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Madonna 'devastated and sickened' by leak, says manager

Madonna's manager has opened up about the pain felt by the singer after her new songs leaked online.

The US star was left "sickened" recently when a number of new unfinished demos found their way onto the internet.

This prompted the singer to release a series of completed tracks on iTunes and bring forward the release of new album 'Rebel Heart' to March 10.

Speaking to Billboard, Madonna's manager Guy Oseary said that the Queen of Pop was particularly distraught that unfinished tunes were leaked.

He said in an interview on December 23: "I mean look, our music was stolen. And now it's an ongoing investigation, so we're taking it very, very seriously.

"Two songs came out a few weeks ago, and we were able to contain it. We did what we could to contain it. It's hard to contain a leak online. And then it was Tuesday, last Tuesday - it feels like a year ago - but it was last Tuesday when I started seeing messages going a lot of the songs are leaking. [We were] trying to pull down as many leaks as we could, and then it got to Wednesday morning it was just unstoppable.

"It was all out there. You could not seal this leak. So, Madonna was pretty adamant that we should go immediately, that we should put out as much of the finished music as we could. And there was a lot of talk about the many reasons why it didn't make sense – there was just a lot of chatter of having to hurry and all of the many, many reasons why it made no sense.

"But she was adamant that she didn't want people to think those were the finished tracks. And she was devastated - I mean, devastated and sickened that someone would do this to her and not allow her the chance to share the finished product with people.

"We were thinking about going with 'Living For Love', as you saw, as a Valentine's Day song, and the album at the end of April. We're talking all of April, so that's four-and-a-half months early. You always hear about one week early, two weeks early... but this is crazy. So, [Interscope vice chairman] Steve Berman was really helpful, and he also knew all the many reasons why it may not make sense to do it. But he supported Madonna to do it and rallied all the troops together to pull this off. And then Robert Kondrk at Apple really helped us push this through."

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Listen to one of Madonna's new songs below: