Two Madonna fans, Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden, are suing the pop star for starting her New York concert late, claiming that they “had to get up early to go to work” the next morning. Fellows and Hadden bought tickets to a 13 December show at Barclays Center as part of Madonna’s Celebration tour. The show was advertised to start at 8.30pm, yet the 65-year-old musician took the stage after 10.30pm, according to the lawsuit. The concert was held on a Wednesday, the late finish on the weeknight show affected Fellows' and Hadden's ability to “take care of their family responsibilities the next day”, NBC New York reports.

"The more [musicians] get the acclaim, the more they start needing it. You might think that after all the big paychecks and standing ovations, they would eventually have reached some sense of self-satisfaction that would allow for an easy retirement. But that’s not true. In fact, the opposite is the more typical case. The more the artists are rewarded, the more they still want" - music writer Ted Gioia looks into the possibility of ending a career as a musician. "Sometimes it’s better to walk away when you’re still riding high. I greatly admire performers such as Audrey Hepburn or Shirley Temple, who happily launched second careers doing charitable works and good deeds. They used their fame for something different, something perhaps better. My view is that Madonna would have a much more powerful and positive legacy if she did something like that."

Madonna held a secret ‘Madame X’ gig in New York on Friday night and ended it by taking the show to the streets of Harlem. Madonna told W Magazine that she “wanted to pay homage to Harlem with an intimate performance. Harlem is the birthplace of James Baldwin, my eternal muse and a great source of inspiration for my film ['Madame X']” she added. Madonna performed at the club with a band led by Jon Batiste and a quartet of backing vocalists, before leading the group and audience out onto the street and down one block of 126th Street while singing ‘Like A Prayer’ through a megaphone. The parade ended in front of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.

Adele has been named as the UK’s best-selling female album artist of the century by The British Phonographic Industry, according to Music Week. She holds the top spot above the stars such as P!nk, Madonna, Rihanna, Dido, Amy Winehouse, Kylie Minogue, Beyonce, Britney Spears, and Lady Gaga. Her second album, ‘21‘, also holds the title for the UK’s number one album by a female artist since 2000, after shifting just shy of 6 million copies in the UK alone. The new statistics have been unveiled to coincide with the confirmed return of National Album Day on October 21, which will adopt ‘Celebrating Women In Music’ as its 2021 theme.

Madonna will co-write and direct a movie about her rise to fame, with the help of Oscar-winning 'Juno' screenwriter Diablo Cody, Entertainment Weekly reports. The script is expected to chart Madonna's rise from Michigan, to the slums of New York City, to global superstardom - via songs such as 'Like A Virgin' and 'Vogue'. “The focus of this film will always be music. Music has kept me going and art has kept me alive" - Madonna said in an announcement of the movie.

Sonic Youth have added 'The Whitey Album' from side project Ciccone Youth, which featured contributions from Mike Watt and J Mascis, to their Bandcamp. Ciccone Youth explored their fascination with pop culture -- and Madonna in particular -- while toying around with samplers and drum machines. The unreleased album includes a cover of Madonna's 'Into the Groove', as well as a cover of Robert Palmer's 'Addicted to Love'.

Madonna has donated $1 million to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help fund research into creating a coronavirus vaccine. Pink, who recovered from coronavirus just recently, has pledged $500,000 to Philadelphia’s Temple University Hospital Fund, and $500,000 to the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Emergency COVID-19 Crisis Fund. Metallica's charitable foundation, All Within My Hands, has announced four grants totaling $350,000 to Feeding America, Direct Relief, Crew Nation and the USBG National Charity Foundation. R'n'b singer H.E.R. has provided her team with money to support them over the coming months.

Miley Cyrus has called off a trip to Australia, where she was due to headline a bushfire benefit concert on Friday, Sydney Morning Herald reports. Two Madonna shows in Paris have been cancelled after the French government banned gatherings of more than 1,000 people, Roling Stone reports. Pearl Jam have postponed their US and Canada tour, saying the risk "is simply too high for our comfort level", but their summer tour in Europe will carry on for now, Variety reports. Bloomberg reports the Coachella music festival in California - due to take place in April - will be put back to October.

Two Madonna fans, Andrew Panos and Antonio Velotta filed a lawsuit against the singer and concert promoters Live Nation, claiming the pop superstar kept them waiting up to three hours before taking the stage in New York last autumn. Both men allege they missed their drives home and this messed up their plans for the day after the gigs. The new lawsuit comes two months after a similar one was filed in Florida by more angry Madonna fans.

