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Confessions on a Dance Floor is the tenth studio album and eighteenth recording by singer Madonna. more...

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It was released in 2005 and has been one of her most successful albums with international hits such as "Hung Up", the most successful single of her career so far internationally, and "Sorry", leading to the most successful concert tour of her career, The Confessions Tour. Confessions on a Dance Floor is considered Madonna's comeback album from her previous lowest selling effort American Life. Confessions on a Dance Floor's sales are over 8 million worldwide. It also holds the record for topping the most charts in the world. The Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Confessions as the twenty second top album of 2005, beating other top albums such as Mariah Carey's "The Emancipation of Mimi", Missy Elliot's "Cookbook", and other albums from artists such as Franz Ferdinand and Stevie Wonder. The United World Chart ranked "Hung Up" as the fourth most successful single ever in the world with a total of 8,698,000 points and the world's second most successful single in 2006. "Confessions On A Dancefloor" and her follow up "Confessions Tour" have given her the most number of international music and tour awards she has ever won in a single year.

Interestingly, Madonna prepared this album to make a big comeback after her previous album failed in the US. However, she did not try to follow any current US chart trends. Instead, she chose to release a collection of dance/electronic songs, which did not receive significant airplay in the U.S. but received massive airplay on all other parts of the world, including Europe and Asia. By doing this, the singer kept her tendence of establishing trends instead of following them. This did not stop the album from selling over 1,600,000 units in the U.S. alone.

On December 7th, 2006, the album has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Dance/Electronic Album. Its third single, Get Together, has been nominated in the category Best Dance Recording.

Production history

Madonna said "I wanted a record with no ballads. I wanted there to be no breaks, with one song segueing into the next -- just like in a disco. (... ) Whenever I make records, I often like the remixes better than the original versions. So I thought, screw that. I'm going to start from that perspective. I want to hear all these songs in a club. I approached the album from more of a DJ's point of view, but Stuart is a DJ. That really influenced the vibe -- the dance aspect -- of the record." (...) We listened to a lot of other people's records when we were making this - obviously ABBA and Giorgio Moroder - so to me it's more of an homage to other people's records than mine. If there are references to earlier records it's probably done unknowingly, part of our molecular structure, it comes out again and again, hopefully not too boringly and repetitive.

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