{"id":548632,"date":"2026-07-14T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/548632\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:48:10","slug":"madonna-on-confessions-ii-number-one-debut-dreams-do-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/548632\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna on \u2018Confessions II\u2019 Number One Debut: &#8216;Dreams Do Come True&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The icon responded to her new album opening at Number One on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0200<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAfter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/madonna\/\" id=\"auto-tag_madonna\" data-tag=\"madonna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna<\/a>\u2018s hotly anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/madonna-confessions-ii-album-review-1235588293\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Confessions II<\/a> debuted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/madonna-number-one-charts-confessions-ii-1235592485\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top spot<\/a> on the Billboard\u00a0200 albums chart, the singer took to social media to express her gratitude and shock over its massive success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWords cannot express how Grateful and Surprised I am By the incredible reception, Confessions on a Dance Floor has received,\u201d Madonna wrote on Monday in an Instagram post alongside snapshots from her promo for the excellent new LP. \u201cThank You -to everyone who has been a part of this and who has helped make this dream come true. Especially my Fans . The Goodwill and positivity has been incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMadonna added that she\u2019s \u201cstill pinching myself\u201d and \u201ccan\u2019t believe\u201d her album has surged to the top of the charts \u201call around the world.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tConfessions II marks the first time Madonna has ruled the album charts in the 2020s \u2014 over 20 years after\u00a0Confessions on a Dance Floor\u00a0took over the charts. Since the release of 1984\u2019s\u00a0Like a Virgin, Madonna has now amassed 10 albums at Number One \u2014 and is the only artist with at least one Number One in the 1980s, 2000s, 2010s, and now 2020s. She is also just the fourth artist to rack up 10 Number Ones on both the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0200 and the Hot 100; only the Beatles, Taylor Swift, and Drake achieved that prior to the Material Girl,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/acts-10-number-ones-billboard-200-hot-100\/\">Billboard\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe 16-track record features songs \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/madonna-destin-conrad-rico-nasty-songs-you-need-to-know-1235588527\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danceteria<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/madonna-confessions-ii-new-song-i-feel-so-free-1235549959\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I Feel So Free<\/a>,\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/madonna-bring-your-love-video-sabrina-carpenter-1235577750\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bring Your Love<\/a>,\u201d a duet with Sabrina Carpenter that the duo debuted live during Carpenter\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/madonna-sabrina-carpenter-coachella-2026-1235549915\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">headlining set at Coachella<\/a>.\u00a0The LP was accompanied by a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/madonna-confessions-ii-tribeca-film-fest-report-1235572670\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0short film<\/a>\u00a0that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cMy dream was to make people dance this summer!!\u201d Madonna wrote in her message to fans on Monday. \u201cTo bring people JOY! Dreams do come true.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The icon responded to her new album opening at Number One on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0200 After Madonna\u2018s hotly anticipated Confessions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,664,278],"class_list":["post-548632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-madonna","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}