Confessions on a Dance Floor by Madonna

Confessions on a Dance Floor, Madonna's tenth studio album, arrived on Warner Bros. in November 2005, and it's a sharp swerve away from American Life and straight onto the floor. She first worked with Mirwais, didn't like where it was heading, and switched to Stuart Price, who was already busy on her documentary I'm Going to Tell You a Secret; Bloodshy & Avant also have production credits.

The record plays like one long DJ set, every track blended into the next with no gaps, mirrorball 1970s disco colliding with 1980s electropop and modern club thump. It opens giddy and turns darker and more personal as the night wears on, with samples and nods to ABBA, Donna Summer, Pet Shop Boys, the Bee Gees, Depeche Mode and her own 1980s records. By Billboard's count, "Hung Up" was the biggest dance hit of the whole decade. Critics hailed a return to form, it went to number one in 40 countries, and it won a Grammy in 2007.

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