April 18, 200817 yr anywhere between 80 and 100k i think, wont be much more than that think portishead will end up number 2 and fall fast, but they could even beat madonna, i really wouldnt want to say!!!!
April 18, 200817 yr Well it's madonna so she's going to sell loads. I'm going to guess 140.000 in the first weeks and I think she's stay #1 in albums for 3 weeks. And by the end of the year she'll have sold hundreds of millions around the world beating Thriller as the best selling album of all time :cheer: (maybe not...) :P I'm so looking forward to the album though. I've tried not to listen to any tracks, but i have heard Candy Shop and the 30sec miles away - they both sound amazing. I'm really looking forward to hearing Devil Wouldn't Recognise You as it's been on the table since about 2003. :yahoo: Edited April 18, 200817 yr by Glyn
April 18, 200817 yr about 80k for Madge. And think Portishead will not be a serious challenge, and will fall fast after the hardcore fans all buy their copy in week 1 (even if it is as brilliant as everyone hopes)
April 18, 200817 yr I don't think it will sell in the same league as confessions did in the first week. About 120k I think. Alot of Madonna fans have been disgruntled by the timbaland sound of the first single. Also, I think hung up overall appealed to a wider fan base than 4 minutes.
April 19, 200817 yr Rollins Stomes review gives HARD CANDY 4/5 STARS "Hard Candy" - Rolling Stone Review Dominance isn't just a fetish for Madonna, it's her religion. It's no accident that she opened each show on 2005's Confessions on a Dance Floor tour by clenching a riding crop in her hand, jerking a gagged male dancer around by a leather leash. And she never puts down the whip: Since 1986's True Blue, Madonna has claimed writing or production credits on every one of her songs, even when she worked with dance-music artists such as William Orbit, Mirwais Ahmadzaï and Stuart Price. So itís surprising that her eleventh studio album -- her final one for longtime label Warner Bros. -- is an act of submission. For Hard Candy, Madonna's midlife meditation on her own relevance, she lets top-shelf producers make her their plaything. A songwriting team of American chart royalty helps Madonna revisit her roots as an urban-disco queen. Madonna isn't even the star on the first single, "4 Minutes": Timbaland and Nate "Danja" Hills provide a clanging whopper of a beat, and her vocal bobs alongside Justin Timberlake's, fighting not to drown in the brassy funk of a marching band. Timberlake is the album's melody doctor, and he steals from his own broody "What Goes Around . . . Comes Around" on Madonna's "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You." Madonna co-wrote but didn't co-produce the Timberlake-Timbaland team's five songs, which smack more of their creators' stamps than her own. The songs are solid, but slightly anonymous, as though they could be stripped down and peddled to other singers. The creative tension between Madonna and the Neptunes' Pharrell Williams crackles. Williams bangs on paint cans to generate the beat on the innuendo-laden opener, "Candy Shop", and pumps up the thumpy self-empowerment anthem "Give It 2 Me" with clubby synths that trumpet one of Madonna's favorite life-dance-sex metaphors: "Don't stop me now, don't need to catch my breath/I can go on and on." "Heartbeat" pulses like "Lucky Star," and the soulful "Beat Goes On" (which features an uninspired Kanye West cameo) is one of a handful of tracks with bells and whistles -- the classic disco "toot-toot, beep-beep" -- traceable to two of Madonna's touchstones: Chic, whose Nile Rodgers helped steer her early career, and Donna Summer. Like Confessions, Hard Candy celebrates dance as salvation, but even the euphorically groovy "Heartbeat" and "Dance 2night" strike wistful notes. Although the uptempo set features no ballads, the dominant lyrical themes -- regret, yearning, distrust -- are far from upbeat. Morphing from a syncopated shuffle into a lathery, orgasmic hysteria, Pharrell's "Incredible" is a challenging song about longing for a relationship's idyllic beginning. There's a melancholy pining in Timbaland-Timberlake's lush "Miles Away," which implies that all is not peachy in the house of Richie. "You always have the biggest heart when we're 6,000 miles apart," Madonna sings. International pop megastars -- they're just like us! The album's weakest moment is its most emotionally vapid. Madonna dips into Español for the painfully literal "Spanish Lesson." She has said the music was inspired by a Baltimore dance called the Percolator but seems more indebted to Timberlakeís fast-strummed "Like I Love You." Fortunately, there's also the bass-popping retro-boogie "She's