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Madonna has surpassed The Beatles as the most-played artist of the past decade in her adopted country of the United Kingdom.

The results were based on airplay and shows in the UK from 2000 - 2009 (the same amount of time she was married to Brit director Guy Ritchie).

The Beatles came in second on the list, with Robbie Williams in third.

Madonna is currently in Malawi with Lourdes and her two Malawian adopted children, who will be briefly reunited with their birth families on the trip. Today, Madonna laid the first brick in a $15 million dollar school for girls that she's helping to build in the impoverished country.