Billboard Year-End Charts 2013

Despite a relatively quiet year for Madonna on the Billboard charts, she made a few appearances on their year-end tallies for 2013:

Top Dance/Electronic Artists: #47
Top Music Video Sales: "MDNA World Tour" #29
Top 25 Tours: #14 (Total Gross: $76,752,277, Total Attendance: 577,169, No. of Shows: 16, No. of Sellouts: 16)

Contributor Maurice G. explains:

For the Dance/Electronic Artists category, I'm certain it's because of MDNA still being on the charts in early 2013. As for the Top 25 Tours, since the chart compiles touring stats from Nov 2012 to Nov 2013, Madonna was still touring at that time and the above stats are for the last 16 concerts. I'm still surprised that MDNA DVD/Blu-ray still made it on the year-end Music Video Sales in spite of its 4-week run due to the recall.

Chart News: Week of 10/26/2013

MDNA WORLD TOUR (VIDEO)
TOP MUSIC VIDEO: OFF (From #25)

Chart News: Week Of 10/19/2013

MDNA WORLD TOUR (VIDEO)
TOP MUSIC VIDEO: #25 (From #11)

Chart News: Week Of 10/12/2013

MDNA World Tour takes a tumble this week on the Top Music Videos chart as it suffers from the effects of the Blu-Ray recall in the USA (Not sure if the DVD was recalled as well). All copies were deemed defective and pulled from stores last week. Definitely a huge blunder. Amazon.com has new listings for both the DVD and Blu-Ray so the new corrected discs should be coming soon.

MDNA WORLD TOUR (VIDEO)
TOP MUSIC VIDEO: #11 (from #1)

MDNA World Tour (2013) (Video)

MDNA World Tour (2013) (Album)

Chart News: Week of 10/5/13

MDNA WORLD TOUR (VIDEO)
TOP MUSIC VIDEO: #1 (Holds for a second week)

MDNA WORLD TOUR (AUDIO ALBUM)
BILLBOARD 200: Off (From #90)
TOP CURRENT ALBUMS: Off (From #89)

MDNA World Tour Is Madonna 10th #1 on Top Music Videos Chart

Madonna’s MDNA World Tour enters Top Music Videos at #1. It’s Madonna’s 10th music video to top this chart. It follows Madonna (four weeks at #1 in 1985), Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour (10 weeks in 1986), Ciao Italia: Live From Italy (eight weeks in 1988), The Immaculate Collection (four weeks in 1991), Drowned World Tour 2001 (one week in 2001), I’m Going To Tell You A Secret (two weeks in 2006), The Confessions Tour (two weeks in 2007), Celebration: The Video Collection (one week in 2009) and Sticky & Sweet Tour (one week in 2010).
MDNA Tour enters the U.S. Billboard 200 at No. 90

-Paul Grein, Yahoo Chart Watch

Chart News: Week of 9/28/2013

Madonna's back on the Billboard charts this week as her latest release, MDNA World Tour, debuts at #90 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and #1 on the Top Music Video chart.

MDNA WORLD TOUR (VIDEO)
TOP MUSIC VIDEO: #1 (Debut)

MDNA WORLD TOUR (AUDIO ALBUM)*
BILLBOARD 200: #90 (Debut)
TOP CURRENT ALBUMS: #89 (Debut)
* It should be noted that in the USA the audio-only version MDNA World Tour was only released digitally and as an Amazon.com 'On-Demand' CD-R exclusive.

Special thanks to contributor Maurice!

Madonna Humbly Accepts Top Touring Artist Trophy At Billboard Music Awards

Thanks to the worldwide success of her MDNA Tour, Madonna was honored as the Top Touring Artist at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, held on Sunday night (May 19) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

The legendary diva took the stage with a touch of sass, following an introduction by Will.i.am that was set to the tune of "Like a Virgin." Referring to a preceding montage of MDNA footage, she proclaimed, "It took longer to negotiate whether I could show my ass in that trailer than it took to negotiate that tour!"

With that out of the way, Madge delved into a laundry list of thank you's, including choreographers Rich and Tone Talauega, costume designer Arianne Phillips, musical director Kevin Antunes, set designer Mark Fisher, Live Nation's Arthur Fogel, and of course, her fans. She also thanked her four children, two of which accompanied her on the blockbuster tour.

"They say that it takes a village to raise a child," Madonna said, with her notecards humbly visible. "It took several international villages to put my show together."

