Madonna :: Charts & Sales History

[UnapologeticKenny]

Monthly Listeners on Spotify

05/05 - 24,619,912 (-27,392) - #176 (=)

06/05 - 24,604,936 (-14,976) - #176 (=)

[BritneyMadonnastan]

Sales Plus Streaming updates:
(Song, Oct 2021 figure, April 2023 figure)

Erotica 133,000 - 148,000 - certified Gold

Deeper and Deeper 100,000 - 115,000

DAD's physical sales was 265,000 in the 1990s.

265k + 115k = 380,000 - not enough for Gold

It will never reach unfortunately. But a picture disc could help

[Forreal]

Who knows what would’ve happened, if DAD was released as 1st single….

[thebigham]

Sales Plus Streaming updates:
(Song, Oct 2021 figure, April 2023 figure)

Erotica 133,000 - 148,000 - certified Gold

Deeper and Deeper 100,000 - 115,000

DAD's physical sales was 265,000 in the 1990s.

265k + 115k = 380,000 - not enough for Gold

[BritneyMadonnastan]

I wonder if True Blue ever surpassed the 10M pure mark in Europe, as it was #1 for 34 WOC no one ever broke it

[MadNuno]

"True Blue" album is at #21 now in Italy iTunes Charts! (yeah, I know, probably means half a dozen units sold).

We all know this is the best selling album by an International Artist in Italy with over 1.5 million copies since the 80's!

I wonder what are this album updated sales in Italy - they should really say something about it someday.

I mean... last numbers we have are from early 1988 (35 years ago) and a remaster CD was even released in 2001 (plus digital album sales from 2007-2017 were not as low as are now).

[floridagrl]

3.61 mil streams yesterday on Spotify

Pre-digital era female artists on Spotify (May 5)

1. @shakira 17.71M
2. Beyonce 10.33M
3. @Sia 7.52M
4. @Pink 6.69M
5. @shreyaghoshal 6.25M
6. BritneySpears 5.11M
7. @thealkayagnik 4.35M
8. @MariahCarey 3.69M
9. @Madonna 3.61M
10. @aliciakeys 3.39M
11. #WhitneyHouston 3.25M

they're back at 8 & 9. What happened to avril?

[Lookingfornews81]

She performed it live at the BRITs Awards in 1995!

I agree that Bedtime Stories overall deserves more streams but the album improved a lot in the past few years. With rnb being as successful as ever, the album still sounds quite fresh and I guess more people discovered it that way.

I hope they release the I'd Rather Be Your Lover version with 2Pac one day. That would be quite something and would make some headlines/bring cute numbers to the album!

yes, that's true, there is that. but a proper live version of the album version is overdue... the unrelease tracks maybe in 2024, 30th anniversary :-)

[Fajitas]

And bedtime story in my opinion. My fab track of the album... over in my Madonna top 10... inwishnincould hear it live... so far just a video interlude

She performed it live at the BRITs Awards in 1995!

I agree that Bedtime Stories overall deserves more streams but the album improved a lot in the past few years. With rnb being as successful as ever, the album still sounds quite fresh and I guess more people discovered it that way.

I hope they release the I'd Rather Be Your Lover version with 2Pac one day. That would be quite something and would make some headlines/bring cute numbers to the album!

[BritneyMadonnastan]

What was the last known numbers for true blue ?

[Lookingfornews81]

True! But they also released the new Doubly Atmos version that is on Apple Music first page.

They could do the same with all the album that need re-cert

[Lookingfornews81]

I m streaming the hell out of it

“Secret” would deserve more recognition and playlist support .

And bedtime story in my opinion. My fab track of the album... over in my Madonna top 10... inwishnincould hear it live... so far just a video interlude

[Lookingfornews81]

I see hard the possibility for TB to get Diamond…. But how amazing it would be….

Terrific... a dream come true to me
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[Forreal]

I see hard the possibility for TB to get Diamond…. But how amazing it would be….

[MadNuno]

1989 at 11.8M units and midnights will reach in 2027/2028.

Unfortunately RIAA won’t change their rules back. As true blue sold 2.5M singles it would of gave TB another 1M album Units but who knows

"Midnights" will only get to that number if the numbers would stay the same. If they go down after a new album release it will take much longer.
The numbers are high now because the album was released 6 months ago and she is on tour.

As for "True Blue" getting to Diamond soon it will all depend on how Warner can make a new Remaster appealing to more people.

[BritneyMadonnastan]

Very unlikely that Taylor will get Diamond albums from 3 different decades before 2040 or even 2050...

