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25 years this year which would have been a great time to release one but obviously that was never going to happen when they’re pushing for physicals of the album reissue and the new single.

It’s third best after Ray of Light and Confessions for me! Funny when it was actually the album I had the hardest time getting into when I was a kid!

Kylie Christmas debuted at #12 with 15,881 in 2015 so this album will beat that, although probably will fall short of its highest sale, which was about 23k the week it was #20. Kylie Christmas didn’t even re-enter last Christmas! It was Top 250 on the combined (albums and compilations) chart though.

I’m happy with a year break for creative reasons but would also be nice to tie in the next album with her 40th anniversary in music (whether that be 2027 to celebrate her first single or 2028 for her first album).

I did like the line on Friday night’s episode about 65 not being a milestone worth celebrating like 60 or 70, clearly a subtle reference to Coronation Street turning 65 next week and nothing significant being planned.

Don't forget it just missed out on the Top 100 before entering and I think was available for a week before that was well. My estimate is 33k.

They've revised the total. The estimate in the opening post is based on year end lists and estimates for trickle sales since. I don't think an official total has ever been given. I believe the opening sales estimate for the time was 56k which is now revised to 41k.

From Music Week: A little over 31 years since it debuted and peaked at No.2 on sales of 42,041 copies, Madonna’s sixth studio album, Bedtime Stories, is the subject of belated ‘30th anniversary’ editions with new vinyl and expanded CD editions ushering it to a re-entry at No.61 (2,563 sales). The simultaneously released EP Bedtime Stories: The Untold Chapter – released only on vinyl and digitally – gathers eight remixes and outtakes, and debuts outside the Top 75 at No.95 (2,106 sales). Bedtime Stories’ lifetime consumption rises to 393,730 units. Looking at the sales, it didn't do as badly as I first thought. If they combined the releases, it would have been Top 30 and sold 4,669 (more than 'Veronica Electronica'). Nice to have a lifetime total for 'Bedtime Stories' too!

In the UK: #61 for 'Bedime Stories' and #95 for 'The Untold Chapter'. Not great. 😬

Same! Can’t remember for sure but pretty sure Kylie has been my top artist the past couple of years due to her releasing albums. Can guarantee Madonna will make it two years on the trot with her new album expected early next year!

My average age was 40 which I was offended by until I saw the age @Jade got who is the same real age as me!

Yes please!

Correct!

Girls Aloud had the highest sale for a #3 of 2006, sales that would have seen them #1 either side of that week! :(

The original album has been re-released on vinyl and can be bought as a double album with The Untold Chapter. That’s the entry at #12. #23 is the vinyl of The Untold Chapter.

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Madonna named 4th greatest musician by Spin Magazine! She changed the world. Bruce Springsteen may have been the biggest rock star in the ’80s (may still be) but Madonna was the biggest star. No movie star, director, painter, writer or other musician created the tsunamic wake she did when she floated into and out of a country. Crowds the size of those who came to see the Pope greeted her when she arrived in a city like Rome, besieging her hotel. (When she later played Evita in a movie, that role was a step down from the adulation she witnessed in real life.) Her music was great (I think, always did) but that alone didn’t create the rip in the cultural space-time continuum. She was a liberator. She was 100 percent who she wanted to be and who she said she was, which was more than refreshing, it was, then, society-tearing down. Love her or hate her, she was (I believe) equally happy with either reaction. She freed sex from the prissy cotton wool Reagan’s America was wrapping it back in. Nothing she did was as outrageous as the next thing she did. She was a sustained cultural orgasm. She coincided with MTV’s rise perfectly, and defined them as much as they helped define her. Her videos were small movies — some R-rated level and banned — and they were great! Her songs and videos were controversial on multiple levels, including the tremendous furor that “Like a Prayer” caused for using Christian crosses and kissing the statue of a Black saint. She sold more than 300 million records, but that’s beside the point. Madonna more embodied the spirit of rock ‘n roll than rock stars. She was nobody’s fool, and still isn’t. – Bob Guccione, Jr

Yeah I’m not counting out #1 just yet.

You're welcome! I've had the exact same thoughts about new releases too!

Based on various totals and adding up weekly sales given in surrounding weeks, these are my estimates for 3-5: 94,000 Eminem (3) 91,000 Il Divo (4) 89,000 Kylie Minogue (5) And my estimates for 'What Will the Neighbours Say?' over Christmas: 85,717 (6) 84,000 (9) 85,000 (13) 106,000 (12) 31,000 (15)

Not sure if mentioned yet but Graham Norton performance on 12th December Never mind I see it on previous page now!