Better Comeback: Confessions on a Dancefloor vs. The Emancipation of Mimi

[Bionic Monster 5,020]

album: COADF tbh

era: TEOM

comeback: despite R&B being a local genre Mariah was able to come back with a smash album after two consecutive flops. Fossils, what do you think

[SkullDrag 396]

The Emancipation of Mimi is bigger than any Madonna era.

Billboard 200 - All Time

52. The Emancipation of Mimi

179. True Blue

N/A - Mandonnna's other eras

 

[Angelus 11,476]

Album:

Most critics lauded the album calling it a return to form for Madonna, ranking it alongside her best albums. Madonna was honored with a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album in 2007, as well as International Female Solo Artist at the 2006 BRIT Awards. Commercially, the album peaked at number one in 40 countries, earning a place in the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records for topping the record charts in the most countries. Despite being available for sale during the last one and a half months of 2005, the album's success was such that it still ranked as the world's sixth biggest-selling of the year. Confessions on a Dance Floor has sold an estimated 12 million copies worldwide.

 

Single(s):

"Hung Up" received critical praise from reviewers, who believed that the track would restore the singer's popularity, which had diminished following the release of her 2003 album American Life. Critics suggested it was her best dance track to date and have compared it favorably to other Madonna tracks in the same genre. They also complimented the effective synchronization of the ABBA sample with the actual song. "Hung Up" became a worldwide commercial success, peaking atop the charts of 41 countries and earning a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. It was Madonna's 36th top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100, tying her with Elvis Presley as the artist with most top ten hits. It also became the most successful dance song of the decade in the United States. "Hung Up" remains one of the best-selling singles of all time, with sales of over nine million copies worldwide.

 

Tour:

The tour garnered positive appreciation from contemporary critics and commercial success. Tickets were completely sold as soon as dates and venues for the tour were announced, prompting the organizers to add more dates. After its ending, the Confessions Tour was dubbed as the highest grossing tour ever for a female artist, grossing over US $194.7 million ($228,542,703.86 in 2015 dollars) from 60 shows with 1.2 million spectators. It is also recognized as the highest-grossing music tour per concert in the 2007 edition of the Guinness World Records. Confessions Tour received the "Most Creative Stage Production" at the Pollstar Concert Industry Awards as well as "Top Boxscore" from the Billboard Touring Awards.

 

 

Not her breaking Guinness records in every department

 

 

 

 

 

[Sylk 143,264]

the one where the artist sings  

[Melt Away 5,460]

TEOM rn because I'm going through a Mariah phase  COADF is flawless as well though and I feel bad for not picking it   wyd why make us choose between two flawless eras  

[SeekingThrill 10,041]

13 hours ago, Sylkmonster said:

the one where the artist sings  

I thought she whispered or whatever.

[Systemagic 5,459]

25 minutes ago, Nocturn said:

I thought she whispered or whatever.

[Madonna 46,062]

13 hours ago, Sylkmonster said:

the one where the artist sings  

I'm glad there are some non-delusional Moo stans.  

ANYWAY

The Liposuction of MooMoo may have been a success in the US but looking at a global scale that also includes the US Confessions on a Church Floor literally destroys it. COADF spawned two WW top 10 singles and the other two were both Top 30 WW. The album increased Madonna's popularity to the point where she could come out with Hard Candy and do well commercially. Everything that followed TEOM was a failure. Hard Candy, MDNA and RH still did much better WW than any of Moo's post-comeback stuff.

[Systemagic 5,459]

5 minutes ago, Salvatore said:

The Liposuction of MooMoo

[Sylk 143,264]

4 hours ago, Nocturn said:

I thought she whispered or whatever.

yes, she can even sing while whispering 

not everybody can do that.. 

[BJORK 7,462]

COADF

[Systemagic 5,459]

1 hour ago, Sylkmonster said:

yes, she can even sing while whispering 

not everybody can do that.. 

