Favourite Madonna UK #2 single

[BoysForSeles]

She’s had 11 songs reach number 2, not too many people have that. Crazy For You reached #2 twice.

I’ve allowed the option to pick TWO as we are talking number twos and to bring more songs into play.

 

[Dark Carnival]

Ray Of Light

 

[Dark Carnival]

(and Beautiful Stranger)

 

[VoR]

Obviously it's one of the weaker songs here, but I just love that another few thousand sales and we'd have had to reckon with Hanky Panky in the pantheon of her UK chart toppers.

 

[BoysForSeles]

Justify My Love and Ray Of Light for me but loads of great stuff there.

 

[POP!]

My ranking:

Live to Tell
Borderline
Justify My Love
Ray of Light
Beautiful Stranger
Crazy for You
Me Against the Music
Holiday
Hollywood
American Life
Hanky Panky

 

[POP!]

And just for comparison sake, she held the record for most Hot 100 #2s until Drake and Taylor Swift overtook her in 2021/2022.

Material Girl
Causing a Commotion
Express Yourself
Cherish
I’ll Remember
Frozen

“Frozen” is the best of that lot for me

 

[Suedehead]

Obviously it's one of the weaker songs here, but I just love that another few thousand sales and we'd have had to reckon with Hanky Panky in the pantheon of her UK chart toppers.

I still remember the scathing MelodyMaker review at the time…

 

[Iguana]

Ray of Light and Live To Tell but I was tempted by a Beautiful Stranger

 

[VV]

Borderline - 11
Crazy for You - 11
Live to Tell - 11
Hanky Panky - 10
Holiday - 10
Ray of Light - 9
Hollywood - 9
Beautiful Stranger - 9
American Life - 8
Me Against the Music - 6
Justify My Love - 3

 

[lolly]

10 Holiday
10 Borderline
10 Crazy For You
11 Live To Tell
06 Hanky Panky
10 Justify My Love
10 Ray Of Light
09 Beautiful Stranger
08 American Life
08 Hollywood
06 Me Against The Music

 

[Suedehead]

09 Holiday
10 Borderline
09 Crazy For You
11 Live To Tell
07 Hanky Panky
10 Justify My Love
10 Ray Of Light
09 Beautiful Stranger
07 American Life
08 Hollywood
05 Me Against The Music

 

[octophone]

I went for Crazy For You and Live To Tell. The latter is the song that made me realise there was more to her than the average pop singer, the former is just too cute.

 

[Penelope]

Borderline - 11
Crazy for You - 11
Live to Tell - 11
Hanky Panky - 10
Holiday - 10
Ray of Light - 9
Hollywood - 9
Beautiful Stranger - 9
American Life - 8
Me Against the Music - 6
Justify My Love - 3

Justify My Love a THREE?!

 

[Sheena]

09 Holiday
10 Borderline
08 Crazy For You
08 Live To Tell
07 Hanky Panky
11 Justify My Love
10 Ray Of Light
10 Beautiful Stranger
07 American Life
09 Hollywood
07 Me Against The Music

 

[Sheena]

Justify My Love a THREE?!

IMAGINE!

 

[Penelope]

09 Holiday
10 Borderline
08 Crazy For You
08 Live To Tell
07 Hanky Panky
11 Justify My Love
10 Ray Of Light
10 Beautiful Stranger
07 American Life
09 Hollywood
07 Me Against The Music

Hanky Panky a SEVEN?!

 

[Penelope]

09 Holiday (she was so right...we DO need a holiday)
10 Borderline
06 Crazy For You
10 Live To Tell
00 Hanky Panky
11 Justify My Love
10 Ray Of Light
10 Beautiful Stranger
10 American Life
09 Hollywood
08 Me Against The Music

 

[Sheena]

Hanky Panky a SEVEN?!

Yep. ABSOLUTELY NO REGRETS.

 

[Sheena]

Maybe you had to be there…

 

[VV]

Justify My Love a THREE?!

I find it really boring.

 

[BoysForSeles]

I had no idea that Beautiful Stranger was held in such high (Moopy) esteem.

 

[Sheena]

Beautiful Stranger is great and is what she doesn’t do enough of nowadays- it’s just pure pop joy.

 

[Pipo]

Live to Tell and Ray Of Light

 

[Pipo]

Beautiful Stranger is fabulous too, but it doesn't hit me like the two I did vote for

 

[Suedehead]

Beautiful Stranger is great and is what she doesn’t do enough of nowadays- it’s just pure pop joy.

To think that the last time she did anything that was pure pop joy was probably… Get Together!?

 

[Suedehead]

Well I suppose there was Celebration a few years after but… meh.

 

[Pipo]

Well I suppose there was Celebration a few years after but… meh.

This REVOLVER Erasure

 

[Suedehead]

This REVOLVER Erasure

Revolver is pure a lot of things but joy isn’t one of them…

 

[Jark]

if I can only have two... Ray of Light and Beautiful Stranger.

poor Hollywood!!!

 

[funky]

I went for Borderline and Justify My Love because both are untouchable- but I felt very bad leaving out Holiday and Live To Tell

 

[Joseph]

Borderline & Ray Of Light

 

[Halli]

That's tough. Crazy for You just edges Borderline and ROL for me. But of course, depends on the mood & occasion.

 

[Shoat]

Ray of Light and Live To Tell but I was tempted by a Beautiful Stranger

This is very much the correct top 3.

 

[Loufoque]

10 Holiday
10 Borderline
09 Crazy For You
10 Live To Tell
07 Hanky Panky
11 Justify My Love
10 Ray Of Light
10 Beautiful Stranger
10 American Life
07 Hollywood
05 Me Against The Music - purely for the nostalgia.

 

[VV]

I think we should have a rate for other positions too.

 

[jivafox]

Well who's stopping you luv

 

[Suedehead]

Well who's stopping you luv

This post is giving me

energy.

 

[Penelope]

To think that the last time she did anything that was pure pop joy was probably… Get Together!?

GIRL GONE WILD

 

[Suedehead]

GIRL GONE WILD

UK no. 73
US Bubbling Under No. 6
So yeah