![]() ![]() And she didn’t just bend her style to suit whatever was happening in popular music. For nearly 20 years, Madonna was able to surf the zeitgeist, to anticipate trends and react to changing tastes. Madonna gets a lot of credit for being a chameleon, and she deserves that credit. ![]() ![]() While Michael Jackson was disappearing into his self-created bubble and Prince was increasingly playing to his cult, Madonna was still trying to make hits. But that long string of chart-toppers is a true testament to Madonna’s drive, her hunger, and her ability to understand the moment. That doesn’t make Madonna better than Michael Jackson or Prince you would strain all bounds of credulity if you tried to argue that she’s somehow a superior musician to Prince. When Madonna scored her 12th and final #1 hit in 2000, her former peers Michael Jackson and Prince had been absent from the chart’s upper reaches for years. That’s true in the most obvious and literal sense she’s the only member of the Holy Trinity of ’80s pop who’s still alive today. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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