If it's going to end up on P2P networks in another eight days, and everybody knows it and expects it, why not leak the new Madonna album and get an article headline while you're at it? Fox's Roger Friedman reported yesterday that Madonna's upcoming Confessions on a Dancefloor, supposedly a high security album, had somehow been leaked to P2P. ("Copies aren't even available at the record company's offices yet," he wrote.) Gee...I wonder how that happened.

No, I'm not buying the theory that bands, managers and labels don't leak albums themselves. Heck, MTV's online album preview section is called The Leak. Leaking is everywhere. The whole event not only gets Madonna's music heard by millions but gets her more media ink. Not that Madge ever had a problem getting column inches, but every little helps.

Also of note from the article is a potential licensing battle. The song "Sorry" has a sample from The Jackson's "Can You Feel It." According to Friedman, a rep for co-writer Jackie Jackson said "no one's asked for a sample license so far."