Madonna has scored 12 number one hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart in what is now more than three decades of appearing there. Interestingly, though, one of her most well-known singles — in fact, a song so well known it has provided her with one of her most prominent nicknames — did not reach number one. Exactly 30 years ago, Madonna’s “Material Girl” climbed into the number 2 slot, where it would peak for two weeks.
Madonna’s “Material Girl” is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.