Madonna comes again to Europe in July 1998 to film the video-clip for her third single from Ray Of Light, Drowned World. As soon as the story-line of the video is known, all the papers attack Madonna for selling-out Princess Diana's death because the video contains scenes of Madonna being pursued by paparazzis. She's in all the newspapers.
Madonna is nominated a total of nine awards at the Annual MTV Video Music Awards. She performs as opening-act a special version of Shanti/Ashtangi and Ray Of Light and takes six awards out of nine nominations home.
Madonna comes again to Europe for a Promotional Tour, this time because of her new single The Power Of Good-Bye. She also performs at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Milan / Italy where she's nominated for three awards. She wins two [including Best Album]
It's Madonna's night at the Grammy's 1999 in February: She performs a great opening-number of Nothing Really Matters in her famous Geisha-outfit and wins four awards [including Best Pop Album] out of six nominations.
She meets Ricky Martin at the Grammy's and she decides later to record a duet with him for his first English-spoken album called Ricky Martin.
Madonna records a song called Beautiful Stranger for the the movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. It is written and co-produced by William Orbit. The song becomes one of Madonna's biggest hits ever - it is the most played song on radio ever in England!
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