MadonnaFan2012

What I mean is that Madonna has enough songs in vaults to pack out 10 albums if she wanted. She doesn't even need to record new stuff so its only natural when she passes the record lables will cash in and release it. Nostalgia always changes things. Btw I wasn't trying to be morbid. I was just saying what is very likely to happen.

^^ I'm sure when she dies the top 10 will be flooded with her hits again. Anyway how will streaming effect Madonna? I noticed that Bitch I'm Madonna, Ghosttown, Hold Tight, Joan Of Arc, Devil Pray and Unapologetic Bitch are all quite high right now. I can accept it but I refuse to believe the leaks haven't effected things. You seem to be full of glee at the thought of her flopping.

Well L4L did leak 3 months before its UK release and was easily available to download during that time. The fact it even charted at all is something. But it seems some of you are unwilling to accept leaks effect chart placings when they very much do.

Well thing I've learned is to never write Madonna off. If right song can capture an audience like say Hung Up did then she is half way there but I suspect now it won't be until she dies and everyone realises how great she was before her music impacts the chart again just like it did with MJ.

I agree she will just miss out which is a shame because she would have become the only solo artist to have had 12 number 1 albums but she will get there eventually. The only thing I don't believe is some of the sales being thrown around today. As already pointed out, they simply don't add up.

That's photoshop. I'm not believing anything else now until the OCC confirm it. Too many unofficial figures floating around which have no direct source.

Her position on the various online charts means she must have sold at least 500 copies online. So if you think she some how only sold 500 copies of the CD in shops then seriously you can see that makes little sense?

I suspected they were fake. Thanks.

But still are we seriously expected to believe she sold only 1k yesterday. Whats even the source for this?

I'm finding half of these sales incredibly hard to believe. If that's true Madonna only sold 1k yesterday and Sam some how managed to sell 10k, his biggest of the entire week. Does that not set alarm bells off? I'm starting to believe data is missing afterall.

Madonna hanging on then. Hopefully she can hold out for another day and get that #1. I'm hoping Jonathan Ross will keep her sales stable through next week. She is due to film the Ghosttown video in a few days. Hopefully they will rush it out. Back to the leaks thing though, sales of Rebel Heart arent just low in the UK. They are low everywhere, way beyond what people expected. Its going to be 200k lower than what MDNA sold in America. Public opinion on hasn't changed that much within two years to explain the drop. If we get the stats of the most illegally downloaded albums of 2015 at the end of the year I bet Rebel Heart is way out in front. You guys need to remember the final version leaked on 22nd of Jan and has been out there ever since.

I refuse to believe that. This album leaked three times. To say that had no effect would be untrue.

Madonna clearly got effected by the leaks and the decision to release 9 songs for download prior to the actual albums release was always a questionable move. I think if you use logic you can see why it has fallen short. I just keep thinking back to how MDNA was the most illegally downloaded album of 2012 with over 2 million illegal downloads and that never leaked like Rebel Heart did.

I wonder if the fact 9 songs were already available for download is what stalled Rebel Hearts sales. Basically the bulk of the album was already out prior to release and don't forget Hold Tight topped the iTunes chart for a couple of hours that day. How many lost sales is in that..

Yes guys, it seems Amazon sales are still missing. Having 3 versions of the album out must be the reason for the issues.