Madonna :: Charts & Sales History

[Carlito]

Not sure if it's accurate either but it may be right as almost all artists numbers I checked are just slighly higher than BPI certifications (including Madonna).

We need to take into account that any Platinum album may have almost 300k more sales (especially if the record companies in question aren't updating certification numbers for a long time).

Barbra does have much more album releases than Mariah and almost all of her album were last certified a few weeks after release only (and never again).Many never even got a certification at all (but doesn't mean that meanwhile didn't sold enough to be certified and never were as certifications were not automatic and had to be paid back then).

Some of them were not even certified when released in UK but may have sold quite a lot in the long run as she have changed labels and old label may not want spend money re-certificating the albums (will probably do it once she dies). Mariah returned to Sony that updated her certs not long ago (so she probably doesn't have much more sales to add there... but she may be at 6 million already because of her Christmas song).

Barbra does have quite a few albums from the 70's and 80's that may need big re-certifications (they are only automatic for digital releases so everything released before 2005 may need certifications).

Numbers don't seem too off when you see that Barbra released 59 (36 studio albums, 9 live albums, 11 compilations plus 2 OSTs credited to her - from 15 OSTs she was in) and have many undercertifications. Mariah Carey released less around half the albums.

I bet many of her older non-certified albums sold probably at least enough for siver or gold since she have been having Hit albums until recently (her latest 2 albums peaked #05 and #06 in 2018 and 2021) while Mariah barely achieves a TOP 40 album anymore (her latest albums peaked #40 and #44 in UK in 2018 and 2020).

A lot of what you say makes sense, however, it's not enough to double and even triple Barbra's total of official album sales figures, because after all, these are speculations and not official statistics. Applying this same reasoning to other old artists with a large catalog, one would have to triple their total just as well, in many markets, compared to newer successful artists with a very small catalog in comparison. Such rankings should stick primarily to official and verifiable statistics, since uncertified sales assumptions cannot be verified. That's making Barbra's total of uncertified album sales much bigger than her certified album sales, which is very incorrect. But I'm not going argue further on that, because here is Madonna's thread.

[Carlito]

Oh,the info everyone was on the edge of their seats waiting for on this MADONNA sales thread
Thank you very much

I apologize , I just wanted to make an important point . Please excuse me, I won't continue.

[BodyShop]

Big gain in Germany today in streaming, 9000 more, it's down only cause it was Friday and there were like 30 new entries above

There will be a new peak today.

Streams	Daily	#55 -10	Finland
Streams	Daily	#127 +17	Lithuania
Streams	Daily	#157 -19	Germany
Streams	Daily	#183 -32	Austria
Streams	Daily	#193 -13	Sweden

Finland : #55 : 12.338 (+257)

Lithuania : #127 : 1.424 (+219)

Germany : #157 : 68.580 (+9.150)

Austria: #183 : 5.546 (+582)

Sweden : #193 : 19.915 (+3.246)

[MadNuno]

A lot of what you say makes sense, however, it's not enough to double and even triple Barbra's total of official album sales figures, because after all, these are speculations and not official statistics.

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It probably is enough to double her sales.
I believe they are based on data released by Official Charts Company, NME and other sources over the years.

I do know for fact that only those 7 ladies sold over 10 million albums in UK (including Barbra Streisand) as that info was published somewhere (Official Charts, BBC or NME probably, can't remember).

[BodyShop]

17,609,526 listeners (+41k),

17.646.291 now (+36.7K)

[UnapologeticKenny]

Frozen (Sickick Remix) on Spotify

Spoiler!

