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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 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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