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Madonna
Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16, 1958) is an American pop
singer-songwriter, guitarist, dancer, record producer, film
producer, actress, film director and author. She is known for the
use of sexual, social and religious themes in her work and has
been nicknamed the "Material Girl" and "Queen Of
Pop" by the media. Since her debut in 1982, Madonna has
released many chart-topping albums and singles, and has sold more
than 200 million albums worldwide. Billboard reported that her
2006 Confessions Tour holds the record for the highest grossing
concert tour by a female artist. According to both the 2007
Guinness Book of Records, and Forbes, she is the top earning
female singer in the world with an estimated net worth of over
$325 million. In 2001, the Guinness Book of World Records listed
Madonna as the "World’s Most-successful Female
Musician". She is the 2nd most successful top selling female
artist in the US according to the RIAA, and 15th biggest selling
artist overall[8] In the United Kingdom, she is the most
successful female in the UK album chart history, having sold 3.9
million copies of her compilation The Immaculate Collection there
alone. In 2005, she tied with Elvis Presley's record of 36 top 10
hits, the most for any artist in the history of the Billboard Hot
100 charts. RIAA named her the Best Selling Female Rock Artist of
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