The Best Madonna Singles of All Time (with Joan Summers & Annie Zaleski)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Madonna Singles Draft! Louie and Russ are joined by Paper's Joan Summer and music journalist Annie Zaleski to join forces and pick the Top 20 Madonna Singles of All Time, draft style.
Listen to a Spotify playlist of our Top 20 Madonna Singles of All Time
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:17.3 | This is your host, DJ Louis X. |
| 0:19.5 | Reminding you to please rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening to it now. Follow us on social at Pop Pantheon. This is your host, DJ Louis X 14th. Reminding you to please rate, review, |
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| 0:37.9 | podcast app. And lastly, my queer pop party gorgeous, gorgeous, has its first installment of |
| 0:43.3 | 26 on January 31st at the Sultan Room and Bushwick. You can buy tickets to that in the show |
| 0:49.7 | notes of this episode. All right, I am here for something I have been eagerly anticipating since |
| 0:55.5 | Russ and I came up with it late last year. This is a new format we're trying on the show. |
| 1:00.4 | It is a bit of a gamified version of a singles ranking. And to introduce the concept I'm going |
| 1:07.0 | to throw to producer Russ Martin. And Russ will also introduce our fabulous panel of |
| 1:12.1 | guests that we have to take on this gargantuan and slightly terrifying task that we're all going |
| 1:16.7 | to collaborate on right now. |
| 1:18.0 | Hi, Louie. |
| 1:19.3 | It is a new year, and we are on the precipice of a new Madonna era. |
| 1:24.4 | Madonna has returned to the label that was her home for the first 25 years of her career, |
| 1:30.4 | Warner, and she is doing a sequel to Confessions on a Dance Floor, obviously a very important |
| 1:36.8 | record. You and I have complicated feelings about the idea of her doing a sequel, but nonetheless, we are excited to be talking about |
| 1:47.8 | Madonna once again. And as you mentioned, we are trying something new. This is a gamified |
| 1:53.7 | edition of the Madonna singles ranking. We are calling it the Pop Pantheon 2026 Madonna singles draft. |
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