Not Me," where Madonna imagines her lovers feeling buyers' remorse for being seduced by a copycat who "doesn't have my name." The offender who's "reading my books and stealing my looks and lingerie" could be any young pop starlet. But it also seems like an oddly timed barb at Madonna's now-fallen successor, Britney Spears, who has teamed up with many of the guys on Hard Candy -- Pharrell, Danja and (ahem) Timberlake -- and Madonna herself. Madonna can still scoff at wanna-be's half her age because she's stayed so flexible with her sound. (She's performed a similar feat with her body, devoting herself to a yoga regimen that's made her impossibly elastic -- name another near-fifty-year-old who can still rock a hot crotch shot on her album cover.) Even when she wrestles with Pharrell's abrupt stylistic changes or lets herself get absorbed in a Timberlake melody, Madonna still finds her way back on top. The atmospheric closing track, "Voices," poses the question "Who is the master, who is the slave?" before its operatic wind-down ends in a dramatic bell toll. The answer to both questions is still Madonna. Rated : 4 out of 5 stars
April 19, 200817 yr I think we're forgetting that this is erm....MADONNA? So she will sell! Unlike America, people like M here and her albums always sell good in the first week minus ok American Life! I hope 200k but it could do 180k :) and it'll be her 10th UK #1 album, my goodness!!! :) I was going to say 150k but this post has made me say 125k now (on a whim) as i'm sure it will put people like me off buying it. According to the reviews, it could sell about 50 copies. Edited April 19, 200817 yr by Robintime11
April 20, 200817 yr What reviews are you on about Robin? The album has received some very good reviews, mostly 3/5 and 4/5. So i'm not sure what your refering too? The lead single has already been top 10 for 4 weeks and no doubt it'll stop at #1 for 3-4 weeks and this will of course give her big sales! :)
April 20, 200817 yr I was going to say 150k but this post has made me say 125k now (on a whim) as i'm sure it will put people like me off buying it. According to the reviews, it could sell about 50 copies. Can you please give here links to reviews on the album? Thanks in advance:)
April 26, 200817 yr I downloaded my copy from I-Tunes Ireland yesterday. I don't think it's her best work but it's a pretty solid album and not the disaster some were predicting. My fave songs are "Miles Away", "Heartbeat" and "Beat Goes On". There are a few dud tracks on it - but the same could be said for most Madonna albums. I think it will do pretty well. I predict first week sales of between 100k - 120k. And will probably end up hitting (or coming close to) the million mark in total sales. Edited April 26, 200817 yr by delboy85
April 26, 200817 yr Hard Candy sucks... it's her weakest album in years and from the ghastly artwork in, it's Madonna's biggest ever career mistake. Yes, using Timbalands (dated) sound has given her a US hit again...... but using someone everyone and his dog has used before, and in such a banal way, Madonna's lost herself any credibility she may have had (ok, not a lot...but anyway...). She's shown that she doesn't start trends these days - she simply follows them. She jumps onto bandwagons before they're popular usually (possibly so Joe Public doesn't notice it wasn't Madonna who actually began the trend) - look how she hijacked the vogue phenomenon - it had been massive in the underground gay clubs for years, and Malcolm McLaren had made an album about the trend- even Bananaramara had used vogue-ing in their dance routines a full 2 years before Madonna hijacked it... yet, after the single was massive, Madonna was credited with starting the bloody trend. But using Timbaland? Oh please, Madonna - it's little wonder Stuart Price turned down any part in the album - at least he still has some dignity left. And he made the right choice... 4 Minutes is a parping, mish-mash-mess. Who cares that it's number one? It's not like a record needs to sell gargantuan amounts to hit the top these days, is it? Even the clinically deaf and dumb can see this is Madonna firing on half cylinders. Firing blanks, actually. Dreadful, dreadful single. There's 3 tracks on Hard Candy that would easily fit onto an album of 'Madonna's Worst Songs - Ever'... and even when it's good... it's just good. The glory days seem so, so far behind her.... and she can't ever be forgiven for giving us what is undoubtedly the ugliest ever album cover. Just.... vile. With Portishead's genre-defining masterpiece and this weak, flaccid Madonna album out on the same day, only a lunatic would waste money on Madollar. 1 out of 5.
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