Song · Madonna
“Music” by Madonna
From the album Music (2000)
“Music” by Madonna appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2000 and 2025. It was first released in 2000 on the album Music. Its best result is #87 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2000. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #416 alternative song of 2000 and #5,150 alternative song of all time.
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"Music" was the title track and lead single of Madonna's eighth album in 2000, sparked, of all things, by a Sting concert she attended. She wrote and produced it with Mirwais Ahmadzaï, who also played the keyboards, and Mark "Spike" Stent mixed it: a rubbery tangle of electropop, disco and electro-funk that never budges from G minor, her voice bent and processed by the machines, with a political and social undertow about music's power to bring people together.
It leaked onto Napster early, drawing threats of legal action from her team, then went to number one in the US, the UK and a string of other countries, held the top of the US Dance Club Play chart for five weeks and landed Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. In Jonas Åkerlund's video, Sacha Baron Cohen's Ali G chauffeurs Madonna and her friends around in a limousine.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 87 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2000 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 223 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2022 | 106 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2025 | 495 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
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