to John Travolta and his movies.[29] Madonna's videos for "Celebration" (2009), "Girl Gone Wild" (2012), and "Living for Love" (2015) were received favorably for paying homage to her past videos and a return to her dance roots.[30][31]

In 2019, "Vogue" became Madonna's fourth music video to reach over 100 million views on Youtube across four different decades, following "Bitch I'm Madonna" (2015), "Hung Up" (2005) and "La Isla Bonita" (1987), making her the first female artist in history to achieve this feat within the streaming era.[32]

  1. ^ "Bitch I'm Madonna – Madonna". Vevo. Archived from the original on March 19, 2017. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  2. ^ Bush 1987, p. 88
  3. ^ Taylor 1993, p. 191
  4. ^ Charone 2022, p. online
  5. ^ Cinquemani, Sal (August 29, 2003). "2003 MTV Video Music Awards: Recap". Slant Magazine. Archived from the original on August 5, 2022. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  6. ^ "Who has won the most MTV Video Music Awards?". Vibe. Vol. 16, no. 2. March 2008. p. 58. ISSN 1070-4701.
  7. ^ "Madonna tops list of 'Greatest Video Stars' on MTV..." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 25, 2003. p. 38. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
  8. ^ "The 100 Greatest Music Video Artists of All Time: Staff List". Billboard. August 27, 2020. Archived from the original on August 27, 2020. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  9. ^ Cross 2007, p. 30
  10. ^ Cross 2007, p. 32
  11. ^ "Top Music Videocasettes 1985". Billboard. Vol. 97, no. 52. December 28, 1985. ISSN 0006-2510. Archived from the original on February 7, 2023. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
  12. ^ Clerk 2002, p. 99
  13. ^ Fouz-Hernández & Jarman-Ivens 2004, p. 67
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  15. ^ Taraborrelli 2002, p. 56
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  18. ^ "Una "Factory" per Madonna" (PDF). L'Unità (in Italian). April 21, 1992. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 20, 2021. Retrieved March 20, 2021. 3 milioni di copie delle sue cinque collezioni di video
  19. ^ Harrington, Richard (April 21, 1992). "MADONNA TEAMS WITH TIME WARNER FOR $60 MILLION". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 14, 2020. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  20. ^ Miklitsch 1998, p. 124
  21. ^ Fouz-Hernández & Jarman-Ivens 2004, p. 56
  22. ^ Moorhead, Joanna (June 18, 2010). "The surrealist muses who roared". The Guardian. Archived from the original on September 15, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2013.
  23. ^ Metz & Benson 1999, p. 168
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  25. ^ Fouz-Hernández & Jarman-Ivens 2004, p. 94
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  27. ^ "Die teuersten Musikvideos aller Zeiten". Die Welt (in German). Axel Springer AG. April 27, 2007. Archived from the original on November 26, 2009. Retrieved December 24, 2009.
  28. ^ Fouz-Hernández & Jarman-Ivens 2004, p. 123
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  31. ^ Vena, Jocelyn (May 20, 2012). "Madonna Owns 'Girl Gone Wild' Title In New Video". MTV News. Viacom. Archived from the original on April 24, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  32. ^ "Madonna the first female with 100M views on videos from 4 different decades". Tone Deaf. August 3, 2019. Archived from the original on December 15, 2019. Retrieved February 7, 2020.