Madonna is proving once again why she’s earned the title of the Queen of Pop. The music icon has officially landed her 10th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 as her latest release, CONFESSIONS II, debuted at the top of the chart with 134,000 equivalent album units earned during its first week.
The achievement marks more than just another chart-topper. According to Billboard, Madonna has become the first artist ever to score a No. 1 album across four different decades: the 1980s, 2000s, 2010s and now the 2020s. The milestone also places her in elite company. Madonna is now just the fourth artist to earn at least 10 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 and 10 No. 1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, joining The Beatles, Taylor Swift and Drake.
Released on July 3, CONFESSIONS II serves as the long-awaited sequel to Madonna’s 2005 dance-pop hit Confessions on a Dance Floor and reunites her with longtime collaborator Stuart Price. The album was led by the single “Bring Your Love,” featuring Sabrina Carpenter. It marked Madonna’s biggest streaming week ever for an album, her strongest pure album sales week in more than a decade and her largest vinyl sales week since modern sales tracking began in 1991.
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With CONFESSIONS II, Madonna also earned her first Billboard 200 No. 1 since 2019’s Madame X, extending a chart-topping career that began with 1985’s Like a Virgin. The new album joins an impressive list of Madonna’s Billboard 200 No. 1 albums, including True Blue, Like a Prayer, Music, American Life, Confessions on a Dance Floor, Hard Candy, MDNA, and Madame X.
More than four decades after launching one of pop music’s most influential careers, Madonna continues to make everyone want to get up and dance, one chart milestone at a time.