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Madness is een Britse band die ska met pop vermengt. Hun succesperiode ligt in de jaren tachtig. Sinds 1979 heeft de band ruim 30 singles en 16 albums uitgebracht. De groep is nog steeds actief.

Madness en UB40 hebben in de jaren '80 beide exact 214 weken in de Britse top 40 doorgebracht en delen hiermee het record voor het doorbrengen van de meeste weken in de Britse top 40 in de jaren '80. Madness deed dit echter in een kortere periode (1980-1986).

Madness are an English ska and pop band from Camden Town, north west London, who formed in 1976. One of the most prominent bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s two-tone ska revival, they continue to perform with six of the seven members of their original line-up. Madness's most successful period was from 1980 to 1986, when the band's songs spent a total of 214 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, holding the record along with English reggae group UB40 for most weeks spent by a group in the UK singles chart during the 1980s.

Madness have had 16 singles reach the UK top ten, including "One Step Beyond", "Baggy Trousers" and "It Must Be Love", one UK number-one single "House of Fun" and two number ones in Ireland, "House of Fun" and "Wings of a Dove". "Our House" was their biggest US hit, reaching number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2000, the band received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for Outstanding Song Collection.