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Absolutely shocked people like Adele had albums that sold more than Madonna best one. Damn
ONE album. And Madonna doesn't update her certifications of a lot of albuns in decades.
Madonna really is long overdue for an update. You should do it now that she's celebrating her 40th anniversary of being in the businness.
Her numbers aren't growing that fast. If she's updated, they should do Beatles, MJ, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac first. Longer ago since the update and better sellers.
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...
