That time Madonna’s box office bomb spawned a #1 hit—which is still climbing charts 37 years later!
Madonna!That’s right, this past week, the Queen Of Pop had a surprise resurgence on the Billboard charts with her 1987 hit “Who’s That Girl.” The track already went to #1 back in the day, but now makes its debut at #9 in Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales, her eighth Top 10 on these specific charts.Is it really that surprising though?
We’re talking Madonna, here—her hits are timeless! And this song’s second life can likely be attributed to the fact, earlier this month, she revealed her self-directed biopic is back on with a new title: (you guessed it) Who’s That Girl.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.The funny thing is, there’s already a Madonna movie with that name, and it’s the very one that spawned the song “Who’s That Girl” to begin with.
Are you following the who’s who of “Who’s That Girl”? Let’s take a trip back in time to unpack the track’s legacy…By the mid-’80s, Madonna was already a bona fide music superstar, cemented by her second studio album Like A Virgin becoming a smash hit in 1984.
Never shy about her silver-screen dreams, she parlayed that success to land her first proper leading film role in the 1985 comedy Desperately Seeking Susan, which effectively solidified her as the It Girl of her generation.However, her follow-up flick, 1986’s ambitious adventure romance Shanghai Surprise, struggled to connect with audiences in the same way.
