Rebel Heart is the thirteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna, released by Interscope Records on March 6,2015.
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31 Facts About Rebel Heart
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Rebel Heart worked on the album throughout 2014, co-writing and co-producing it with various musicians, including Diplo, Avicii and Kanye West.
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Thematically, Rebel Heart represents the singer's romantic and rebellious sides; the ideas grew organically during the writing and recording sessions.
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Rebel Heart received predominantly positive reviews from music critics; multiple reviewers called it Madonna's best effort in a decade.
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Rebel Heart is committed to the initiative and must use her voice as an artist.
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Rebel Heart observed that many of the people she enlisted to work on the album could not stay in one city for any length of time due to their schedules.
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Rebel Heart recalled that eleven demos with acoustic guitars and piano were recorded within a week at Henson Recording Studios in Hollywood.
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Rebel Heart worked closely with both teams while writing and changing melodies, and was in charge of the process.
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Rebel Heart showed me a whole other level of dedication and old school work ethic when it comes to writing.
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Rebel Heart had invited him for her annual Oscar party, but he could not attend.
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Rebel Heart believed that the tracks should stand on their own, so that one could sing them accompanied by just a guitar.
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Rebel Heart called it an "eclectic record" citing the merging of an array of musical genres like 1990s house, trap, and reggae along with the use of acoustic guitars.
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Rebel Heart found Rebel Heart to be an improvement over the generic dance tunes on MDNA.
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However, with the songs from Rebel Heart, she was able to create potentially successful singles, despite the tracks' different styles, thereby maintaining consistency on the record.
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Rebel Heart decided to research the real Illuminati and then wrote the song.
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Deluxe version of Rebel Heart continues with the track "Best Night", an '80s electro composition reminiscent of Sade's songs with drums and Indian flute instrumentation.
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The final track list for Rebel Heart was revealed on January 20,2015, including the standard and deluxe version song names.
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Rebel Heart performed the song at the 2015 Brit Awards, on February 25,2015.
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Rebel Heart performed an edited version of "Living for Love", as well as "Ghosttown" for the first time.
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Rebel Heart performed "Devil Pray" and "Ghosttown" while talking with host Fabio Fazio about a number of topics including the album's development process.
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The Rebel Heart Tour kicked off on September 9,2015, and visited North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania.
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For Gill, the most impressive aspect of Rebel Heart was Madonna's vocals, while Erlewine found the album a revival of Madonna's defiant side and her confessional mood.
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Lindsay Zoladz of New York magazine was disappointed, feeling the songs sounded "safe", adding that: "Madonna of Rebel Heart [has] succeeded in the increasingly empty goal of sounding current".
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Rebel Heart debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart with 121,000 album equivalent units, behind the soundtrack of the TV series Empire, which sold 9,000 units more.
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In Canada, Rebel Heart debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart.
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Rebel Heart debuted at the top of the German Albums Chart, becoming her twelfth chart-topping record there.
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Rebel Heart equaled Herbert Gronemeyer for third place overall, behind only Peter Maffay and James Last with 16 and 13 chart-toppers respectively.
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Rebel Heart debuted at number one on record charts in: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland, as well as in the top ten in the rest of Europe.
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Rebel Heart became Madonna's 19th week atop the chart, ranking her at number 24 on the list of artists with most accumulated weeks at the top.
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In Japan, Rebel Heart debuted at number eight on the Oricon Albums Chart with first-week sales of 7,548 physical units, becoming her record-extending 23rd top-ten album there.
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Rebel Heart ended 2015 as the 39th best-selling album of the year with sales of 900,000 copies.
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