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- Madonna fandom refers to the fan community of American singer-songwriter Madonna. She appeals and encompasses to different audiences, thus her fandom is composed by different types of level-interested person, and for which she gained a cult status amongst different audiences according to professor Sheila Jeffreys. Unlike others fandoms, her fan base does not have an official moniker, although "Madonna wannabe" became a popular media label to talk about her fans. The fanaticism surrounding the singer, and also called Madonnamania initiated no later than 1985. She produced various consecutive successful singles in various major music markets, established numerous international records and impacted the fashion industry. Millions of her female fans were dressing like Madonna around the world and the term "Madonna wannabe" was born. Her fandom attracted various scholarly analysis since she burst on the scene, with her wannabes being the most studied audience at some point. Her interaction with the audience has been also commented. Professor Lisa Lewis denoted that she is "one of the first women to attract the kind of devotion of young female fans normally associated with male rock stars". While scholars Peggy Phelan and Lynda Hart praised than more than any other star before, she "provoked immense pleasure in her fans by courting their identities as a component of her own". It was also noted that with Truth or Dare, Madonna pioneered an open relationship with her fans. Diverse of her fan clubs, fanzines, fansite, conventions and other fanatics demonstrations have been covered in the press. Bitch She's Madonna (2018) authors commented that these contests "are one more expression of the impact of the artist". Also, her fandom set the world record of the biggest fan letter ever written. A subject of diverse collections, Madonna topped the list "100 Most Collectable Divas" made by Record Collector in 2008. Various of her fans achieved fame for being a "Madonna fan". On point with this, John Hand from BBC commented "it's becoming increasingly common for Madonna fans to achieve mini-celebrity status themselves". Examples include author Matthew Rettenmund, which Billboard tagged as a "Madonna expert" and impersonators like Venus D-Lite, dubbed by media outlets like MTV and VH1, "the number one Madonna impersonator". Madonna has also a list of obsessed fans and stalkers, with various of them she had personal encounters and many also manifested want to kill her. American cult leader, David Koresh is an example of this latter group. Celebrities and other personalities, whom identified publicly as her fans, were influenced by this feelings in their work, like Mexican painter Alberto Gironella, which was obsessed with Madonna and dedicated his latests work to her. (en)
- El fandom de Madonna hace referencia a su comunidad internacional de fanáticos. Es un término genérico-informal, que ha sido usado por varios medios y en investigaciones académicas (varias son encuadrables dentro de los Madonna Studies). Distintos medios en español han llamado a sus seguidores «Madders», aunque hay otras etiquetas que dependen a la vez de la fuente e idioma que se use. Para distintos expertos, su fandom se diversifica en varios grupos categóricos, como las «Madonna wannabes» y el colectivo LGBT. Sumado a esto, diversos sociólogos y otros científicos sociales han estudiado a Madonna y por implicación a su fanaticada, así como la interacción que existe entre ella y sus seguidores. Los fanáticos de Madonna se cuentan por millones en todo el mundo. El etnógrafo estadounidense comentó que distintas personas de todas las edades, razas, orientación sexual, con diferentes niveles de educación, y ya sea del primer o segundo mundo la siguen desde el inicio de su carrera. Su fandom como cualquier otra comunidad, interactúan en la red informática a través de diversos medios de comunicación como las páginas webs, fanzines, podcasts y club de fanes, y en otras manifestaciones como los fan arts, fan films, y fanfictions. Desde los años de 1980, se han llevado a cabo distintos eventos como convenciones de admiradores, entre los que destacan los «Madonnathons». En particular, distintos fanáticos de Madonna han alcanzado la fama, principalmente sus imitadores profesionales. En el lado negativo, hay varios que lo hicieron por algún patrón patológico, como los stalkers y también se pueden incluir los hackers. Existen también incontables ejemplos de famosos y celebridades declarando ser un fanático de ella. Finalmente, hay varios récord mundiales impuestos por sus seguidores, como la carta más larga jamás escrita por admiradores y la fiesta de pijama más grande del mundo, cuando Madonna convocó a 1 500 de sus fanáticos en el «Madonna's Pajama Party» con el fin de promocionar su videoclip «Bedtime Story». (es)
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- Many different kinds of people[,] appreciate Madonna for many different reasons. Madonna has zealous fans who are young and old, straight and gay, educated and unschooled, First and Third World, black, white, brown, and yellow, and of every sexual preference, demografic category, and lifestyle imaginable. People who differ from one another in every way can all still find something relevant in Madonna's multidimensional, multimediated public imagery. (en)
- "I've gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I've always had a core of fans who've stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others" (en)
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- El fandom de Madonna hace referencia a su comunidad internacional de fanáticos. Es un término genérico-informal, que ha sido usado por varios medios y en investigaciones académicas (varias son encuadrables dentro de los Madonna Studies). Distintos medios en español han llamado a sus seguidores «Madders», aunque hay otras etiquetas que dependen a la vez de la fuente e idioma que se use. (es)
- Madonna fandom refers to the fan community of American singer-songwriter Madonna. She appeals and encompasses to different audiences, thus her fandom is composed by different types of level-interested person, and for which she gained a cult status amongst different audiences according to professor Sheila Jeffreys. Unlike others fandoms, her fan base does not have an official moniker, although "Madonna wannabe" became a popular media label to talk about her fans. The fanaticism surrounding the singer, and also called Madonnamania initiated no later than 1985. She produced various consecutive successful singles in various major music markets, established numerous international records and impacted the fashion industry. Millions of her female fans were dressing like Madonna around the world a (en)
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