Not sure if RIAA count her re-recording in US as SAME albums or as different albums like Billboard does (no re-recording is certified yet).

Taylor best selling albums from the 2020's are still only 2xPlatinum ("Folklore" and "Midnight") and despite her new album is doing good and will certainly be certified 4xPlatinum before the year ends not sure if it will go much more than 5 or 6xPlatinum until the decade ends (looking at her trajectory this looks like her comercial ROL album in US comparing to Madonna career).

She have 1 Diamond album "Fearless" from 2008 so far and "1989" is close to give her another Diamond as it was certified 9xPlatinum in 2018.

"Red" and "Taylor Swift" are 7xPlatinum while "Speak Now" is 6xPlatinum but they are from 00's and 10's decades as well - the only ones that have a real chance to get certified Diamond one day.

Sure her 2020's career isn't over and she may pull out a star selling album but I kind of doubt that.

Madonna have almost no chances from having another Diamond album from a 3rd different decade (00's, 10's or 20's) before this century ends but never say never.

Her only album that have a real chance getting Diamond in a few years/decades is "True Blue".

1989 at 11.8M units and midnights will reach in 2027/2028.

Unfortunately RIAA won’t change their rules back. As true blue sold 2.5M singles it would of gave TB another 1M album Units but who knows

[autumnwind]

Ok, now we know that it’s label fund RIAA…..

We also know times have changed (when no one could be so blind to deny that.)

That doesn’t change the fact that RIAA method certification is a MESS.

Yes it's such a huge mess. They can't sort it out. Such a shame for older acts legends.

[MadNuno]

Yes. But Taylor will take this record eventually with 3 decades.

Nothing from 00s or 10s Madonna is diamond

Very unlikely that Taylor will get Diamond albums from 3 different decades before 2040 or even 2050...

Not sure if RIAA count her re-recording in US as SAME albums or as different albums like Billboard does (no re-recording is certified yet).

Taylor best selling albums from the 2020's are still only 2xPlatinum ("Folklore" and "Midnight") and despite her new album is doing good and will certainly be certified 4xPlatinum before the year ends not sure if it will go much more than 5 or 6xPlatinum until the decade ends (looking at her trajectory this looks like her comercial ROL album in US comparing to Madonna career).

She have 1 Diamond album "Fearless" from 2008 so far and "1989" is close to give her another Diamond as it was certified 9xPlatinum in 2018.

"Red" and "Taylor Swift" are 7xPlatinum while "Speak Now" is 6xPlatinum but they are from 00's and 10's decades as well - the only ones that have a real chance to get certified Diamond one day.

Sure her 2020's career isn't over and she may pull out a star selling album but I kind of doubt that.

Madonna have almost no chances from having another Diamond album from a 3rd different decade (00's, 10's or 20's) before this century ends but never say never.

Her only album that have a real chance getting Diamond in a few years/decades is "True Blue".

[Forreal]

MG almost 20% compared to last week…. Ouch…

[Forreal]

it's not from one BB article but numbers I got from all of the Soundscan info posted here on UKMix, and sometimes from BB articles, both on this thread and on the older Madonna Sales thread that got archived, sometimes gathering info week by week, writing down all the numbers so it went kinda like this :

from Oct '01 (after the 10xP cert) to '03 it sold around 500k
in '04 195k
in '05 165k
in '06 143k
in '07 102k
in '08 106k , so between '01 until '08 it sold some 1.2M pure/SS , and so on (after 2009 numbers took a dive)

but I stopped counting after 2013 when I got the number 1,356,891 copies sold from Oct 2001 until March '13 (Soundscan only)

I think in April 2013 we got the 5,850,447 copies sold in total for the album

then we have tons of other figures much later on, like the one from BB saying that it sold 5,992,000 copies until the week of Dec 8 2016 according to SS (link: https://www.billboard.com/pro/ask-billboard-madonnas-career-album-sales/ )

so between 2013 to 2016 we got from that some 141k sold SS but I didn't include that in my number, if we were to include that the we could get some 1.5M scanned from 2001 until 2016

in 2017 it was selling some 1000-1200 copies a week (on a good week) , but again I didn't include any of that

then we have lots of other reports when TIC came back on the charts and they started using SPS but I didn't include any of those

interesting note, right before it got certified 9xP (March 2000) , the album had scanned some 3.9M copies and stood at 6xP btw (Dec 1999)

Thanks for posting.

