Tuesday, January 12, 2010
"Revolver" #1 In Canada!
Madonna's new single "Revolver" tops the Canadian Top 20 Single Sales chart collected, compiled, and provided by Nielsen SoundScan from a national sample of retail store and mass merchants' reports. "Revolver" entered straight to #1 in the week ending on January 7th, 2010.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Madonna's School Coming Up Fast In Malawi!
Lilongwe (Malawi), Jan 10, 2010The white placard is rather nondescript, but it marks a unique construction site on the rolling meadows outside Malawian capital Lilongwe – a school being built by pop star Madonna who has adopted two children from the country.
The small southern African state, with a population of 13.5 million, had first seen an influx of tabloid journalists jetting into its small airport in 2006, when Madonna adopted a Malawian boy, David Banda. She already has two biological children, Lourdes and Rocco.
Last year, she adopted another Malawian child, a girl this time, Chifundo ‘Mercy’ James. But both times she had run into initial legal troubles, as both the children had one living parent, despite being brought up in an orphanage.
There is a Malawian provision that the future parent had to live in the country for a period of time. However, most of the laws were waived, with the Supreme Court of Appeals ruling in her favour. As a thanksgiving, Madonna started a charity organisation, Raising Malawi, for the development of children.
In fact, Malawi has a large population of orphans, estimated to be around two million. Nearly one-fourth have one or both parents who have perished from AIDS.
Madonna and her four children had come down to Malawi for the ground-breaking ceremony for the $15-million school in October 2009. The hostel will be for 500 girls selected from all districts of the country, which has a GDP per capita of just $541.
The site for the school is just off the road from Kamuzu international airport to Lilongwe.
When a visiting IANS correspondent went to the site, a dirt road led along the white board which is just written with the words – “Project Site for Raising Malawi Academy for Girls”. The road was clearly being used by heavy construction equipment making their way to the actual construction site.
The rolling greens was scarred by strips of red earth, with a yellow bulldozer at work, piling soil on to the back of waiting white trucks. There were around four to five trucks waiting or moving around, though there were no physical structures yet.
The academy is set to be operational in two years. Incidentally, the orphanages from where the children had been adopted have also benefited from the increased attention, receiving lots of foreign funding.
Most Malawians are quite positive about Madonna’s adoption. According to Kush Mittal, an Indian businessman living in Lilongwe, there was not much opposition to the American pop star taking two Malawian children into her family, though there were dissenting voices. “It was generally thought that the children would get a better life,” Mittal told IANS.
Thirty-year-old Nero Banda, who worked in the hospitality industry, also had no qualms about Madonna’s adoption. “We appreciate it. They (children) would have remained poor here. But now, it will be different,” he said, gesticulating with his hand.
“The people who were criticising were the rich people whose children were going to foreign schools,” he added.
(Devirupa Mitra can be contacted at devirupa.m@ians.in)
Source: http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a106345.html
The small southern African state, with a population of 13.5 million, had first seen an influx of tabloid journalists jetting into its small airport in 2006, when Madonna adopted a Malawian boy, David Banda. She already has two biological children, Lourdes and Rocco.
Last year, she adopted another Malawian child, a girl this time, Chifundo ‘Mercy’ James. But both times she had run into initial legal troubles, as both the children had one living parent, despite being brought up in an orphanage.
There is a Malawian provision that the future parent had to live in the country for a period of time. However, most of the laws were waived, with the Supreme Court of Appeals ruling in her favour. As a thanksgiving, Madonna started a charity organisation, Raising Malawi, for the development of children.
In fact, Malawi has a large population of orphans, estimated to be around two million. Nearly one-fourth have one or both parents who have perished from AIDS.
Madonna and her four children had come down to Malawi for the ground-breaking ceremony for the $15-million school in October 2009. The hostel will be for 500 girls selected from all districts of the country, which has a GDP per capita of just $541.
The site for the school is just off the road from Kamuzu international airport to Lilongwe.
