5.16.03 Total Digital Download Sales
Thanks to all the fans for supporting Madonna...a total of 8,132 downloads have been purchased so far!

4.23.03 Winner's Rejoice Program
Some people have all the dumb luck. Winners have just been picked for the Madonna Project Contest! Fifty people who bought the digital single won posters and ten won signed "American Life" CDs. An email was sent out to all the winners. Congrats.

4.9.03 Madonna Buyer's Rejoice Program
The Madonna Project has just launched the Madonna Buyer's Rejoice program. All of you who purchased the digital single should've received an email with a special downloadable poster of the "American Life" single lyrics. Enjoy.

We'll continue to send out more special rewards, so be sure to buy & download the digital single of "American Life."

4.2.03 'American Life' stays in the top 10 on Soundscan - #6
And they said it couldn't be done. The 'American Life' Digital Single had another record week. That means 2,502 Madonna fans are a whole lot happier now than they were before. Thanks.

3.31.03 Entertainment Weekly news piece
See how Madonna made music history. She's the first artist ever to make the singles chart strictly with Internet sales by Brian Hiatt

A top-10 debut for a new Madonna single wouldn't usually be surprising. But by landing at No. 4 on Billboard's singles sales chart this week, the eponymous first single from her April 22 "American Life" album has made history: It's the first song ever to chart based on Internet sales alone. Starting last week, the song was available as a digital download for $1.50 on Madonna.com and participating fansites, as well as on online subscription services like Rhapsody. No physical copy was released of the song, which continues in the techno-fied dance-pop vein of her last album, 2000's "Music." It also includes Madonna's first attempt at rapping (unless you count "Vogue"): "I do yoga and Pilates/ And the room is full of hotties," she rhymes.

"The reason we made the single available was to offer an easy and efficient alternative to illegal downloading," Madonna's manager, Caresse Henry, said in a statement released to EW.com. "We are happy it has been so successful and this will hopefully inspire other artists to do the same." Despite its high chart position, however, the song only sold about 4,000 copies -- a sign of the weak market for singles (the No. 1 seller, Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow's "Picture," cleared about 15,000 copies). At $1.50 a pop, the experiment grossed about $6,000 -- certainly not the kind of cash that could sustain Madonna's American (or British) lifestyle.

copyright 2003 Entertainment Weekly

3.31.03 AFFILIATE SITE OF THE WEEK
OSCARTHEMONKEY.COM
Changing the world, one Madonna single at a time.

3.28.03 Madonna Says Thanks
As a thank you to the fans, we've started a special drawing for everybody who buys the Digital Single before April 22nd (when the album comes out). Ten of you will win an autographed copy of the "American Life" Limited Edition CD. Fifty more get a hot poster. We'll put the winners up on madonna.com on April 22nd.
Good luck!

3.27.03 #4 Debut
Madonna has the hardest working fans. They're so cool. And dedicated. Proof? Because of them the digital single has debuted at #4 on Billboard with 4177 sold. That has to be some sort of record.

3.26.03 RESULTS ARE IN!
Sent the song to radio on Monday. Response was amazing. We sold 1,000 Digital Singles the first day. Smashing.

Top 10 Affiliates
1 musicmatch.com
2 madonnarama.com
3 absolutemadonna.com
4 madonnainter.net
5 maverick.com
6 madonnasworld.com
7 madonnapower.com
8 drownedmadonna.com
9 gioiabruno.com
10 Medazzaland Discs

NOTE: updated april 11, 2003

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