Madonna Once Again Rules The World

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Madonna may have been unable to sink the Titanic for the second week in a row, but she's reigning on the charts around the globe.

Her latest album, Ray of Light, which debuted on March 3 to rave reviews, has sold a collective three million albums around the world. Madonna currently holds the coveted top spot in eight countries: Israel, Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Greece, Singapore, Finland and Great Britain.

Ray of Light held onto the No. 2 spot on the Billboard charts in America with second week sales of 225,000 (bringing her two-week total to just under 600,000 copies sold in the States alone). In addition, Madonna sits at No. 2 in a number of countries, including Ireland, Sweden, France, Canada and Spain.

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“Karma Chameleon”

Culture Club | 1983

Boy George has said this song was about standing by what you believe in. However, at the time, he was involved in a secret affair with Culture Club drummer Jon Moss. "Now people can understand the songs better," he said. "They were written about my relationship with Jon, and they were also written about being a gay man in a homophobic world." The lines "If I listen to your lies, would you say/I'm a man without conviction/I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction," described his life at the time, he said. "I was selling this big lie."

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