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@Madonna breaks the UK record for having 6 singles from one album reach Number 1 On the dance single charts.
confessionsII is the biggest selling dance album in the Uk to date for 2026.
It’s mind boggling that the You Can Dance album which celebrates its 40th anniversary next year, Remains the second best worldwide selling dance album of all time. But 39 years later she still getting the UK to get up and do its thing!
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This looks to be the best unofficial @Madonna 2027 Wall Calendar at the moment amzn.eu/d/0fwSutLh
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Aug 16 is a loaded date in music royalty. Madonna (Queen of Pop) born on 16 Aug 1958. The same day & month marks the deaths of Elvis Presley (King of Rock & Roll,16 Aug 1977 & Aretha Franklin (Queen of Soul,16 Aug) Michael Jackson (King of Pop) was born in Aug 1958. like Madonna
My COADII collection to date. TikTok version on its way via a friend in the us. And of course not shown here. All digiti versions
My Japanese confessions 2 cd arrived. Today! Will do a post with my collection. Got to date @MadonnaRecords @MadonnaUltimate
Omg. #madonna is off to Japan?!
【Madonna】
『コンフェッションズ II』リリース記念！
8/8（土）新宿二丁目アイイロカフェにて
スペシャルイベント“MGMX（メガミックス）feat. CONFESSIONS II by Madonna”が開催決定！
詳細はこちら▶︎
wmg.jp/madonna/news/91080/
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#Madonna's history-making 'Confessions II' explodes atop the United World chart with 304,000 sales points, after reaching #1 in 17 countries so far! 💪💃💿💣1⃣🤝🌎📈🔥👑🩷
'Confessions II' received universal acclaim upon its release, with multiple critics calling it Madonna's best album since 'Confessions on a Dance Floor' and praising its eclectic production, Madonna's introspective lyricism and her vocals. The album has topped the weekly charts in 17 countries including the US, UK, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain & Switzerland!
'Confessions II' garnered 13,068,922 streams in its first full day on Spotify, with Madonna making history, scoring the Biggest Album Debut for a 1980's Female Soloist and tying Shakira as the only pre-2000s Female Solo Acts to debut an album with over 10 MILLION streams in Spotify history!
'CONFESSIONS II' is Madonna's Milestone 10th #1 Album in the US, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 134,000 equivalent units, 20.1M on-demand streams, and 114,000 pure sales. The Album also debuted at #1 on the Top Album Sales chart! Madonna made history, becoming the 1st Act with a Billboard 200 #1 album in the 2020's and 3 other Decades. She and Taylor Swift are the only Female Artists in history with ten #1 hits on the Hot 100 and ten #1 albums on the Billboard 200! With 59,000 vinyl albums sold in its first week, Confessions II marked Madonna's best vinyl sales week for an album since 1991, when Luminate started tracking sales. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard US Top Dance Albums chart! It's #11 in its 2nd week on the Billboard 200 scoring another 37k equivalent units including 25k pure sales!
'CONFESSIONS II' debuted at #1 on the Billboard Canada Official Albums Chart, becoming Madonna's 11th #1 album in Canada. Madonna is now the first female artist with a #1 album in Canada in 5 different decades.
'CONFESSIONS II' exploded at #1 on the Official UK chart with 48,502 equivalent album units, including 35,445 physical copies, 6,577 downloads, and 6,480 sales-equivalent streams. Madonna is now the 1st US Female Artist ever to score No. 1 albums in the UK across 5 Decades! 'CONFESSIONS II', is the Superstar's 13th chart topper in the UK! Madonna ties Elvis Presley as the 5th artist with the most #1 albums in UK history (13)! 'CONFESSIONS II' is #9 on this week's Official UK Album chart!
'CONFESSIONS II' debuted at #2 on the Irish IRMA Albums chart! It's #12 this week on the Irish Irma chart! It's #7 on the Scottish Official Albums Chart in its 2nd week after debuting at #1, becoming Madonna's 9th #1 album.
'CONFESSIONS II' debuted at #1 on the ARIA chart in Australia! It's her 13th #1 album down under with Madonna now the 4th artist with the most #1 albums in ARIA chart history! It's #6 in its 2nd week on the ARIA chart.
'CONFESSIONS II' debuted at #1 on Austria Albums Chart (Ö3 Austria)! It's her 10th No. 1 album in the country and 1st #1 album since "Rebel Heart" (2015). Madonna is the female artist with the most #1 albums in Austrian chart history!
'CONFESSIONS II' debuted at #1 in Belgium on both the Flanders and Wallonia Album Ultrapop Charts, becoming Madonna's 9th #1 album in Flanders and her 6th #1 album in Wallonia!
'CONFESSIONS II' debuted at #1 in Croatia on the International Official Albums Chart HDU. It's her 10th #1 album in the country.
'CONFESSIONS II' debuted at #1 in Finland on the Official Albums Chart! It's her 12th #1 album in Suomen virallinen chart history!
'CONFESSIONS II' debuted at #1 on the French SNEP chart with 25,491 equivalent album units! It's her 8th #1 album on the chart! Madonna is the 2nd international female artist with the most #1 albums in French chart history! It's #3 in its 2nd week on the French SNEP Albums Chart!
'CONFESSIONS II' debuted at #1 on the German Pop Albums chart!
'CONFESSIONS II' rose 5 spots to #1 this week on the GreeK Official Albums Chart (IFPI). It's Madonna's 11th #1 album in Greece!
'CONFESSIONS II' debuted at #1 in Hungary on the Official Albums Chart. It's Madonna's 8th #1.
