‘Like A Prayer’ is called BBC Radio 2 listeners’ favorite Madonna tune

Madonna‘s ‘Like A Prayer’ has been voted by BBC Radio 2 listeners as their favorite Madonna tune.

The pop icon’s 1989 hit monitor earned the Quantity One spot in Your Final Madonna Track – the High 40 chart of single releases by Madonna Louise Ciccone as voted for by listeners. The vote was launched final month in The Zoe Ball Breakfast Present and closed on December 8.

Listeners had been requested to decide on as much as 5 of their favorite Madonna tracks from her 61 High Ten UK hits. In Your Final Madonna Track, Scott Mills counted down the listeners’ High 40 chart together with revealing information, stats and behind the scenes insights from BBC Archive interview clips with Madonna herself. Try the total prime 40 listing under.

The High 40 favorite Madonna singles as voted for by Radio 2 listeners are:

1. ‘Like A Prayer’
2. ‘Vogue’
3. ‘Into The Groove’ 
4. ‘Papa Don’t Preach’
5. ‘Like A Virgin’
6. ‘Borderline’
7. ‘Loopy For You’ 
8. ‘Ray Of Gentle’
9. ‘Vacation’
10. ‘Materials Woman’
11. ‘La Isla Bonita’
12. ‘Hung Up’
13. ‘Dwell To Inform’
14. ‘Frozen’ 
15. ‘True Blue’
16. ‘Stunning Stranger’
17. ‘Categorical Your self’
18. ‘Cherish’
19. ‘Open Your Coronary heart’
20. ‘Expensive Jessie’
21. ‘Music’
22. ‘This Used To Be My Playground’
23. ‘Justify My Love’
24. ‘Gown You Up’
25. ‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina’
26. ‘Deeper and Deeper’
27. ‘Who’s That Woman’
28. ‘Don’t Inform Me’
29. ‘The Energy Of Good-Bye’
30. ‘American Pie’
31. ‘You’ll See’
32. ‘Rain’
33. ‘4 Minutes (feat. Justin Timberlake)’
34. ‘Erotica’
35. ‘Hanky Panky’
36. ‘Sorry’
37. ‘Nothing Actually Issues’
38. ‘Drowned World (Substitute For Love)’
39. ‘Die One other Day’
40. ‘What It Feels Like For A Woman’

Madonna can be celebrated on BBC Radio 2 on New 12 months’s Day with the three hour present, Your Final Madonna Track hosted by Mills (2-5pm) alongside Michelle Visage: My Queen – Madonna (5-6pm) and Madonna on the BBC (6-7pm). All the programmes we made accessible solely on BBC Sounds yesterday (December 26).

Talking of prime Madonna tune voted in by Radio 2 listeners, Mills mentioned (by way of Music News): “’Like A Prayer’ is an outstanding monitor the Radio 2 listeners have voted to prime the chart in Your Final Madonna Track, so please be a part of me to have a good time the icon that’s Madonna on Radio 2 on New 12 months’s Day and proper now on BBC Sounds!”

Jeff Smith, Radio 2’s Head of Music, added: “Madonna has been inspiring fellow artists musically, artistically and creatively for 40 years, so I’m delighted that Radio 2 listeners forged tens of hundreds of votes for his or her favorite songs which will be loved on New 12 months’s Day… or on BBC Sounds on Boxing Day if Madonna followers can’t wait that lengthy!”

In different information, through the singer’s newest present as a part of her large ‘Celebration’ biggest hits tour, Santa Claus took a tumble on stage whereas receiving a lap dance from one in every of pop icon’s dancers.

A Saint Nick impersonator took to the stage to be the evening’s visitor choose for the dancers’ efficiency of ‘Vogue’ at Madonna’s present in in Washington, DC on December 19.

In a five-star evaluate of the opening of the ‘Celebration’ tour again in October, NME wrote: “The entire thing is an exhilarating reminder that Madonna isn’t only a pop star, but in addition a cultural pressure who genuinely modified the world by chafing towards what society expects from ladies within the public eye. That’s one thing value celebrating within the dazzling, dynamic and at instances barely discombobulating method she presents it right here. Actually, you wouldn’t have her some other method.”

The singer is strongly rumoured to be headlining Glastonbury 2024 after pageant boss Emily Eavis posted on social media from the opening of the ‘Celebration’ tour earlier this yr. Different rumoured headliners embody Coldplay, Foo Fighters and Dua Lipa, whereas Eavis revealed again in March that Glastonbury had booked one in every of two deliberate feminine headliners. 

The US leg of the tour extends into April 2024 earlier than a handful of exhibits in Mexico Metropolis. Visit here for tickets and extra info.