#14 in the UK update - up a place from yesterday.

 

Only sold just over 200 copies yesterday but nothing outside of the Top 10 sold over 300 copies yesterday (guessing lots of data is missing).

#14 in the UK update - up a place from yesterday.

 

Only sold just over 200 copies yesterday but nothing outside of the Top 10 sold over 300 copies yesterday (guessing lots of data is missing).

 

So Silver is out of the question :(

So Silver is out of the question :(

At this point I'd say so. They need to get another single on the Radio 2 playlist.

 

Worldwide sales for the past week are in: Madame X sold 216k in its first week, not far behind Bruce who was on 228k. That's really good I'd say, considering Bruce was ahead of her in most markets.

 

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Rebel Heart sold 315k in its first week, MDNA sold 740k and Hard Candy sold 758k in its first full week (44k sales from its first chart week).

 

Rebel Heart sold 875k by the end of 2015, so 36% of those sales same from its first week. If Madame X did the same, it would finish the year on 600k.

The album has had a small climb on UK iTunes .

 

Currently number #30 , when I checked yesterday it was #40

I think a silver certification UK wise might be possible.

 

It’ll take some time but we’ll be getting videos from other tracks plus promo when the tour comes.

 

Is the audience with Madonna show to be screened on TV as well?

 

Plus streams as small as they are might just push it over the barrier.

 

 

God Control might keep the album on charts for few weeks. She's getting a lot of positive coverage around it.

I imagine she would like to have videos for Faz Gostoso and I Dont Search , however she has been commenting that she needs funding for the videos to happen.

 

I dont search has to be the next radio single .

 

I imagine that it wont take long for the standard edition to be reduced physically which will push sales a little.

website for correct madame x lyrics?

'God Control' seems to be giving the album a bit of a boost but I definitely think Radio 2 airplay will be the biggest help. That's what kept Rebel Heart afloat. Perhaps they can get a proper radio edit sorted for 'God Control' and give it a push to capitalise on the publicity it's getting.

 

Apparently there's one more video to come that's already been recorded (rumoured to be for 'Batuka'). Hopefully one for 'Faz Gostoso' can materialise.

 

website for correct madame x lyrics?

I find Genius always reliable: https://genius.com/albums/Madonna/Madame-x

Batuka !! I have not heard those rumours !! Please no !!!

 

Thanks for the lyric address .

Album has had another slight increase number #26 on iTunes .

Batuka !! I have not heard those rumours !! Please no !!!

 

Thanks for the lyric address .

'Batuka' isn't one of my favourites but I can see why she's done a video for it given the context of the song is essentially the birth of the record.

Out interview:

Madonna has just said my name and I don’t know what to do.

 

It’s a Friday afternoon in New York City, the week before Pride, and I’m on the phone with the Queen of Pop. Her hit single “Medellín” has just gone number one, making it her 47th single to hit that position on the US dance charts. In a few days, Billboard will announce that her fourteenth studio album, Madame X, is her ninth album to reach number one on their 200 chart. A week later, she’ll headline New York City Pride.

 

Yesterday, I was asked to send her a photo. How do you pick a selfie to send to Madonna?

 

I start our conversation by congratulating her on the success of her new album, an experimental collection of overtly political pop songs (“God Control,” “I Rise”), slow burning dance tracks (“I Don’t Search I Find”), and stripped back bangers (“Extreme Occident”) that sounds like the spiritual successor of Ray of Light and American Life — if Confessions on a Dance Floor was the godmother. “Madame X is an evolution of everything I’ve done as an artist," she acknowledges. The icon is extremely demure about the acclaim, saying that even 14 albums in, it’s an honor to have her music appreciated. “It’s still exciting to have an album be so well received.”

 

With this year’s Pride festivities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, there was really no choice but Madonna for the closing performance at Pride Island. The landmark anniversary has the Material Girl reflecting on the history of the movement and speculating on its future. “It means everything to me to be at World Pride,” she says. “I’m proud of having been even a small part of fighting for LGBTQ+ equality.” But she acknowledges that “even though we have a lot to celebrate, we still have work to do.”

 

Madonna has been doing that work since the early days of her fame — she famously included information about AIDS in the packaging of her 1989 album Like a Prayer and was vocal in interviews about her support for queer people at a time when that alliance could have derailed her career. That purity of purpose is still evident today on Madame X, which grapples with issues like gun control and political apathy, the latter being something Madonna is clearly not familiar with. In the music video for Madame X track “Dark Ballet,” the artist cast queer rapper Mykki Blanco as Joan of Arc, and the video ends with a message from Blanco: “I have walked this earth, Black, Queer and HIV positive, but no transgression against me has been as powerful as the hope I hold within.”

