Chart News: Week of 4/14/2012 (UPDATED)

Hey everyone. I'm currently out of town for a few days but I just wanted to make a quick post regarding next week's Club Play chart. Girl Gone Wild moves up 3 spots from #7 to #4 and is also the Greatest Gainer. Meanwhile Give Me All Your Luvin' only slips 2 spots from #6 to #8. Enjoy the weekend!

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MDNA Billboard Magazine Review

Chart News: Week of 4/7/2012 (UPDATED)

Give Me All Your Luvin'
HOT SINGLES SALES: #13 (Down From #8)
DANCE SINGLES SALES: #7 (Down From #4)
LATIN POP SONGS: #38 (Down from #31)

MDNA
TASTEMAKER ALBUMS: #20 (Debut) *

* The Tastemaker Albums chart ranks albums based on "an influential panel of indie stores and small regional chains." MDNA most likely charted here because of street-date violation sales.


This is in addition to the previously reported Club Play positions.

Billboard: Madonna Set For Big Top 200 Debut

Madonna's 12th studio album, "MDNA," is on course to easily debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart next week. Industry sources suggest the set could sell between 300,000 to 350,000 copies by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, April 1.

If "MDNA" lands atop the list, it will mark the queen of pop's eighth No. 1 album and her fifth consecutive studio set to debut in the penthouse. Her last studio album, 2008's "Hard Candy," started at No. 1 with 280,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The new Billboard 200 chart's top 10 will be revealed on the morning of Wednesday, April 4.

Madonna's first No. 1 came on the Billboard 200 chart dated Feb. 9, 1985, when her second album, "Like a Virgin," began a three-week run at the top.

"MDNA's" first week will be bolstered by a successful album sales promotion involving Madonna's upcoming world tour. U.S. customers who bought a concert ticket also had the option of also receiving "MDNA" as part of their purchase. The only sales that will count towards Billboard's charts are those where the customer opted to receive the album.

This sort of ticket/album promotion has been used in the recent past by such acts as Bon Jovi and Tom Petty. The latter's "Mojo" album saw a No. 2 debut on July 3, 2010 -- thanks to a fair number of customers who got the album via a ticket purchase. The same goes for Bon Jovi's 2007 No. 1 album "Lost Highway."

Source: Billboard.com 

Hits Daily Double: MDNA To Debut At #1

"Madonna's Material Gains"


New MDNA Album Debuts on Top

March 28, 2012

She’s no longer “Like a Virgin,” or even the Material Girl, for that matter, but Madonna is still a pop diva superstar.

Madge’s Interscope debut, MDNA, her 12th studio album and first under a recently inked deal with Live Nation, is her first new collection in four years, since 2008’s Hard Candy. It’s a lock for #1 on next week’s HITS Album sales chart, with between 325-350k, beating that album’s 280k opening.

Source: Hits Daily Double

Year-End Charts

Billboard's Year-End Chart positions for Madonna have now been added courtesy of contributor Maurice Gravelle. He notes that 2005 and 2011 are absent as they were the only years that Madonna did not appear on the tallies. Check 'em out!

Madonna's 40 Biggest Billboard Hits

Here is a great write-up from Billboard.com 

She's the Queen of Pop and royalty on the Billboard charts. To celebrate the release of Madonna's 12th studio album, "MDNA," we've compiled an exclusive ranking of the diva's 40 biggest Billboard Hot 100 hit singles.

HAPPY MDNA DAY!

Turn up the volume, pump up your stereo, put on your headphones and enjoy the day! MDNA is finally here! :)

USA fans, don't forget to get your Smirnoff Remix Edition as well!