CONFESSIONS II' debuted at #1 in Italy on the Official FIMI chart! It's Madonna's 18th #1 album on the chart. Madonna is the international act with the most #1 albums in FIMI chart history!
'CONFESSIONS II' debuted at #1 on the Netherlands Official Albums Chart (Dutch Charts). It's her 12th #1 album on the chart with Madonna now the international female artist with the most #1 albums in Dutch chart history!
'CONFESSIONS II' has debuted at #1 on the Portuguese Official Albums Chart (AFP). It's Madonna's 10th #1 album in Portugal.
'CONFESSIONS II debuted at #1 in Spain on the Official Albums Chart, becoming her 10th #1 album in the country!
'CONFESSIONS II' debuted at #1 in Switzerland on the Official Albums Chart, becoming Madonna's 10th #1 album in the country.
The Album has so far reached #2 in Germany, Ireland, New Zealand & Poland, #5 in Denmark & Japan (Oricon Digital Albums), #7 in Slovakia, #8 in Norway, #10 in the Czech Republic, #31 in Lithuania and #45 on the Japan Oricon chart!
Strange. Just went onto my shop app and the Japanese versions of the #madonna reissues are much cheaper when going through that portal to the official store
shop.app/m/ehjyku5r7q?dynami…
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🌟 The Queen of Pop takes center stage.
Madonna is performing at the FIFA World Cup Final! 🎶⚽
#FIFAWorldCup #ESPARG #WorldCupFinal
Wow. What an amazing 2
Mins and entrance. And who was in the buggy with Madonna! @madonna #fifa #halftimeshow #Ronaldo #Ronaldinho #madonna
Just ordered. Thank god for friends in the USA !
Madonna: Amazing news! That CONFESSIONS II – 12-track Vinyl LP – TikTok Edition you were looking at is now back in stock! Click here before it's too late! madonna.attn.tv/aQ4f0WB5rMuh
Great insight into how Madonna fan warners progressed the marketing of #confessions
When Warner’s marketing team learned Madonna was planning another album, the reaction was excitement laced with fear. “We were also absolutely terrified,” Warner’s head of marketing Natasha Billing admitted at a recent London industry talk. Her description of the artist was unusually candid: “If you can think about the most powerful, opinionated creative director you have ever worked with — that’s kind of her.” Every idea ended at one desk: “The signoff process internally ultimately ends with Madonna. If she doesn’t like it, she won’t do it.”
The campaign was developed under heavy NDA, with special project code names, designed to hold its secret until Coachella. Then Coachella happened — and Madonna detonated her own launch plan. “The genie was out of the bottle,” Billing recalled. “All of our plans for the release of the first single were thrown out of the window completely, because Madonna basically decided she wanted to release the work into the world almost immediately.” Half the assets weren’t ready. “The drive was about: go.”
What was sacrificed? Labels normally pitch tracks to DSPs — the streaming platforms — weeks in advance to secure playlist placement, alongside pre-saves and synchronized asset drops. For “Bring Your Love”, that runway simply didn’t exist: “best practice around pitching to DSP partners” went out of the window. The track went from surprise Coachella debut to release in roughly two weeks — and still hit No. 1 on iTunes within hours.
The chaos produced one of the era’s best moments. With everything re-synced around wherever Madonna physically was, the team caught a window when she was in London to have her join the fly posting herself, pasting her own campaign posters onto the city’s walls — with East London and Brick Lane among the most saturated areas.
The organizing idea was “Confessions After Dark,” born from a detail Stuart Price shared at a listening party: Madonna insisted on making the album at night, because it’s meant to be experienced as a set, in a club environment. So the campaign went out at night too.
And here’s the fascinating part: the agency revealed the raw pitch list, exactly as the ideas first came out of the room. “Why don’t we turn Oxford Circus into a nightclub? Why don’t we use the Grindr app to get users to post confessions at night? Why don’t we project those confessions onto the walls of LGBTQ+ nightclub scenes? Why don’t we start thinking about the new way to start a night being a drink that looks deceptively like a disco ball?” Then the admission: “Now, not all of these things happened.” Most didn’t take shape as pitched — but knowing they existed is half the fun, and let’s say it plainly: Oxford Circus turned into an open-air nightclub would have been genuinely spectacular. The confessions concept survived, mutated — collected via QR code on “confessions vans” circling Soho during Pride, and projected onto Madame Tussauds. The nightclub concept condensed into Club Confessions: London, the Grindr-powered launch party at Magazine London on July 2, where guests entered through giant inflatable legs straddling a speaker and Madonna appeared at midnight announcing “Mother is here.”
One landmark idea made it through almost intact. “We even went so far as to put Madonna’s legs, very avant-garde, onto some major London landmarks.” They wanted Marble Arch and didn’t get it. So at 11pm on release Friday, just before Pride, the boombox-legs image was projected onto “the second best arch in London”: Wellington Arch. Around it, the after-dark slate went live — Old Street Roundabout, the Soho vans, the Tussauds projections — while an interactive map plotted Madonna’s route from Heathrow against every outdoor site and gay venue in the city, so both the queen of pop and her actual audience would see the advertising.
As Billing put it: “Playing it safe has never been the option… it’s certainly not something that Madonna would have wanted us to do.”
Found this gem in #eastbourne yesterday. Listening to @Madonna’s One Step Away felt appropriate walking there.
Seeing the expected USA figures coming through for #madonna’s debut week. Hopefully those who posted and believed the post from a betting site?! Use only trusted sources. A few mins of research can make the difference. #officialsourcesonly nitter.cf/clarcks_thomas/status/…