When a visiting IANS correspondent went to the site, a dirt road led along the white board which is just written with the words – “Project Site for Raising Malawi Academy for Girls”. The road was clearly being used by heavy construction equipment making their way to the actual construction site.
The rolling greens was scarred by strips of red earth, with a yellow bulldozer at work, piling soil on to the back of waiting white trucks. There were around four to five trucks waiting or moving around, though there were no physical structures yet.
The academy is set to be operational in two years. Incidentally, the orphanages from where the children had been adopted have also benefited from the increased attention, receiving lots of foreign funding.
Most Malawians are quite positive about Madonna’s adoption. According to Kush Mittal, an Indian businessman living in Lilongwe, there was not much opposition to the American pop star taking two Malawian children into her family, though there were dissenting voices. “It was generally thought that the children would get a better life,” Mittal told IANS.
Thirty-year-old Nero Banda, who worked in the hospitality industry, also had no qualms about Madonna’s adoption. “We appreciate it. They (children) would have remained poor here. But now, it will be different,” he said, gesticulating with his hand.
“The people who were criticising were the rich people whose children were going to foreign schools,” he added.
(Devirupa Mitra can be contacted at devirupa.m@ians.in)
Source: http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a106345.html
Friday, January 8, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Roma People To Give Madonna A Gold Plaque!
The self-proclaimed king of the Roma said Tuesday he wants to give Madonna a gold plaque to thank the singer for criticizing discrimination against his people.
Madonna performed in Bucharest in August as part of her “Sticky and Sweet” tour, and at the concert said she was “very sad” because of the “discrimination against Romas and Gypsies in general in eastern Europe”.
Self-declared king Florin Cioaba said the Roma wanted to show their appreciation for the US star’s gesture.
“Madonna deserves great credit. She drew the whole world’s attention to discrimination against the Roma,” Cioaba told journalists in the central Romanian town of Sibiu.
The plaque has been ordered from a jeweler in Italy and will be made from 24-carat gold, the Romanian news agency Mediafax reported.
Romania has one of Europe’s largest communities of Roma, an ethnic minority believed to originate from the Indian subcontinent often referred to as Gypsies.
Discrimination against the group in Romania continues: a survey last September found that seven out of 10 Romanians would not want a Roma to be part of their family, and Madonna was jeered by the crowd when she made her remarks at the concert.
Last year Amnesty International criticised the Romanian authorities’ lack of action to tackle discrimination against Roma, a problem it said was “widespread and deeply ingrained in (people’s) minds.”
source: afp
Madonna performed in Bucharest in August as part of her “Sticky and Sweet” tour, and at the concert said she was “very sad” because of the “discrimination against Romas and Gypsies in general in eastern Europe”.
Self-declared king Florin Cioaba said the Roma wanted to show their appreciation for the US star’s gesture.
“Madonna deserves great credit. She drew the whole world’s attention to discrimination against the Roma,” Cioaba told journalists in the central Romanian town of Sibiu.
The plaque has been ordered from a jeweler in Italy and will be made from 24-carat gold, the Romanian news agency Mediafax reported.
Romania has one of Europe’s largest communities of Roma, an ethnic minority believed to originate from the Indian subcontinent often referred to as Gypsies.
Discrimination against the group in Romania continues: a survey last September found that seven out of 10 Romanians would not want a Roma to be part of their family, and Madonna was jeered by the crowd when she made her remarks at the concert.
Last year Amnesty International criticised the Romanian authorities’ lack of action to tackle discrimination against Roma, a problem it said was “widespread and deeply ingrained in (people’s) minds.”
source: afp
Vote Madonna In Hello Magazine Grand Finale of 2009!
With each month's finalist confirmed, fans can vote now to determine the year's overall winners at Hello Magazine's Grand Finale 2009, including Most Attractive Woman, Most Attractive Man and Most Elegant Woman.
