Paint me with your memory, and not with your eyes…….

Click here to check them all.

During last month, Madonna also shared several sets of images from her Summer break and birthday celebrations, that this year saw her, and family and some close friends in the beautiful Greek islands of Corfu and Patmos.

It’s My Birthday! Eat, Pray, Love,Drink, Dance, Break plates, Feed Cats!!
Thank you G*D!

Prayers from Patmos!!
What a magical island. I really felt the presence of God there.
The first time I went to Greece, I was 7 months pregnant with Rocco. A full circle moment to take him there again as a Man. To reconnect. To remember. Good for the Soul!

She then wrapped the Season with a Reel.

Holiday Mood is Over………
My Sins are my Savior.

While the second half of August is traditionally a month of holidays in Madonnaland, there was still some space for businesses: Madonna updated her profile pic on the social networks, switching from the portrait by Rafael Pavarotti used for the launch of the Confessions II album to another picture by the same photographer that everyone would immediately connect to her campaign for KIKO Milano.
The swap wasn’t obviously unintentional, and in the following weeks the advertising and the commercials that you’ve seen in the U.S. market started appearing in the magazines, on the walls, in the stores and on TV across Europe. Have you met KIKO?

Courtesy of Warner Records

Madonna’s Danceteria is finally receiving an official remix treatment with the 7:08 minutes long Harry Romero Remix being released on the digital platforms at midnight tonight.

Download and stream here.

The original version of the song on Confessions II, written alongside Andrew Watt, Henry Walter (Cirkut) and Stuart Price, has already turned into a massive club staple and secured Madonna’s milestone 20th hit on the Billboard Dance Airplay Chart, where it currently resides at No. 18.

Harry Romero shared the story behind his remix in his latest Instagram post:

Release days come and release days go.
Today is a BIG one for me that will stay with me for a long time.
Being asked to remix Madonna latest single Danceteria off her new album is a career high.

Growing up in the 80’s never ever did I think I would one way or another be creatively involved with such a pop icon. She, along with Michael and Prince, has been the soundtrack to my youth and the youth of so many. My friend and manager Ralph Moore says it best.. there’s not a day that goes by that we don’t hear her voice or her name being said.

And here’s a short story on how this kinda happened, I think.
About a year or so ago I made a bootleg of one of her very early singles Physical Attraction. I made this to simply play in my DJ sets. I gave it to Carl Craignet and Honey Dijon.
I then see a video a couple months back of HDJ playing my bootleg at a listening party in London with M right next to her. In the same vid you see M asking HDJ what she was playing.

The call came in a week later asking me to remix Danceteria. I guess it always comes back to what I do in the studio. That has been my calling card for 3 decades. So from this basement in New Jersey to the world… today we celebrate.

Harry’s manager Ralph Moore also shared this story:

Growing up in Mid Sussex, I only saw three evolving, omnipresent pop/dance artists globally adored by one word alone. Madonna. Prince. Michael. (Later of course they were joined by a boy from Bushey called George.) But there was only one woman in this brattish pack, and her disco initially represented Detroit, then the clubs (especially Danceteria) and later a mixture of top tier songwriting, (blonde) ambition and more seismic hit singles than anyone else in history. There is never a day that I don’t hear Madonna in the wild. Her collaborators – among them Shep Pettibone, Jellybean, Stephen Bray and now Stuart Price – were always astute. William Orbit’s sudden departure last week is still being felt by the wider dance community, but Stuart’s now back as captain of her ship.

When Stuart jumped in the saddle for Confessions and now Confessions 2, things got really interesting. Finally, she had a foil she could trust all the way (Hung Up, Sorry, Bring Your Love and ‘L.E.S. Girl’ are all top tier M) and in return, he could help steer an iconic artist who’s always looking forwards. Two months ago, Harry Romero and I were invited to remix Danceteria from Confessions 2 and all of a sudden, we were both invited into the inner sanctum. The remix was needed in a week. A week!! Stuart and M were away at The World Cup Final. Parts were sent across. As Neil Tennant commented wittily earlier this summer, Madonna was now a duo.

This week, I get to fulfil a lifelong ambition by working with the team at Maverick and Warner Music to deliver what I think might be the best remix of Harry’s career. It dropped today. The Lou Reed-sampling original is the sort of song you might have heard at Pacha in the 90s, but the remix is as fierce and contemporary as you would expect from New Jersey’s Romero. Stuart personally requested us to join the second Confession and we join a roll-call that includes Honey Dijon, Peggy Gou and Stuart Price himself. It’s one of the proudest moments of my career as a manager and we’re just getting started.