 

The Wednesday before her Pride performance, Madonna released the music video for “God Control,” an eight-minute technicolor daydream that slips quickly into nightmare with senseless acts of gun violence happening at a nightclub, a clear homage to the massacre at Pulse in 2016 that claimed 49 lives, most of them queer people of color. “Wake up,” Madonna chants over and over, imploring viewers to demand gun control now — the video even includes a shot of queer activist group Gays Against Guns marching at Pride. “God Control” came complete with a trigger warning about the disturbing content, but advised that these horrors are “happening everyday” and must be stopped. “This is your wake up call,” she sings over the track’s disco beat.

 

Pop music, Madonna tells me, is the perfect vehicle for activism “because it’s popular. Because people are listening, you’re able to get messages across you might not be able to otherwise.” She does confess that she wishes more contemporary pop artists would use their platforms to incite change. “I have always been an agent of change.” Earlier this year, M (as her team constantly refers to her, something I’m all too happy to pick up — we’re friends now!) rang in the New Year at the Stonewall Inn, compelling revelers to “never forget the Stonewall riots and those who bravely stood up and said ‘enough.’” She accepted GLAAD’s Advocate for Change Award and delivered a powerful speech about her decades of queer activism. “Why have I always fought for change?” she asked at the time. “It’s a hard question to answer. It’s like trying to explain the importance of breathing or the need to love.”

 

Hours after I speak with Madonna, Ty Sunderland’s monthly pop dance party Heaven on Earth sets sail for a special nautical edition honoring Madonna, a theme Sunderland decided on before he learned the Queen would be performing at Pride. Every time Sunderland dropped a Madonna track, an instant change swept over the crowd. “She has this power that, regardless of your age, you know the song and you love the song,” he recalls. “She’s one of the ultimate connections for multiple generations of gay people, there’s something unifying about her. I can be playing ‘Like a Prayer’ for a bunch of 20 year-olds or a bunch of 50 year-olds, and everyone is going to be screaming the lyrics.”

 

Drag Race winner Aquaria was the party’s guest DJ — she showed up in a full Madame X look, which she calls “secret agent prostitute” — and was struck by the enduring power of Madonna’s legacy. “She’s this example of bravery and strength,” Aquaria says. “She never backed down, she was always fighting for something. She’s a woman with extremely strong opinions and, with queer people being a marginalized group, we gravitate towards people who take a stance and want to do good in the world.”

 

That fight is what’s inspired Madonna to keep creating music, to keep fighting for change. Her greatest triumph, she reveals, is motherhood. “My children are the most important thing in my life,” she insists. And perhaps that’s part of why queer people love Madonna so intensely and enduringly. Throughout her career, she’s been pop’s most striking maternal figure — after all, she's named after her own mother and one of the most famous mothers in history.

 

But this is one mother who won’t disapprove of your Pride revelry. Before we hang up, I ask Madonna the burning question on everyone's minds: Is Madame X a top or a bottom?

 

“She’s both,” she laughs. “I don’t like choosing sides.”

In the album chart this week:

 

14 Madonna 4,642

As much as I wanted to see it spend another week in the top 10 I’m OK with that drop.

 

It didn’t fall that much from midweeks either (or at all did it).

Edited June 28, 20196 yr by Jordan Lee

On sales it was #9.

I'm happy it managed to hold onto its update position. I thought that may have suggested it held up okay on streaming, but it appears not as the album is out of the Top 100 album streaming chart (Bruce, for comparison, is #60).

 

The album experienced at 83% drop, pretty steep compared to Rebel Heart's 66.7% and MDNA's 68.8%. Will probably be low Top 40 next week.

I think Rebel Heart had a Jonathon Ross special which helped its second week on sale out here in the UK.

 

I’m hoping this manages at least the same amount of weeks top 100 even if it’s weeks in the top 40 are less.

 

I hope we get that special Graham Norton which was filmed. If it was to be aired on TV that could really help.

You're right, the Jonathan Ross special would have given a boost for the second week.

 

I can honestly see Madame X dropping like a stone unless they get another song on the Radio 2 playlist. There seems to be a big lack of performances this era, especially compared to Rebel Heart. There's been no UK performances and there's only been two notable performances elsewhere: one was totally annihilated and the other seemed to go largely unnoticed. I hope the Eurovision backlash hasn't put Madonna off performing her music outside of tours because the material on this album deserves to be recognised and receive powerful, exciting performances.

 

If you want to watch some videos of unboxing different releases :)