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Finally Enough Love (Remix Album) was released last month and sold above 200k worldwide already.
A typical example of why this upvote/downvote system is so inappropriate for this website...
I agree, they are pointless, they serve no real purpose.
The main problem here though, is people. People who do not care about sales per se, just their faves sales. They never look at things objectively or even care that other artists are longer without an update or have added more since their last update.
Like A Virgin finally reached 40 million EAS. The album absolutely deserves it.
Hey, even if you don't update her numbers because it's too long, could you at least change Madame X's "Studio Album" sales? It should be around 300k worldwide. Thank you 🙂
I was wondering how Madonna's top Spotify tracks have evolved since this article.
She now has 12 tracks with 100M+ plays:
1 Material Girl - 370.1M
2 Like a Prayer - 353.4M
3 Hung Up - 329.1M
4 La Isla Bonita - 276.1M
5 Like a Virgin - 264.3M
6 4 Minutes - 252.2M
7 Frozen - 236.2M
8 Vogue - 213.3M
9 Holiday - 161.2M
10 Into the Groove - 107.6M
11 Papa Don't Preach - 106.6M
12 Crazy for You - 105.3M
That top 12 is quite different to the one from August 2017:
1 Prayer - 72.3M
2 Hung Up - 57.6M
3 4 Minutes - 52.7M
4 Material - 48.2M
5 Virgin - 47.4M
6 Vogue - 43.5M
7 Bitch, I'm Madonna - 42.6M
8 La Isla - 37.4M
9 Girl Gone World - 30.1M
10 Give Me All Your Luvin' - 27.6M
11 Celebration - 24.1M
12 Living for Love - 22.8M
Unsurprisingly the more recent releases (Bitch, Girl Gone, Give Me All, Celebration and Living for) are all out of the top 12, replaced by oldies Frozen, Holiday, Groove, Papa and Crazy. At 92.9M Bitch is close to 100M though.
It's no surprise that the two biggest climbers are Material Girl (#4-1) and Frozen (#16-7).
The former was boosted by the Netflix drama "Bridgerton" in feb 2022, enough to pass Like a Prayer as the definitive Madonna song on Spotify. And Frozen was boosted by the Sickick remixes in 2021. One version, the "Frozen on Fire" one (4.1M plays), is not included in the song's total. The org. is sampled, but to me it's a different song.
As mentioned my MJD in the org. article, Hung Up is still pulling away from 4 Minutes as the dominant Madonna track from the 00s. In fact, apart from the booming Material Girl, Hung Up is actually doing very well compared to the 80s and 90s tracks too.
Material Girl also became the most shared 80s song on tik tok, beating out Bad by Michael Jackson. That was about a year ago not sure if that is still the case.
Yeah I don't think Bridgerton has much to do with Material Girl's success, the main things that happened are a resurgence in 2019 thanks to Stranger Things and indeed becoming viral on TikTok about a year ago.
Her top 5 songs pre-Bridgerton (late march 2022) :
Like A Prayer - 286m
Material Girl - 274m
Hung Up - 249m
Like A Virgin - 216m
La Isla Bonita - 207m
At this point Material Girl was doing 3m/week while the other ones just 1m.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/rhiannacampbell/songs-brought-back-to-life-by-tv-and-movies
Well, I got the info from this article (see #13). It gave the impression that the Bridgerton & TikTok things were connected...
Well, don't trust Buzzfeed articles I guess 😉
The TikTok phenomenon started in early february, about two months before the premiere of Bridgerton's 2nd season, which btw only includes "orchestral" versions of songs (it takes place in the 1810s...).
From what I saw, the "Material Girl" success was due to being on the stranger things soundtrack and going viral on tiktok in some trend or two. Frozen was 100% tiktok, the sickick remix.
Whoops. Crazy for You was at 96.6M only (98.0M as of today), I accidently included the song "Crazy".
Both songs are at 1.3 million, but MJ has 28 billion tiktok views and Madge is at 3.3 billion, so I'm not sure it matters. Videos featuring his songs have several unofficial versions and have contributed to his spotify popularity considerably since the app has taken off.
"All things considered, LIB could be regarded as the most commercially successful single of all time..."
What? looooooool The parameters you've listed to bolster LIB's success are hilarious. BTW, the Thriller album had already sold 10 copies in the US alone by the time the single was released, and the single has been certified Diamond in the US.
Billie Jean was also huge, and continues to do ridiculous numbers. Was certified Diamond in the US just last summer, 1.3 billion streams, 1.3 billion views, 41 million EAS. Time doesn't suddenly stop.
I find this so facinating. Now I'm wondering if Russia's longterm adoration of MJ is because he so unabashedly incorporated classical and laced it into his 90s work in particular. They used to welcome him like a King upon arrival, and still maintain a shrine for him at the US embassy for 14 years now. Now I'm wondering if it's because of his numerous pop-classical moments lol
These remixes puzzles me. Take Frozen for example, should figures from these new Sickick remixes be added to the original and thus to the Ray of Light album, or should they be considered orphans?
The Fireboy DML remix and the 070 Shake remix are pretty far from the org.
Same thing with Blond:ish "Sorry".
How do we treat these remixes? Not just these Madonna songs of course, but in generel?
Why is GHV2 Argentina sales only 25,000 when it was certified 2x platinum for sales of 80,000 in October 2007?
I’m curious why GHV2 Remixed and the most recent Madame X album, singles and live concert album were left off? Not that they really would change much as they are not the big sellers of Madonna’s past but I wonder how the total would shift by adding these in along with the most recent collab songs that were put out. Overall though, great job on this! She is an incredible artist!
Are double version of madonnas songs (celebration, album versions) counted together in the streaming updates daily for her albums?
I’m so curious. Where’s This Used to Be My Playground and some of other her biggest hits seem to be missing.
Where’s You’ll See, I’ll remember. Can we extend the list to top 50 or 60?
If you look to other artist's analysis there are just a few EAS songs lists extended up to 60. Most lists have 20 or sometimes even just 10. If you want to know a certain Madonna song's EAS then go to "Top Songs - EAS" and narrow to Madonna. There you'll find "This Used To Be My Playground" with 917,000 EAS, "You'll See" with 878,000 EAS and "I'll Remember" with 654,000 EAS.