[UnapologeticKenny]

SPOTIFY UPDATE - Friday, 05/May/23
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FOLLOWERS: 6,917,824 (+2,310)
MONTHLY LISTENERS: 24,619,912 (-27,392) #176 (=)
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TOTAL STREAMS (LEAD): 5,418,475,094 (+3,584,745) %± YD: +4.91% %± LW: -5.96%
TOTAL STREAMS (WITH FEATS): 5,580,525,660 (+3,667,668) %± YD: +4.90% %± LW: -5.82%
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POSITION (+/-): Album - Total Streams (Daily Gain) %±YD {%±LW}
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01 (=): Like A Virgin - 710,869,429 (+475,437) +4.09% {-17.35%}
02 (=): True Blue - 560,844,037 (+462,577) +4.93% {+0.41%}
03 (=): Confessions on a Dance Floor - 523,786,638 (+403,965) +6.24% {+0.95%}
04 (+1): Like A Prayer - 472,243,252 (+282,518) +7.32% {-14.05%}
05 (-1): Hard Candy - 359,352,964 (+280,756) +4.12% {-0.60%}
06 (=): Madonna - 289,152,469 (+151,809) +6.93% {-1.78%}
07 (=): Ray of Light - 252,815,271 (+147,597) +6.05% {+2.06%}
08 (=): I'm Breathless - 222,214,696 (+130,583) +6.55% {-0.75%}
09 (=): Music - 176,725,165 (+101,688) +5.09% {-6.36%}
10 (=): Bedtime Stories - 99,948,489 (+59,881) +1.04% {+5.99%}
11 (=): Rebel Heart - 273,372,151 (+56,658) +1.11% {-3.05%}
12 (=): American Life - 86,147,076 (+51,977) +5.21% {-12.84%}
13 (=): MDNA - 143,958,214 (+50,949) +5.88% {+2.71%}
14 (=): Madame X - 214,666,728 (+43,605) +3.44% {-5.12%}
15 (=): Erotica - 65,862,994 (+32,994) +3.91% {-4.56%}

Spoiler!

16 (=): Who's That Girl (M Tracks Only) - 36,882,643 (+32,179) +7.92% {+11.94%}
17 (=): Evita (M Tracks Only) - 62,210,171 (+26,916) +3.57% {+1.31%}
18 (=): The Confessions Tour - 43,726,020 (+19,132) +5.90% {-7.04%}
19 (=): MDNA World Tour - 40,912,958 (+10,850) +2.33% {-1.10%}
20 (=): Sticky & Sweet Tour - 22,784,471 (+7,770) -4.86% {+10.53%}
21 (=): Rebel Heart Tour - 25,988,771 (+5,982) -0.81% {-11.54%}
22 (=): Madame X - Music From The Theater Xperience - 6,672,399 (+2,987) -2.39% {-7.61%}
23 (=): Remixed & Revisited - 6,719,828 (+2,694) -4.37% {-23.94%}

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POSITION (+/-): Song - Total Streams (Daily Gain) %±YD {%±LW}
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01 (=): Material Girl³ - 390,521,329 (+287,939) +3.23% {-18.47%}
02 (=): La Isla Bonita² - 287,196,023 (+282,640) +5.14% {+4.30%}
03 (=): Hung Up² - 342,970,058 (+275,743) +7.49% {+1.42%}
04 (=): 4 Minutes² - 268,739,039 (+231,280) +4.06% {-2.04%}
05 (=): Like a Prayer³ - 364,756,402 (+228,898) +7.65% {-16.66%}
06 (=): Like a Virgin² - 269,917,654 (+161,515) +5.60% {-17.25%}
07 (=): Frozen (Sickick Remix) - 129,723,515 (+131,893) +1.72% {-4.97%}
08 (=): Vogue³ - 211,548,755 (+125,248) +6.41% {-0.80%}
09 (=): Back That Up To The Beat (Demo Version) - 21,345,786 (+93,028) +3.80% {-6.89%}
10 (=): Holiday³ - 166,457,988 (+89,007) +6.72% {-1.19%}
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11 (=): Into the Groove² - 109,596,742 (+76,151) +5.41% {-17.63%}
12 (+2): Papa Don't Preach² - 110,205,905 (+72,979) +4.31% {-10.92%}
13 (-1): Crazy for You - 103,407,567 (+71,840) -0.07% {-5.21%}
14 (-1): Sorry (BLOND:ISH Remix) - 5,598,248 (+71,418) +0.07% {-5.87%}
15 (=): Sorry² - 69,425,115 (+59,755) +2.71% {+14.82%}
16 (=): Frozen⁴ - 102,010,185 (+55,531) +6.54% {-1.60%}
17 (=): Back That Up To The Beat (Sped Up Version) - 9,477,301 (+50,882) +5.63% {-2.06%}
18 (=): Music - 66,946,310 (+39,177) +4.19% {-12.61%}
19 (=): The Power of Good-Bye - 39,522,330 (+35,130) +8.62% {+29.87%}
20 (+1): True Blue - 40,198,964 (+33,663) +6.61% {+14.69%}
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21 (-1): Take a Bow² - 48,686,293 (+32,930) +2.63% {+17.32%}
22 (=): Live to Tell² - 51,757,362 (+31,637) +4.29% {+0.11%}
23 (=): Ray of Light² - 58,425,388 (+30,711) +6.58% {-6.63%}
24 (=): Jump² - 35,847,885 (+30,099) +6.66% {-16.67%}
25 (=): Borderline² - 52,908,008 (+30,003) +7.69% {+0.01%}
26 (+4): American Pie - 47,459,414 (+29,022) +11.35% {-0.67%}
27 (-1): Levitating (The Blessed Madonna Remix)² - 58,430,356 (+28,751) +3.92% {+0.09%}
28 (+1): Me Against The Music - 54,764,438 (+27,618) +3.50% {+0.08%}
29 (-1): Open Your Heart³ - 45,801,987 (+27,603) +3.30% {-16.80%}
30 (+3): Who's That Girl - 27,917,325 (+27,520) +9.74% {+14.16%}

