Aspect of Madonna's career
Madonna fandom refers to the fan community of American singer-songwriter Madonna. She attained cult status amongst different audiences according to professor Sheila Jeffreys. Unlike other fandoms, her fan base does not have an official moniker, although "Madonna wannabe" became a popular media label to talk about her fans over years. The fanaticism surrounding the singer, and also called Madonnamania initiated no later than 1985. She produced consecutive successful singles in various major music markets, established numerous international records and impacted the fashion industry. Thousands of her female fans were dressing like Madonna around the world and the term "Madonna wannabe" was born. Author and scholar Lisa Lewis believes she is "one of the first women to attract the kind of devotion of young female fans normally associated with male rock stars".
Over the course of various decades, her fandom attracted diverse scholarly analyses, with her wannabes being the most studied audience at some point, flourished during the emerging of the fan studies. Her interaction with the audience has been also commented on, also as part of audience studies and media coverage. Before and after the solidification of Internet and social media, related Madonna-fan demonstrations, as well her fan clubs, fanzines, fansites, conventions and other fanatics demonstrations received significant media citations. A subject of diverse collections, Madonna topped the list "100 Most Collectable Divas" made by "Record Collector" in 2008. Her fandom set the world record of the biggest fan letter ever written. Madonna has also had a long list of obsessed fans and stalkers, many of whom she had personal encounters with and other of whom expressed a desire to kill her. American cult leader, David Koresh is an example. Some celebrities and other personalities, who identified publicly as her fans, were influenced by that feeling in their works, including Mexican painter Alberto Gironella, whose latest works were dedicated to or inspired by the singer.
Madonnamania.
Origins.
The Madonnamania (also typeset as Madonna mania or Madonna-mania) was documented in numerous parts of the world. Lucy O'Brien set its origin by 1985, describing in ' that the fanaticism around Madonna "spread from city to city" in the U.S. Internationally, "Teenager" stated in 1985, "Now Madonnamania has swept countries all over the world". In Europe, "Music &amp; Media" informed in September 1985, that the Madonnamania was spreading all over the continent. That year Argentine magazine ', commented the Madonnmania "exceeds the limits of what is humanly bearable". Andrew Morton stated that around these years, the singer "reached a natural constituency with her fan base among young women, gays and blacks". Conversely "El Siglo de Torreón" held in 1993 that the Madonnamania started in 1983.
Her first international tour, Who's That Girl World Tour continued the frenzy surrounding Madonna. Italian writer Francesco Falconi felt that with this tour, Madonna had a very precise goal: "To spread Madonnamania all over the Planet". In 1987, Russell Baker observed the case of United Kingdom where media reports from London documented that the arrival of Madonna and its Madonnamania, "agitated" her young fans so "severely". At this point, Nick Robertshaw from "Billboard" commented that the arrival of Madonna at London's Heathrow Airport was a "fan hysteria on a scale rarely seen since the days of the Osmonds". According to biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli there was a crowd of 25,000 hysterical fans who turned up to greet her at the airport in Japan. "The Sydney Morning Herald" informed the singer "set off a wave of hysteria among hundreds of thousands of fans". Madonna's performance debut, also influenced by her TV commercial for Mitsubishi, local newspapers labeled her reception as the "Madonna Fever", or "Madonna Fee-ba". In the 1990s, the term continued to be used by media, including for her 1993 tour Girlie Show due to her fatest-selling gigs in the UK and Australia, or during the releases of her 1991 documentary "", and her first book, "Sex" in 1992.
Madonna quickly achieved breaking-sales and consecutive successful singles in countries such as United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. She also impacted the fashion industry, as millions of her fans around the world were dressing like her and the term "Madonna wannabe" came out. In the following decades, she continued to breaking these kind of records and also sold-out numerous concerts.
Subsequent years.
In the following decades, the Madonnamania was also reported and revived in many parts of the world. Stephen Brown of Ulster University, felt that although Madonnamania "has slackened somewhat since the heady days of 1984, her staying power is as remarkable as her dramatic ascent". "El Mercurio" editor Sofía Maluenda in a 2018 article, argues that the Madonnamania "continues to be almost a religion".
After its first wave, in the 1980s, the most-well documented feeling of Madonnamania was perhaps when she lived in the United Kingdom with her then husband Guy Ritchie. It received press coverage by journalists like John Cassidy in 2000. According to American journalist Michael Musto: "the British are delighted that Madonna lives in London, where she is perceived as the new 'Princess Diana'". Cassidy also mentioned by some British, Madonna replaced Diana as "Fleet Street's favorite mother". Taraborrelli also explored UK's particular affection for Madonna. In 2005, British channel ITV Granada created the TV special "Madonna-mania".
During her concert tours, the Madonnamania usually resurrect either because she visited for the first time a country or city, or because she hadn't been there for a long-time. With regard to the latter, when she toured with the Sticky &amp; Sweet Tour after 17 years of absence in South America, promoter Arthur Fogel said that the continent was "over-the-top amazing for Madonna", so "it was Madonna-mania" ended. A similar situation occurred in 2012 with the MDNA Tour in Mexico. Also, for her debut performance in Russia (2006) or Colombia (2012).
Groups and nicknames.
