After that happened, Madonna had been certified quadruple-platinum with sales 4.4 million units in the US and 3.3 million units internationally. In 1984, she broke the box office record at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, with the fastest sellout of any concert ever - 17,622 tickets sold out in 34 minutes. The entire tour, promoting her album Like a Virgin and covering 27 cities throughout the US, sold out in just two hours. .
Madonna has successfully merged her pop sensibilities with experimental electronica. She earned a respect as an artist when she produced a brand new sound - hybrid dance-pop. However, some detractor still insists that her musical collaborators direct Madonna's creative output. "Not so", defends William Orbit, her album producer in Ray Of Light released in 1998. "I didn't reinvent her at all. She's much, much more of a self-directed person than that. It was more that she produced me producing her. She turns me on to far more stuff than I do her." .
DJ/ Producer Brian Transeau, (a.k.a. BT) co-collaborator with Sasha on the Drowned World/Substitute For Love remixes, credits Madonna for bringing dance music to the attention of an electronica-starved American audience. "Madonna's great as in America she's really created an awareness to dance music." Madonna's influence on the dance music scene cannot be denied, with a staggering 28 Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play No.1's, making her the most successful dance artist on the US Billboard charts.
Let's have a brief review of the other records she holds: according to Guinness World Records, Madonna is the Most Successful Female Solo Artist. Selling 140 million albums as of November 2000. The sales are still growing as she is still releasing new albums. (Nevertheless, they no longer have the Most Successful Female/ Male artist category on the Guinness starting from 2002. This is because 'Successful' is subjective and there come complains from Mariah Carey and Celine Dions's managements.
