Madonna - Madonna: GHV2 (Greatest Hits Volume 2)

So there's this pop singer... you may have heard of her? Madonna, she's called, and the word is that she's basically all image; she went through a put-your-hands-all-over-my-body phase, then she got spiritual, and then she started wearing cowboy hats. Between all the gossip columns and photo shoots, though, she's left an unmatched trail of devastatingly wonderful singles--roaring dance records, tender ballads, and a curious combination of the two that is her personal specialty ("Secret" and "Ray of Light"). How many artists' best-of-the-second-decade collections crowd out legitimate hits? ("American Pie," anyone? "This Used to Be My Playground"?) Unlike 1990's Immaculate Collection, GHV2 doesn't have any new material; "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina," from Evita, and the glorious '60s pastiche "Beautiful Stranger" are the only songs that haven't appeared on a Madonna album before. But it compresses her past 10 years worth of records into an hour of one peak after another. --Douglas Wolk Amazon.com

3rd Highest Grossing Tour by a Female Artist

CHER:Farewell Tour $194,683,927, selling 2,880,726 tickets from 280 North American shows, and well over $200 million from her 325 date Worldwide show -Billboard 5-13-2005
Madonna Confessions Tour $193 million, selling almost 1.2 million tickets from 60 Worldwide shows, besting Cher's $192.5 million from 273 shows -Billboard Editor 10-14-2006
Celine Dion:A New Day grossed over $400 million, selling about 3 million tickets from 717 shows.
Average North American ticket price from Pollstar: Cher $68.34 -Madonna Confessions Tour $183.76 and Celine Dion about $136.
Nielsen ratings for the artists network concerts: Cher Farewell Tour 16.6 million - Celine Dion:A New Day 13.8 million -Madonna Confessions Tour 4.6 million December 18, 2007

Radio Edits only

This CD contains more of Madonna's hits from after the time that "The Immaculate Collection" was released. However, there are no new studio tracks on this CD. Every track on this CD is also the Radio Edit of the song in question. The only people I know who eagerly seek out these hard-to-come-by radio edits are the die hard Madonna fans (like myself).

While some of the songs I question as to their status as a "greatest hit", like "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" (wasn't 'You Must Love Me' a bigger hit? Yes, it was, and yet it's not included here) and "Deeper And Deeper" (I can honestly say I have NEVER hear this song on the radio). October 10, 2007

The best of the best

If you want the 90's hits of madonna you must have this in your own collection. I love it July 3, 2007

Completes the greatest hits collection

if you only want 2 of Madonna's cd's, get this and the immaculate collection and you will then have all of the best known hits on those cd's. May 15, 2007

Not so great for Madonna's fans

First of all, I love this CD. It is a great collection for Madonna's 1990-2000's career.
However, I was a bit disappointed since it adds nothing special. That is there are no new songs, or special mix.

If you are looking for Madonna's hit songs in one CD, this is a great
album. However, if you are huge fan of Madonna and already having all the CDs of her, there is really nothing special about this CD.

Moreover, many great songs are not included. February 28, 2007

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