Madonna becomes first female to nab Top 10 spot in album chart across five decades

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Madonna is officially the first female artist to have scored a spot in the Billboard 200 in each decade for the last 50 years.The pop icon, who released her first song back in October 1982, quickly rose to fame after her singing career took off and is often labelled as the Queen of Pop.Her new album Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones reached the No8 spot, the same place her first debut album reached back in 1984.READ MORE: Madonna is unrecognisable after purple hair makeover as she wows in plunging topDuring the 80s she added another five albums under her belt, in the 90s she had seven, six in the 2000s and another four in the 2010s.Just 10 other artists have ever reached this milestone, which means Madonna is now included with greats such as AC/DC, Paul McCartney and Prince.After the release of her most recent project, she has now had 24 albums in the Billboard 200 Top Ten, with a whopping 10 of them taking the No1 spot.The singer’s glittering career is being immortalised in film as Madonna is currently working on a biopic.She is directing and producing the film and she previously spoke to Variety about why she decided to make it.The pop icon said: “I’ve had an extraordinary life, I must make an extraordinary film.”She continued: “It was also a preemptive strike because a lot of people were trying to make movies about me.

Mostly misogynistic men. No-one is going to tell my story but me.”In October 2021, Madonna also spoke to Jimmy Fallon about her idea.She said: “I read that Universal was doing a script, they wanted my blessing and I read it.

It was the most hideous, superficial cr** I have ever read. This [has] happened a couple of times. So, finally, I just threw down the gauntlet.”Rumours have been flying about who.