The 88-show MDNA tour grossed $305 million, according to Billboard Boxscore. It's the pop icon's latest chart landmark in a career full of them, including records for Hot 100 top 10 singles (38 of her overall 56 Hot 100 hits) and Dance Club Songs No. 1s (43).

Billboard.com

Billboard Music Awards 2013

* TOP TOURING ARTIST * 
 *TOP DANCE ALBUM * 
* TOP DANCE ARTIST *

...'Nuff said!

"Burning Up" On The Club Play Chart (Update) / Madonna To Attend Billboard Music Awards

Just a quick update to the last entry regarding "Burning Up" on the Club Play chart. We can now add 2 more previously missing weekly positions to its run:

Week-by-week Rundown: 66-?-18-9-4-4-3-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-// (16 weeks)

Thanks to Maurice.

UPDATE:
We can also now add five more discovered weekly positions (2 more weeks at its peak of #3, followed by two weeks at #4 and a week at #10):
Week-by-week Rundown: 66-?-18-9-4-4-3-3-3-4-4-10-?-?-?-?-// (16 weeks)

Also, as you are all probably aware by now, Madonna has been confirmed to be attending this year's Billboard Music Awards (Airing May 19th) where she will he honored as the Top Touring Artist.

Update / New Classic Chart Info Discovered

Hello everybody, long time no talk! Sorry about the lack of updates lately, but we all know how quiet it's been on the Billboard charts regarding Madonna these days. Hope everyone's been enjoying their 2013.

I received some nice discoveries today from blog contributor Maurice, who emailed me the following:

I have a few things here for you to include on your Madonna Billboard Archives.  They are Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart stats for "Holiday" and "Borderline":

HOLIDAY
BUBBLING UNDER HOT 100 SINGLES
Debut Date: October 8, 1983
Peak Date: October 8, 1983
Peak Position: #8
Week-by-week Rundown: 8-9-8-// (3 weeks total)
Final Week on Chart: October 22, 1983

BORDERLINE
BUBBLING UNDER HOT 100 SINGLES
Debut Date: March 3, 1984
Peak Date: March 3, 1984
Peak Position: #7
Week-by-week Rundown: 7-// (1 week total)
Final Week on Chart: March 3, 1984

Also for BURNING UP, I found two chart stats for its entry in Hot Dance Club Play chart (#18 and #9) as specified below:

Week-by-week Rundown: 66-?-18-9-?-?-3-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-// (16 weeks)

This info has now been added to the Holiday, Borderline and Burning Up singles pages. Thanks again Maurice!

Madonna Among Finalists For 2013 Billboard Music Awards

Madonna is among the few veteran acts named as finalists for multiple honors at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, which will be handed out on Sunday, May 19, in Las Vegas.
Madonna is in the running for three awards — Top Touring Artist, Top Dance Artist and Top Dance Album for her 2012 release MDNA.

This year’s event will take place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and will air live on ABC starting at 8 p.m. ET.

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Billboard.com: Madonna Is Music's Top Money Maker

#1 Madonna
$34,577,308.62

Thanks largely to her blockbuster MDNA tour, the Queen of Pop reigns at No. 1 on the Moneymakers list for a second time. (She first crowned the tally for earnings in 2008.) MDNA was last year's -biggest tour ($305 million gross), and the No. 10 top-grossing trek of all time. The 88-date tour earned Madonna an estimated $32 million in 2012. The globetrotting tour also supported her MDNA album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and generated $1.5 million in physical and digital album sales for the artist. Her first studio release under a 360 deal with Live Nation, MDNA was released and promoted through Interscope, with U.S. sales buoyed by a promotion in which tour ticket buyers had an option of receiving the album as part of their purchase.

Billboard.com
Another Billboard article here.

Drowned World Tour 2001 (2001)

The Confessions Tour (Video) (2007)

Celebration: The Video Collection (2009)

Chart News: Week Of 2/2/2013

MDNA

DANCE / ELECTRONIC ALBUMS: OFF (From #55)

MDNA Tour: Final Box Office Gross

Madonna's 'MDNA' Tour Makes Billboard Boxscore's 

All-Time Top 10

The final numbers are in, and Madonna's 2012 "MDNA" tour has retained her box office form, clocking in at $305,158,363 gross with 2,212,345 in attendance over 88 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore. The tour began in Israel last May 31 and finished in Argentina on Dec. 22, hitting Europe, Asia and North America in between.