Voting ends on January 20 at 1 PM GMT, with results to be published on the hellomagazine.com site the following day. Votes can be cast only once every 10 minutes and here are the links to the two categories Madonna is in the finale for:
Most Attractive Woman
Most Elegant Woman
Voting ends on January 20 at 1 PM GMT, with results to be published on the hellomagazine.com site the following day. Votes can be cast only once every 10 minutes and here are the links to the two categories Madonna is in the finale for:
Most Attractive Woman
Most Elegant Woman
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Celebration #7 On Independent's Top albums Of 2009!
1 U2 No Line on the Horizon
2 Bob Dylan Together Through Life
3 Antony & the Johnsons The Crying Light
4 Jarvis Cocker Further Complications
5 Manic Street Preachers Journal for Plague Lovers
6 F**k Buttons Tarot Sport
7 Madonna Celebration
Michigan’s most famous daughter, Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, is equal parts Little Orphan Annie, Margaret Thatcher, Dorothy Parker and Mae West. No surprises that she also sold more than 300 million records worldwide with zeitgeist-zapping pop moments like Into the Groove, Papa Don’t Preach, Like a Virgin, Borderline, Erotica, Like a Prayer and Material Girl.
Covering nearly every phase of her 25-year career, Celebration is a breathless and bop-friendly testament of the ab fabness of Madge.
8 Lily Allen It’s Not Me, It’s You
9 Jay-Z The Blueprint 3
10 Wilco Wilco
source: independent ireland
2 Bob Dylan Together Through Life
3 Antony & the Johnsons The Crying Light
4 Jarvis Cocker Further Complications
5 Manic Street Preachers Journal for Plague Lovers
6 F**k Buttons Tarot Sport
7 Madonna Celebration
Michigan’s most famous daughter, Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, is equal parts Little Orphan Annie, Margaret Thatcher, Dorothy Parker and Mae West. No surprises that she also sold more than 300 million records worldwide with zeitgeist-zapping pop moments like Into the Groove, Papa Don’t Preach, Like a Virgin, Borderline, Erotica, Like a Prayer and Material Girl.
Covering nearly every phase of her 25-year career, Celebration is a breathless and bop-friendly testament of the ab fabness of Madge.
8 Lily Allen It’s Not Me, It’s You
9 Jay-Z The Blueprint 3
10 Wilco Wilco
source: independent ireland
Madonna - 2nd Most Charitable Star Of 2009!
#2, Madonna
Charity: Raising Malawi
Annual Impact: $5,540,068
After co-founding Raising Malawi in 2006 to aid the nation’s two million orphans, Madonna has become one of the most hands-on philanthropic celebrities. She had to go through a fair bit of legal wrangling, but the pop star eventually adopted two Malawian children, Mercy and David. Of course, the coverage and controversy sparked by the adoptions generated significant press, as she and the charity were mentioned in over 600 newspaper or magazine articles in the last 24 months. The organization focuses on providing basic needs for children including nutrition, education, health care, and clothing, and to kick-start donations Madonna has vowed to match every dollar donated to the organization out of her own pocket.
Breakdown: TV ($455,568), Print ($4,897,500), Internet ($187,000), Personal donations (undisclosed)
source: thedailybeast
Charity: Raising Malawi
Annual Impact: $5,540,068
After co-founding Raising Malawi in 2006 to aid the nation’s two million orphans, Madonna has become one of the most hands-on philanthropic celebrities. She had to go through a fair bit of legal wrangling, but the pop star eventually adopted two Malawian children, Mercy and David. Of course, the coverage and controversy sparked by the adoptions generated significant press, as she and the charity were mentioned in over 600 newspaper or magazine articles in the last 24 months. The organization focuses on providing basic needs for children including nutrition, education, health care, and clothing, and to kick-start donations Madonna has vowed to match every dollar donated to the organization out of her own pocket.
Breakdown: TV ($455,568), Print ($4,897,500), Internet ($187,000), Personal donations (undisclosed)
source: thedailybeast
Friday, January 1, 2010
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