Everybody get up and dance!

The nominations for the 2026 MTV VMAs have been announced today, and Madonna is leading with nods for 11 Moon Persons, including those for video, artist and song of the year.

As Paul Grein on Billboard.com notes, this is the third time in Madonna’s career she is the leading nominee, and the first since 1998, when she won video of the year for the first time with Ray of Light.
Madonna was also the leading nominee in 1990, the year she was nominated for the top award with Vogue; in both of those years, she had 9 nods, hence this year’s tally of 11 represents a personal best for the legendary star.

Seven of the eight artists with the most nominations this year are women; following Madonna’s 11 nominations are Taylor Swift (9), Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter (7 each), Bruno Mars, Pink Pantheress and Zara Larsson (5 each); and LISA (4).

Madonna has been nominated in every decade of her musical career and amassed 19 competitive MTV VMA wins. She became the first solo female artist to receive the Video Vanguard Award in 1986.

This year she is up for five awards voted by the fans:

• Video of the Year (Confessions II – The Film)
• Artist of the Year
• Song of the Year (Bring Your Love, with Sabrina Carpenter)
• Best Collaboration (Bring Your Love, with Sabrina Carpenter)
• Best Dance (Confessions II – The Film)

She is also nominated in six more categories with her Confessions II – The Film –all these categories are not votable by fans online:

• Best Direction – TORSO
• Best Art Direction – Camille Spiller
• Best Cinematography – Daniel Landin
• Best Editing – Danny Tull & Lauren Friedman
• Best Choreography – Damien Jalet
• Best Visual Effects – MONUMENTAL

The Best Dance category returns for the first time in 7 years. It was first presented in 1989 and Madonna has yet to win this Moon Person. This is also the first time she gets a nod for Artist of the Year.

The amazing Damien Jalet this year is nominated twice in the best coreography category – for Confessions II – The Film and for the acclaimed STORM starring Yung Lean.

VOTING is now open for 13 categories at vote.mtv.com – including 5 Madonna is nominated for – and today, August 18, you can vote up to 20 times per category instead of 10.
You can also get double the votes per category every day during Power Hour, running daily 1-2 p.m. ET from August 20 through September 24, and on Wednesday, August 19 and Friday, August 25

The nominations for the three top categories are:

Video of the Year

• Ariana Grande – hate that i made you love me (Republic Records)
• Bruno Mars – I Just Might (Atlantic Records)
• GENER8ION – STORM starring Yung Lean (Iconoclast Music)
• Madonna – Confessions II – The Film (Warner Records)
• Sabrina Carpenter – Tears (Island)
• Taylor Swift – The Fate of Ophelia (Republic Records)

Artist of the Year

• Ariana Grande (Republic Records)
• Bruno Mars (Atlantic Records)
• Madonna (Warner Records)
• Morgan Wallen (Big Loud/Mercury Records)
• Sabrina Carpenter (Island)
• Taylor Swift (Republic Records)

Song of the Year

• BTS  – Swim (BIGHIT MUSIC)
• Ella Langley – Choosin’ Texas (Columbia Records)
• HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI – Golden (Republic Records/Visva Records)
• Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter – Bring Your Love (Warner Records)
• Olivia Dean – Man I Need (Island)
• PinkPantheress + Zara Larsson – Stateside (Warner Records UK/Atlantic Records)
• RAYE – WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! (Human Re Sources)

The two-hour awards show will broadcast live on CBS on Sunday, September 27 at 7:30 p.m. Eastern and 4:30 p.m. PST, from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. It will also simulcast on MTV and be available to stream on Paramount+ in the U.S.

The show will become available to stream globally the next day on Paramount+ and MTV.

This year the show returns the Los Angeles area for the first time since 2017, when it took place at The Forum in Inglewood, and it is the second time in a row that it airs on CBS.

Those who are familiar with the Outernet off Tottenham Court Road may have been wondering why this unique location in the heart of London and its 23,000 square feet of floor-to-ceiling 8K screens weren’t part of the Confessions II promotional machine.

Back in 2023 Outernet London has featured Madonna through its massive, 360-degree immersive digital display showcasing an epic mix of archival footage, photographs, music videos and album cover artworks for the announcement of The Celebration Tour.

Tomorrow, as Madonna celebrates her birthday, they will be bringing together music, fans and the visual language of Confessions II with Madonna Celebration: C’Mon Meet Me On The Dancefloor, a 6 minute interactive installation showing every 30 minutes at The Now Building.

• Where: The Now Building, by the cross roads of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, London
• When: August 16, 2026, from 10 AM to 10 PM, approx every 30 mins. Duration: 6 mins.

