Records & Achievements
- At 241,1 million equivalent album sales, Madonna is the most successful female artist of all-time, fourth overall.
- With 201,9 million albums sold, Madonna is the highest selling female artist on this format of all-time, fifth overall.
- With 75,2 million physical singles sold, Madonna is the highest selling female artist on this format of all-time, sixth overall.
- With 7,8 million music videos sold, Madonna is the highest selling female artist on this format of all-time, top 10 overall.
- At 28,1 million, The Immaculate Collection is the highest selling female compilation of all-time, seventh overall.
- With 13, Madonna has more UK #1 hits than any other female artist, fifth overall.
- With 63, Madonna has more UK Top 10 hits than any other female artist, third overall.
- With 12, Madonna ranks third female, sixth overall among artists with most US #1 hits.
- With 38, Madonna has more US Top 10 hits than any other artist independently of its kind.
- With 12, Madonna has more UK #1 albums than any other female artist, third overall.
Please note that Madonna is the owner of countless records and achievements. The most notable of them have been listed so far, feel free to add more details inside the comments section, all valid records will then be added to this page.
In the following results table, all categories display figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.
| # | Cover | Album | Total CSPC | Sales* | Streams | Total CSPC | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio Albums | Other LPs | Physical Singles | Digital Singles | Last verified | Auto update | Daily Increase | |||||
| 1 |  | Madonna | 18,697,000 | 9,625,000 | 7,296,000 | 1,191,000(3,970,000) | 364,000(2,430,000) | 61,000 (08/20/17) | 221,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 100LD: 130 | 18,697,000 |
| 2 |  | Like A Virgin | 40,023,000 | 21,250,000 | 14,381,000 | 3,375,000(11,250,000) | 523,000(3,490,000) | 148,000 (08/20/17) | 494,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 210LD: 300 | 40,023,000 |
| 3 |  | True Blue | 37,147,000 | 22,550,000 | 9,925,000 | 3,651,000(12,170,000) | 421,000(2,810,000) | 108,000 (08/20/17) | 600,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 300LD: 460 | 37,147,000 |
| 4 |  | Who's That Girl | 6,743,000 | 5,400,000 | 53,000 | 1,182,000(3,940,000) | 77,000(510,000) | 8,000 (08/20/17) | 31,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 10LD: 20 | 6,743,000 |
| 5 |  | Like A Prayer | 25,683,000 | 14,275,000 | 8,580,000 | 1,941,000(6,470,000) | 509,000(3,390,000) | 114,000 (08/20/17) | 378,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 160LD: 240 | 25,683,000 |
| 6 |  | I'm Breathless | 12,624,000 | 6,700,000 | 4,497,000 | 1,050,000(3,500,000) | 203,000(1,350,000) | 59,000 (08/20/17) | 174,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 70LD: 90 | 12,624,000 |
| 7 |  | Erotica | 9,294,000 | 6,825,000 | 1,480,000 | 801,000(2,670,000) | 114,000(760,000) | 21,000 (08/20/17) | 74,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 30LD: 40 | 9,294,000 |
| 8 |  | Bedtime Stories | 11,806,000 | 7,500,000 | 3,257,000 | 804,000(2,680,000) | 146,000(970,000) | 27,000 (08/20/17) | 99,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 40LD: 70 | 11,806,000 |
| 9 |  | Evita | 7,689,000 | 6,525,000 | 313,000 | 717,000(2,390,000) | 65,000(430,000) | 22,000 (08/20/17) | 69,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 30LD: 30 | 7,689,000 |
| 10 |  | Ray Of Light | 21,374,000 | 16,000,000 | 3,302,000 | 1,530,000(5,100,000) | 298,000(1,990,000) | 67,000 (08/20/17) | 244,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 110LD: 200 | 21,374,000 |
| 11 |  | Music | 13,903,000 | 10,700,000 | 1,723,000 | 1,122,000(3,740,000) | 186,000(1,240,000) | 45,000 (08/20/17) | 172,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 80LD: 100 | 13,903,000 |
| 12 |  | American Life | 4,408,000 | 3,375,000 | 558,000 | 306,000(1,020,000) | 73,000(490,000) | 33,000 (08/20/17) | 96,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 40LD: 40 | 4,408,000 |
| 13 |  | Confessions Of A Dancefloor | 13,036,000 | 9,325,000 | 1,499,000 | 705,000(2,350,000) | 787,000(5,250,000) | 131,000 (08/20/17) | 720,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 360LD: 610 | 13,036,000 |
| 14 |  | Hard Candy | 6,030,000 | 3,650,000 | 592,000 | 156,000(520,000) | 1,316,000(8,770,000) | 111,000 (08/20/17) | 316,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 130LD: 170 | 6,030,000 |
| 15 |  | MDNA | 2,532,000 | 1,850,000 | 65,000 | 15,000(50,000) | 394,000(2,630,000) | 110,000 (08/20/17) | 208,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 60LD: 70 | 2,532,000 |
| 16 |  | Rebel Heart | 1,398,000 | 900,000 | 0 | 15,000(50,000) | 158,000(1,050,000) | 195,000 (08/20/17) | 325,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 80LD: 70 | 1,398,000 |
| 17 |  | Madame X (Deluxe) | 226,000 | 0 | 0 | 0(0) | 0(0) | 0 (N/A) | 226,000 (01/25/22) | Av.: 0LD: 0 | 226,000 |
| 18 | Orphan | 11,708,000 | 0 | 6,899,000 | 4,002,000(13,340,000) | 681,000(4,540,000) | 126,000 (08/20/17) | N/A | N/A | 11,708,000 | |
| *Pure sales figures updated on 08/20/17. 'Av.' stands for Average, 'LD' for Last Day. | |||||||||||
As a reminder:
- Studio Album: sales of the original album
- Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
- Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
- Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
- Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/11750 for Video stream)
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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