Spoiler!

31 (-4): Bitch I'm Madonna - 89,661,128 (+27,261) +1.92% {-0.75%}
32 (=): Express Yourself³ - 52,852,240 (+26,664) +5.87% {+1.08%}
33 (-2): Give It 2 Me - 40,121,633 (+26,608) +5.42% {+2.52%}
34 (=): Frozen (070 Shake Remix) - 12,864,680 (+23,868) +1.44% {-4.64%}
35 (+1): Girl Gone Wild - 45,393,390 (+21,943) +7.61% {+4.72%}
36 (-1): Lucky Star³ - 40,021,312 (+21,822) +6.46% {-4.82%}
37 (=): Don't Tell Me² - 33,575,478 (+19,898) +5.14% {+0.87%}
38 (+1): Celebration - 33,179,966 (+19,537) +7.06% {+11.99%}
39 (-1): Frozen (Fireboy DML Remix) - 12,496,536 (+18,517) +1.42% {-8.62%}
40 (=): Break My Soul (The Queens Remix) - 10,763,409 (+18,174) +8.61% {+4.87%}
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41 (=): Cherish³ - 29,365,694 (+15,741) +4.65% {+0.25%}
42 (=): Die Another Day - 36,425,823 (+15,059) +5.58% {-7.58%}
43 (=): Beautiful Stranger² - 25,162,476 (+14,737) +4.85% {+3.68%}
44 (=): Secret² - 24,495,207 (+13,597) +1.83% {-9.42%}
45 (=): Medellín - 67,772,319 (+13,299) +4.92% {-2.35%}
46 (+1): Don't Cry for Me Argentina² - 25,270,922 (+13,129) +7.18% {+3.33%}
47 (-1): Dress You Up² - 24,204,609 (+13,036) +4.88% {-2.43%}
48 (=): Give Me All Your Luvin' - 33,987,131 (+12,389) +2.19% {-0.03%}
49 (+1): Get Together - 22,377,425 (+12,303) +6.79% {+2.58%}
50 (+2): American Life² - 7,545,422 (+12,043) +17.99% {-7.64%}
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51 (=): Hung Up on Tokischa - 5,998,769 (+11,535) +5.49% {-0.64%}
52 (-3): Hollywood - 19,089,450 (+11,436) -1.33% {+2.80%}
53 (+1): You'll See - 12,519,689 (+10,463) +7.14% {+8.04%}
54 (+2): Justify My Love - 21,389,722 (+10,204) +7.63% {-2.41%}
55 (-2): Rain - 18,004,798 (+10,149) +3.46% {-10.75%}
56 (-1): I'll Remember - 14,725,591 (+9,475) -2.01% {-14.75%}
57 (=): Faz Gostoso - 43,087,651 (+9,255) +5.81% {-4.98%}
58 (=): Frozen On Fire - 4,958,583 (+8,682) +3.72% {-4.68%}
59 (=): Ghosttown - 35,881,359 (+8,442) +3.54% {-4.86%}
60 (+1): This Used to Be My Playground - 10,102,318 (+7,850) +5.54% {+15.63%}
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61 (-1): Miles Away² - 17,062,206 (+7,832) +1.61% {-7.18%}
62 (+5): American Life (Peter Rauhofer's American Anthem, Pt. 2) - 190,022 (+7,290) +34.16% {-8.53%}
63 (-1): Nothing Really Matters - 11,137,855 (+7,093) +1.49% {-18.26%}
64 (=): Deeper and Deeper² - 10,376,596 (+6,183) +6.71% {-1.10%}
65 (-2): La Isla Bonita (Extended Remix) - 9,912,970 (+5,953) +1.57% {+0.90%}
66 (+14): Die Another Day (Calderone & Quayle After Life Mix) - 64,698 (+5,884) +80.16% {-65.39%}
67 (-1): Erotica² - 14,127,208 (+5,736) +4.96% {+2.39%}
68 (-3): Living For Love - 34,674,640 (+5,454) -2.33% {-1.20%}
69 (-1): Forbidden Love (COADF) - 9,713,928 (+5,316) +5.77% {-0.58%}
70 (-1): Love Profusion - 7,123,192 (+4,881) +1.33% {-26.71%}
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71 (-1): Angel - 9,047,780 (+4,854) +3.39% {-1.80%}
72 (-1): Human Nature² - 9,014,637 (+4,809) +2.45% {+3.75%}
73 (-1): What It Feels Like for a Girl² - 9,613,555 (+4,442) -0.05% {+6.17%}
74 (-1): Drowned World / Substitute for Love - 9,137,409 (+4,421) +1.31% {-4.70%}
75 (-1): Burning Up - 10,758,810 (+4,420) +5.82% {-4.43%}
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BONUS
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87 (+45): Rescue Me² - 2,913,120 (+2,706) +61.75% {+35.84%} *@LostAvenger mentioned the song was used in a episode of "Yellowjackets"

