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Madonna 125m album sales. This is totally below any reported sales. Therefore your assumption and reasoning is also incorrect.
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On geneology.com it lists her french canadian lineage. she is celine dion's cousin. it would be useful to add it to a trivia section and a section for any cultural impact she has made, with references of course. but her page does need to be shortened. why not have just a list of names of past
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Stop putting the singles sales??? But why are you putting the figures of her "unverifiable 75 million singles sales" in the intro??? 75 million looks like a small figure... Stop claiming your a
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Forgive me, but all the music video images on the page appear to be nothing more than decoration, and I propose they all be removed from this page accordingly. They do not substantially contribute to the article.
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STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP putting her singles sales, tour grosses, soundtrack songs into the intro. It it not necessary and does NOT make the intro look better - it makes it look worse.
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How come are only 5 pictures with Madonna?.Don't you think that a photo from Blond Ambition Tour,and a screen shot from Like a virgin;Frozen or Hung up videos should be added?Thank you!
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Leave it be. I reverted it. It was FINE AS WAS - it does NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT need any extra stuffing, or talk about singles sales, or ANYTHING. LEAVE THE INTRO ALONE NOW PLEASE!!
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