{"id":1655,"date":"2010-08-16T11:49:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T10:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2010-08-16T11:49:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T10:49:54","slug":"madonna-still-rules-as-the-worlds-queen-of-pop-as-she-turns-52-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/16\/madonna-still-rules-as-the-worlds-queen-of-pop-as-she-turns-52-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna still rules as the worlds queen of pop as she turns 52 today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Madonna fans across the world will be celebrating the Queen of Pop\u2019s 52<sup>nd<\/sup> birthday today, and download trends from <a href=\"http:\/\/musicstore.nokia.com\/\">Ovi Music<\/a> show the Material Girl is still as popular as ever with fans around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Nokia\u2019s trends snapshot reveals Madonna is the second most popular female solo artist on <a href=\"http:\/\/musicstore.nokia.com\/\">Ovi Music<\/a>, according to downloads by fans using Ovi\u2019s unlimited track download service \u2013 beaten only by Lady Gaga, 28 years her junior.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nine<\/strong> time Grammy award winner Madonna is the <strong>second<\/strong> most popular female solo artist online, and <strong>fifth<\/strong> most popular overall artist according to downloads<\/li>\n<li>Ahead of Madonna in total global <a href=\"http:\/\/musicstore.nokia.com\/\">Ovi Music<\/a> downloads are: Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Jay Chou and Black Eyed Peas<\/li>\n<li>Madonna retains her name as Queen of Pop in the offline world, as the 2011 edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madonna.com\/news\/title\/madonna-topselling-female-recording-artist\">Guinness World Records<\/a> crowns her the top selling recording artist<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>487<\/strong> Madonna songs available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/musicstore.nokia.com\/\">Ovi Music<\/a> catalogue. If every track available were downloaded it would take <strong>80<\/strong> hours to listen to all of her music<\/li>\n<li>Download data from across Ovi Music\u2019s 36 markets shows that Madonna is most downloaded in <strong>Brazil<\/strong> followed by Finland, Mexico, China, UK and Singapore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"134\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Country<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"277\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Madonna downloads** <\/strong>(based on total downloads from Ovi\u2019s unlimited music download service)<strong> <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"134\">Brazil<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">16.77%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"134\">Finland<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">16.60%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"134\">Mexico<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">15.86%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"134\">China<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">11.77%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"134\">UK<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">10.06%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"134\">Singapore<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">7.50%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"134\">Germany<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">5.13%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"134\">Australia<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">4.30%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"134\">Russia<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">3.88%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"134\">Italy<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">2.20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Madonna fans across the world will be celebrating the Queen of Pop\u2019s 52nd birthday today, and download trends from Ovi Music show the Material Girl is still as popular as ever with fans around the world. 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