I love it when Moo sings low and then sings for the gods at the end of a song, like WBT and The Fart I'm Letting Go.

[Sylk 143,264]

6 minutes ago, Ceremonials said:

I love it when Moo sings low and then sings for the gods at the end of a song, like WBT and The Fart I'm Letting Go.

Ikr? Thats cause she can 

[Systemagic 5,459]

5 minutes ago, Sylkmonster said:

Ikr? Thats cause she can 

What's your point?

[Sylk 143,264]

3 minutes ago, Ceremonials said:

What's your point?

..I thought you were..trying to drag her..  

 

 

 

 

 

[Systemagic 5,459]

Just now, Sylkmonster said:

..I thought you were..trying to drag her..  

 

 

 

 

 

Not this time

[Jose 3,470]

COADF because talent always wins 

[Systemagic 5,459]

5 minutes ago, Jose said:

COADF because talent always wins 

Talent also gets better scores on Metacritic

COADF: 80

TEOM: 64

[Ultra Blue 551]

Purpose is the better comeback   

 

LOL JK It's Ray Of Light   

 

Well, actually. Madonna's flop was not as bad as MooMoo so i don't really consider COADF as a 'comeback' per se. I mean, even flops like Love Profusion still got heavy airplay on MTV while MooMoo barely had Through The Rain going on + The mental breakdown. So TEOM takes the crown.

[Tapestry 1,083]

I like the COADF album better, but TEOM is iconic too, and you will all deal. And I'd say TEOM was the better comeback and here's why.

While American Life was a flop album, the era wasn't nearly as embarassing and messy for her as Clitter had been for Mariah, and Cumbucket may have done better saleswise, but it still wasn't the massive comeback she needed, and the vocals just weren't there. TEOM started off slowly with only a top 20 hit with "It's Like That," but it was still her biggest hit since 2000, and even bigger than "Loverboy," despite charting lower. But it still debuted at #1 with her 2nd-biggest first-week sales to date, its second single went to #1 and was named Billboard's Song Of The Decade, its third single went to #2, blocked from #1 by her own damn #1 hit, the single from the re-release went to #1, it became her biggest-selling album since Butterfly, and won her the first Grammys of her career since winning two for her debut.

 

For Vadge, AL was a flop, but there was no messy breakdown, no embarassing flop movie (I mean, no one outside of her stanbase even remembers that Swept Away happened tbh. ) and her very next album was considered a commercial and artistic comeback.

 

ofc, I think Private Dancer by Tina Turner is the greatest musical comeback of all time, but that's another story, which I will tell in a spoiler tag.

 

Spoiler

 

Moo and Vadge didn't struggle for a decade playing on every damn TV show they could find after leaving their abusive husbands, releasing albums that didn't chart, and performing bad disco covers in hotels as an "old-time favorite." Tina did. In fact, in the early 80's, she was signed to Capitol Records, then dropped before recording anything because they didn't think she would give them any business, and one of the guys there had to beg them to re-sign her and give her a chance. They allowed her a single. Not even an album, just a single. She was over 40 by then and they didn't think anything would happen. So she recorded a synthpop cover of "Let's Stay Together" and it smashed in Europe, where she's always been bigger, and even reached top 20 in the US. They ordered an album, she recorded Private Dancer, "What's Love Got To Do With It" hit #1, the album pretty much outsold her entire albums discography with Ike, she won like four Grammys for it, including pop and rock categories, reinvented herself as a pop-rock-soul kween, became one of the first black artists to go into heavy rotation on MTV, and became a legend. Not bad for someone who'd spent a decade as a has-been, and did I mention that she was 45 years old when the album smashed?

Today she's in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, VH1 named her rock's 2nd greatest female artist, three of her songs are in the Grammy HOF, she's won eight Grammys, sold more concert tickets than any solo performer, #36 on VH1's Greatest Artists list, and a bunch of other things. Kinda makes COADF and TEOM pale in comparison.