Week 1 (03 ~ 09/12/21): 1,191,378
Week 2 (10 ~ 16/12/21): 1,289,184 [+8.21%]
Week 3 (17 ~ 23/12/21): 1,674,652 [+29.90%]
Week 4 (24 ~ 30/12/21): 1,833,833 [+9.51%]
Week 5 (31 ~ 06/01/22): 2,202,593 [+20,10%]
Week 6 (07 ~ 13/01/22): 2,686,648 [+21.97%]
Week 7 (14 ~ 20/01/22): 441,455 [*building*]

07/01/22: 8,571,061 (+379,421) +13,39% (vs last week)
08/01/22: 8,943,328 (+372,267) +48,78% (vs last week)
09/01/22: 9,286,746 (+343,418) +21,91% (vs last week)
10/01/22: 9,677,460 (+390,714) +22,10% (vs last week)
11/01/22: 10,066,997 (+389,537) +19,86% (vs last week)
12/01/22: 10,465,826 (+398,829) +16,93% (vs last week)
13/01/22: 10,878,288 (+412,462) +17,82% (vs last week)

14/01/22: 11,319,743 (+441,455) +16,34% (vs last week) *NEW PEAK*
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Official Spotify Charts:

#55 Finland (-10) - 12,338
#127 Lithuania (+17) - 1,424
#157 Germany (-19) - 68,580
#183 Austria (-32) - 5,546
#193 Sweden (-13) - 19,915

Thanks to flotando and BodyShop. Kworb hasn't updated for me yet.
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Apple Music:

#48 Yemen (-28)
#62 Lithuania (=)
#97 Czech Republic (-14)
#99 Chad (+37)
#157 British Virgin Islands (NE)
#160 Slovakia (+4)
#163 Oman (+15)
#180 Cyprus (+11)
#183 Germany (+5)
#191 Turkey (NE)
#193 Austria (-11)
#196 Latvia (NE)
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Deezer:

#86 Chile (NE)

[britneylinda]

Frozen is coming for a global entry soon OMG I can't wait

[Fajitas]

441k, wow. It's getting super close to 500k and super fast. I thought it would take another 10 days but it could get there this week!

[BodyShop]

Thanks to flotando and BodyShop. Kworb hasn't updated for me yet.

You're the best

[freddaras]

Frozen" by Madonna& SickickMusic received 441,455 streams on Spotify yesterday (14/01), up 7%. Its biggest streaming day on the platform!

[InFamous]

Toxic is selling 250K a year and streams are increasing every day for this song, it'll be diamond eligible eventually in some Years.

Yeah im really not worried about what might happen in twelve or more years. The person said " a few years" which is three. And Toxic will certainly not be diamond in three years.
And it isnt "selling" anything. Its just getting streamed.

Anyway this isnt Britneys thread so back to Madonna.

Cool to see this remix taking off - hope it keeps growing.

[Carlito]

It probably is enough to double her sales.
I believe they are based on data released by Official Charts Company, NME and other sources over the years.

I do know for fact that only those 7 ladies sold over 10 million albums in UK (including Barbra Streisand) as that info was published somewhere (Official Charts, BBC or NME probably, can't remember).

Ok.However, the fact remains that the list you posted has not just doubled but quadrupled Barbra's total certified album sales in the UK. Giving an artist more than 70% sales advantage based on uncertified sales, over another artist who is officially certified over 60% more, is technically weird and questionable. Normally, a good estimate of total sales must be supported by at least 50% in certifications. Otherwise it would be chaotic, and we would see several artists like Nana Mouskouri, Frank Sinatra, Alla Pugacheva, Wei Wei, etc claiming places occupied by other artists in the rankings of the most successful artists of all time.
I don't know if the list you posted is quite wrong or right about it as I can't verify, then I won't continue to argue.
Mariah has done better than Barbra sales wise ,in other important European markets like France, Netherlands and Germany, then it's surprising that in UK it could be different when UK is her biggest European supporter. But everything is still possible. Once again, I apologize for that talk in this thread.

[InFamous]

Ok.However, the fact remains that the list you posted has not just doubled but quadrupled Barbra's total certified album sales in the UK. Giving an artist more than 70% sales advantage based on uncertified sales, over another artist who is officially certified over 60% more, is technically weird and questionable. Normally, a good estimate of total sales must be supported by at least 50% in certifications. Otherwise it would be chaotic, and we would see several artists like Nana Mouskouri, Frank Sinatra, Alla Pugacheva, Wei Wei, etc claiming places occupied by other artists in the rankings of the most successful artists of all time.
I don't know if the list you posted is quite wrong or right about it as I can't verify, then I won't continue to argue.
Mariah has done better than Barbra sales wise ,in other important European markets like France, Netherlands and Germany, then it's surprising that in UK it could be different when UK is her biggest European supporter. But everything is still possible. Once again, I apologize for that talk in this thread.

