She has additionally notched up extra hits than The Beatles, popularised the Gaultier cone bra and damaged the taboo round older ladies's sexuality.

In the method, Madonna, now 64, has cheesed off everybody from Pope John Paul II to Camille Paglia by way of US Superbowl bosses.

But, as this new rainbow-vinyl remix model of her career-spanning 6xLP assortment Finally Enough Love: Fifty Number Ones reminds us, the music is what actually counts.

It kicks off with the early trinity of corkers - 1983's Holiday and 1984's Like A Virgin and Material Girl.

Then comes the You Can Dance remix of 1985's Into The Groove, the primary of dozens of reworkings by world-class producers together with Honey Dijon, Shep Pettibone and Avicii, all remastered by Madame X producer Mike Dean.

The compilation packs in additional than 220 minutes of membership chart-topping dance, with visitor appearances from Britney (Me Against The Music), Nicki Minaj (Bitch I'm Madonna) and Justin Timberlake and Timbaland (4 Minutes).

We get the infectious "Miami remix" of Don't Cry For Me

Argentina and a gloriously carefree social gathering rock rejig of 2012's Give Me All Your Luvin' (that includes LMFAO and Nicki Minaj).

Madge's first single, 1982's Everybody (not included, it solely reached No3), demonstrated a devotion to disco and dance that by no means pale.

1990's multi-platinum Vogue borrowed from Raw Silk's Do It To The Music and Salsoul Orchestra's Ooh I Love It.

2005's world chart-topper Hung Up included an Abba riff (with their approval).

In the 90s, she made electronica mainstream with spellbinding hit Frozen.

This boxset is not low-cost (£128.99) but it surely reveals why Michigan-born Madonna is comfortably the biggest-selling feminine artist of all time.

The Queen of Pop has proved invulnerable to all the pieces besides possibly movie critics.