[AndiIversen]

Does anyone have a link for any article (probaly Billboard) stating TIC soundscan sales at 2000 or 2001 (when it was certified 9xPlatinum or 10xPlatinum).

I was trying to find something but no such luck.

it's not from one BB article but numbers I got from all of the Soundscan info posted here on UKMix, and sometimes from BB articles, both on this thread and on the older Madonna Sales thread that got archived, sometimes gathering info week by week, writing down all the numbers so it went kinda like this :

from Oct '01 (after the 10xP cert) to '03 it sold around 500k
in '04 195k
in '05 165k
in '06 143k
in '07 102k
in '08 106k , so between '01 until '08 it sold some 1.2M pure/SS , and so on (after 2009 numbers took a dive)

but I stopped counting after 2013 when I got the number 1,356,891 copies sold from Oct 2001 until March '13 (Soundscan only)

I think in April 2013 we got the 5,850,447 copies sold in total for the album

then we have tons of other figures much later on, like the one from BB saying that it sold 5,992,000 copies until the week of Dec 8 2016 according to SS (link: https://www.billboard.com/pro/ask-billboard-madonnas-career-album-sales/ )

so between 2013 to 2016 we got from that some 141k sold SS but I didn't include that in my number, if we were to include that the we could get some 1.5M scanned from 2001 until 2016

in 2017 it was selling some 1000-1200 copies a week (on a good week) , but again I didn't include any of that

then we have lots of other reports when TIC came back on the charts and they started using SPS but I didn't include any of those

interesting note, right before it got certified 9xP (March 2000) , the album had scanned some 3.9M copies and stood at 6xP btw (Dec 1999)

[MadNuno]

Is this accurate??

Madonna and BritneySpears are now the only female artists to have multiple Diamond certified albums from different decades!

80s Like A Virgin
90s Immaculate Collection
90s ...Baby One More Time
00s Oops!...I Did It Again

No they are not!

Shania Twain have 2 albums from the 90's and 1 album from the 00's
Whitney Houston have 2 albums from the 80's and 1 album from the 90's (if you Count "Bodyguard" as her album as both Billboard and RIAA do).

[BritneyMadonnastan]

Is this accurate??

Madonna and BritneySpears are now the only female artists to have multiple Diamond certified albums from different decades!

80s Like A Virgin
90s Immaculate Collection
90s ...Baby One More Time
00s Oops!...I Did It Again

Yes. But Taylor will take this record eventually with 3 decades.

Nothing from 00s or 10s Madonna is diamond

[Forreal]

Is this accurate??

Madonna and BritneySpears are now the only female artists to have multiple Diamond certified albums from different decades!

80s Like A Virgin
90s Immaculate Collection
90s ...Baby One More Time
00s Oops!...I Did It Again