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Madonna

 * The Madonna phenomenon is also a product of intense marketing and public relations campaigns, thus the relationships between the production of Madonna's texts and their reception by world audiences must be articulated. Madonna has targeted teenage girl audiences, as well as various ethnic audiences with performers of color and distintic ethnic markers appearing in her music videos and concerts. She also attracted gay and lesbian audiences, incorporating gay subcultures and subtext. | Articulating The Global And The Local: Globalization And Cultural Studies by Ann Cvetkovich pag 17.

Madonna has been able to market and publicize a set of images that appeal to diverse audiences all over the world, producing a global popular. | Idem


 * Everyone, from middle-aged academics to teenage wannages, [is] utterly fascinated by the minutiae of the Madonna Phenomenon. | Claude 85


 * Nell Bernstein has agreed, Madonnaism is ultimately less about the star than about the fan. The idea is not simply to look at Madonna, but also to look at yourself looking at Madonna | Desperately Seeking Madonna: In Search of the Meaning of the World's Most ...


 * SHE TURNED HER FANS INTO MINI-MES. There were more than a few young folks parading around in one sequined glove in the ’80s. But a trip to a Madonna concert yielded a cornucopia of women (and men) dressed like the Queen of Pop — largely because she provided her devotees with so many options. Fans in veils? Sure! Fans in armloads of plastic bracelets? Yes, they still show up! Today it’s common to see audiences draped in their favorite star’s garb from album covers, videos and photo shoots. But as she so often did, Madonna set the standard. —Caryn Ganz


 * Madonna's most visible fans in the first two or three years of her career were the "wanna-bes," adolescent girls who reinterpreted Madonna's look to become a cultural phenomenon in their own right. | The Madonna Connection


 * Madonna wannabe (1984-1985), pag 113 (large overview) | Fashion Fads Through American History: Fitting Clothes into Context: Fitting Clothes into Context (2015)


 * Madonna had always been close to gay culture – through her brother, friends like Haring , her dancers and indeed | Contemporary Art - Volume 3 - Page 37 (1995)


 * Morimura's impersonation of the american icons presents a critique of the Japanese obsession with Jackson and Madonna, a palpable sign of growing global celebrity and the “Westernization” of east asian culture. | Michael Jackson: Grasping the Spectacle - Page 93 (2017) by Christopher R. Smit


 * One of the most controversial phenomena in this area has been the study of the image of pop star Madonna (fandom). | Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and ... By Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender


 * No. 1 female vocalist of the rock era, according to Joel Whitburn’s “Top Pop Singles” book


 * Just when people being to take her for granted she will do something outrageous publicly | The Creative Edge; Brent D. Taylor · 2008

Critical/media reception

 * Madonna has long attracted much attention from academics as well as the popular print and online media. | Gender, Age and Musical Creativity, pag 18, Catherine Haworth, Lisa Colton
 * 197,000 copies on newsstands - The highest figure for Esquire since the magazine's 50th anniversary issue in 1983.

Tarkan

 * first artist of Turkish origin to sell 500,000 albums in France | CNN
 * the most downloaded artist on TTNET Muzik (then Turkey’s digital music market leader) with 10 million downloads | T-Vine
 * the country's first international pop star | more than a million copies of Tarkan's last album were shipped to Denmark. He's the largest-selling non-Russian pop star in Russia. — Washington Post
 * "By far the country's most famous export is Tarkan, a good- looking Turk who was born in Germany" — Turkey's Aegean Coast: Ismir, Ephesus, Bodrum, Pergamon, Kusadasi & Beyond (Travel Adventures) pag. 61 by Samantha Lafferty (2012)
 * With over 30 million records sold throughout the world, Tarkan is without a doubt the best-known Turkish pop star. | Montercarlos BM

PDFs

 * IFPI Best-selling albums (report 2000-2005) - from IFPI.org via Excel
 * BPI - Yearly Best Selling Singles (1999—2009)

Others

 * Hungary

American Life

 * It has grown as a cult favourite amongst fans, and became a huge remix success on the club scene. It was the only album in history to have seven top ten hits on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. | Madonna: Like an Icon pag 381 (chapter Hard-working and Hard-laughing).

Music
The aptly named Music era is perhaps Madonna at her most confident as a musician. Following the enormous acclaim and popularity of Ray of Light, Music feels like she just walked into the studio and trusted her instincts. Case in point: this bizarre, trance-inducing electronic symphony. | Parade.com

Composition, lyricist, 20th century

 * One of the biggest scams for songwriters and lyricists is per- petrated by people generally referred to as " song sharks . " Typically, a song shark buys names and | Going Pro: Developing a Professional Career in the Music, 1999, pag 97