The "MDNA" final box office tally is enough to rank "MDNA" No. 10 all-time in tours as reported to Boxscore, sandwiched between the Rolling Stones' "Licks" tour of 2002-2003 ($311 million) and the Stones' "Bridges To Babylon" tour of 1997-98 ($274 million).

This is Madonna's second time in the Boxscore Top 10; the "Sticky & Sweet" tour of 2008-09 was third all-time at $408 million, the highest ever for a solo artist. Her 2006 "Confessions" tour came in at $194 million. All of these tours, including "MDNA," were produced by Live Nation's Global Touring division, headed by LNGT chairman Arthur Fogel, who offhandedly predicted to Billboard back in April that MDNA would end up a Boxscore Top 10 tour.

Had "MDNA" played Australian stadiums, as was initially considered, the tour would have moved up a few notches up the all-time list. As it stood and as it stands, "MDNA" was the highest-grossing tour for 2012 according to Boxscore, making it Madonna's third time closing a year at the top of the box office heap, the others being 2009 and 2004. Madonna joined the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Bon Jovi as the only acts to be Billboard's highest-grossing tour twice in a three-year span, and "MDNA" gives Fogel and Live Nation their sixth top tour over the past 10 years.

Chart News: Week Of 1/26/2013 (UPDATED)

OK, some unexpected news this morning. Apparently, Billboard has now expanded the number of positions on the Dance/Electronic Albums chart (and their other genre-based album charts). As a result, MDNA shows up as a re-entry at #55 this week.

In other news, Billboard has launched a new chart called Dance / Electronic Songs. According to Billboard.com:

"Billboard expands its coverage of the burgeoning dance scene by launching Dance/Electronic Songs, the first-ever ranking of the nation's top dance songs combining digital download sales (tracked by Nielsen SoundScan), radio airplay (monitored by Nielsen BDS) and streaming data (tracked by BDS from such services as Spotify, Muve, Slacker, Rhapsody, Rdio, MySpace, Xbox Music and Guvera) and reported club play from a select national panel of 140 club DJs.

Outside of club play data, Dance/Electronic Songs will match the methodology applied to Billboard's signature all-genre songs ranking, the Billboard Hot 100. Titles eligible for the chart will be determined based on a song's core sound and tempo, as they have been for our sales-based Dance/Electronic Digital Songs chart, which launched in 2010. Dance remixes of titles categorized as pop, rock, R&B, rap or another genre would not make a song eligible for Dance/Electronic Songs, even if the title appears on the Dance Club Songs or Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart."

I think it's interesting that they are including club play data into this new chart. Could the old Club Play chart soon be on its way out? That chart has received some criticism in recent years for being old-fashioned and an inaccurate representation of current dance music, mostly because it is the last chart to be compiled in the outdated way of collecting playlists directly from DJ's, instead of using electronic Nielsen data. I guess we'll have to wait and see, but I do hope they keep it since Madonna dominates the Club Play chart so consistently. In the meantime, this new Dance / Electronic Songs chart is exciting because it is one that Madonna could appear on in the future :)

MDNA

DANCE / ELECTRONIC ALBUMS: #55 (Re-Entry)

So Now What?

As you can tell, it's been very quiet around here lately since MDNA has fallen off the Billboard charts. I'll be focusing on finishing up all the Video Chart entries over the next few weeks. I think the next big thing we can look forward to chart-wise is the MDNA tour release, which will most likely return Madonna to the charts for (hopefully) at least a few weeks. I've seen rumors that the DVD/Blu-Ray could be released as early as March, but nothing has been confirmed yet. Also, there are all those 'new album' rumors which have been floating around lately, even though Guy Oseary has since shot these down on Twitter. I really doubt we'll get any new music any time soon, but I guess you never know! Let's see what happens...

The Girlie Show-Live Down Under (1994)

Chart News: Week Of 1/12/2013 & MDNA End-Of-Year Total Sales

I haven't seen any evidence that Madonna appeared on any charts this week, so as of now I'm assuming that MDNA fell off the Dance / Electronic chart again. If anyone knows for sure, please let me know.
Update: MDNA officially fell off the Dance / Electronic chart.

MDNA
DANCE / ELECTRONIC ALBUMS: OFF (from #25)

Meanwhile, according to recently released Soundscan sales figures, MDNA finished off 2012 by selling a total of 526,531 copies. It was the 40th best-selling album of the year in the USA. Here's the full list of the year's best-selling albums:

MDNA Tour Box Scores: Miami, Mexico, Colombia & Brazil

Here's the latest round of boxscore figures released by Billboard.biz: