It could be another week for Sam Fender & Olivia Dean on the singles chart, meanwhile new tracks arrive from Jorja Smith featuring Wizkid on "Alive", Snow Patrol & Kylie Minogue on "These Alarms" and Jon Hopkins & Imogen Heap with "Reckoning" - plus songs from Fat Dog, J Hus, Take That, Josh Baker/Poppy Baskcomb, Wolf Alice, Beach Bunny and Westside Cowboy

Madonna's "Confessions II" is set to become her thirteenth UK #1 album. There's debut records out this week from Sienna Spiro with "Visitor" and Mary in the Junkyard with "Role Model Hermit", along with albums from Ken Carson, Deep Purple, The Shires, acloudyskye and Moonspell

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Considering the single hasn't really caught on in a big way, what sales do we think Confessions II is going to open with?

Id say 30k should easily be doable , didnt someone say she was going for the record of most variants ever

Really interested to see Madonna’s sales - there are 22 physical variants and I’ve seen so many unboxings on insta etc., with people getting 10+ copies.

Also the fact that some of the physicals are priced decently (£19.99 for the vinyl etc.,) should help.

Her last studio album opened with 27k, I think this one will be closer to 40k!

19 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

Her last studio album opened with 27k, I think this one will be closer to 40k!

Supposedly the pre sale are 29,992.

1 hour ago, OhDannyboyOh said:

Supposedly the pre sale are 29,992.

Not to compare, but Kylie’s DISCO and Tension also did 29/30K in there first day and both cleared 50K end of week, so hopefully the same or better for Madonna.

Yeah i do think kylies fanbase are more rabid than Madonnas tbf

3 hours ago, OhDannyboyOh said:

Supposedly the pre sale are 29,992.

To complement this, the source mentioned it's basically after a day and all the pre-orders haven't been counted yet.

Looks like she already passed Madame X first week sales, lol. 😆 (That's a good sign, BTW!).

It will be interesting to see Madonna's sales this week as Warner have spent a lot on this campaign, a few of the variants you could only purchase if you live in the US.

Excited for Mondays midweeks now! I’ve waited a while for this kind of Madonna impact. What a triumph.

2 hours ago, 777666jason said:

Yeah i do think kylies fanbase are more rabid than Madonnas tbf

I'm not trying to start an argument between both fanbases because this isn't my intention, but I think the difference is that Kylie (despite being Australian) focuses in the UK, while Madonna in the US. However, this doesn't mean that there are fanbases around the world, of course.

2 minutes ago, Juan Carlos said:

I'm not trying to start an argument between both fanbases because this isn't my intention, but I think the difference is that Kylie (despite being Australian) focuses in the UK, while Madonna in the US. However, this doesn't mean that there are fanbases around the world, of course.

Yeah it was tongue in cheek , the fact that 2 females artists that were mahoosive in the 80s still have the fanbases to pull in theses sort of numbers 40 years into their careers is incredible

The closest modern artist to this is Taylor swift and be interesting what sort of numbers she will be doing in another 20 years

I’m predicting

Madonna - 55-60k

Sienna - 17k (would love this to be way higher but the last minute shows / signings lead me to believe it’s maybe not sold as well as hoped?)

Edited 9 hours ago9 hr by Mr. C. Joel

What were the opening sales of Madonna’s last few albums?

Studio albums since 2000:

2000: 151,891 - Music

2003: 65,013 - American Life
2005: 217,610 - Confessions on a Dancefloor

2008: 94,655 - Hard Candy

2012: 56,335 - MDNA
2015: 37,245 - Rebel Heart
2019: 27,227 - Madame X

I previously mentioned in one of the Madonna's threads artist forum posts that Confessions II may debut with 32k. However, given that figure sales number, I can see her recent album to surpass Rebel Heart's first week sales, which I didn't think she could initially do that. I can increase my prediction to be between 39k to 43k now, which includes the streaming sales too.