Excellent stuff.

Madonna had been expected to debut atop the album chart with Rebel Heart - her first new studio set in nearly three years. It was way ahead in Tuesday's sales flashes, with sales of 20,078, nearly three times as many as any other album, but it faded very fast, and even with a spike in downloads as the week ended, following her appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show on Saturday, its full week sales as it debuted at number two were a very disappointing 37,245, including 416 from streams.

 

It sold fewer copies on its first week in the shops than any Madonna studio album in more than 20 years, falling short even of the 42,041 copies that Bedtime Stories sold debuting and peaking at number two in 1994. We should, however, qualify that by mentioning the Evita soundtrack album - not strictly a Madonna solo album - sold only 24,674 copies when debuting at number seven ahead of the film's release in 1996, finally topping the chart 12 weeks later. In 2005, Confessions On The Dance Floor gave Madonna her highest ever weekly sale of 217,610.

 

The Evita album - which also includes several tracks on which Madonna doesn't perform, with vocals from Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce and Jimmy Nail, among others - brings us to another bone of contention. Madonna has had more number one albums than any other solo artist if we include Evita - 12. If we don't, then she is equal with Elvis Presley and Robbie Williams, who have both had 11. Ahead of Madonna in terms of number one albums lie only The Beatles, with 15.

 

Madonna's last studio album, MDNA, opened at number one on sales of 56,335 copies in March 2012 but tumbled to number seven on its second week, never appeared in the Top 10 again, and has sold only 134,803 copies to date, making it her lowest selling studio album.

 

In the short term, Rebel Heart will lengthen Madonna's lead over her rivals as this century biggest selling female artist. Prior to the release of Rebel Heart, her 792 week 21st century total sale of 7,653,480 (including 86,788 Evita sales) was enough for her to top the list ahead of Pink (7,377,310), Rihanna (7,084,988) and Adele (6,979,902).

 

As of 7 March 2015, Madonna is the century's 12th biggest seller, behind Robbie Williams (15,464,202), Coldplay (11,955,164), Westlife (11,871,186), Take That (11,388,271), Michael Buble (10,084,185), Eminem (9,844,245), Rod Stewart (9,353,186), Michael Jackson (9,243,018), The Beatles (8,834,981) and Oasis (7,894,460). Totals include interview albums. It would arguably be as valid to add some Take That sales to Williams' tally, to credit Eminem's D12 duties, to add more than a million to The Beatles tally to arrive at a higher figure for Paul McCartney, and so on. I have not done this, although if an album has a joint credit (Michael Jackson and The Jacksons, Rod Stewart & The Faces being the most obvious examples) full sales have been added. There is no definitive way of doing this and, hey, it's just for fun.

From Music Week. Will need to work out how much Evita sold in the 90s so we can add its 21st century sales to get an overall total.

In the official chart, 'Living for Love' just holds onto the Top 75 at #75. At this stage, 'Give Me All Your Luvin'' was #118.

 

In the sales only chart, it is #53 whilst 'Ghosttown' is #65.

 

Random info: 'Girl Gone Wild' re-enters the physical chart at #64!

I'm adding new chart runs to post 3 on the first page - downloads, sales, streams, physicals etc.

 

Just finished the physical singles and there was quite a few surprises - who knew 'Girl Gone Wild' and 'Revolver' would be so popular? :P

Rebel Heart is currently the 21st biggest selling artist album in the UK this year.

From Music Week. Will need to work out how much Evita sold in the 90s so we can add its 21st century sales to get an overall total.

I make it roughly 835k :D

I make it roughly 835k :D

Is that its 90s total or combined? Thanks very much though!

Is that its 90s total or combined? Thanks very much though!

Combined

Great list. A labour of love! Her updated 21st century total (from the MW quote on pg15 of the thread) hasn't been added to the first post though - worth sticking it on there? (Not sure if it was ref to albums or records, ie. album and singles combined)

Great list. A labour of love! Her updated 21st century total (from the MW quote on pg15 of the thread) hasn't been added to the first post though - worth sticking it on there? (Not sure if it was ref to albums or records, ie. album and singles combined)

Thank you! And yeah, I will do - I've been working on updating the sales list so it should be up soon.

'Die Another Day' gets certified Silver (200k) by the BPI, yay!

'Vogue' has now sold 535k, as revealed by the OCC in their new quiz: http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/q...ld-more__11079/

Exciting news! The Immaculate Collection has re-entered the chart at #187 - the first time since August 2008. It's regularly charted on the budget chart though.

Fab :cheer:

 

Do we have recent total sales for it?

1,518,262

Thanks Joe! I assume it's her best selling greatest hits by some way?

I feel like 90s sales may be missing though... I'll look into it...I swear it's sold loads more than that..

 

 

Edit - yes, those are just sales from 1994 onwards....sales before are just lost...

The figure Joe posted is its 1994+ sales and I've been searching all over for its 1990-1993 sales to add on but can't find them anywhere!

 

The last official total revealed was 3,665,068 the w/e 1 November 2014 (when True Blue re-entered the Top 40 after being discounted) so I imagine it must be at 3.7m by now given it was constantly in the budget chart.

 

GHV2 is approaching 900k and Celebration is approaching 600k, so they'll be certified 3x and 2x Platinum when they reach those marks.

Well i'll take 3.7million over Joe's initial total :heehee:

Yeah, I know which I like the sound of most! :P