Madonna has canceled her Sunday night show in Lisbon saying - "I must listen to my body and rest!". She gave her fans just 45 minutes' notice that her show in Portugal's capital was being called off. It is the eighth time Madonna has had to cancel a show on her current world tour. In a video posted to social media last week, she was shown wearing knee supports while rehearsing for an earlier show in Lisbon.

Madonna kicked off her Madame X Tour with 16 sold-out shows at Brooklyn’s Howard Gilman Opera House, selling 31,401 tickets, which made her $9.6 million, Billboard reports. Averaging 1.963 tickets and $601,985 per show over a month, tickets for the new tour ranged from $757 on the high end to $50. The average ticket sold […]

"She’s as gloriously weird as ever. Hence her excellent new Madame X tour, a testament to the genius in her madness" - Rolling Stone says about Madonna's new tour. Instead of big shows, she’s performing in intimate venues, starting with 17 nights in Brooklyn, with the show being "messy", which is good, Rolling Stone says […]

Just a lovely article by the Rolling Stone, about famous artists and their early bands. There's Madonna and her post-punk act Emmy where she played drums at first; Radiohead members played in a saxophone heavy band On a Friday (“the worst band name ever” Thom Yorke later said); Neil Young had a Motown pop band […]

Madonna released new explicit video for 'God Control' where she and a group of friends are killed by a gunman on the dancefloor, Music News reports. It's directed by Jonas Akerlund, and they have a message: "Gun violence disproportionately affects children, teenagers and the marginalized in our communities... Honor the victims and demand GUN CONTROL. […]

Madonna has earned her ninth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 'Madame X', her 14th studio album. It was released on Friday, June 14, and moved 95,000 equivalent album units in the first week of its release. Of that total, a whopping 90,000 represent traditional album sales. Billboard...

Guardian writes how album leaks harm musicians, not only financially, but they also affect their self-esteem, even more so than being robbed. This month, Madonna said she “felt raped” after her 2015 album 'Rebel Heart' leaked online before she’d even announced it, Jai Paul disappeared from the public for six years after his unfinished album […]

Guardian's Fiona Sturges writes about the issue of age of musicians, specifically - with men it's not an issue, unlike women where it becomes an obstacle: "Older men, with their silver hair and laughter lines, are seen as stately and wise. Women of the same age are past it and embarrassing. Today, Iggy Pop (72) […]

Rihanna has been named the world’s richest female musician by Forbes magazine - her wealth is estimated at $600m (£472m), coming from her music career, her fashion and beauty lines. Forbes’s list of the top five richest female musicians finds Madonna in second place ($570m), Céline Dion in third ($450m), Beyoncé and Barbra Streisand tying […]

"She has, at 60, produced her most natural-feeling, progressive and original record since Confessions. It’s also one of her most bizarre and sprawling, and features some of her worst ever music" - Guardian reviews Madonna's new album 'Madame X' (out 14 June). They gave it 4 out of 5 stars.

Dancer Mona Berntsen was interrogated by airport security in Tel Aviv for hour and a half, after wearing a Palestinian flag during Madonna's performance at Eurovision. She says she was questioned about "my whole life story, my reasons for having travelled to Arabic countries throughout my life, my religious relations, my family matters, showing my […]

Madonna accepted the advocate for change award at the 2019 Glaad media awards, and gave an emotional speech about how seeing gays in Detroit in 1970s for the first time in life changed her life: “For the first time I saw men kissing men, girls dressed like boys, boys wearing hot pants, insane, incredible dancing […]

Madonna has released a music video for 'Medellín', the lead single for her new album 'Madame X', and with it comes her new eye-patched alter-ego (watch the video here). It all started with her moving to Lisbon: "My son wants to be a professional soccer player and he was never going to have the highest […]

Madonna will perform at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, and she is expected to take the stage at the halfway mark of the final night singing a back-catalogue favorite and a new song from her upcoming album. Billboard argues that Madonna, who is managed by Guy Oseary, an Israeli-American businessman, is a […]

Madonna will perform at next month's (May 19) Eurovision Song Contest in Israel where she'll perform two songs. Tel Aviv businessman Sylvan Adams is reportedly covering the singer's expenses and $1 million fee. The musical spectacular isn't really exclusively Euro-vision - it sees European nations, some Asian nations and Australia compete for best song. Music […]

From 'Big Fun in the Big Town' about New York 1980s rap scene to 'In Bed with Madonna' The Guardian shares a list of top 20 music documentaries.

Drake's single 'Nice For What' returned to #1 on the Hot 100 chart, and his 'Yes Indeed' collaboration with Lil Baby came 6th, which earned him the distinction of passing Elvis Presley on an exclusive list - it's Drake's 26th Top 10 entry, one more than Elvis. Madonna maintains the #1 position with 38 Top 10s, […]