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"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"
—Madonna during an interview with "NME" in December 1995.
While "Madonna wannabe" became a popular media label to talk about her fans, there is no a universal agreement or an official name for her fan community. In 2017, Pier Dominguez from "BuzzFeed News" suggested that her online fandom called themselves "Iconers" (derived from the Madonna official fan club: Icon). Some Spain's media outlets have called her fans as "Madders". However, Jason Richards from "The Atlantic" said that themselves just call in plain old "fans". In "Madonnaland" (2016), author Alina Simone wrote that her fans "aren't necessarily cuddly" and don't have a "cute name".
"Madonna wannabe" has been a nickname associated with her fandom, or part of her audience over years. According to Annalee Newitz in 1993, her "youth audience" was called during the 1980s, Madonna wannabes. In 2019, Stars Insider commented "this label isn't for her fan base as a whole, but rather for those fans that love her so much they try to be her". 
Demographics, levels and audience studies.
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Understanding Madonna's popularity also requires focus on audiences, not just as individuals but as members of specific groups
—As is cited by scholars Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez (1995).
In her early decades, Madonna received significant commentaries within audience studies reception and professor Sheila Jeffreys once concluded she gained cult status amongst different audiences. French academic Georges-Claude Guilbert described as an "essential aspect" that in her beginning, the composition of her public was mostly constituted by teenage girls, then, it gradually spread to a mass public. American social scientist and ethnographic researcher, James Lull, commented in 2000 that she appealed to a multiple fan base. Madonna's audience was later described as a diverse in terms of class, race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, while Lull further commented:
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Music critic Joey Guerra from "Houston Chronicle", referred to her different groupings and levels of fandom in 2007, identifying "five most common types", including what he called "The Madonna Complex" to a group of thinkers who are not necessarily interested in her music, but appreciate her impact on society. Associate professor Tracy L. Tuten of Longwood University has concurred saying that "we can think of groups of Madonna fans", concluding that "each cultural grouping might emphasize different elements of the commercial production of the entity known as Madonna". She further adds that on a wider level, "they all had a connection to Madonna, they would all be united in the Madonna fan culture on that similar level, and probably other ones as well". Authors of "The Italian 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Cultural, Scientific, and Political Figures, Past and Present" (1998) reported that "some fans become so obsessive about Madonna that they will endure hours in the rain or the cold just to get a glimpse of her".
One of her most important fan bases is the gay community, which a large portion have also embraced her as a gay icon. In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres in 2010, she told: "I wouldn't have a career if it weren't for the gay community". She also has had an important intellectual audience and academic fan base. Reviewing social media networks in 2009, AtData website estimated her fans were predominantly female.
Multimedia.
The first and only authorized fanzine by Madonna was reported to be "Like a Fanzine" (later called "Icon" after its third edition), founded in 1990. "MLC" (from her name Madonna Louise Ciccone), founded in 1987 became according to media reports, one of her best-covered fanzines. In her career, some other fanzines have been created, including "Dare Star" (previously "Madonna Magazine"), edited both in France and Spain, and also "Justify My Life". Her figure has seen fan fictions as well through Internet.
Inside The Groove – Madonna's Music, is believed to be the world's most listened to Madonna podcast according to "PinkNews" in 2023, with "Elle" magazine reporting 50,000 downloads by 2020. MLVC: The Madonna Podcast, broadcast on iHeartRadio and Apple Podcasts, achieved a nomination at the 2023 Queerties Awards. 
Visual media and other works.
"Material Pipol" a 2009 documentary made by official Chilean club, MadonnaChile was well-received and gained attention of national media publications, including a cover in "La Cuarta". Russian Oxana Nabokova presented in 2019 the documentary "Like a Prayer" in several U.S. cities and other European and Latin American cities, which focuses on five long-time Madonna fans, including Nabokova herself. "Mad for Madonna" (2015) is a film about her fan base.
In 1987, Argentine writer created the novel "Buscando a Madonna" (English: "Seeking Madonna"), based in the life of a Madonna fan named "Lucy" who wants to be like her. Since 1993, has starred in the theaters adaptation throughout Argentina and Spain, having various functions in 2002, 2013 and 2018.
Fan clubs and websites.
In "Representing Gender in Cultures" (2004), Elżbieta H. Oleksy and Joanna Rydzewska wrote that there is literally "hundreds of webpages and newsgroups devoted exclusively to Madonna". Some of them received both nominations at awards ceremonies and press coverage. A fansite called Madonnalicious.com created in 2001, received the BT Digital Music Awards in 2004, for the People's Choice Award in the best music website/unofficial site category. According to "El País" in 2009, DivinaMadonna.com garnered 20,000 unique hits daily. German designer Michael Michalsky once confessed be a reader of AllAboutMadonna.com. MadonnaTribe.com, an original bilingual Italian and English website created in 2003, was shortly after translated into French and Spanish due an increase of its international visitors according to Italian writer Francesco Falconi.
Clubs.
Madonna official fan club is Icon. Madonna's fan site has been recognized in some ceremonies, including at the 2016 Webby Awards for the General Website Celebrity/Fan category, and a nomination at the 2000 My VH1 Music Awards.
She has had different fan clubs around the world. Some were supported by her then record label, Warner Bros. Records, like