The 1990s singles show Madonna at her most cinematic, provocative and shape-shifting. Across the decade, she moved from the sleek glamour of Vogue and the confessional sensuality of Justify My Love into the controversy and theatre of Erotica, the softer introspection of Bedtime Stories, the grand emotional sweep of Evita, and the spiritual-electronic rebirth of Ray of Light. These singles do not simply mark commercial releases; they trace a decade of reinvention, risk and refinement, where Madonna turned pop into a sequence of fully realised worlds.

justify my love

rescue me

erotica

deeper and deeper

bad girl

fever

rain

bye bye baby

secret

take a bow

betime story

human nature

frozen

ray of light

drowned world/substitute for love

the power of goodbye

nothing really matters