Madonna achieves Billboard feat
Madonna has made history by becoming the first woman to have a top 10 album on the Billboard 200 chart in each decade since the 1980s. The achievement comes as her remix compilation — “Finally Enough Love” — debuted at No. 8 on Billboard’s Sept. 3 chart, which was announced earlier this week.
She is the 10th musical act to achieve this feat. The other nine are solo male artists or groups with male members.
It’s Madonna’s 23rd album to reach the top 10 in the U.S. with 30,000 units sold — 28,000 pure album sales (digital and physical sales in the U.S.) as well as 2 million ondemand streams.
The global superstar,
64, first had a top 10 album with her self-titled debut in 1984. During the ’90s, the Grammy winner saw seven albums crack the top 10 list: “I’m Breathless: Music From and Inspired by the Film Dick Tracy,” “The Immaculate Collection,” “Erotica,” “Bedtime Stories,” “Something to Remember,” the soundtrack to the movie “Evita” and “Ray of Light.”
There were also six top 10 albums in the 2000s — “Music,” “GHV2: Greatest Hits Volume 2,” “American Life,” “Confessions on a Dance Floor,” “Hard Candy” and “Celebration” — and four in the 2010s — “Sticky & Sweet Tour,” “MDNA,” “Rebel Heart” and “Madame X.”
“Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones” consists of some of Madonna’s favorite remixes of her 50 No. 1s on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart. She is the only artist with 50 No. 1s on any single Billboard chart.
Williams, Isaak to perform at Americana awards:
Lucinda Williams, Chris Isaak, Brandi Carlile and the Indigo Girls are among the performers who will take the stage at the Americana Honors & Awards.
The Americana Music Association said Wednesday that Isaak and the Indigo Girls will also be honored with lifetime achievement awards at the Sept. 14 show in Nashville, Tennessee. The careers of Al Bell, Don Williams and the Fairfield Four will be celebrated as well. In addition, James Mcmurtry, Morgan Wade, Lukas Nelson, the Mccrary Sisters, and the War and Treaty are set to perform.
Actor Dean dies: Charlbi Dean, the South African actor and model who had a breakout role in “Triangle of Sadness,” which won this year’s top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, has died at age 32. Dean died Monday at a New York hospital from a sudden unexpected illness, her representatives said Tuesday.
Dean also had a recurring role as the assassin Syonide on the DC Comics series “Black Lightning,” which aired on the CW from 2018 to 2021.
In Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness,” Dean and Harris Dickinson play a celebrity fashion-model couple on a cruise for the ultra-rich that descends into chaos. The film won the Palme D’OR at Cannes in May and opens in the U.S. and most of Europe in October.
Sept. 1 birthdays: Actor George Maharis is 94. Actor Lily Tomlin is 83. Actor Don Stroud is 79. Singer Archie Bell is 78. Singer Barry Gibb is 76. TV host Dr. Phil is 72. Singer Gloria Estefan is 65. Saxophonist Boney James is
61. Actor Ricardo Antonio Chavira is 51. Actor Scott Speedman is 47. Actor Zoe Lister-jones is 40.