Digital Singles Sales – Part 1
As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1,5 ratio between albums and digital singles.
Madonna (1983) – 364,000 equivalent albums
Everybody – 180,000
Burning Up – 230,000
Holiday – 925,000
Lucky Star – 470,000
Borderline – 520,000
Remaining tracks – 100,000
Like A Virgin (1984) – 523,000 equivalent albums
Like A Virgin – 1,050,000
Material Girl – 1,050,000
Angel – 100,000
Into The Groove – 725,000
Dress You Up – 310,000
Love Don’t Live Here Anymore – 100,000
Remaining tracks – 150,000
True Blue (1986) – 421,000 equivalent albums
Live To Tell – 420,000
Papa Don’t Preach – 625,000
True Blue – 310,000
Open Your Heart – 360,000
La Isla Bonita – 940,000
Remaining tracks – 150,000
Nearly all songs from those 3 albums were hit singles back in the day. A few of them faced the time better than the others. Holiday, Like A Virgin, Material Girl and La Isla Bonita are at roughly 1 million downloads and ringtones each. While good, these figures are nowhere near the big hits from Michael Jackson, Guns N’ Roses or Queen from the same era.
Some songs are more disappointing. Into The Groove and Papa Don’t Preach, two of the very biggest hits from 1985/1986 Worldwide, lost a lot of momentum since.
I hope Madonna’s upcoming Biopic and the recently announced plans of her label, Warner Records, re-visiting her discography will give her catalogue a big boost on streaming, especially for ‘Erotica’.
It is so close to reaching 10M CSPC units, but with recurrent stats this low, it’ll take ages for it to ultimately reach it. Hopefully, her future activities will give it a boost.
Can someone explain me how this numbers are calculated ? Sales of Like a Prayer-track between Physical and Digital are a 1.212 MILLIONS CSPS, how this reach almost 18 millions ?
Every ‘medium’ that cointains the song Like a Prayer is taken into consideration. So it’s gonna be its digital and physical sales as a single, but also streaming and all the albums, compillationa and remixes where the song happens to be. Of course there is a special ratio applied to calculate how many copies it ‘sold’.
Can you post her sales in some other coutries,Such as Portugal,Hongkong,Taiwan and singapore.
I Wonder how many countries she sold over 1 million copies albums
She has 10 album went platinum in Hong Kong,CFOAD is 2XPlatinum
I Live in Hong Kong,she’s really popular in here back in the 80s
Please Update Madonna’s Streams. Here are some fan uploaded videos which were deleted by Warner Records Will you think of those videos? La Isla bonita surpassed 84 million views on Apr.29,2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170429115549if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YzW1nMB9fk Material Girl surpassed19 million views on Aug.24, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170824173047/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNSUOFgj97M Like a Prayer surpassed 23 million views on Apr.19, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170419194007if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDnUIXF2ly8 Like a Virgin surpassed 17 million views on May.23,2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170523070853/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHW5RVvg2v4 Frozen surpassed 8 million views on April.8,2017 http://web.archive.org/web/20170407110006/https://20170407110006/www.youtube.com/watch?v=zetvr04xue4 A Official 4 minutes once uploaded but removed after 2009 It Surpassed 7.5 million views by Dec.2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081217053204/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Ch5LTJhS0&feature=related 4 minutes surpassed 46 million views on Sep.10,2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080910034921/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfUjfioAnKY&feature=related Another 4 minutes… Read more »
Her streaming numbers aren’t that great. Rolling Stones, Eminem and Pink Floyd will overtake her eventually.
We never know what is going to happen in the future guys. Especially because her Spotify numbers increase a litlle bit every month, her YouTube views are better than Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd and her new Warner deal.
Thats because she made expensive flashy music videos for the MTV generation. The Stones and Pink Floyd didn’t really bother. You go on to Youtube for the video generally, not so much for the music.
Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd debut at a time when music video does not exist. Not because they didn’t really bother. They probably would have bothered to put effort into making videos if they debut in the 80s instead of the 60s.
Is the streams of Confessions on the dance floor correct? I think 625 very high
i think they also include Youtube
Wow. RH sold 900K