Understandable but if those streams had helped her get the #1 ahead of Aitch and Steps (I wish) would you still believe it wouldn’t have really “beaten” them?

 

Well that's not the same really. I'm not disputing the chart positions or the sales I am just saying that claiming it has beaten Steps and Aitch is a bit silly since it has essentially cheated it's way to it in a way that Aitch especially cannot do. Steps have likely done the same giving Gold or TUC sales to Platinum Collection they just don;t have any streaming power :lol:

it does show how the album charts today are ridiculous but its been like this for years

Well that's not the same really. I'm not disputing the chart positions or the sales I am just saying that claiming it has beaten Steps and Aitch is a bit silly since it has essentially cheated it's way to it in a way that Aitch especially cannot do. Steps have likely done the same giving Gold or TUC sales to Platinum Collection they just don;t have any streaming power :lol:

 

I get what you're saying, but personally I think it's silly to say that Madonna (or her team) has "cheated" their way to the chart sales Finally Enough Love has achieved. Cheating is, effectively, not following the rules or acting in a dishonest way. No rules have been broken; the OCC wouldn't allow it.

It's like saying Ed Sheeran cheats his way no a No.1 single. Nope... he's just used the formats available to him to get ahead.

 

If we're going to say that Madonna (or Ed) cheated, then we may as well say Steps cheated their way to a No.1 album by releasing multiple formats, and signing some of them, all in week one, knowing their fanbase would buy all or most of them and inflate their sales. They didn't cheat... again, they just used what was available to them to get the success.

 

Madonna did not beat Steps or Aitch in week one... but it will always be on record that Finally Enough Love did spend a lot longer in the charts that the two albums that beat its chart position in week one, and it ultimately racked up more "chart sales" than they did as well.

 

 

I mean, it's a bit silly that regular single/album versions probably are being counted towards Finally Enough Love and not just the actual versions presented on the album.

To be fair though the OCC doesn’t differentiate between remixes and originals so that’s consistent with their rules

It's amazing wow. I just love it.

'Finally Enough Love' just missed out on a Top 100 placing last week:

 

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I find this chart run kind of disappointing when I overthink it. I mean, she deserves to have her best of doing much better than this really when you compare her to other legacy icons :(

 

#9 in the UK midweeks! :o

:o Jay's vinyl purchase did THAT.

 

But yes that's amazing - the rainbow vinyl is stunning and so this boost is so well deserved <3

Wow fantastic. :o

I know alot of it is fake sales as they say but that applies to most albums these days but that's how the market works but I have to say when this was released first I expected nothing more than about a 3 week chart run and a struggle to go silver months later and here we are with one of her best chart runs for a long time and heading for gold and outselling her previous studio album, it's a job well done.

Any sales figures?

Any sales figures?

Only that #8 is on 2.4k so should be just under that.

^ sweet

:o Jay's vinyl purchase did THAT.

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#16 in the UK update today.

I estimate total UK sales to be ~85k. Hopefully we get an updated total tomorrow!

 

The album is midweek #9 in Germany!

Finally Enough love is on 88,394 sales and Madame X is on 62,631 (sales are from this weeks sales thread in the chart forum)

Madonna compilation Finally Enough Love is back in the Top 75 for the first time since January, re-entering at No.27 (3,635 sales). Madonna’s health woes doubtless provided some impetus but the real reason the album - which debuted and peaked at No.3 last August – is back in the chart is the release of a new 6 LP ‘rainbow edition’ of the set, which typically sells for more than £130 and provided 54.64% (1,986) of its sales in the latest frame. The album’s to-date consumption of 88,394 units is higher than Madonna’s latest studio album, Madame X, which has sold 62,531 units since its June 2019 release.

My estimate for the album prior to this week was 84.8k so I was bang on! :o

 

Happy to get an update for Madame X too, wasn’t expecting to get that.