This new interactive installation will celebrate Madonna’s birthday in central London bringing together music, large-scale visual storytelling and fan participation across the Outernet London 23,000 square feet of floor-to-ceiling 8K immersive screens.

Created and directed by London-based Lookport Studio in collaboration with Outernet London, the installation has been designed specifically for the venue’s vast 360-degree digital environment – bringing Madonna’s visual world to an entirely new scale – and will celebrate her extraordinary creative legacy while also reflecting the visual language of Confessions II, bringing music and imagery together across one of London’s most distinctive digital spaces.

At the heart of the installation is an interactive fan experience inviting visitors to contribute to the work themselves. Fans will be able to leave a personal message, with selected photographs and messages appearing across Outernet’s monumental screens alongside contributions from other fans.

Alex Wolf, Founder and Creative Director at Lookport Studio said in a statement:

Madonna helped write the language of modern pop culture through decades of relentless work, constant reinvention and a refusal to stand still. We wanted to honour that drive and give the audience a genuine way to express their own connection to her work – through personal stories, emotions and messages.
C’MON MEET ME ON THE DANCEFLOOR is conceived as a public celebration rather than a retrospective – bringing together Madonna’s latest visual language with a more personal layer shaped by the people who come to see it.

Philip O’Ferrall, CEO at Outernet, also said:

Great cultural moments are about bringing people together, and that is exactly what we want Outernet to do. Madonna has inspired audiences and artists for generations, so it is a complete privilege to be able to celebrate her and her connection with fans in such a creative and interactive way.

The Madonna birthday installation will be free and open to the public at Outernet London, Tottenham Court Road, on Sunday, 16 August 2026. The experience will screen at selected times throughout the day. Visitors are encouraged to check the Outernet London website for the latest screening schedule before travelling.

Photo credit: Alex Wolf

Courtesy of Warner Records

In the very moment Madonna & Kylie break into the UK Official Singles Chart Top 100 with Love Sensation, they announce the release of a 7” vinyl with the previously unreleased Afterhours 7” Mix on side A and the Afterhours Radio Edit on side B.
Now available to pre-order on madonna.com

Love Sensation debuts straight into the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart at No.8 with 19,707 units sold. It is Madonna‘s 65th Top 10 hit in the country – her second of this decade – and Kylie‘s 37th, her third of the decade.

This is also the first Top 10 hit entry from Confessions II, and the 4th in the  Top 100.

Earlier today, the Madonna & Kylie collaboration made its debut in the Australian charts: Love Sensation (Afterhours Mix) entered at No. 1 on the ARIA Top 20 Dance Singles Chart and No. 3 on the Aus Artist Singles Chart.

Madonna and Kylie have released the official lyric video for Love Sensation (Afterhours Radio Edit). It follows the clip for the longer remix by Stuart Price – the 6 minute long Afterhours Mix – that was made available last week.

The Radio Edit features Madonna and Kylie in a version closer to the original song from Confessions II.

Credits

Video: Nuno Xico, Chidi Nobi, Chloe Irving, Rastine Mir
Images: Ricardo Gomes, Antonioni
Editor: Danny Tull
Graphics: Special Offer

For Madonna:
Makeup: Marcelo Gutierrez
Hair: Eugene Souleiman
Stylist: Rita Melssen
Hair assistant: Travis Balcke

For Kylie:
HMU: Christian Vermaak
Styling: Frank Strachan

Filmed at Club Confessions: Amsterdam WorldPride

From Madonna’s Instagram

Goodbye- William Orbit.
I had an epiphany when I met you and started working with you. I realized that music did not have to fit into categories or genres. So we created our own. You pressed a magic button inside of me and I fell into a galaxy of unrealized dreams. Your music gave me a magic carpet to fly on and I visited many places. Sad and Joyful
I sang in ways I’d never sung before.
I used words without caring if they made sense or not. In many ways you were my Ray of Light -as was my daughter Lola who was born around this time-
I was starting a new chapter,
I was choosing another road to walk down-and you were right by my side with your crooked teeth and your genius, way of hearing music. The studio was often church like and I would sit in silence, waiting for your ideas to explode out of your keyboard or your guitar and then I would run with them………..
I miss those days. Only you could inspire me to write a song like Drowned World or Swim. You were so otherworldly. So singular.
The years passed and I moved on to make music with other people, but I have never forgotten you or the magical time we spent together.
Goodbye Billy Bubbles.
I was so lucky to have known you and fallen down the rabbit hole with you.