But to be honest the certification only approach is inherently flawed. Take the UK. Say for artist A has an album which is 2 times platinum. That artist has 600k sales added to their tally. Then take artist B who has an album which sold 500k. Obviously it will only be certified platinum and 300k units added to their certified tally. But the artist has another 200k sales which are basically ignored because they dont come up to the next level. Obviously these sales will be known and can be verified by the charts company but for certification purposes will basically be discounted. I mean that is not really giving an accurate picture either.

[Carlito]

But to be honest the certification only approach is inherently flawed. Take the UK. Say for artist A has an album which is 2 times platinum. That artist has 600k sales added to their tally. Then take artist B who has an album which sold 500k. Obviously it will only be certified platinum and 300k units added to their certified tally. But the artist has another 200k sales which are basically ignored because they dont come up to the next level. Obviously these sales will be known and can be verified by the charts company but for certification purposes will basically be discounted. I mean that is not really giving an accurate picture either.

Yeah, I agree.

[madboy1]

I've been trying to figure out how many times Madonna has made it to the top of the billboard. in 2015, madonna was over 161 (but not including the one referring to the album rebel heart). in my accounts only madame x brought 9 or 10 more... this is it?

[Shadowplay]

I don’t care about Barbra and Britney.
As much as Gaga or Mariah fans do not care about Madonna in their threads.
I wonder where the moderator is in this cases, they are always so sensitive when some of us mentions other artists.

[flotando]

*double post

[thebigham]

On Madonna's "Popular" page on Spotify

Next up is La Isla Bonita:188.9 million.

[upushme]

Worldwide iTunes Song Chart

#30 (-3) Madonna & Sickick - Frozen

European iTunes Song Chart

#26 (-2) Madonna & Sickick - Frozen

[upushme]

Madame X LIVE on Spotify

07.01.2022 4.063.572 +12.810
08.01.2022 4.075.635 +12.063
09.01.2022 4.085.900 +10.265
10.01.2022 4.097.643 +11.743
11.01.2022 4.109.243 +11.600
12.01.2022 4.121.466 +12.223
13.01.2022 4.134.579 +13.000

14.01.2022 4.148.012 +13.433
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Madame X on Spotify

07.01.2022 193.282.597 +55.008
08.01.2022 193.336.645 +54.048
09.01.2022 193.383.391 +46.746
10.01.2022 193.430.468 +47.077
11.01.2022 193.479.212 +48.744
12.01.2022 193.529.965 +50.753
13.01.2022 193.582.398 +52.433

14.01.2022 193.638.366 +55.968

[jjavier1978]

Papa Don't Preach (True Blue Version) has reached 76Million Streams on Spotify.

[upushme]

Spotify 14.01.2022

Levitating (feat. Madonna and Missy Elliott)	44.509.478	+24.322
Me Against the Music (feat. Madonna)	42.565.568	+27.391
Champagne Rosé (feat. Madonna & Cardi B)	17.360.546	+3.410
Soltera (feat. Madonna)	10.511.996	+2.700

[MadNuno]

"Champagne Rosé" and "Soltera" are higher than I thought but doesn't look like they are surviving well as daily streams are low.

I guess if she releases the so called remix album with a few new remixes having some good featurings she can get a few millions extra streams.

[Shego]

[flotando]

Spotify 14.01.2022

Levitating (feat. Madonna and Missy Elliott)	44.509.478	+24.322
Me Against the Music (feat. Madonna)	42.565.568	+27.391
Champagne Rosé (feat. Madonna & Cardi B)	17.360.546	+3.410
Soltera (feat. Madonna)	10.511.996	+2.700

So both Levitating and Me Against the Music would be on her weekly top 30 if considered. Interesting! I wish she would have tagged herself in Levitating. Her voice sounds all over the place through the whole song.