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Universal Records have issued this Press Release to celebrate the Material Girl's biggest First Week Debut this year.

Madonna has returned for the 8th time to the top of the Billboard's Pop Charts with MDNA selling 359,000 albums according to Neilsen Soundscan and is the biggest selling first week debut this year. MDNA is The Material Girl's fifth No. 1 studio album in a row and her first album for Interscope Records.

 

On the Billboard Dance Club Play Charts, Madonna remains queen of the clubs with two songs from MDNA in the Top Ten including "Girls Gone Wild" which has gone to No. 4 and is the "greatest gainer" for the last three weeks. Her first dance hit from MDNA "Give Me All Your Luvin" after going to No. 1 remains in the Top Ten in the No. 8 spot.

 

The critical response to MDNA has been equally impressive:

 

"Madonna has made it through the wilderness to deliver one of the best albums of her career." Daily News

 

"Her best album since "Ray of Light'" Chicago Tribune

 

"Still the Queen of Pop" The London Times

 

"Some of the finest musical moments we've heard from the pop legend in the last few years" MTV News

 

"The woman is pop's most durable alpha female" USA Today

 

On related news, MDNA debuted No. 1 on iTunes Charts in 40 countries and had the biggest one day pre sale on iTunes by any artist in history.

 

Madonna's "Girls Gone Wild" video is her most viewed video on YouTube with 32 million views.

 

In the UK, the MDNA album puts Madonna in a league of her own. MDNA's No. 1 spot gives Madonna the most No. 1 albums of all time in the UK (12) by a solo artist - surpassing Elvis Presley. The Beatles are the only artists who have had 15 No. 1 albums in the country.

 

In Japan, MDNA is her 22nd Top Ten album passing The Beatles record of 19 Top Ten albums in Japan. MDNA entered their Oricon international charts at No. 1 and the combined Oricon Charts at #4.

 

To celebrate the first week success with her millions of fans, Madonna will once again be on Twitter via @MadonnaMDNAday this Wednesday, the 4th of April at 10:00 PM EDT.

 

From an Interscope Records Press Release.

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The pop queen's longtime manager and brand new label head reflect on the road taken straight to the top of the charts and answer a nagging question: three decades in, is Madonna still selling scandal?

When Madonnas twelfth album, MDNA, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 today with Nielsen SoundScan-certified sales of 359,000, she'll not only have the biggest first week of the year, but will instantly reinstate her place at the top of the pop heap.

 

Thats right, in this digital age of naysayers, haters, critics and cynics, Madonna is on her third decade of relevance. With MDNA, she trails only Barbra Streisand for the most chart-toppers ever by a female artist (Babs has nine, Madge is one shy) -- an extraordinary musical and cultural feat. Still, some will inevitably credit controversy for MDNA's out-the-gate success.

 

Have your pick of which one from recent months - the album title, which is a letter away from MDMA, the common name for the drug ecstasy; the Super Bowl halftime performance during which guest M.I.A. gave some 150 million people the finger; a permanent ban by Piers Morgan and subsequent Twitter spat between the talk show host and Madonnas manager Guy Oseary; or a surprise appearance at Miamis Ultra Music Festival in March, where Madonna took the stage alongside Avicii and instantly riled up a crowd of 100,000 by asking if anyone had seen Molly, the street name for ecstasy, a comment that prompted superstar DJ Deadmau5 to take her to task publicly. All have kept Madonnas name in the headlines just as new music hit the market.

 

All those things didnt start with us, Oseary tells The Hollywood Reporter, shrugging off any insinuation that scandal is a step in the roll-out plan. It's just part of the gig. Indeed, Oseary and his client of 22 years can explain away each one -- the title has multiple meanings and came about like this, according to Oseary: [Madonna] told me one day, Here's what I'm calling my album. And I went, Cool. She had a vision. As for M.I.A.? She acted on her own accord; Piers Morgans people continue to reach out for a booking despite the ban; and Madonna was referring to a song by producer and DJ Cedric Gervais called Have You Seen Molly, not the staple drug of all-night dance parties. What may be harder to wrap the head around is the continued omnipotence of the eighties-bred pop star, whos already topped the iTunes charts in 35 countries with MDNA presales alone.

 

Truth be told, Madonna did little in the way of traditional promotion for the album, her first for Interscope after some 30 years at Warner Bros. She skipped the club shows, the late night lead guest slot and the Diane Sawyer interview. Her only broadcast sit-down was with Jimmy Fallon on Facebook. She premiered her single at the Super Bowl and her video on American Idol (Interscope is the shows music partner) rather than MTV or Vevo. If theres a plan, says Oseary, it was for the music to speak for itself, and thanks to the current popularity of EDM (electronic dance music), it seems the former Danceteria regular is having her day yet again -- and at 53 years old.

 

Anyone who can have a career as long and as healthy, strong and consistent as Madonna's, thats a once-in-a-lifetime artist, says Interscope Geffen A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine. It's incredible what she's done. You can have an act earn money like her, but you can't have a career like that.

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Vinyl Cover released:

http://madonnadiscography.pl/userfiles/image/New%20Releases/MDNA%20LP.jpg

Out April 16th in the UK!.

That must be her weakest opening week (for a studio album) since "Like A Virgin"- Must try and do an estimate for that.
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A colour pic from the party

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MDNA become Madonna's 14th #1 album in Italy!.

 

Here's her other #1 albums

Like A Virgin

True Blue

You Can Dance

Like A Prayer

Something To Remember

Ray Of Light

Music

American Life

Confessions On A Dance Floor

I'm Going To Tell You A Secret

The Confessions Tour

Hard Candy

Celebration

MDNA

Edited by SweetCandy

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Clash Magazine Review:

http://allaboutmadonna.com/images/news/12-04-05-madonna-mdna-clash-magazine-review.jpg

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Pics of the double vinyl. Out April 16th here.

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Can she just please the fans and release "Gang Bang", "Falling Free" and "Best Friend"?!

But Best Friend, as most people will tell you, is shit.

 

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HMV Japan will be selling both versions of the clean albums from May 14th.

The 1 disc set misses out Gang Bang and the 2 disc version misses out Gang Bang and I f***ed Up.

 

No word yet if the UK will sell it.

Falls to #7 in the UK! :(

 

Its unquestionably going to be her lowest selling album in the UK, unless there is some kind of major turn around in fortunes which I cannot see happening.

It's such a shame, this deserves to outsell Hard Candy with considerable ease but with a hit single being an unlikely prospect how can it sustain consistent sales?

 

I hope it can miraculously touch 200k but I even doubt that.

Its unquestionably going to be her lowest selling album in the UK, unless there is some kind of major turn around in fortunes which I cannot see happening.

 

I agree, it's a shame but her record company haven't really a done great job marketing this release.

I do hope something happens to turn around it's fortunes because that is the only way it's going to save this album.

 

It's definitely far from her worst album, but it's only the promo to blame. Wrong single choices partly as well imo, she should've released any of Masterpiece, I Don't Give A or Turn Up The Radio imo instead of Give Me All Your Luvin' and Girls Gone Wild - but it's done now. I don't think they'll manage to even slightly turn fortunes around no matter what single they release though, it's incredibly difficult to totally turn around a flop era. She might manage a hit after the album bombed a la Pixie Lott with Kiss The Stars (although tbf Pixie had a number 1 and a further top 10 before that, not a top 40 and total non-charting flop) but I doubt anything will make the album sell fantastically unless she pulls out a proper mega hit, which let's face it is sadly not happening.
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