Music by Madonna

Music, Madonna's eighth studio album, hit on September 18, 2000, through Maverick and Warner Bros., and with a new generation of pop starlets like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera crowding the charts, she went strange instead of young. Working with Mirwais Ahmadzaï and William Orbit, she built a dance-pop and electronica record out of chopped-up acoustic guitars, warped, processed vocals and bits of funk, house, techno, rock, country and folk, and she dressed the whole thing up as a cowgirl.

The title track went to number one in 25 countries and gave her a 12th, and so far final, Hot 100 chart-topper, and "Don't Tell Me" and "What It Feels Like for a Girl" followed. The album was number one in 23 countries, moved four million units inside ten days of release, and opened with more than 420,000 sold in America, the strongest first week of her career to that point. It won the Grammy for Best Recording Package, and in hindsight critics hear it predicting electro-house and cowboy kitsch alike.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.