Description
Tracklisting
- “Lucky Star”
- “Borderline”
- “Burning Up”
- “I Know It”
- “Holiday”
- “Think of Me”
- “Physical Attraction”
- “Everybody”
Madonna then invited her boyfriend at the time, John “Jellybean” Benitez, to help her finish the album. Benitez remixed many of the tracks and produced “Holiday”. The overall sound of Madonna is dissonant, and is in the form of upbeat synthetic disco, utilizing some of the new technology of the time, like the usage of Linn drum machine, Moog bass and the Oberheim OB-X synthesizer. The songs on the album are sung by Madonna in a bright, girlish vocal timbre, and lyrically talks about love and relationships.
Contemporary critics have applauded the album, but Madonna was dismissed by some critics when it was released in 1983. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly named it as the fifth of “Top 100 Best Albums of Past 25 Years.” The album was successful on the charts, reaching number eight on the Billboard 200, and the top ten of the charts in Australia, France, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It was certified five-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipment of five million copies across the United States. Worldwide the album has sold more than ten million copies.