After bringing fans Madonna’s Club Confessions (presented by MISTR) to WorldPride in Amsterdam over the weekend, the long-rumored collaboration was at last confirmed. Kylie joined Madonna on stage for a surprise performance, debuting Love Sensation (Afterhours Mix) – Madonna & Kylie before a packed crowd at the festival’s most sought-after event. Produced by Stuart Price, the highly anticipated track is out now via Warner Records.

Listen and download at madonna.lnk.to/lskylie.

The collaboration arrives on the heels of Love Sensation hitting No.1 at Dance Radio on Friday, further fueling the momentum behind Madonna’s Confessions II, one of the most celebrated and critically acclaimed albums of the year. This follows I Feel So Free, the first taste of new music from the album- previously reaching No.1 on the same chart.

With No.1 dance hits spanning five consecutive decades and more Dance chart-toppers than any other artist in history, Madonna continues to not only dominate but redefine and shape the global dance culture she helped to create.

The new single will also be released as a 3-track CD in three different covers with a pink, blue and purple artwork designed by Special Offer, inc. on a photograph by Ricardo Gomes.

Details of this release have changed a few times on the pre-order page at madonna.com:

• The packaging has been updated from clear CD case to carboard sleeve.
• The tracklisting has changed a first time from two remixes of Love Sensation with Kylie Minogue and the album version of the song to three different edits of the Afterhours Mix, then back to the original listing. It currently reads:

1. Love Sensation (After Hours Mix)
2. Love Sensation (After Hours Radio Edit)
3. Love Sensation (Album Version)

The tracklist in the first update was listing these three version, but it has now been reverted to the original listing (with the correct spelling of “Afterhours” as a single word).

1. Love Sensation (Afterhours Mix)
2. Love Sensation (Afterhours 7″)
3. Love Sensation (Afterhours Radio)

US CD Edition

UK CD Edition

AU CD Edition

The CD single is now available for pre-order on the madonna.com stores.

Courtesy of Warner Records

The Afterhours Mix and Radio Edit of Love Sensation are out now.

The new version of the Confessions II song performed by Madonna and Kylie Minogue has been produced by Stuart Price in a lenghty, clubby Afterhours Mix and a completely different Radio Edit.

Love Sensation – Madonna & Kylie

1. Love Sensation (Afterhours Mix) 06:14
2. Love Sensation (Afterhours Radio Edit) 03:35
3. Love Sensation 03:49

Listen here.

Photo Credit: Ricardo Gomes

Madonna continues her lifelong alliance and unwavering support for the LGBTQ+ community by bringing her CLUB CONFESSIONS presented by MISTR to WorldPride Amsterdam. Madonna appeared on stage just after 2am in the morning to a 6000+ crowd fervently awaiting her arrival to celebrate a night of pride, diversity, and equality.

In a moment that could only be described as a gay fever dream, Madonna stunned fans by bringing out Kylie for a surprise performance, where the pair debuted their new version of Madonna’s No.1 song Love Sensation as well as Madonna’s hit song Sorry which she has not performed live in more than two decades. The unforgettable night also featured Madonna’s longtime collaborator Stuart Price and Honey Dijon.

Madonna says:

Throughout my career, I’ve always supported efforts to fight HIV & AIDS, and that fight begins with education and access. With MISTR, Tristan is expanding access to HIV prevention and sexual healthcare for everyone. Through this work, he’s helping preserve and strengthen LGBTQ+ spaces while investing in the communities and culture that have long sustained us.

Tristan Schukraft, Founder and CEO of MISTR, adds:

Madonna could have celebrated this new era anywhere in the world, but she chose to launch CLUB CONFESSIONS at The Abbey, a neighborhood gay bar, and bring it full circle with another unforgettable surprise on the World Pride stage. No one creates moments for the LGBTQ+ community quite like Madonna.

Backstage at CLUB CONFESSIONS presented by MISTR at WorldPride Music Festival. Photo Credit: Ricardo GomesThe night drew a mix of artists, creatives, and familiar faces from music, fashion, and nightlife, including Bebe Rexha, Paris Hilton, Adam Lambert, Leland, Vincint, Gottmik, Symone, Gigi Goode, Natasha Poly, Dean & Dan Caten.

Backstage at CLUB CONFESSIONS presented by MISTR at WorldPride Music Festival. Photo Credit: Ricardo Gomes

The now legendary CLUB CONFESSIONS surprise events first appeared this past spring at The Abbey in West Hollywood to celebrate Madonna’s new music ahead of the release of her then-forthcoming album Confessions II. The celebration continued all summer through additional epic surprise appearances in London, Paris and New York City – cementing CLUB CONFESSIONS as a defining nightlife experience.

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