Friday, 16 December 2011 11:26
Get ready for the Madonna marketing machine.
Interscope Records is releasing Madonna’s new album in late March – her first in five years, reports Deadline.com. And “Gimme All Your Luvin”, the first single, is coming out the last week in January just prior to her upcoming Super Bowl XLVI halftime appearance on February 5th. Madonna’s upcoming Weinstein Company film, W.E., is now scheduled for a wide release on February 3, 2012.
Madonna has sold more than 300 million records worldwide and is recognized as the world's top-selling female recording artist of all time by the Guinness World Records. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century and the second top-selling female artist in the United States, behind Barbra Streisand, with 64 million certified albums.
Madonna won critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her role in Evita (1996). Madonna's other ventures include being a fashion designer, children's book author, film director and producer. An entrepreneur, Madonna founded entertainment company Maverick as a joint venture with Time Warner in 1992. In 2007, she signed an unprecedented US $120 million contract with Live Nation.