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It's Hard Out Here For A Material Girl

She may have sold 1.5 million of her new album and is breaking records for her sold-out Confessions tour, but top 40 radio stations aren't playing Madonna songs anymore. Why is that, you might ask. It's because mainstream pop music is only hip hop now. Not dance music. Which certainly explains Justin Timberlake's obsession with being identified with hip hop now. Reuters reports:

Madonna is in the midst of a sold-out North American trek that may end up being the top-grossing tour ever by a female artist. But this on-the-road success is not carrying over to American radio, which largely snubbed the first three singles from her latest album. "Hung Up" got middling airplay on mainstream top 40 outlets, "Sorry" was barely played, and "Get Together" has been all but ignored by pop stations. (Her album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor," has sold a healthy 1.5 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.)

Naturally, the disconnect has left executives at her Warner Bros. label -- and more than a few fans -- wondering, what gives?

We say, it's time to sign the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/mmad3306/petition.html to get Madge back on the air. Because Madonna rocks.

Posted on July 21, 2006

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